(1) “Certificate of need” means a certificate issued by the Board of Directors of the Faulkner County Regional Solid Waste Management District to any person proposing to obtain a permit for a solid waste facility;
(2) “Certificate of need review” means review of the application for a certificate of need;
(3) “Interested persons” means the applicant and any persons who submit public comments during the review period either in writing or verbally at the public hearing;
(4)
(A) “Landfill” means a permitted landfill under the Arkansas Solid Waste Management Act, Arkansas Code § 8-6-201 et seq.
(B) As used herein, the term does not include permitted landfills where a private industry bears the expense of operating and maintaining the landfill solely for the disposal of wastes:
(i) Generated by the industry; or
(ii) Of a similar kind or character;
(5) “Solid waste” means any garbage or refuse, sludge from a wastewater treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility, and other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, commercial, mining, and agricultural operations, and from community activities, but does not include solid or dissolved materials in domestic sewage, or solid or dissolved materials in irrigation return flows or industrial discharges that are point sources subject to permit under 33 U.S.C. § 1342, or source, special nuclear, or byproduct material as defined by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, 42 U.S.C. § 2011 et seq.;
(6) “Solid waste facility” means a landfill or transfer station as defined in this section; and
(7) “Transfer station” means any facility used to manage the removal, compaction, and transfer of solid waste from collection vehicles and containers, and from other private and commercial vehicles to greater capacity transport vehicles.