1. "Competent authority" means the regulatory authority or authorities of concerned countries having jurisdiction over transboundary movements of wastes.
2. "Countries concerned" means the countries of export or import and any countries of transit.
3. "Country of export" means any country where a transboundary movement of hazardous wastes is planned to be initiated or is initiated.
4. "Country of import" means any country where a transboundary movement of hazardous wastes is planned to be sent or takes place to submit the wastes to recovery or disposal operations therein.
5. "Country of transit" means any country other than the country of export or country of import where a transboundary movement of hazardous wastes is planned to cross or takes place.

6. "Disposal operations" means activities that do not lead to the possibility of resource recovery, recycling, reclamation, direct re-use or alternate uses, which include:

   D1 Release or Deposit into or onto land, other than by any of operations D2 through D5 or D12.

   D2 Land treatment, such as biodegradation of liquids or sludges in soils.

   D3 Deep injection, such as injection into wells, salt domes or naturally occurring repositories.

   D4 Surface impoundment, such as placing of liquids or sludges into pits, ponds or lagoons.

   D5 Specially engineered landfill, such as placement into lined discrete cells that are capped and isolated from one another and the environment.

   D6 Release into a water body other than a sea or ocean, and other than by operation D4.

   D7 Release into a sea or ocean, including sea-bed insertion, other than by operation D4.

   D8 Biological treatment not specified elsewhere in operations D1 through D12, that results in final compounds or mixtures that are discarded by any of operations D1 through D12.

   D9 Physical or chemical treatment not specified elsewhere in operations D1 through D12, such as evaporation, drying, calcination, neutralization, or precipitation, that results in final compounds or mixtures that are discarded by any of operations D1 through D12.

   D10 Incineration on land.

   D11 Incineration at sea.

   D12 Permanent storage.

   D13 Interim blending or mixing, before an operation that bears any of the disposal operations D1 to D12.

   D14 Interim repackaging, before an operation that bears any of the disposal operations D1 to D12.

   D15 Interim Storage, before an operation that bears any of the disposal operations D1 to D12.

   DC1 Release, including the venting of compressed or liquified gases, or treatment, other than by any of operations D1 to D12, for transboundary movements with Canada only.

   DC2 Testing of a new technology to dispose of a hazardous waste, for transboundary movements with Canada only.

   "EPA Acknowledgment of Consent" (AOC) means the letter EPA sends to the exporter documenting the specific terms of the country of import's consent and the countries of transit's consents. The AOC meets the definition of an export license in U.S. Census Bureau regulations 15 CFR 30.1.

7. "Export" means the transportation of hazardous waste from a location under the jurisdiction of the United States to a location under the jurisdiction of another country, or a location not under the jurisdiction of any country, for the purposes of recovery or disposal operations therein.

   "Exporter, also known as primary exporter on the hazardous waste manifest", means the person domiciled in the United States who shall originate the movement document in accordance with Subsection R315-262-83(d) or the manifest for a shipment of hazardous waste in accordance with Sections R315-262-20 through R315-262-27, that specifies a foreign receiving facility as the facility where the hazardous wastes will be sent, or any recognized trader who proposes export of the hazardous wastes for recovery or disposal operations in the country of import.

8. "Foreign exporter" means the person under the jurisdiction of the country of export who has, or will have when the planned transboundary movement begins, possession or other forms of legal control of the hazardous wastes and who proposes shipment of the hazardous wastes to the United States for recovery or disposal operations.
9. "Foreign importer" means the person to whom possession or other form of legal control of the hazardous waste is assigned when the exported hazardous waste is received in the country of import.
10. "Foreign receiving facility" means a facility that, under the importing country's applicable domestic law, is operating or is authorized to operate in the country of import to receive the hazardous wastes and to perform recovery or disposal operations on them.
11. "Import" means the transportation of hazardous waste from a location under the jurisdiction of another country to a location under the jurisdiction of the United States for the purposes of recovery or disposal operations therein.
12. "Importer" means the person to whom possession or other form of legal control of the hazardous waste is assigned when the imported hazardous waste is received in the United States.
13. "OECD area" means any land or marine areas under the national jurisdiction of any OECD Member country. If the rules refer to shipments to or from an OECD Member country, this means OECD area.
14. "OECD" means the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
15. "OECD Member country" means the countries that are members of the OECD and participate in the Amended 2001 OECD Decision. EPA provides a list of OECD Member countries at https://www.epa.gov/hwgenerators/international-agreementstransboundary- shipments-waste.
16. "Receiving facility" means a U.S. facility that, under RCRA and other applicable domestic laws, is operating or is authorized to operate to receive hazardous wastes and to perform recovery or disposal operations on them.

17. "Recovery operations" means activities leading to resource recovery, recycling, reclamation, direct re-use or alternative uses, which include:

    R1 Use as a fuel, other than in direct incineration, or other means to generate energy.

    R2 Solvent reclamation or regeneration.

    R3 Recycling or reclamation of organic substances that are not used as solvents.

    R4 Recycling or reclamation of metals and metal compounds.

    R5 Recycling or reclamation of other inorganic materials.

    R6 Regeneration of acids or bases.

    R7 Recovery of components used for pollution abatement.

    R8 Recovery of components used from catalysts.

    R9 Used oil re-refining or other reuses of previously used oil.

    R10 Land treatment resulting in benefit to agriculture or ecological improvement.

    R11 Use of residual materials received from any of the recovery operation codes numbered R1 through R10 or RC1.

    R12 Interim exchange of wastes before recycling using any of the recovery operation codes numbered R1 through R11 or RC1.

    R13 Interim accumulation of wastes before recycling using any of the operation codes numbered R1 through R11 or RC1.

    RC1 Recovery or regeneration of a substance or use or re-use of a recyclable material, other than by any of operations R1 to R10, for transboundary movements with Canada only.

    RC2 Testing of a new technology to recycle a hazardous recyclable material, for transboundary movements with Canada only.

    RC3 Interim storage before any of operations R1 to R11 or RC1, for transboundary movements with Canada only.

18. "Transboundary movement" means any movement of hazardous wastes from an area under the national jurisdiction of one country to an area under the national jurisdiction of another country.

In addition to the definitions set forth at Section R315-260-10, the following definitions apply to Sections R315-262-80 through R315-262-84:

KEY: hazardous waste, generators

Date of Last Change: November 17, 2025

Notice of Continuation: December 11, 2025

Authorizing, and Implemented or Interpreted Law: 19-6-105; 19-6-106