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RCRA Orientation Manual 2014 Glossary

Description:

Glossary of terms used in the RCRA Orientation Manual 2014

Publishing Organization:

Office of Land and Emergency Management/Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery

Last Update:

October 2014

Program Site:

https://www.epa.gov/hwgenerators/resource-conservation-and-recovery-act-rcra-orientation-manual

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	Abandoned	Definition: For purposes of defining a material as a solid waste under RCRA Subtitle C, a material that is disposed of, burned, or incinerated.
	Accumulated Speculatively	Definition: Storage of a material in lieu of expeditious recycling. Materials are usually accumulated speculatively if the waste being stored has no viable market or if a facility cannot demonstrate that at least 75 percent of the material has been recycled in a calendar year.
	Acknowledgment of Consent	Definition: Notice sent by EPA to an exporter of hazardous waste, indicating that the importing country has agreed to accept such waste.
	Administrative Action	Definition: Enforcement action taken by EPA or a state under its own authority, without involving a judicial court process.
	Administrative Procedures Act	Definition: The Act that establishes rulemaking procedures as well as site-specific licensing procedures, access to agency information, and procedures and standards for judicial review of agency actions. All environmental rulemakings proposed and finalized by EPA include public participation throughout the process.
	Aggregation Points	Definition: Centers that accept used oil only from places owned by the same owner and operator as the aggregation point, or from do-it-yourselfers.
	Alternative Concentration Limits	Definition: For purposes of TSDF ground water monitoring, hazardous constituent limits established by the EPA Regional Administrator that are allowed to be present in ground water.
	Applicable or Relevant and Appropriate Requirements	Definition: Standards, criteria, or limitations under federal or more stringent state environmental laws, including RCRA, that may be required during a Superfund remedial action, unless site-specific waivers are obtained.
	Authorized State	Definition: A state that has been delegated the authority by EPA to implement and enforce its own regulations for hazardous waste management under RCRA. The state program must be at least as stringent as the federal standards.
	Basel Convention	Definition: The international treaty that establishes standards for global trade of hazardous waste, municipal waste, and municipal incinerator ash. Because the United States is not a party to the convention, U.S. businesses can only export waste to those countries with which the U.S. government has negotiated a separate waste trade agreement.
	Bentsen Wastes	Definition: Geothermal exploration, development, and production waste exempt from RCRA Subtitle C regulation.
	Best Demonstrated Available Technology	Definition: The technology that best minimizes the mobility or toxicity (or both) of the hazardous constituents for a particular waste.
	Bevill Wastes	Definition: Fossil fuel combustion wastes, mining and mineral processing wastes, and cement kiln dust wastes exempt from RCRA Subtitle C regulation.
	Biennial Report	Definition: A report submitted by hazardous waste LQGs and TSDFs to enable EPA and the states to track the quantities of hazardous waste generated and the movements of those hazardous wastes.
	Boiler	Definition: An enclosed device that uses controlled flame combustion to recover and deliver energy in the form of steam, heated fluid, or heated gases.
	Bottom Ash	Definition: Ash that collects at the bottom of a combustion chamber.
	Burners	Definition: Handlers who burn used oil for energy recovery in boilers, industrial furnaces, or hazardous waste incinerators.
	Burning for Energy Recovery	Definition: Burning hazardous waste for its heating value as a fuel, and using wastes to produce fuels or as ingredients in fuels.
	By-Products	Definition: Materials that are not one of the intended products of a production process and includes most wastes that are not spent materials or sludges.
	California List	Definition: Interim LDR treatment standards that ensured adequate protection of human health and the environment during the time EPA was promulgating final LDR treatment standards.
	Capacity Assurance Plan	Definition: A written statement which ensures that a state has hazardous waste treatment and disposal capacity. This capacity must be for facilities that are in compliance with RCRA Subtitle C requirements and must be adequate to manage hazardous wastes projected to be generated within the state over 20 years.
	Cathode Ray Tubes	Definition: Vacuum tubes, made primarily of glass, which constitute the video display component of televisions and computer monitors. These tubes are generally hazardous for lead.
