Rule 391-3-19-.02. Conventions

1. (1) Abbreviations.

   CERCLA - Federal Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as amended

   CFR - Code of Federal Regulations

   HSRA - Georgia Hazardous Site Response Act, O.C.G.A. § 12-8-90 et seq.

   IEUBK - USEPA's Integrated Exposure Uptake Biokinetic Model for Lead in Children

   IRIS - USEPA's Integrated Risk Information System

   MCL - Maximum Contaminant Levels - Drinking water standards established pursuant to the Safe Drinking Water Act, promulgated at 40 CFR Part 141, Subpart G, including the treatment technique action level concentrations found in 40 CFR 141.80(c).

   NCP - The National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan, 40 CFR Part 300

   O.C.G.A. - Official Code of Georgia, Annotated

   PPRTV - USEPA's Provisional Peer Reviewed Toxicity Values

   RAGS, Part A - "Risk Assessment Guidance for Superfund: Volume 1 - Human Health Evaluation Manual (Part A)," USEPA document EPA/540/1-89/002, as amended.

   RAGS, Part B - "Risk Assessment Guidance for Superfund: Volume 1 - Human Health Evaluation Manual (Part B, Development of Risk-based Preliminary Remediation Goals)," USEPA document EPA/540/R-92/003, as amended.

   RAGS, Part E - "Risk Assessment Guidance for Superfund, Volume I: Human Health Evaluation Manual (Part E, Supplemental Guidance for Dermal Risk Assessment)," USEPA document EPA/540/R-99/005, as amended.

   RAGS, Part F - "Risk Assessment Guidance for Superfund, Volume I: Human Health Evaluation Manual (Part F, Supplemental Guidance for Inhalation Risk Assessment)," USEPA document EPA/540/R-070/002, as amended.

   SARA - Federal Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986, as amended

   SW-846 - "Test Methods for Evaluating Solid Waste, Physical/Chemical Methods," USEPA Publication SW-846

   USEPA - United States Environmental Protection Agency

2. (2) Definitions. Unless otherwise defined in this chapter, the definition of all terms included in the HSRA, O.C.G.A. 12-8-90 et seq., as amended, the Georgia Hazardous Waste Management Act (HWMA) O.C.G.A. § 12-8-60 et seq., as amended, and in the Rules for Hazardous Waste Management, Section 391-3-11-.02, shall have the same meaning in this chapter. When used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meaning given below:

