Tenn. Comp. R. & Regs. 1200-01-07-.01
"Act" means the Tennessee Solid Waste Disposal Act, as amended, T.C.A. § 68-211-101 et. seq.
"Active life" means the period from the initial receipt of solid waste at the facility until the Commissioner approves final closure of the facility.
"Active portion" means that portion of a disposal facility where disposal operations are being or have been conducted and which is not a closed portion.
"Admixture" means chemicals added to earth materials to change the physical or chemical properties of the earth materials. Admixtures include, but are not limited to: lime, cement, bentonite and sodium silicate.
"Airport" means a public use airport open to the public without prior permission and without restrictions within the physical capacities of available facilities.
"Aquifer" means a geologic formation, group of formations, or part of a formation capable of yielding significant quantities of groundwater to wells or springs.
"Areas susceptible to mass movement" means those areas of influence (i.e., areas characterized as having an active or substantial possibility of mass movement) where the movement of earth material at, beneath, or adjacent to the SWLF unit, because of natural or man-induced events, results in the downslope transport of soil and rock material by means of gravitational influence. Areas of mass movement include, but are not limited to, landslides, avalanches, debris slides and flows, soil fluction, block sliding, and rock fall.
"Backyard composting" means the composting of organic solid waste, such as grass clippings, leaves or food waste, generated by a homeowner or tenant of a single or multi-family residential unit or an apartment complex unit, where composting occurs at that dwelling unit.
"Baling" means a method of reducing and restraining (binding) solid waste volume by mechanical compaction to achieve high density per unit volume.
"Bird hazard" means an increase in the likelihood of bird/aircraft collisions that may cause damage to the aircraft or injury to its occupants.
"Board" means the Tennessee Solid Waste Disposal Control Board established by T.C.A. § 68-211-111.
"Bulky waste" means large items of solid waste such as white goods, furniture, autos or large auto parts, trees, branches, stumps and other oversize wastes whose large size precludes or complicates their handling by normal collection, processing, or disposal methods.
"Cell" means a discrete volume of compacted solid waste that is enclosed by means of a barrier in a disposal facility.
"Closed portion" means a formerly active portion of a landfill which has undergone closure.
"Closure" means the taking of those actions at the termination of a disposal operation which are necessary to finally close the disposal facility or disposal facility parcel.
"Commercial solid wastes" means all types of solid waste generated by stores, offices, restaurants, warehouses, and other nonmanufacturing activities, excluding domestic and industrial wastes.
"Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation or his authorized representative.
"Compost" means solid waste which has undergone biological decomposition of organic matter, and has been disinfected using composting or similar technologies, and has been stabilized to a degree which is potentially beneficial to plant growth and which is suitable for use as a soil amendment, artificial top soil, growing medium amendment or other similar uses.
"Compost disinfection" means the selective destruction of pathogens indicated by a reduction in indicator organisms to less than or equal to 1000 fecal coliform most probable number per gram of volatile suspended solid where the organic solid waste was maintained at or above 55° C (= 131° F) for three consecutive days in a mechanical composter or in an aerated, insulated static pile, or for 15 cumulative days in an aerated windrow with at least one turning or a nonaerated windrow with at least four turnings of the windrow.
"Compostable material" means solid organic waste that may be decomposed under controlled conditions by micro-organisms under aerobic or anaerobic conditions which result in a stable humus-like material free of pathogenic organisms (e.g., food wastes, yard wastes, and low moisture content wastewater sludge).
"Composting" means the process by which biological decomposition of organic solid waste is carried out under controlled aerobic conditions, and which stabilizes the organic fraction into a material which can easily and safely be stored, handled and used in an environmentally acceptable manner. The presence of anaerobic zones within the composting material will not cause the process to be classified as other than composting.
"Composting facility" means a solid waste management facility where solid waste is processed using composting technology. Processing may include physical turning, windrowing, aeration or other mechanical handling of organic matter.
