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<br />criteria for hazardous waste under RCRA shall also be a solid waste for the
<br />purposes of this Article.
<br />d. Any source, special nuclear or byproduct material as defined by the Atomic Energy
<br />Act of 1954, as amended (42 U.S.C. § 2011).
<br />e. Mining refuse covered by the North Carolina Mining act, N.C.G.S. § 74-46 through
<br />74-fib and regulated by the North Carolina Mining Commission (as defined under
<br />N.C.G.S. § 143B-290). However, any specific mining waste that meets .the criteria
<br />far hazardous waste under RCRA shall also be a solid waste for the purposes of this
<br />Article.
<br />f. Recovered material.
<br />42. Solid Waste Advisory Board. The term "Solid Waste Advisory Board" means the policy
<br />advisory boafd of the Board, the County Manager and the Solid Waste Management
<br />Department as described and with membership as provided in the Agreement for Solid Waste
<br />Management among Orange County and the Towns of Caxrboro, Chapel Hill and
<br />Hillsborough.
<br />43. Solid waste facility. The term "solid waste facility" means any publicly owned solid waste
<br />management facility permitted by the State of North Carolina that receives solid waste for
<br />processing, treatment, or disposal.
<br />44. Solid waste disposal site. The term "solid waste disposal site" means any place at which
<br />solid waste is legally disposed of by any method.
<br />45. Solid waste management. The term "solid waste management" means the purposeful,
<br />systematic control of the generation, storage, collection, transport, separation, treatment,
<br />processing, recycling, recovery and disposal of solid waste.
<br />46. Special waste. The term "special waste" means solid waste that can require special handling
<br />and management, including white goods, whole tires, used oil, lead-acid batteries, and
<br />medical wastes.
<br />47. Storage. The term "storage" means the containment of solid waste, either on a temporary
<br />basis ar for a period of years, in a manner which does not constitute disposal.
<br />48. Structure. The term "structure means any construction, production, or piece of work
<br />artificially built up or composed of parts purposefully joined together.
<br />49. Treatment. The term "treatment" means any method, technique, or process, including
<br />neutralization, designed to change the physical, chemical, or biological character or
<br />composition of any hazazdous waste so as to neutralize such waste or so as- to render such
<br />waste nonhazardous, safer for transport, amenable for recovery, amenable for storage or
<br />reduced in volume. "Treatment" includes any activity or processing designed to change the
<br />physical form or chemical composition of hazazdous waste so as to render it nonhazardous.
<br />50. [vehicle. The term "vehicle" shall mean any means by which someone or something is carried
<br />or transported.
<br />51. White goods. The term "white goods" includes refrigerators, ranges, water heaters, freezers,
<br />unit air conditioners, washing machines, dishwashers, clothes dryers, and other similar
<br />domestic and commercial large appliances.
<br />52. Yard waste. The term `~+ard wastes" means those organic materials commonly consisting of
<br />leaves, grass, weeds, hedge clippings, yard and garden waste, Christmas trees, pine straw,
<br />branches, small logs, twigs, and all vegetative matter resulting from residential landscaping
<br />activities.
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