NR 500.03 Note
Note: A feasibility report for a specific solid waste facility must describe the facility, surrounding area, and proposed operation in terms of land use, topography, soils, geology, groundwater, surface water, proposed waste quantities and characteristics, preliminary facility design concepts, environmental impacts, the need for the facility and waste reduction and recovery alternatives.
NR 500.03(82)
(82) “Field blank" means a sample of reagent grade water which is processed in the field in the same manner as the groundwater samples.
NR 500.03(83)
(83) “Fill area" means the area proposed to receive or which is receiving direct application of solid waste.
NR 500.03(84)
(84) “Filter pack" means the sand, gravel or both in direct contact with or directly above the well screen.
NR 500.03(85)
(85) “Final cover" means cover material that is applied upon closure of a landfill.
NR 500.03(86)
(86) “Fine-grained soil environment" means a soil environment in which a majority of the material within 25 feet of the proposed sub-base of the facility has at least 50% by weight passing the #200 sieve and which contains no extensive and continuous deposits of coarse-grained or non-plastic soils.
NR 500.03 Note
Note: The determination as to whether a soil environment meets the definition of a fine-grained soil environment shall be based on an interpretation of soil stratigraphy after consideration is given to the deposition and origin of the deposits and their engineering classification under the unified soil classification system specified in ASTM standard D2487-00 (2000). Copies of the standard may be obtained from ASTM International, 100 Barr Harbor Drive, West Conshohocken, PA 19428-2959, (610) 832-9585,
www.astm.org. Copies of the standard are available for inspection at the offices of the department of natural resources, the secretary of state and the legislative reference bureau.
NR 500.03(86m)
(86m) “Finished compost" means compost that has been processed sufficiently to meet the maturity and stability criteria in Table 2 of s.
NR 502.12, and that is ready and suitable for sale, distribution or use.
NR 500.03(87)
(87) “Floodplain" means the land which has been or may be hereafter covered by flood water during the regional flood as defined in ch.
NR 116, and includes the floodway and the flood fringe as defined in ch.
NR 116.
NR 500.03(88)
(88) “Food chain crops" means tobacco and crops grown for human consumption, and pasture, forage and feed grain for animals whose products are consumed by humans.
NR 500.03(88m)
(88m) “Food residuals" means unconsumed raw or cooked compostable material that results from handling, preparation, cooking, sale or consumption of food, and includes whole, ground and pulped food scraps, as well as compostable food packaging, utensils, tableware, kitchenware, and food containers that meet either the ASTM – D-6400 or the D-6868 standard. “Food residuals" includes vegetable and non-vegetable food residuals, but does not include rendering or slaughterhouse wastes or animal carcasses.
NR 500.03 Note
Note: Copies of ASTM standards D-6400 and D-6868 may be obtained from ASTM International, 100 Barr Harbor Drive, West Conshohocken, PA 19428-2959, (610) 832-9585,
www.astm.org. Copies of the standard are available for inspection at the offices of the department of natural resources and legislative reference bureau.
NR 500.03(89)
(89) “Fracture frequency" means the average number of natural fractures or bedding planes calculated from a rock core collected from a boring.
NR 500.03 Note
Note: Fracture frequency is calculated by dividing the number of natural fractures or bedding planes in a rock core by the total length of the core in feet.
NR 500.03(90)
(90) “Free liquids" means liquids which readily separate from the solid portion of a waste under ambient temperature and pressure.
NR 500.03 Note
Note: Free liquids shall be determined using the paint filter liquids test, Method 9095, in “Test Methods for Evaluating Solid Waste, Physical/Chemical Methods," EPA Publication SW-846, third edition, November 1986, as amended by Updates I in July 1992, II in September 1994, IIA in August 1993, IIB in January 1995, III in December 1996 and IIIA in April 1998. The test methods are available at no cost at
https://www.epa.gov/hw-sw846/basic-information-about-how-use-sw-846#UseWhich. Copies of the test methods are available for inspection at the offices of the department of natural resources, the secretary of state and the legislative reference bureau. Copies may be obtained from the superintendent of documents, U.S. government printing office, P.O. Box 371954, Pittsburgh, PA 15250-7954, (866) 512-1800,
www.gpo.gov. Copies may also be obtained from the National Technical Information Service, U.S. department of commerce, 5285 Port Royal Road, Springfield, VA 22161, (800) 553-6847,
www.ntis.gov.
