§ 8-7-304 — Definitions

As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) "Commission" means the Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission; (2) "Disposal" means the discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking, or placing of any hazardous waste into or on any land or water in whatever manner so that the hazardous waste or any constituent thereof might or might not enter the environment or be emitted into the air or discharged into any water, including groundwaters; (3) "Facility" means any land and appurtenances thereon and thereto used for the treatment, storage, or disposal of hazardous waste; (4) "Generation" means the act or process of producing waste materials; (5) (A) "Hazardous waste" means any waste or combination of wastes of a solid, liquid, contained gaseous, or semisolid form which, because of its quantity, concentration, or physical, chemical, or infectious characteristics may, in the judgment of the Division of Environmental Quality: (i) Cause or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible or incapacitating reversible illness; or (ii) Pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or the environment when improperly treated, stored, transported, or disposed of or otherwise improperly managed. (B) "Hazardous waste" includes, but is not limited to, those which are radioactive, toxic, corrosive, flammable, irritants, strong sensitizers, or which generate pressure through decomposition, heat, or other means; (6) "Hazardous waste management" means the systematic control of the generation, collection, source separation, storage, transportation, processing, recovery, disposal, and treatment of hazardous waste; (7) "Manifest" means the form used for identifying the quantity and composition and the origin, routing, and destination of hazardous waste during its transport; (8) "Owners, operators, or other responsible parties" means and includes: (A) Any person owning or operating a site or facility; or (B) In the case of any inactive or abandoned facility or site, any person who owned, operated, or otherwise controlled the activities at the site or facility during the time that the site or facility was used to manage hazardous wastes; (9) "Person" means any individual, corporation, company, firm, partnership, association, trust, joint-stock company, state agency, government instrumentality or agency, institution, county, city, town, or municipal authority or trust, venture, or any other legal entity, however organized; (10) "Site" means any real property located within the boundaries of the State of Arkansas contemplated or later acquired for the purpose of, but not limited to, landfills or other facilities to be used for treatment, storage, disposal, or generation of hazardous waste; (11) (A) "Storage" means the containment of hazardous waste, either on a temporary basis or for a period of years, in such a manner as not to constitute disposal of such hazardous waste. (B) However, storage by means of burial shall be deemed to constitute disposal within the meaning of this subchapter; (12) "Transport" means the movement of wastes from the point of generation to any intermediate points and finally to the point of ultimate storage or disposal; (13) "Treatment" means any method, technique, or process, including neutralization, designed to change the physical, chemical, or biological character or composition of any hazardous waste so as to neutralize such hazardous waste or so as to render such hazardous waste less hazardous, safer for transport, amenable to recovery, amenable to storage, amenable to disposal, or reduced in volume; and (14) "Treatment facility" means a location at which waste is subjected to treatment and may include a facility where waste has been generated.

Legislative History

Amended by Act 2019, No. 910,§ 2746, eff. 7/1/2019. Amended by Act 2019, No. 910,§ 2745, eff. 7/1/2019. Acts 1979, No. 1098, § 4; 1985, No. 922, § 2; A.S.A. 1947, § 82-4220; Acts 1999, No. 1164, § 94.