Part I. Definitions
9VAC20-60-10. (Repealed.)
Historical Notes
Derived from VR672-10-1, eff. January 1, 1988; amended, Virginia Register Volume 5, Issue 4, eff. January 1, 1989; Volume 6, Issue 6, eff. February 1, 1990; Volume 7, Issue 16, eff. July 1, 1991; Volume 9, Issue 6, eff. January 13, 1993; Volume 9, Issue 23, eff. September 8, 1993; repealed, Virginia Register Volume 15, Issue 9, eff. February 17, 1999.
9VAC20-60-12. Definitions derived from the Code of Virginia.
A. Chapter 11.1 (§ 10.1-1182 et seq.) and Chapter 14 (§ 10.1-1400 et seq.) of Title 10.1 of the Code of Virginia define the meaning of terms as used in the text of the statutes. Terms not otherwise defined in these regulations or an incorporated reference text shall have the meaning as established in the statutes.
B. Where a term is defined in these regulations or an incorporated reference text, the term shall have no other meaning, even if it is defined differently in the Code of Virginia or another regulation of the Virginia Administrative Code. The board has authority to adopt regulations only as granted to it by the Code of Virginia, and nothing herein shall be interpreted as extending the effect or scope of a regulation beyond that authority.
Statutory Authority
§ 10.1-1402 of the Code of Virginia.
Historical Notes
Derived from Virginia Register Volume 15, Issue 9, eff. February 17, 1999.
9VAC20-60-14. Definitions derived from incorporations of reference texts.
A. These regulations contain the text herein and several incorporated texts from Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations (cited as 40 CFR followed by a part number, section number and subsection reference numbers). These incorporated texts are fully a part of these regulations; however, definitions, additions, modifications and exemptions stated in the text written herein direct how the incorporated text shall be interpreted, and they take precedence over the verbatim interpretation of the incorporated text. These incorporated texts include definitions that are fully a part of these regulations and generally applicable throughout all incorporated text and all text written herein; however, stated in the text written herein are directions as to how the incorporated text shall be interpreted, and these directions take precedence over the verbatim interpretation of the incorporated text.
B. Unless a specific direction regarding the substitution of terms is given elsewhere, the following terms, where they appear in the Code of Federal Regulations shall, for the purpose of these regulations, have the following meanings or interpretations:
1. "Director" shall supplant the "Administrator," "Assistant Administrator," "Assistant Administrator for Solid Waste and Emergency Response" and the "Regional Administrator," wherever they appear.
2. "Department of Environmental Quality" shall supplant the "United States Environmental Protection Agency," "Environmental Protection Agency," "Agency," "EPA," "EPA Headquarters," "EPA Region(s)" or "Regional Office," wherever they appear. The use of "EPA" as an adjective in "EPA Acknowledgment of Consent," "EPA document," "EPA form," "EPA identification number," "EPA number," "EPA Publication," or similar phrase shall not be supplanted with "Department of Environmental Quality" and shall remain as in the original text cited.
3. "EPA Environmental Appeals Board" or "Environmental Appeals Board" shall be supplanted with the appointed hearing officer at a formal hearing, the court of appropriate jurisdiction, or others as required by the Administrative Process Act, Chapter 40 (§ 2.2-4000 et seq.) of Title 2.2 of the Code of Virginia.
4. "Qualified engineer" or "engineer" means a professional engineer certified to practice in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
5. "State," "authorized state," and "approved state" means the Commonwealth of Virginia.
6. "Approved program" means the Virginia regulatory program for the Virginia Hazardous Waste Management Regulations.
C. If a part of 40 CFR (as in 40 CFR Part 260) is cited, it shall mean the entire part (in this case, all of Part 260) including all subdivisions. If a section or subsection of a part of 40 CFR (as in 40 CFR 260.10) is cited, it shall mean the entire section (Section 10 of Part 260) and its subdivisions, but it does not include other sections or subsections of the same part.