NR 500.03 Note
Note: Section
NR 447.02 (16) defines friable asbestos material to mean “any material containing more than 1% asbestos as determined using the method specified in Appendix E to Subpart E,
40 CFR part 763, section 1, Polarized Light Microscopy, incorporated by reference in s.
NR 484.04, that, when dry, can be crumbled, pulverized or reduced to powder by hand pressure. If the asbestos content of the friable ACM is less than 10%, as determined by a method other than point counting by polarized light microscopy (PLM), the asbestos content shall be verified by point counting using PLM."
NR 500.03(93)
(93) “Gas condensate" means the liquid generated as a result of gas recovery process at the landfill.
NR 500.03(93m)
(93m) “GCL" or “geosynthetic clay liner" means factory manufactured geosynthetic product consisting of a layer of bentonite contained between geotextiles that are attached by adhesion, stitch bonding or needlepunching or a layer of bentonite attached to a geomembrane by adhesion.
NR 500.03(94)
(94) “Geomembrane" means a highly impermeable membrane made from plastic or rubber-based material by polymerization.
NR 500.03(95)
(95) “Geotextile" means a porous fabric manufactured from synthetic materials.
NR 500.03(96)
(96) “Groundwater” means any waters of the state, as defined in s.
281.01 (18), Stats., occurring in a saturated subsurface geological formation of rock or soil.
NR 500.03(97)
(97) “Groundwater standard" means a preventive action limit, alternative concentration limit or enforcement standard established in accordance with ch.
NR 140 and s.
NR 507.27.
NR 500.03(102)
(102) “Home generator of infectious waste" means a person who generates infectious waste through self-administration of medication or who receives injected medication at home from other members of the household or from employees of a home care or hospice program.
NR 500.03(103)
(103) “Holocene" means the most recent epoch of the Quaternary period, extending from the end of the Pleistocene Epoch to the present.
NR 500.03(105)
(105) “Household waste" means any solid waste including garbage, trash, and sanitary waste in septic tanks which is derived from households, including single and multiple residences, hotels and motels, bunkhouses, ranger stations, crew quarters, campgrounds, picnic grounds, and day-use recreation areas.
NR 500.03(106)
(106) “Human tissue" means tissue removed from human beings. Human tissue does not include hair or nails, but does include teeth.
NR 500.03 Note
Note: A tooth containing mercury amalgam may be both an infectious waste and a hazardous waste. See s.
NR 526.11 (2) (f) for how to manage teeth containing mercury amalgam.
NR 500.03(106m)
(106m) “Hydraulic conductivity” means the rate at which water can move through a permeable medium and is also called the coefficient of permeability.
NR 500.03(107)
(107) “Hydraulic connection" means groundwater interflow within the zone of saturation occurring between 2 formations which may or may not be separated by an intermediate layer.
NR 500.03(108)
(108) “Incinerator" means a processing facility designed and operated for controlled burning of solid wastes primarily to achieve volume and weight reduction or to change waste characteristics. Incinerator does not include a facility that uses solid waste as a supplemental fuel where less than 30% of the heat input to the facility is derived from such supplemental fuel.
NR 500.03(109)
(109) “Industrial waste" means solid waste generated by manufacturing or industrial processes that is not a hazardous waste regulated under chs.
NR 660 to
679. Industrial waste may include, but is not limited to, waste resulting from the following manufacturing processes; electric power generation; fertilizer and agricultural chemicals; food and related products and by-products; inorganic chemicals; iron and steel manufacturing; leather and leather products; nonferrous metals manufacturing and foundries; organic chemicals; plastics and resins manufacturing; pulp and paper industry; rubber and miscellaneous plastic products; stone, glass, clay, and concrete products; textile manufacturing; transportation equipment; and water treatment. This term does not include mining waste or oil and gas waste.
NR 500.03(111)
(111) “Infectious waste generator" means a person or group of persons under the same corporate ownership and located on the same property who produces infectious waste.
NR 500.03(112)
(112) “Infectious waste treatment" means rendering an infectious waste non-infectious. For human tissue, this term means rendering the waste both non-infectious and unrecognizable as human tissue. For sharps, this term means rendering the sharp non-infectious and rendering the sharp broken and not able to be reused, such as by a grinding or shredding process.
