P.R. Laws tit. 12, § 1321a
For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have the meaning stated below:
(1) Audit or waste auditing.— Means the process for the evaluation carried out at a plant in order to examine its existing potential, implement modifications to its hazardous waste management process, investigate modifications in the production process and substitute materials or more efficient management practices which may be put into practice.
(2) Hazardous waste.— Means waste materials or a combination of said waste materials which due to their amount, toxicity, concentration or physical, chemical or infectious characteristics may:
(a) Cause of significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious and irreversible or disabling but reversible diseases.
(b) Represent substantial or potential danger to human health or to the environment when improperly handled, managed, treated, stored, transported or disposed.
[Any waste shall be considered as hazardous waste that is designated as such in Part 261, Number 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations and/or listed as such by Environmental Quality Board.]
(3) Generator.— Means any person, natural or juridical, whose acts or processes produce hazardous waste or whose actions cause, in the first instance, that dangerous waste be subject to the provisions of Act No. 9 of June 18, 1970, known as the “Environmental Public Policy Act”, and subject to the regulations governing the control of hazardous solid waste of the Environment Quality Board, or any person who manages those substances listed in Part 261, Number 40 of the Federal Regulations Code.
(4) Source.— Means any process or act which generates hazardous waste.
(5) Board.— Means the Environmental Quality Board.
(6) Hazardous waste management.— Means the systematic control of hazardous waste collection, separation at the source, storage, transportation, processing, treatment, recovery, reuse and disposal.
(7) Program.— Means the “Technical Assistance Program for Hazardous Waste Management”.
(8) Reduction at the source.— Means the elimination of waste at its source, usually during the production process, including procedure modifications, substitution of raw materials, improvement in the purity of raw materials, clean-up and management practices, increased efficiency of the machinery and recycling at the site, or any action which may reduce the amount or toxicity of the waste generated during the process.
(9) Authority.— Means the Solid Waste Authority.
History —Jan. 19, 1995, No. 10, § 3.