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- • 098 10 NCAC 10G; SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT; has been adopted as follows ; SECTION .0100 - GENERAL PROVISIONS .0101 DEFINITIONS The following definitions shall apply throughout this Subchapter: (1) "Airport" means public-use airport open to the public without prior permission and without restrictions within the physical capacities of available facilities. (2) "Blood products" means all bulk blood and blood products. (3) "Cell" means compacted solid waste completely enveloped by a compacted cover material. (4) "Disposal" means the discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking, or placing of any solid waste into or on any land so that such solid waste or any constituent thereof may enter the environment or be emitted into the air or t1cuharged into any water, including groundwaters. 5) re • on an i ,-ans : 1 ary - - limited to receiving stumps, limbs, leaves, concrete, brick, wood, uncontaminated earth or other solid wastes as approved .v • - .~ ' sion. "Division" mean t e director of the division of health services or his authorized representative. (7) "Explosive gas" means Methane (CH4) . (8) "Federal act" means the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, P.L. 94-580, as amended. (9) "Floodplain" means the lowland and relatively flat areas adjoining inland and coastal waters, including flood-prone areas of offshore islands, which are inundated by the 100-year flood. (10) "Garbage" means all putrescible wastes, including animal offal and carcasses , and recognizable industrial by-products , but excluding sewage and human waste. (11) "Hazardous waste" means a solid waste, or combination of solid wastes, which because of its quantity, concentration, or physical, chemical or infectious characteristics may: (a) cause or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible or incapacitating reversible illness ; or. (b) pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or the environment when improperly treated, stored, transported, or disposed of, or otherwise managed. (12) "Hazardous waste facility" means a facility for the storage, • collection, processing, treatment, recycling, recovery or disposal of hazardous waste. (13) "Hazardous waste landfill facility" means any facility or any portion of a facility for disposal of hazardous waste on or in land in accordance with rules promulgated under this article. (14) "Incineration" means the process of burning solid, semisolid or gaseous combustible wastes to an inoffensive gas and a residue containing .little or no combustible material.