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-.-_. - draft #9---cle¢n-11-~6-000 _ -_ 41. Solid waste. The term "solid waste" means construction and demolition waste; regulated recyclable material as designated in this ordinance; yard waste; hazardous or nonhazardous garbage, refuse or sludge from a waste treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility; domestic sewage and sludges generated by the treatment thereof in sanitary sewage collection, treatment, and disposal systems; and any other material that is either discarded or is being accumulated, stored, or treated prior to being discarded, or has served its original intended use and is generally discarded, including solid, liquid, semisolid or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, institutional, commercial, and agricultural operations, and from community activities. The term does not include: a. Fecal waste from fowls and animals other than humans. b. Solid or dissolved material in: 1) Domestic sewage and sludges generated by treatment thereof in sanitary sewage collection, treatment and disposal systems which are designed to discharge effluents to the surface waters. 2) Irrigation return flows. 3) Wastewater discharges and the sludges incidental to and generated by treatment which are point sources subject to permits granted under Section 402 of the Water Pollution Control Act, as amended (P.L. 92-500), and permits granted under N.C.G.S. § 143-215.1 by the Environmental Management Commission. However, any sludges that meet the criteria far hazardous waste under RCRA shall also be considered a solid waste for the purposes of this Article. c. Oils and other liquid hydrocarbons controlled under Article 21A of Chapter 143 of the General Statutes. However, any oils or other liquid hydrocarbons that meet the criteria for hazardous waste under RCRA "shall also be a solid waste far the purposes of this Article. d. Any source, special nuclear or byproduct material as defined by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (42 U.S.C. § 2011). e. Mining refuse covered by the North Carolina Mining act, N.C.G.S. § 74-46 through 74-68 and regulated by the North Carolina Mining Commission (as defined under N.C.G.S. § 143B-290). However, any specific mining waste that meets the criteria for hazardous waste under RCRA shall also be a solid waste for the purposes of this Article. f. Recovered material. ~ - 42. Solid Waste Advisory Board. The term "Solid Waste Advisory Board" means the policy advisory board of the Board, the County Manager and the Solid Waste Management Department as described and with membership as provided in the Agreement for Solid Waste Management among Orange County and the Towns of Carrboro, Chapel Hill and Hillsborough. . 43. Solid wcfste facility. The term "solid waste facility" means any publicly owned solid waste management facility permitted by the State of North Carolina that receives solid waste for processing, treatment, or disposal. 44. Solid waste disposal site. The term "solid waste disposal site" means any place at which solid waste is legally disposed of by any method. 4S. Solid waste management. The term "solid waste management" means the purposeful, systematic control of the generation, storage, collection, transport, separation, treatrnent, processing, recycling, recovery and disposal of solid waste. 46. Special waste. The term "special waste" means solid waste that can require special handling and management, including white goods, whole tires, used oil, lead-acid batteries, and medical wastes. 10