Wis. Admin. Code Department of Natural Resources NR 732.03

Current through November 25, 2024

Section NR 732.03 - Definitions

In this chapter:

(1) "Closed" means no longer accepting solid or hazardous waste.

(2) "Eligible monitoring cost" means expenditures incurred by a municipality for monitoring required by an order under s. 289.31(7) (f), Stats., including expenditures for geophysical surveys, mapping, private and public well sampling, placement of monitoring wells, access fees and actual costs of collection.

(3) "Environmental fund" means the fund established in s. 25.46, Stats.

(4) "Monitoring" has the meaning specified in s. 289.31(7) (b), Stats.

Note: Section 289.31(7) (b), Stats., defines "monitoring" to mean "activities necessary to determine whether contaminants are present in groundwater, surface water, soil or air in concentrations that require investigation or remedial action. `Monitoring' does not include investigations to determine the extent of contamination, to collect information necessary to select or design remedial action, or to evaluate the performance of remedial action."

(5) "Nonapproved municipal landfill" means either a licensed solid or hazardous waste disposal facility which was never an "approved facility" as that term is defined in s. 289.01(3), Stats; or an area used by a municipality for the disposal of municipal or industrial waste, or both, which never received a license or written approval for operation from the department.

(6) "Waste site" has the meaning specified in s. 292.01(21), Stats.

Wis. Admin. Code Department of Natural Resources NR 732.03

Cr. Register, April, 1994, No. 460, eff. 5-1-94; corrections in (2) to (6) made under s. 13.93(2m) (b) 7, Stats., Register, April, 2000, No. 532.

Section 292.01(21), Stats., defines "waste site" to mean "any site, other than an approved facility, an approved mining facility or a nonapproved facility, where waste is disposed of regardless of when disposal occurred."