"Construction/demolition wastes" means wastes, other than special wastes, resulting from construction, remodeling, repair and demolition of structures and from road building. Such wastes include but are not limited to bricks, concrete and other masonry materials, soil, rock and lumber, road spoils, rebar, paving material.
"Convenience center" means any area which is staffed and fenced that has waste receptacles on site that are open to the public, when an attendant is present, to receive domestic waste, municipal solid waste and recyclable materials.
"Curing area" means an area where organic material that has undergone the rapid initial stage of composting is further stabilized into a humus-like material.
"Department" means the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation.
"Destruction or adverse modification" means a direct or indirect alteration of critical habitat which appreciably diminishes the likelihood of the survival and recovery of threatened or endangered species using that habitat.
"Displacement" means the relative movement of any two sides of a fault measured in any direction.
"Disposal facility" means a facility or part of a facility at which solid waste disposal occurs.
"Division" means the Division of Solid Waste Management of the Department.
"Division Director" means the Director of the Division of Solid Waste Management.
"Domestic wastes" means any solid waste (including garbage, trash) derived from households (including single and multiple residences, hotels and motels, bunkhouses, ranger stations, crew quarters, campgrounds, picnic grounds, and day-use recreation areas).
"Endangered or threatened species" means any species listed in 50 CFR Part 17, as such list exists on the effective date of this rule.
"Energy recovery" means beneficial use or reuse of solid waste through the controlled combustion of such waste to recover energy therefrom.
"Energy recovery facility" means a facility for the recovery of energy or energy producing materials from the controlled processing of solid waste and the production of energy from said solid waste and other materials, including coal, for a heating and cooling system and/or for the production of electricity and process steam.
"Explosive gas" means methane (CH4).
"Facility" means all contiguous land including structures and other appurtenances and improvements on the land used for processing, disposal or land application of solid waste by an owner or operator.
"Farming wastes" means the wastes from the customary and generally accepted activities, practices, and procedures that farmers adopt, use, or engage in during the production and preparation for market of poultry, livestock, and associated farm products; and in the production and harvesting of agricultural crops which include agronomic, horticultural, and silvicultural crops and wastes resulting from aquaculture activities. However, the term does not include special wastes such as waste oils or other lubricants, unused fertilizers, or pesticide containers or residues.
"Fault" means a fracture or a zone of fractures in any material along which strata on one side have been displaced with respect to that on the other side.
"Fill Area" means the area containing waste placed for final disposal not including earthen berms or other facility appurtenances.
"Final cover" means any cover material that is spread and compacted on the top and side slopes of a disposal facility which will be permanently exposed to the environment.
"Financial assurance" refers to a financial arrangement between the operator and the state which guarantees the availability of funds which the Commissioner may use to close and provide post-closure care to a landfill if the operator fails to properly execute his responsibilities under the Act, to include the requirements of these rules and the terms of his permit.
"Floodplain" means the lowlands and relatively flat areas adjoining inland waters, including flood prone areas, which are inundated by a flood. The "100-year floodplain" refers to a floodplain which is subject to a one percent or greater chance of flooding in any given year from any source.
"Foreign matter" means the inorganic and organic constituents in a solid waste stream that are not readily decomposed and that may be present in the compost. For purposes of this rule, foreign matter is metals, glass, plastics, rubber, bones, leather, and other similar materials, but does not include sand, grit, rocks or other similar materials.
"Geologic Buffer" means a geologic formation or engineered structure that provides resistances to hydraulic pressure gradients between a liner and the seasonal high water table.
"Geomembranes" means manufactured low permeability membrane liners and barriers used to control the migration of fluids or gases.
"Ground water" means water below the land surface in a zone of saturation.
"Hazardous wastes" means a hazardous waste as defined in rule 1200-1-11-.02(1)(c).
"Holocene" means the most recent epoch of the Quaternary period, extending from the end of the Pleistocene Epoch to the present.
"In operation" refers to a facility which is receiving or handling solid wastes.
