Sec. 12102.
As used in this part:
(a) "Manifest" means either of the following:
(i) A form and instructions approved by the department used for identifying the quantity, composition, origin, routing, or destination of liquid industrial waste during its transportation from the point of generation to the point of disposal, treatment, storage, or reclamation.
(ii) For shipments of liquid industrial waste that are not generated or transported to a disposal facility, treatment facility, storage facility, or reclamation facility in this state, a United States environmental protection agency form number 8700-22 and 8700-22A, or its successor.
(b) "On-site" means on the same geographically contiguous property, which may be divided by a public or private right-of-way if access is by crossing rather than going along the right-of-way. On-site includes noncontiguous pieces of property owned by the same person but connected by a right-of-way which the owner controls and to which the public does not have access.
(c) "Peace officer" means any law enforcement officer who is trained and certified pursuant to the commission on law enforcement standards act, 1965 PA 203, MCL 28.601 to 28.616, or an officer appointed by the director of the department of state police pursuant to section 6d of 1935 PA 59, MCL 28.6d.
(d) "Publicly owned treatment works" means any entity that treats municipal sewage or industrial waste of a liquid nature that is owned by the state or a municipality, as that term is defined in 33 USC 1362. Publicly owned treatment works include sewers, pipes, or other conveyances only if they convey wastewater to a publicly owned treatment works providing treatment.
(e) "Reclamation" means either processing to recover a usable product or regeneration.
(f) "Reclamation facility" means a facility or part of a facility where liquid industrial waste reclamation is conducted.
(g) "Site identification number" means a number that is assigned by the United States environmental protection agency or the department to a generator, transporter, or facility. The department may assign a number to a person or a facility to cover multiple unstaffed sites that generate uniform types of liquid industrial waste.
(h) "Storage" means the containment of liquid industrial waste, on a temporary basis, in a manner that does not constitute disposal of liquid industrial waste.
(i) "Storage facility" means a facility or part of a facility where liquid industrial waste is stored.
(j) "Surface impoundment" means a treatment facility, storage facility, or disposal facility or part of a treatment, storage, or disposal facility that is either a natural topographic depression, a human-made excavation, or a diked area formed primarily of earthen materials. A surface impoundment may be lined with human-made materials designed to hold an accumulation of liquid waste or waste containing free liquids. Surface impoundments include, but are not limited to, holding, storage, settling, aeration pits, ponds, and lagoons. Surface impoundment does not include an injection well.
(k) "Tank" means a stationary device designed to contain an accumulation of liquid industrial waste that is constructed primarily of nonearthen materials such as wood, concrete, steel, or plastic to provide structural support.
(l) "Transportation" means the movement of liquid industrial waste by air, rail, public or private roadway, or water.
(m) "Transporter" means a person engaged in the off-site transportation of liquid industrial waste by air, rail, public roadway, or water.
(n) "Treatment" means any method, technique, or process, including neutralization, designed to change the physical, chemical, or biological character or composition of any liquid industrial waste, to neutralize the waste, or to render the waste safer to transport, store, or dispose of, amenable to recovery, amenable to storage, or reduced in volume.
(o) "Treatment facility" means a facility or part of a facility at which liquid industrial waste undergoes treatment.
(p) "Used oil" means any oil that has been refined from crude oil, or any synthetic oil, that has been used and that, as a result of the use, is contaminated by physical or chemical impurities.
(q) "Vehicle" means a transport vehicle as defined by 49 CFR 171.8.
History: 1994, Act 451, Eff. Mar. 30, 1995 ;-- Am. 1995, Act 61, Imd. Eff. May 24, 1995 ;-- Am. 1998, Act 140, Eff. Sept. 1, 1998 ;-- Am. 2001, Act 165, Imd. Eff. Nov. 7, 2001 ;-- Am. 2008, Act 8, Imd. Eff. Feb. 20, 2008
Last modified: October 10, 2016