NR 500.03(114)
(114) “Initial site report" means a report submitted under ch.
NR 509 which describes a proposed solid waste disposal facility in sufficient detail to allow the department to give a written opinion on whether or not a feasibility report should be prepared.
NR 500.03(115)
(115) “In-situ testing" means hydraulic conductivity tests performed on the in-place soils.
NR 500.03(116)
(116) “Interest bearing accounts" means escrow accounts, trust accounts or cash deposits with the department.
NR 500.03(117)
(117) “Intermediate size construction and demolition waste landfill" means a landfill with a design capacity of at least 50,000 cubic yards but no more than 250,000 cubic yards and used for the disposal of only construction and demolition wastes.
NR 500.03(118)
(118) “Karst terranes" means areas where karst topography, with its characteristic surface and subterranean features, is developed as the result of dissolution of limestone, dolomite, or other soluble rock. Characteristic physiographic features present in karst terranes include, but are not limited to, sinkholes, sinking streams, caves, large springs, and blind valleys.
NR 500.03(119)
(119) “Land disposal facility" means a solid waste facility where solid waste is placed in a landspreading facility, a landfill, or surface impoundment facility for disposal purposes.
NR 500.03(120)
(120) “Landfill" means a land disposal facility, not classified as a landspreading facility or surface impoundment facility, where solid waste is disposed on land by utilizing the principles of engineering to confine the solid waste to the smallest practical area, to reduce it to the smallest practical volume, and to cover it with a layer of earth or other approved material as required.
NR 500.03(120g)
(120g) “Landfill organic stability" means a landfill has reached an organically stable state when landfill gas production has effectively ceased, landfill leachate levels have no significant organic component, the organic fraction of the waste mass will not readily decompose when placed in ideal moisture and temperature conditions, and there is no longer any measurable settlement of the landfill surface.
NR 500.03(120r)
(120r) “Landfill stability" means a landfill has reached a stable state when maintenance and engineering systems are no longer necessary to protect human health and the environment.
NR 500.03(121)
(121) “Landspreading facility" means a land disposal facility where solid waste is discharged, deposited, placed or injected in thin layers onto the land surface of the facility, or is incorporated into the top several feet of the surface soil, for agricultural, silvicultural or waste disposal purposes.
NR 500.03(121m)
(121m) “Lateral expansion of a CCR landfill” means a horizontal expansion of the waste boundaries of an existing CCR landfill made after October 19, 2015.
NR 500.03(122)
(122) “Leachate" means water or other liquid that has percolated through or contacted solid waste or gases generated by solid waste.
NR 500.03(123)
(123) “Leachate collection and removal system" means a system capable of collecting and removing leachate or other liquids from a solid waste facility.
NR 500.03(123m)
(123m) “Leachate drainage basin" means the areal extent of the liner over which leachate gravity drains to a single extraction point, generally a sump and sideslope riser, as well as all of the waste vertically overlying this area.
NR 500.03(124)
(124) “Leachate monitoring system" means a system used to monitor the elevation, quantity or quality of leachate and other liquids generated within a solid waste facility.
NR 500.03(124e)
(124e) “Leachate recirculation" means the controlled introduction into the waste mass of a landfill of leachate derived from the same landfill.
NR 500.03(124g)
(124g) “Licensed professional engineer" means a professional engineer registered or licensed with the Wisconsin department of safety and professional services.
NR 500.03(124h)
(124h) “Licensed professional geologist" means a professional geologist registered or licensed with the Wisconsin department of safety and professional services.
NR 500.03(124m)
(124m) “Light petroleum products" means gasoline, diesel fuel, no. 1 or no. 2 fuel oil, kerosene, aviation gasoline, jet fuel, or a mixture of 2 or more of these materials.
NR 500.03 Note
Note: Section
NR 149.03 (41) defines “limit of detection" to mean the lowest concentration or amount of analyte that can be identified, measured, and reported with confidence that the concentration is not a false positive value."
NR 500.03 Note
Note: Section
NR 149.03 (42) defines “limit of quantitation" to mean “the lowest concentration or amount of an analyte for which quantitative results can be obtained."
NR 500.03(127)
(127) “Limits of filling" means the outermost limit at which waste from a facility has been disposed of, or approved or proposed for disposal.