"Incinerator" means an enclosed device using controlled flame combustion, the primary purpose of which is to thermally break down solid waste. Examples of incinerators are rotary kiln, fluidized bed, and liquid injection incinerators.
"Industrial Wastes" means solid wastes produced in, or generated by, industrial or manufacturing processes. The term does not include commercial, domestic, mining, or hazardous waste regulated under Subtitle C of RCRA, or oil and gas waste.
"Initial cover" means cover material that is spread and compacted on the top, on the side slopes and on the working face of compacted solid waste at a disposal facility.
"Institutional wastes" means all solid waste which are not special wastes, emanating from institutions such as, but not limited to, hospitals, health care facilities, nursing homes, laboratories, orphanages, correctional institutions, schools and universities.
"Intermediate cover" means cover material that is spread and compacted on the top and side slopes of a disposal facility which must resist erosion for a longer period of time than initial cover.
"Junkyard" means a place which is maintained, operated, or used for storing, keeping, buying, or selling dismantled or wrecked automobiles, or parts thereof, or other old or scrap ferrous or nonferrous metals.
"Karst" means a specific type of topography that is formed by dissolving or solution of carbonate formations, such as limestone or dolomite; it is characterized by closed depressions or sinkholes, caves, sinking and reappearing streams, and/or underground conduit drainage flow.
"Land application facility" means a facility where solid wastes are applied onto or incorporated into the soil surface (excluding manure spreading operations) for agricultural purposes.
"Land reclamation" means the restoration of productivity to lands made barren through processes such as erosion, mining or land clearing.
"Landfill" means a facility, other than a land application unit, where solid wastes are disposed of by burial in excavated pits or trenches or by placement on land and covering with soil or other approved material.
"Landscaping and land clearing wastes" means trees, stumps, brush, dirt, branches, leaves, clippings, etc. from landscaping and land clearing activities.
"Leachate" means a liquid that has passed through or emerged from solid waste and contains soluble, suspended, or miscible materials removed from such waste.
"Lift" means the compacted vertical thickness of a horizontal series of solid waste cells that have been constructed and upon which cover material has been placed. The cover may be either initial, intermediate, or final in application.
"Liner" means a continuous layer of natural or man-made materials, beneath or on the sides of a surface impoundment, landfill, or landfill cell, which restricts the downward or lateral escape of wastes, waste constituents, or leachate.
"Liquid wastes" means any waste material that is determined to contain "free liquids" as defined by Method 9095 (Paint and Filter Liquids Test), as described in "Test Methods for Evaluating Solid Wastes, Physical/Chemical Methods" (EPA Pub. No. SW-846).
"Lithified earth material" means all rock, including all naturally occurring and naturally formed aggregates or masses of minerals or small particles of older rock that formed by crystallization of magma or by induration of loose sediments. This term does not include man-made materials, such as fill, concrete, and asphalt, or unconsolidated earth materials, soil, or regolith lying at or near the earth surface.
"Lower explosive limit" means the lowest percent of volume of a mixture of explosive gases which will propagate a flame in air at 25° C and atmospheric pressure.
"Manure" means a solid waste composed of excreta of herbivorous domestic animals, and residual materials that have been used for bedding, sanitary or feeding purposes for such animals.
"Market" means the transfer or sale of recovered materials to be used, reused, and recycled.
"Maximum horizontal acceleration in lithified earth material" means the maximum expected horizontal acceleration depicted on a seismic hazard map, with a 90 percent or greater probability that the acceleration will not be exceeded in 250 years, or the maximum expected horizontal acceleration based on a site-specific seismic risk assessment.
"Medical wastes" means the following solid wastes:
Contaminated wastes from surgery and autopsy (e.g., soiled dressings, sponges, drapes, lavage tubes, drainage sets, underpads, surgical gloves).
Wastes from medical, pathological, pharmaceutical, or other research, commercial, or industrial laboratories that were in contact with infectious agents (e.g., specimen containers, slides and cover slips, disposable gloves, lab coats, aprons).
