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Virginia Administrative Code
Title 18. Professional And Occupational Licensing
Agency 155. Board For Waste Management Facility Operators
Chapter 20. Waste Management Facility Operators Regulations
7/18/2025

18VAC155-20-10. Definitions.

The following words and terms when used in this chapter have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

"Board" means the Board for Waste Management Facility Operators.

"Class I license" means the authorization from the board to act as a waste management facility operator of a transfer station, a material recovery facility, an experimental facility, a composting facility, a centralized waste treatment facility, a surface impoundment or lagoon, a waste pile, a remediation waste management unit, or a miscellaneous unit.

"Class II license" means the authorization from the board to act as a waste management facility operator of a sanitary landfill, an industrial landfill, or a construction/demolition/debris (CDD) landfill.

"Class III license" means the authorization from the board to act as a waste management facility operator of a regulated medical waste management facility.

"Class IV license" means the authorization from the board to act as a waste management facility operator of a municipal waste combustion unit, a waste-to-energy facility, or an incineration facility.

"Contact hour" means 50 minutes of participation in a group program or 60 minutes of completion time for a project.

"Department" means the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation.

"Municipal solid waste" means that waste that is defined as "municipal solid waste" in 9VAC20-81-10.

"Operation" means any waste management facility that is under construction, treating, processing, storing, or disposing of solid waste, or in the act of securing a facility for closure as defined in 9VAC20-81-10.

"Solid waste" means any of those materials defined as solid waste in 9VAC20-81-95.

Statutory Authority

§§ 54.1-201 and 54.1-2211 of the Code of Virginia.

Historical Notes

Derived from VR674-01-02 § 1.1, eff. August 22, 1993; amended, Virginia Register Volume 11, Issue 1, eff. November 2, 1994; Volume 16, Issue 14, eff. May 1, 2000; Volume 22, Issue 26, eff. November 1, 2006; Volume 32, Issue 22, eff. August 1, 2016; Volume 33, Issue 9, eff. February 1, 2017; Volume 41, Issue 15, eff. July 1, 2025.

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