Solid Waste Final

Parts 10, 11a, 11b, 12

Treatment, Storage, and Disposal Facility, which manages hazardous waste.

TSDF

A unique number assigned by the EPA to TSDF owners and operators for tracking hazardous waste.

EPA identification number

A written plan that details how waste will be analyzed to ensure safe handling.

Waste Analysis Plan

Measures to prevent unauthorized entry to facilities handling hazardous waste.

Security Provisions

A plan that outlines emergency response arrangements for hazardous waste incidents.

Contingency Plan

A detailed strategy for safely closing a TSDF after operations cease.

Closure Plan

Regular checks to ensure harmful substances are not leaking into groundwater from TSDFs.

Groundwater Monitoring

Methods implemented to limit the release of volatile organic compounds and other pollutants into the air.

Air Emissions Control

Financial resources that TSDF operators must have to cover liability for damages or injuries caused by hazardous waste.

Financial Assurance

Uncontrolled emissions of hazardous substances that occur during the management of hazardous waste.

Fugitive Emissions

Controlled burning of hazardous waste substances in a confined area.

HW Combustion

Treatment, Storage, and Disposal Facilities that manage hazardous waste.

TSDFs

A measure of the effectiveness of waste incineration, indicating the percentage of hazardous constituents destroyed or removed.

Destruction and Removal Efficiency (DRE)

A type of furnace used in hazardous waste incineration where waste is exposed to high temperatures for efficient combustion.

Rotary Kiln

Thermal destruction of hazardous waste mainly using controlled flame combustion.

Incineration

Fine particles that may be emitted from the combustion process and can be captured by air pollution control devices.

Fly Ash

The primary solid by-product collected at the bottom of the combustion chamber during waste incineration.

Bottom Ash

A system used to limit the emissions released into the atmosphere from waste incineration.

Air Pollution Control System (APCS)

EPA standards enforced to ensure hazardous waste combustion devices use technology to significantly reduce emissions.

Maximum Achievable Control Technology (MACT)

An emission-testing process carried out to ensure incinerators meet environmental standards for pollutants.

Trial Burn

Toxic compounds that can be produced during incomplete combustion, requiring stringent control measures.

Dioxins and Furans

An air pollution control device that removes particulate matter from flue gases using electrical charges.

Electrostatic Precipitator

Gaseous compounds produced from the reaction of sulfur with oxygen, generally monitored in incinerator emissions.

Sulfur Oxides (SOx)

Gases produced from the reaction of nitrogen and oxygen during combustion, which are regulated pollutants.

Nitrogen Oxides (NOx)

EPA regulation that stipulates residues resulting from the treatment of hazardous waste remain classified as hazardous.

Derived-From Rule

Specific organic compounds that are monitored during incineration to assess destruction efficiency.

Principal Organic Hazardous Constituents (POHCs)

Waste that poses substantial or potential threats to public health or the environment.

Hazardous Waste

Regulatory thresholds that define the maximum allowable emissions released from a facility.

Emission Limitations

Facilities specifically designed to dispose of regulated medical waste.

Medical Waste Incinerators (MWIs)

A product of incomplete combustion that can be harmful to human health, requiring monitoring.

Carbon Monoxide (CO)

Any person engaged in the off-site transportation of hazardous waste within the United States, if such transportation requires a manifest.

Hazardous Waste Transporter

A number required for hazardous waste transporters to operate, assigned to the transportation company as a whole, not to individual trucks.

EPA Identification Number

A system that requires hazardous waste to be accompanied by a properly prepared manifest to track its movement from generator to designated facility.

Manifest System

A hazardous waste management system that covers the entire life cycle of hazardous waste from generation to disposal.

Cradle-to-Grave System

Facilities that treat, store, or dispose of hazardous waste and must acknowledge receipt of wastes.

Treatment, Storage, or Disposal Facility (TSDF)

A shipment received by the designated facility that cannot or will not be accepted, leading to the need for further action.

Reject Shipment

A transportation-related facility where shipments may be temporarily held, defined as loading docks, parking, and storage areas.

Transfer Facility

When only a portion of the hazardous waste shipment is rejected by the designated facility.

Partial Rejection

Standards that determine when containers are considered empty and do not contain residual hazardous waste.

Empty Container Requirements

An exemption from manifest requirements for transporters handling certain recycled wastes to facilitate recycling.

Resource Recovery and Recycling Exemption

Any method, technique, or process designed to physically, chemically, or biologically change the nature of a hazardous waste.

Treatment

Holding hazardous waste for a temporary period, after which it is treated, disposed of, or stored elsewhere.

Storage

The discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking, or placing of any solid or hazardous waste on or in the land or water.

Disposal

Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, which regulates hazardous waste management in the United States.

RCRA

New TSDFs that meet specific standards set by the EPA under RCRA.

Permitted facilities

Existing TSDFs allowed to operate while coming into compliance with the standards for permitted facilities.

Interim status facilities

Facilities with permits under other laws that qualify for a special form of a RCRA permit.

Permit-by-rule

Entities that generate small amounts of hazardous waste and are exempt from certain TSDF standards.

Conditional Exempt Small Quantity Generators (CESQGs)

Containers or systems that neutralize waste hazardous for exhibiting corrosivity, exempt from TSDF standards.

Elementary Neutralization Units (ENUs)

Systems that treat hazardous wastewaters and are exempt from TSDF regulations if complying with the Clean Water Act.

Wastewater Treatment Units (WWTUs)

Units designed to prevent hazardous waste escape into the environment during treatment, exempt from TSDF standards.

Totally Enclosed Treatment Units (TETUs)

Treatment, storage, and disposal activities performed immediately to manage hazardous waste spills, exempt from TSDF standards.

Emergency response action

Certain types of hazardous wastes that are subject to different regulatory standards, exempt from TSDF standards.

Universal wastes