Wastes that were in contact with the blood of patients undergoing hemodialysis, including contaminated disposal equipment and supplies such as tubing, filters, disposable sheets, towels, gloves, aprons, and lab coats.
Discarded equipment and parts that were used in patient care, medical and industrial laboratories, research, and in the production and testing of certain pharmaceuticals and that may be contaminated with infectious agents.
"Mesophilic stage" means a biological stage in the composting process characterized by active bacteria which favor a moderate temperature range of 20° C to 45° C. It occurs later in a composting process after the thermophilic stage and is associated with a moderate rate of decomposition.
"Normal farming operations" means the customary and generally accepted activities, practices and procedures that farmers adopt use or engage in during the production and preparation for market of poultry, livestock, and associated farm products; and in the production and harvesting of agricultural crops which include agronomic, horticultural, and silvicultural crops. Included is the management, collection, storage, composting, transportation and use of organic agricultural waste, manure, and wastes solely derived from agricultural crops.
"On-site" means the geographically contiguous property with the same owner/operator which may be divided by public or private right-of-way. Non-contiguous properties owned or operated by the same person and connected by a right-of-way which he controls and to which the public does not have access, is also considered on-site property.
"Open burning" means the combustion of solid wastes without the following characteristics:
"Operate" means to construct, alter, own, maintain, close, or care for after closure, or control a facility. In the event of an unpermitted facility the term shall include to place solid waste at the disposal site.
"Operator" means the person or persons applying for or holding a permit, or who are otherwise responsible for the operation of a facility.
"Parcel" means a discrete portion of a disposal facility. (See "Phased Development Plan.")
"Permit" means the written authorization granted to a person by the Commissioner, to operate a solid waste processing and/or disposal facility. The terms "permit" and "registration" are synonymous for purposes of this rule chapter.
"Permittee" means any person holding a valid permit under the Act to operate a processing and/or disposal facility.
"Person" means any and all persons, natural or artificial, including any individual, firm or association, and municipal or private corporation organized or existing under the laws of this state or any other state, and any governmental agency or county of this state and any department, agency, or instrumentality of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the federal government.
"Personnel" or "facility personnel" means all persons who work at or oversee the operations of a processing or disposal facility, and whose actions or failure to act may result in non-compliance with the requirements of the permit.
"Pesticide wastes" means wastes from the use, or preparation for use, of a substance or mixture of substances intended for destroying, preventing, repelling, or otherwise controlling plant or animal pests. The term pesticide is a generic term which includes herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, rodenticides, miticides, etc. Pesticide wastes include, but are not necessarily limited to, unused pesticide product, leftover mixed material, tanks and equipment rinsate, containers (excluding properly rinsed containers), and other residues of pesticide.
"Phased development plan" means a plan for developing a tract of land as a disposal facility in sequential segments, or parcels, provided that the entire tract of land is covered by a permit authorizing such use. As used in this rule, a parcel must be of adequate acreage to sustain at least five years of use based on estimated solid waste volumes to be handled over that period.
"Placing" includes, but is not limited to discharging, depositing, injecting, releasing, dumping, spilling, spreading, and leaking.
"Poor foundation conditions" means those areas where features exist which indicate that a natural or man-induced event may result in inadequate foundation support for the structural components of an SWLF unit.
"Post-closure care" refers to the taking of those actions after closure of a disposal facility or a disposal facility parcel which are necessary to meet the post-closure care requirements of rule 1200-01-07-.04(8).
"Post-closure care period" means the period of time following closure of the landfill or landfill parcel during which the operator must perform post-closure care.
"Privately owned solid waste disposal system" means a solid waste disposal system owned by a non-governmental entity which processes or disposes of its solid waste in facilities that have either a valid permit or a permit-by-rule.
"Processing facility" means a combination of structures, machinery or devices utilized to perform solid waste processing, including other storage and processing areas. The term does not include collection vehicles.