D. The text of federal regulations incorporated by reference in these regulations includes dates that occurred before the effective date of the incorporation of those requirements into these regulations. Such dates shall not be construed as creating a retroactive right or obligation under the Virginia Hazardous Waste Management Regulations when that right or obligation did not exist in these regulations prior to the incorporation of the federal regulations by reference. In such cases, the effective date under Virginia Hazardous Waste Management Regulations is the earliest date the requirement was incorporated into these regulations or is as otherwise specified in these regulations. If a right or obligation existed under federal regulations based on a date in federal regulations and there is a period from the date cited in the incorporated text until the date they took effect in these regulations, nothing in these regulations shall contravene or countermand the legal application of the federal regulation for that period.
E. The text of federal regulations incorporated by reference in these regulations includes references to "RCRA," the "Resource Conservation and Recovery Act," sections of "RCRA," "Subtitle C of RCRA," the "Act," and other citations of enabling federal statutes. These statutes provide authority for actions by the United States Environmental Protection Agency, the administrator, and authorized states to regulate solid and hazardous waste management. The Virginia Waste Management Act (§ 10.1-1400 et seq.) of Title 10.1 of the Code of Virginia provides authority to the Virginia Waste Management Board, the director and the department analogous to many of those found in the federal statutes. See Part II (9VAC20-60-20 et seq.) of this chapter. Wherever in the incorporation by reference in these regulations of text from the Code of Federal Regulations there is a citation of authority from federal statutes, the authority and power of the analogous or related portions of the Virginia Waste Management Act shall be considered to apply in addition to the federal statutory citation and to support enforcement of the requirement.
Statutory Authority
§§ 10.1-1402 and Article 4 (§ 10.1-1426 et seq.) of Chapter 14 of Title 10.1 of the Code of Virginia.
Historical Notes
Derived from Virginia Register Volume 15, Issue 9, eff. February 17, 1999; amended, Virginia Register Volume 18, Issue 11, eff. March 13, 2002.
9VAC20-60-17. Definitions created by these regulations.
A. The following words and terms when used in this chapter shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Administrator" means the Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency or his designee. See 9VAC20-60-14 B 1.
"Another regulation of the Virginia Administrative Code" means any regulation that is not in 9VAC20-60, the Virginia Hazardous Waste Management Regulations.
"Application, Part A" means that part of the application that a permit applicant shall complete to qualify for interim status under § 3005(e) of RCRA or this chapter and for consideration for a permit.
"Application, Part B" means that part of the application that a permit applicant shall complete to be considered for a permit as required by 9VAC20-60-270.
"Approved program" means a state program that has been approved by the U.S. EPA. An "approved state" is one administering an "approved program" under the hazardous waste management provisions of RCRA.
"Authorization (authorized program)" means a state hazardous waste program that has been approved under the authorities of RCRA.
"Authorized representative" means the manager, superintendent, or person of equivalent responsibility responsible for the overall operation of a facility or an operational unit (i.e., part of a facility).
"Board" means the Virginia Waste Management Board.
"Commonwealth" means the Commonwealth of Virginia.
"Department" means the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality.
"Director" means the Director of the Department of Environmental Quality.
"Emergency permit" means a permit issued where an imminent and substantial endangerment to human health or the environment is determined to exist by the director.
"EPA" means the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. See 9VAC20-60-14 B 2.
"EPA identification number" means the number assigned by EPA or the department to each hazardous waste generator, hazardous waste transporter, or hazardous waste facility.
"EPA hazardous waste number" means the number assigned by EPA to each waste listed in Subpart D of 40 CFR Part 261 and to each waste exhibiting a characteristic identified in Subpart C of 40 CFR Part 261.
"Hazardous material" means a substance or material which has been determined by the Secretary of Transportation to be capable of posing an unreasonable risk to health, safety, and property when transported in commerce, and which has been so designated under 49 CFR Parts 171 and 173.
"HSWA" means the Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments of 1984 (P.L. 98-616).
"HSWA drip pad" means a drip pad where F032 wastes are handled.
"HSWA tank" means a tank owned or operated by a small quantity generator or an underground tank for which construction commenced after July 14, 1986, or an underground tank that cannot be entered for inspection.
"HWM" means hazardous waste management.
"Non-HSWA tank" means any tank that is not a HSWA tank.
"Non-HSWA drip pad" means a drip pad where F034 or F035 wastes are handled.