NR 500.03(128)
(128) “Liner" means a constructed, continuous layer of natural or artificial materials placed beneath and on the sides of a surface impoundment, landfill, or landfill cell, which restricts the downward or lateral movement of leachate.
NR 500.03(129)
(129) “Liquid waste" means any waste material that is determined to contain “free liquids" as defined by Method 9095, Paint Filter Liquids Test, in “Test Methods for Evaluating Solid Waste, Physical/Chemical Methods," EPA Publication SW-846, third edition, November 1986, as amended by Updates I in July 1992, II in September 1994, IIA in August 1993, IIB in January 1995, III in December 1996 and IIIA in April 1998.
NR 500.03 Note
Note: The test methods are available at no cost at
https://www.epa.gov/hw-sw846/basic-information-about-how-use-sw-846#UseWhich. Copies of the test methods are available for inspection at the offices of the department of natural resources, the secretary of state, and the legislative reference bureau. Copies may be obtained from the superintendent of documents, U.S. government printing office, P.O. Box 371954, Pittsburgh, PA 15250-7954, (866) 512-1800,
www.gpo.gov. Copies may also be obtained from the National Technical Information Service, U.S. department of commerce, 5285 Port Royal Road, Springfield, VA 22161, (800) 553-6847,
www.ntis.gov.
NR 500.03(130)
(130) “Lithified earth material" means all rock, including all naturally occurring and naturally formed aggregates or masses of minerals or small particles of older rock that formed by crystallization of magma or by induration of loose sediments. This term does not include man-made materials, such as fill, concrete, and asphalt, or unconsolidated earth materials, soil, or regolith lying at or near the earth surface.
NR 500.03(131)
(131) “Lithostratigraphic unit" means a geologic formation that has a substantial degree of overall uniformity including such characteristics as color, mineralogic composition and grain size.
NR 500.03(133)
(133) “Low-flow sampling technique" means the collection of a groundwater sample from a monitoring well using equipment that draws the sample into the equipment and discharges the sample to the sample container at a rate of less than 350 milliliters/minute.
NR 500.03(134)
(134) “Lower explosive limit" means the lowest percent by volume of a mixture of explosive gases in air that will propagate a flame at 25
°C and standard atmospheric pressure.
NR 500.03(135)
(135) “Lysimeter" means a device used for collecting samples of soil moisture from the unsaturated zone.
NR 500.03 Note
Note: Section
287.01 (3), Stats., defines “major appliance" to mean “a residential or commercial air conditioner, clothes dryer, clothes washer, dishwasher, freezer, microwave oven, oven, refrigerator, furnace, boiler, dehumidifier, water heater or stove".
NR 500.03(137)
(137) “Major phase" means a horizontal portion of the landfill which is designed to be constructed at one time.
NR 500.03(138)
(138) “Major soil unit" means any soil layer which is greater than 2 feet thick and is laterally extensive beneath the proposed or existing limits of filling, or which affects the local hydrogeologic flow system.
NR 500.03 Note
Note: The definition of a materials recovery facility, as given in s.
287.27 (1), Stats., provides “In this section, `materials recovery facility' means a facility where the materials specified in sub. (4) (b) or s.
287.07 (3) or
(4), not mixed with other solid waste, are processed for reuse or recycling by conversion into a consumer product or a product which is used as a raw material in a commercial or industrial process. `Materials recovery facility' does not include a facility operated by a pulp or paper mill which utilizes fiber or paper that has been separated from waste for use as a raw material in a commercial product."
NR 500.03(141)
(141) “Maximum horizontal acceleration in lithified earth material" means the maximum expected horizontal acceleration depicted on a seismic hazard map, with a 90% or greater probability that the acceleration will not be exceeded in 250 years, or the maximum expected horizontal acceleration based on a site-specific seismic risk assessment.
NR 500.03(142)
(142) “Medical facility" means a hospital, clinic or nursing home.
NR 500.03 Note
Note: Medical waste does not mean all of the waste produced in a medical setting. Waste materials from a medical setting which do not meet the definition of “infectious waste" in statutes are considered to be “medical waste" only if the generator mixes them with infectious waste or manages them as though they are infectious waste.
NR 500.03(145)
(145) “Medical waste reduction policy" is a policy developed by a medical facility and designed to reduce the amount of medical waste generated within that medical facility, to prevent the mixing of infectious waste with waste which is not infectious and to promote practical alternatives to disposable items in the medical setting.