"Public water supply system" means a system that supplies to the public piped water for human consumption, if such system has at least 15 service connections or regularly serves an average of at least 25 individuals daily at least 60 days of the year.
"Putrescible Wastes" means solid wastes that contain organic matter capable of being decomposed by micro-organisms and of such a character and proportion as to be capable of attracting or providing food for birds.
"Qualified ground-water scientist" means a scientist or engineer who has received a baccalaureate or post-graduate degree in the natural science or engineering and has sufficient training and experience in groundwater hydrology and related fields as may be demonstrated by state registration, professional certification, or completion of accredited university programs that enable that individual to make sound professional judgments regarding groundwater monitoring, contaminant fate and transport, and corrective action.
"Reclaim," "recover," or "recycle" means any method, technique, or process utilized to separate, process, modify, convert, treat, or otherwise prepare solid waste so that component materials or substances may be beneficially used or re-used as products, raw materials, or energy sources, except that any use or reuse of a solid waste may not be used in a manner that would constitute solid waste disposal.
"Registration" means a process by which a solid waste disposal or processing operation is granted a permit to operate. In this rule chapter, the words "registration" and "permit" are synonymous and may be used interchangeably.
"Representative sample" means a sample of a universe or whole (e.g., leachate, sludge, surface impoundment, surface water, ground water) which can be expected to exhibit the average properties of the universe or whole.
"Residue" shall mean any solid that remains after completion of solid waste processing including incineration products such as bottom ash, fly ash and grate siftings.
"Run-off" means any rainwater, or other liquid that drains overland from any part of a facility.
"Run-on" means any rainwater, or other liquid that drains overland onto any part of a facility.
"Salvaging" means the controlled removal of solid waste for utilization from a solid waste processing or disposal facility.
"Sanitary landfill" means a method of disposing of solid waste into or on land without creating nuisances or hazards to public health or to the environment by utilizing the principles of engineering to confine the solid waste to the smallest practical area, to reduce it to the smallest practical volume, and to cover it with a layer(s) of an approved material.
"Saturated zone" means that part of the earth's crust in which all voids are filled with water.
"Scavenging" means the uncontrolled removal of solid waste from a solid waste processing or disposal facility.
"Seismic impact zone" means an area with a ten percent or greater probability that the maximum horizontal acceleration in lithified earth materials, expressed as a fraction of the earth's gravitational pull will exceed 0.10g in 250 years.
"Shredding" means a process of reducing the particle size of solid waste through the use of grinding, shredding, chopping, slicing, milling, or rasping machines.
"Sludge" means any solid, semi-solid, or liquid waste generated from a municipal, commercial, industrial wastewater treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility, exclusive of the treated effluent from a wastewater treatment plant.
"Solid waste" means garbage, trash, refuse, abandoned material, spent material, byproducts, scrap, ash, sludge, and all discarded material including solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, commercial, and agricultural operations, and from community activities. Solid waste includes, without limitation, recyclable material when it is discarded or when it is used in a manner constituting disposal. Solid waste does not include solid or dissolved material in domestic sewage, or solid or dissolved materials in irrigation return flows or industrial discharges that are point sources subject to permits under Section 402 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (compiled at 33 U.S.C. Section 1342).
"Solid waste disposal" means the process of permanently or indefinitely placing, confining, compacting, or covering solid waste.
"Solid Waste Landfill (SWLF) Unit" means a discrete area of land or an excavation that receives waste, and that is not a land application unit, surface impoundment, injection well, or waste pile.
"Solid waste processing" means any process that modifies the characteristics or properties of solid waste, including, but not limited to, treatment, incineration, composting, separation, grinding, shredding, and volume reduction; provided, that it does not include the grinding or shredding of landscaping or land clearing wastes or unpainted, unstained, and untreated wood into mulch or other useful products.
"Source reduction" means any action or activity that reduces or eliminates the generation of waste.
