Title 19 Environmental Quality Code
Chapter 6 Hazardous Substances
Section 202 Definitions.
19-6-202. Definitions.
As used in this part:
(1) "Board" means the Solid and Hazardous Waste Control Board created in Section
19-1-106.
(2) "Disposal" means the final disposition of hazardous wastes into or onto the lands,
waters, and air of this state.
(3) "Hazardous wastes" means wastes as defined in Section 19-6-102.
(4) "Hazardous waste treatment, disposal, and storage facility" means a facility or site
used or intended to be used for the treatment, storage, or disposal of hazardous waste materials,
including but not limited to physical, chemical, or thermal processing systems, incinerators, and
secure landfills.
(5) "Site" means land used for the treatment, disposal, or storage of hazardous wastes.
(6) "Siting plan" means the state hazardous waste facilities siting plan adopted by the
board pursuant to Sections 19-6-204 and 19-6-205.
(7) "Storage" means the containment of hazardous wastes for a period of more than 90
days.
(8) "Treatment" means any method, technique, or process designed to change the
physical, chemical, or biological character or composition of any hazardous waste to neutralize or
render it nonhazardous, safer for transport, amenable to recovery or storage, convertible to
another usable material, or reduced in volume and suitable for ultimate disposal.
Renumbered and Amended by Chapter 112, 1991 General Session
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