"Permit" means a control document issued by the Commonwealth pursuant to this chapter, or by the EPA administrator pursuant to applicable federal regulations. The term "permit" includes any functional equivalent such as an authorization, license, emergency permit, or permit by rule. It does not include interim status under RCRA or this chapter, nor does it include draft permits.
"Permitted hazardous waste management facility" or "permitted facility" means a hazardous waste treatment, storage, or disposal facility that has received an EPA or Commonwealth permit in accordance with the requirements of this chapter or a permit from an authorized state program.
"Qualified engineer" or "engineer" means a professional engineer certified to practice in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
"RCRA" means the Solid Waste Disposal Act, as amended by the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 (42 USC § 6901 et seq.).
"Regulation" means the control, direction and governance of solid and hazardous waste activities by means of the adoption and enforcement of laws, ordinances, rules and regulations.
"Responsible individual" means an individual authorized to sign official documents for and act on behalf of a company or organization. See also "authorized representative."
"Signature" means the name of a person written with his own hand.
"State director" means the Director of the Department of Environmental Quality.
"These regulations" means 9VAC20-60, the Virginia Hazardous Waste Management Regulations.
"VHWMR" means 9VAC20-60, the Virginia Hazardous Waste Management Regulations.
B. Terms used in liability insurance requirements. In the liability insurance requirements, the terms "bodily injury" and "property damage" shall have the meanings given these terms by the case law of the Virginia court system. However, these terms do not include those liabilities which, consistent with standard industry practices, are excluded from coverage in liability policies for bodily injury and property damage. The department intends the meanings of other terms used in the liability insurance requirements to be consistent with their common meanings within the insurance industry.
Statutory Authority
§ 10.1-1402 of the Code of Virginia; 42 USC § 6921 et seq.; 40 CFR Parts 260 through 272.
Historical Notes
Derived from Virginia Register Volume 15, Issue 9, eff. February 17, 1999; amended, Virginia Register Volume 18, Issue 11, eff. March 13, 2002; Volume 19, Issue 18, eff. July 1, 2003; Volume 34, Issue 14, eff. April 8, 2018.
9VAC20-60-18. Applicability of incorporated references based on the dates on which they became effective.
Except as noted, when a regulation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) set forth in Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations is referenced and incorporated into this chapter, that regulation shall be as it exists and has been published in the July 1, 2022, annual edition; however, the incorporation by reference of Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations shall not include the requirements of EPA's Response to Vacatur of Certain Provisions of the Definition of Solid Waste Rule (83 FR 24664, May 30, 2018) or Conforming Changes to Canada-specific Hazardous Waste Import-Export Recovery and Disposal Operation Codes (86 FR 54381, October 1, 2021).
Statutory Authority
§ 10.1-1402 of the Code of Virginia; 42 USC § 6921; 40 CFR Parts 260 through 272.
Historical Notes
Derived from Virginia Register Volume 15, Issue 9, eff. February 17, 1999; amended, Virginia Register Volume 17, Issue 2, eff. November 8, 2000; Volume 18, Issue 3, eff. November 21, 2001; Volume 18, Issue 11, eff. March 13, 2002; Volume 19, Issue 12, eff. March 26, 2003; Volume 20, Issue 2, eff. November 5, 2003; Volume 20, Issue 23, eff. July 1, 2004; Volume 20, Issue 24, eff. September 8, 2004; Volume 22, Issue 23, eff. August 23, 2006; Volume 24, Issue 9, eff. February 6, 2008; Volume 26, Issue 11, eff. March 3, 2010; Volume 27, Issue 11, eff. March 2, 2011; Volume 28, Issue 10, eff. February 15, 2012; Volume 29, Issue 11, eff. February 28, 2013; Volume 30, Issue 12, eff. March 12, 2014; Volume 31, Issue 14, eff. April 8, 2015; Volume 32, Issue 9, eff. January 27, 2016; Volume 34, Issue 14, eff. April 8, 2018; Volume 35, Issue 24, eff. August 23, 2019; Volume 38, Issue 7, eff. December 22, 2021; Volume 39, Issue 9, eff. January 18, 2023.