	Cement Kiln	Definition: Type of industrial furnace that receives hazardous waste to burn as fuel to run its cement process. Cement is produced by heating mixtures of limestone and other minerals or additives at high temperatures in a rotary kiln, followed by cooling, grinding, and finish mixing.
	Characteristic Waste	Definition: Waste that is considered hazardous under RCRA because it exhibits any of four different properties: ignitability, corrosivity, reactivity, and toxicity.
	Civil Action	Definition: A formal lawsuit, filed in court, against a person who has either failed to comply with a statutory or regulatory requirement or an administrative order, or against a person who has contributed to a release of hazardous waste or hazardous constituents.
	Clean Air Act	Definition: The Act that regulates air emissions from area, stationary, and mobile sources. CAA limits the emission of pollutants into the atmosphere in order to protect human health and the environment from the effects of airborne pollution. Acronym: CAA
	Clean Closure	Definition: The process of completely removing all waste that was treated, stored, or disposed in a hazardous waste unit.
	Clean Water Act	Definition: The Act that sets the basic structure for regulating discharges of pollutants to surface waters of the United States. CWA imposes contaminant limitations or guidelines for all discharges of wastewater into the nation's waterways. Acronym: CWA
	Closure	Definition: The procedure that a solid or hazardous waste management facility undergoes to cease operations and ensure protection of human health and the environment in the future.
	Codification	Definition: The process by which final regulations are incorporated into the CFR, which is published annually.
	Collection Centers	Definition: Centers that accept used oil from multiple sources, including both businesses and private citizens.
	Combustion	Definition: The controlled burning in an enclosed area as a means of treating or disposing of hazardous waste.
	Commercial Chemical Products	Definition: Unused or off-specification chemicals, spill or container residues, and other unused manufactured products that are not typically considered chemicals. For the purposes of hazardous waste listings, CCPs include only unused, pure chemical products and formulations. Acronym: CCPs
	Compliance Monitoring	Definition: For purposes of RCRA TSDF ground water monitoring, a program that seeks to ensure that the amount of hazardous waste that has leaked into the uppermost aquifer does not exceed acceptable levels.
	Composting	Definition: Processes designed to optimize the natural decomposition or decay of organic matter, such as leaves and food. The end product of composting is a humus-like material that can be added to soils to increase soil fertility, aeration, and nutrient retention.
	Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act	Definition: The Act that authorizes EPA to clean up uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites and respond to accidents, spills, and other emergency releases of hazardous substances. CERCLA provides EPA with enforcement authority to ensure that responsible parties pay the cleanup costs of remediating a site contaminated with hazardous substances. Acronym: CERCLA
	Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Information System	Definition: A computerized database used to track hazardous substance sites.
	Comprehensive Performance Testing	Definition: The initial and periodic evaluation procedure for demonstrating compliance with the national emission standards for hazardous air pollutants and establishing revised operating limits for hazardous waste combustors.
	Comprehensive Procurement Guidelines	Definition: A list, updated every two years, which designates items with recycled content that procuring agencies should aim to purchase. This list currently contains 59 items within 8 product categories.
	Concentration Limits	Definition: For purposes of TSDF ground water monitoring, the maximum levels of hazardous constituents allowed to be present in the ground water.
	Conditionally Exempt Small Quantity Generators	Definition: Facilities that produce less than 100 kg of hazardous waste, or less than 1 kg of acutely hazardous waste, per calendar month. A CESQG may only accumulate less than 1,000 kg of hazardous waste, 1 kg of acutely hazardous waste, or 100 kg of spill residue from acutely hazardous waste at any one time. Acronym: CESQG
	Construction Quality Assurance	Definition: A program required by EPA to ensure that a landfill, surface impoundment, or waste pile meets all of the technological requirements.
	Contained-In Policy	Definition: An EPA policy that determines the health threats posed by contaminated environmental media and debris, and whether such materials must be managed as RCRA hazardous wastes.
	Containers	Definition: Portable devices in which a material is stored, transported, treated, or otherwise handled.
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