"Special Wastes" are solid wastes that are either difficult or dangerous to manage and may include sludges, bulky wastes, pesticide wastes, medical wastes, industrial wastes, hazardous wastes which are not subject to regulations under Department rules 1200-01-11-.03 through 1200-01-11-.07, liquid wastes, friable asbestos wastes, and combustion wastes.
"Stabilized" means that the compost has at least passed through the thermophilic stage, and that biological decomposition of the solid waste has occurred to a sufficient degree that will allow beneficial use.
"Stream" means a watercourse which is not a wet weather conveyance.
"Structural components" means liners, leachate collection systems, final covers, run-on/runoff systems, and any other component used in the construction and operation of the SWLF that is necessary for protection of human health and the environment.
"Surface impoundment" means a facility or part of a facility which is a natural topographic depression, man-made excavation, or diked area formed primarily of earthen materials (although it may be lined with man-made materials), which is designed to hold an accumulation of liquid wastes, or wastes containing free liquids, and which is not an injection well. Examples of surface impoundments are holding, storage, settling and aeration pits, ponds, and lagoons.
"Taking" an endangered or threatened species means harassing, harming, pursuing, hunting, wounding, killing, trapping, capturing, or collecting or attempting to engage in such conduct.
"Thermophilic stage" means a biological stage in the composting process characterized by active bacteria which favor a high temperature range of 45° C to 75° C. It occurs early in a composting process before the mesophilic stage and is associated with a high rate of decomposition.
"Transfer station" means a combination of structures, machinery or devices at a place or facility which receives solid waste taken from public and/or private collection vehicles and which is placed in other transportation units for movement to another solid waste management facility.
"Underground drinking water source" means:
"Underground injection" means the subsurface emplacement of fluids through a bored, drilled, or driven well; or through a dry well, where the depth of the well is greater than the largest surface dimension.
"Unstable area" means a location that is susceptible to natural or human-induced events or forces capable of impairing the integrity of some or all of the landfill structural components responsible for preventing releases from a landfill. Unstable areas can include poor foundation conditions, areas susceptible to mass movements, and Karst terranes.
"Uppermost aquifer" means the geologic formation nearest the natural ground surface that is an aquifer, as well as, lower aquifers that are hydraulically interconnected with the aquifer within the facility's property boundary.
"Vector" means a carrier organism that is capable of transmitting a pathogen from one organism to another.
"Washout" means the carrying away of solid waste by waters of a flood.
"Waste management boundary" means a vertical surface located at the hydraulically downgradient limit of the solid waste landfill unit. This vertical surface extends down into the uppermost aquifer.
"Water table" means the surface of unconfined water at which pressure is atmospheric and is defined by the levels at which water stands in wells that penetrate the water.
"Well" means a shaft or pit dug, bored, drilled, jetted or driven into the earth. Wells are generally of a cylindrical form, and often walled with bricks or tubing to prevent the earth from caving in.
"Wet weather conveyances" means natural watercourses, including natural watercourses that have been modified by channelization, that flow only in direct response to precipitation in their immediate locality and whose channels are above the groundwater table and which do not support fish or aquatic life and are not suitable for drinking water supplies.
"Wetlands" means those areas that are inundated or saturated by surface water or ground water at a frequency and duration sufficient to support, and under normal circumstances do support, a prevalence of vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions. Wetlands generally include swamps, marshes, bogs and similar areas.
"White goods" means discarded refrigerators, ranges, washers, water heaters, and other similar domestic and commercial appliances.
"Working face" means that portion of a land disposal facility where solid wastes are discharged and are spread and compacted.
Tenn. Comp. R. & Regs. 1200-01-07-.01
Authority: T.C.A. §§ 4-5-201, 68-203-103(b)(3), 68-211-102(a), 68-211-105(b), 68-211-105(c), 68-211-106(a)(1), 68-211-107(a), 68-211-111(d)(1), 68-211-111(d)(2), 68-211-851(a), 68-211-852, 68-211-853, and 68-211-861.