   1. (a) Approved analytical test method means SW-846 test methods that have been promulgated, recommended, or otherwise approved by USEPA, or methods approved for use by the Division;
   2. (b) Conditionally exempt small quantity generator means a hazardous waste generator who generates 220 pounds or less of hazardous waste in one month;
   3. (c) Defined release means any release which is an event which has a known duration of less than 30 consecutive days, which has a known source, and which involves quantities that are known or can be estimated;
   4. (d) Detection limit means the practical quantitation limit (PQL), defined as the lowest concentration, for an approved analytical test method and for a given sample matrix, at which the quantity of a regulated substance can be measured with a stated degree of confidence under routine laboratory operating conditions;
   5. (e) Final receiving facility means a receiving facility that receives a hazardous waste and from which that hazardous waste will not be reshipped for further off-site management;
   6. (f) Free product means any non-aqueous phase liquid that contains a regulated substance and that has accumulated at a groundwater surface, has pooled above a low permeability boundary in an aquifer, or can move freely in the aquifer;
   7. (g) Ground water means any subsurface water that is in a zone of saturation;
   8. (h) Large quantity generator means a hazardous waste generator who generates 2.2 pounds or more of acute hazardous waste or 2200 pounds or more of hazardous waste in one month;
   9. (i) Non-residential property means any real property or portion of a property not currently being used for human habitation or for other purposes with a similar potential for human exposure, at which activities have been or are being conducted that can be categorized in one of the 1987 Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) major groups 01- 97 inclusive (except the four-digit codes 4941, 8051, 8059, 8062-3, 8069, 8211, 8221-2, 8351, 8661, and 9223). Non-residential property includes all of the contiguous block(s) and lot(s) controlled by the same owner or operator that are vacant land, or that are used in conjunction with such business. For leased properties, non-residential property includes the leasehold and any external tank, surface impoundment, septic system, or any other structure, vessel, contrivance, or unit that provides, or is utilized for the management of regulated substances to or from the leasehold;
   10. (j) Off-site management means the movement of hazardous waste beyond the property boundary of the facility where it was generated for disposal, incineration, treatment, storage, burning for energy recovery, recycling and/or reuse at a receiving facility;
   11. (k) On-site management means the disposal, incineration, treatment, storage, burning for energy recovery, recycling and/or reuse of self-generated hazardous waste by any large quantity generator before it is shipped for off-site management or discharged from an outfall regulated under the Georgia Water Quality Control Act;
   12. (l) Out-of-state generator means any generator outside the State of Georgia that ships hazardous waste to a receiving facility located within the State of Georgia;
   13. (m) Receiving facility means a facility that receives hazardous waste for disposal, incineration, treatment, storage, burning for energy recovery, recycling and/or reuse;
   14. (n) Regulated substance means any substance defined in the Hazardous Waste Management Act, O.C.G.A. § 12-8-62, by the terms "hazardous waste" or "hazardous constituent," or any substance defined in the Hazardous Site Response Act, O.C.G.A. § 12-8-92, as "hazardous substance" (all such regulated substances are listed in Appendix I of this Chapter);
   15. (o) Release means any intentional or unintentional act or omission resulting in the spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, discharging, injecting, escaping, leaching, dumping, or disposing into the environment, including without limitation the abandonment or discarding of barrels, containers, and other closed receptacles, of any hazardous waste, hazardous constituent, or hazardous substance; provided however, that such term shall not include any release which results in exposure to persons solely within a workplace, with respect to a claim which such persons may assert against the employer of such persons; emissions from the engine exhaust of any motor vehicle, rolling stock, aircraft, vessel, or pipeline pumping station; or the normal application of fertilizer;
   16. (p) Reportable quantity means the amount of any released regulated substance which causes a site to meet the criteria for listing on the Hazardous Site Inventory pursuant to the screening method provided in Appendix II of this Chapter;
   17. (q) Reshipped for further off-site management means when a receiving facility has received hazardous waste and where such hazardous waste has undergone disposal, incineration, treatment, storage, recycling and/or reuse at that receiving facility and the receiving facility subsequently signs the manifest accompanying such hazardous waste to send it to another receiving facility where it will undergo further disposal, incineration, treatment, storage, burning for energy recovery, recycling and/or reuse;
   18. (r) Residential property means any property that does not exclusively meet the definition of non-residential property. In addition to recognized residential use, it also includes property used for establishments classified by those SIC codes that are excepted from the definition herein of "non-residential". Also, a portion of non-residential property that is used in part for residential activities, such as a day care center, is defined as residential;
   19. (s) Responsible party means any person who has contributed or who is contributing to a release, as defined at O.C.G.A. 12-8-92(9);
   20. (t) Self-generated hazardous waste means hazardous waste generated by a large quantity generator or a small quantity generator;
   21. (u) Shipped for off-site management means when a generator signs the manifest accompanying a hazardous waste shipment bound for a receiving facility where it will undergo disposal, incineration, treatment, storage, burning for energy recovery, recycling and/or reuse at that facility;
   22. (v) Site means that portion of the owner's contiguous property and any other owner's property affected by a release exceeding a reportable quantity;
   23. (w) Small quantity generator means a hazardous waste generator who generates greater than 220 pounds but less than 2200 pounds of hazardous waste in one month;
   24. (x) Soil means any unconsolidated earth material, together with any unconsolidated plant or animal matter or foreign material that has become incorporated into it, that either consists of, remains within, or comes to be deposited on, native soil or regolith;
   25. (y) Source material means any material that includes or contains regulated substances that act or may likely act as a reservoir for migration of regulated substances to groundwater, soil, surface water, or air, or acts as a source for direct exposure;
   26. (z) Ton of hazardous waste means a standard short ton (2000 pounds) including any fraction thereof;
   27. (aa) Wastewater means any self-generated hazardous waste that undergoes on-site management in a wastewater treatment facility prior to its discharge from an outfall that is regulated under the Georgia Water Quality Control Act.
3. (3) Number and gender. As used in this chapter, words in the singular also include the plural and words in the masculine gender also include the feminine and vice versa, as the case may require.
4. (4) Submittal of documents. All information required to be submitted to the Director pursuant to this Chapter shall be submitted in such form as may be prescribed by the Director including the submittal of information in electronic format.

Authority: O.C.G.A. § 12-8-90 et seq.

History. Original Rule entitled "Definitions" adopted. F. May 27, 1993; eff. June 16, 1993.

Amended: Rule retitled "Conventions". F. Jan. 31, 1994; eff. Feb. 20, 1994.

Amended: F. July 1, 1994; eff. July 21, 1994.

Amended: F. Feb. 28, 1995; eff. Mar. 20, 1995.

Amended: F. Nov. 3, 1999; eff. Nov. 23, 1999.

Amended: F. July 3, 2003; eff. July 23, 2003.

Amended: F. Nov. 25, 2009; eff. Dec. 15, 2009.

Amended: F. Sep. 5, 2018; eff. Sept. 25, 2018.