Definitions

Definitions. Definitions. The following definitions are applicable to the terms used in this chapter: (1) “Department” means department of natural resources. (2) “Entity” means the person, governmental body, institution, industry or company for which the solid waste management plan is being prepared. (3) “Environmentally sensitive areas” means those areas defined as environmentally sensitive in the federal criteria for classification of solid waste disposal facilities issued pursuant to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976. These areas include but are not limited to wetlands, areas inundated by the regional flood, recharge zones of sole source aquifers, and critical habitats of endangered species. (4) “Plan” means a plan prepared pursuant to s. NR 185.07 to provide for solid waste management. (5) “Planning area” means the geographical area for which the plan is being prepared. (6) “Planning period” means the period of time for which the studies and solid waste management plans are made. The planning period shall extend at least 10 years from the projected plan approval date. (7) “Planning process” is the process described in s. NR 185.07 . (8) “Solid waste” means any garbage, refuse, sludge from a waste treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility and other discarded or salvageable 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 material in domestic sewage, or solid or dissolved materials in irrigation return flows or industrial discharges which are point sources subject to permits under ch. 283 , Stats., or source, special nuclear, or by-product material as defined under s. 254.31 , Stats. (9) “Solid waste management” means the systematic administration of activities which provide for source reduction, source separation storage, collection, transportation, transfer, processing, treatment, resource recovery and disposal of solid waste. (10) “Solid waste management functions” are source reduction, source separation, storage, collection, transportation, transfer, processing, treatment, resource recovery and disposal of solid waste.