<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 26-308. - Definitions.</div>
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               The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the
               meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates
               a different meaning:
               
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               <span class="ital">Acute hazardous waste</span> means the same as defined in 40 CFR 261 or any other applicable state or federal
               regulation.
               
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               <span class="ital">Best available technology</span> means waste management and treatment technology equal in performance to the best
               treatment technology available in the marketplace which serves to render the waste
               to its least harmful form and most reduced volume.
               
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               <span class="ital">Disposal</span> means the discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking, or placing of
               any hazardous waste and/or low-level radioactive waste into or on any land so that
               such waste or any constituent thereof may enter the environment or be emitted into
               the air or discharged into any waters, including groundwaters.
               
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               <span class="ital">Facility</span> means all land, structures, personnel and equipment used for the treatment or the
               storage of more than 90 days, or more than one month in the case of acute hazardous
               waste, of any hazardous waste and/or low-level radioactive waste whether on site or
               off site.
               
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               <span class="ital">Generator</span> means any person, by site, whose act or process produces low-level radioactive waste
               as defined above, or hazardous waste identified or listed in 40 CFR 261 or any other
               applicable state or federal regulation.
               
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               <span class="ital">Hazardous and/or low-level radioactive waste board</span> refers to the county waste management board as described in<a href="" data-chunk-id="PTIICOOR_CH26EN_ARTXHAWALVERAWAMA_S26-309COHALVERAWAMABO" class="section-link" data-product-id="14529"> section 26-309</a>.
               
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               <span class="ital">Hazardous waste</span> means solid or liquid waste, or a combination of solid and liquid wastes, which,
               because of its quantity, concentration, or physical, chemical, infectious, or other
               characteristics, may:
               
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                  (1)
                  
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                  Cause or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious
                  irreversible or incapacitating illness; or
                  
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                  (2)
                  
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                  Pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or the environment
                  when improperly treated, stored, transported or disposed of or otherwise managed.
                  
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               <span class="ital">Low-level radioactive waste</span> means radioactive waste not classified as high-level radioactive waste, spent nuclear
               fuel as defined by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, transuranic waste, or byproduct
               material as defined in Section 11E (2) of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended
               (68 Statute 923).
               
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               <span class="ital">Management practices</span> means methods of systematic collection, source separation, storage, transportation,
               processing, treatment, recovery, and disposal of hazardous wastes and/or low-level
               radioactive wastes.
               
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               <span class="ital">On site</span> means the same as defined in 40 CFR 260.
               
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               <span class="ital">Person</span> means any individual, corporation, partnership, firm, association, trust, estate,
               public or private institution, group, agency or other entity or any successor, subsidiary,
               or division thereof.
               
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               <span class="ital">Storage</span> means containment for a period of over 90 days, or over one month in the case of
               acute hazardous wastes, in such a manner as not to constitute disposal.
               
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               <span class="ital">Treatment</span> means any method, technique, or process, including neutralization, designed to change
               the physical, chemical or biological character or composition of any hazardous waste
               and/or low-level radioactive waste so as to neutralize such waste or render such waste
               nonhazardous, safer for transport, amenable for recover, amenable for storage, or
               reduced in volume. The term "treatment" includes any activity or processing designed
               to change the physical form or chemical composition of hazardous waste and/or low-level
               radioactive waste so as to render it nonhazardous.
               
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               (Code 1993, Â§ 26-103; Ord. of 7-11-1989(2), Â§ 3)
               
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