N.M. Admin. Code § 20.9.25.7

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 23, December 10, 2024

Section 20.9.25.7 - DEFINITIONS

As used in this part:

A. "applicant" means a municipality as defined in this section or a county that has submitted a grant application, or any number of such municipalities and/or counties that have submitted a grant application jointly;

B. "department" means the New Mexico environment department;

C. "fund" means the solid waste facility grant fund created by NMSA 1978, Section 74-9-41.A.

D. "municipality" means any incorporated city, town or village, whether incorporated under general act, special act or special charter, incorporated counties and H class counties;

E. "regionalization" means the combining of activities of legally and politically distinct municipalities as defined in this section and/or counties within a geographical area to address through joint effort or activity mutual solid waste management problems;

F. "secretary" means the secretary of the environment department;

G. "solid waste" means any garbage, refuse, sludge from a waste treatment plant, water supply treatment plant or air pollution control facility and other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semisolid or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, commercial, mining and agricultural operations and from community activities; "solid waste" does not include:

(1) drilling fluids, produced waters and other non-domestic wastes associated with the exploration, development or production, transportation, storage, treatment or refinement of crude oil, natural gas, carbon dioxide gas or geothermal energy;

(2) fly ash waste, bottom ash waste, slag waste and flue gas emission control waste generated primarily from the combustion of coal or other fossil fuels and wastes produced in conjunction with the combustion of fossil fuels that are necessarily associated with the production of energy and that traditionally have been and actually are mixed with and are disposed of or treated at the same time with fly ash, bottom ash, boiler slag or flue gas emission control wastes from coal combustion;

(3) waste from the extraction, benefication and processing of ores and minerals, including phosphate rock and overburden from the mining of uranium ore, coal, copper, molybdenum and other ores and minerals;

(4) agricultural waste, including, but not limited to, manures and crop residues returned to the soil as fertilizer or soil conditioner;

(5) cement kiln dust waste;

(6) sand and gravel;

(7) solid or dissolved material in domestic sewage or solid or dissolved materials in irrigation return flows or industrial discharges that are point sources subject to permits under Section 402 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, 33 U-S.C. Section 1342 or source, special nuclear or by-product material as defined by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, 42 U.S.C. Section 2011 et seq.;

(8) densified-refuse-derived fuel; or

(9) any material regulated by Subtitle C of the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, substances regulated by the federal Toxic Substances Control Act or low-level radioactive waste;

H. "solid waste facility" means any public or private system, facility, location, improvements on the land, structures or other appurtenances or methods used for processing, transformation, recycling or disposal of solid waste, including landfill disposal facilities, transfer stations, resource recovery facilities, incinerators and other similar facilities not specified, but does not include equipment specifically approved by order of the secretary to render medical waste noninfectious or a facility which is permitted pursuant to the provisions of the Hazardous Waste Act and does not apply to a facility fueled by a densified-refuse-derived fuel that accepts no other solid waste.

N.M. Admin. Code § 20.9.25.7

7/16/91, 20.9.25.7 NMAC - Rn, 20 NMAC.9.3.I.107, 8/2/2007