Agenda - Planning Commission - 07/10/2003

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Industrial Solid Waste Land Disposal Facility - means a site used to dispose of industrial solid waste in or on the land. Land Disposal Facility - means any tract or parcel of land, including any constructed facility, at which solid waste is disposed of in or on the land. Land Pollution - means the presence in or on the land of any waste or waste by product in such quantity, of such nature and duration, and under such condition as would affect any waters of the state, create air contaminants, cause air pollution or contaminate soils at the site making the site unacceptable for further use. Landfill Activity - is the process of land disposal including but not limited to dumping of waste or processed waste, excavating cover material storage and servicing or equipment, placing cover material, stockpiling of materials for landfill requirements. Landfill Activity Area - is the area where landfill activity takes place. Leachate - means liquid that has percolated through solid or processed waste and has extracted, dissolved, or suspended materials from it. Mixed Municipal Solid Waste - has the meaning given it in Minnesota Statutes, § 115A.03, Subdivision 21. MLxed Municipal Solid Waste Land Disposal Facility - means a site used for the disposal of mixed municipal solid waste or on the land. facility. Runoff - means any liquid that drains over land from any part of a Site - means the entire area required to store, collect, transport, treat, utilize, process, transfer, intermediately dispose, or finally dispose of solid waste or processed waste product including buffer areas, private access roads, equipment storage areas, borrow areas and landfill activity areas. Solid Waste - means garbage, refuse, sludge from a water supply treatment plant or air contaminant treatment facility, and other discarded waste materials and sludges, in solid, semi-solid, liquid, or contained gaseous form, resulting from industrial, commercial, mining and agricultural operations, and from community activities, but does not include hazardous waste; animal waste used as fertilizer; earthen fill, boulders, rock; sewage sludge; solid or dissolved material in domestic sewage or other common pollutants in water resources, such as silt, dissolved or suspended solids in industrial waste water effluents or discharges which are point sources subject to permits under §402 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended, dissolved materials in irrigation return flows; or source, special nuclear, or by-product material as defined by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended. 106 %115