NR 182.103(30)(30) “Groundwater standard” means a preventive action limit, alternative concentration limit, or enforcement standard established in accordance with ch. NR 140 and this chapter. NR 182.103(31)(31) “Inactive dam” means a dam and associated settling area that is no longer being used for disposal of wastewater or tailings, or both, and that has been reclaimed in an approved manner. NR 182.103(33)(33) “Leachate” means water or other liquid that has percolated through or contacted nonferrous mining waste materials. NR 182.103(34)(34) “Licensed professional engineer” means a professional engineer registered with or licensed by the Wisconsin department of safety and professional services. NR 182.103(35)(35) “Licensed professional geologist” means a professional geologist registered with or licensed by the Wisconsin department of safety and professional services. NR 182.103(36)(36) “Limits of filling” means the outermost limit at which waste from a facility has been disposed of or approved or proposed for disposal. NR 182.103(39)(39) “Mine” means an excavation at or below the earth’s surface made to extract nonferrous metallic minerals. NR 182.103(42)(a)(a) “Mining waste” or “nonferrous mining waste” means any refuse, sludge, or other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semi-solid, or contained gaseous material, resulting from nonferrous metallic mineral prospecting or mining, or from the cleaning, preparation or concentration of nonferrous metallic minerals during prospecting or mining operations. NR 182.103(42)(b)(b) “Mining waste” include tailings, waste rock, mine overburden, and waste treatment sludges. NR 182.103(42)(c)(c) “Mining waste” does not include topsoil and mine overburden not disposed of in a waste site, but placed in a facility permitted under ch. NR 131 or 132, to be returned to the mine site or used in the reclamation process, and does not include merchantable by-products. NR 182.103(42)(d)(d) “Mining waste” does not include trees and other vegetation removed from the mining site during site preparation and facility construction. NR 182.103(43)(43) “Monitoring” means all procedures used to systematically inspect and collect data on the performance of a facility relating to leachate and gas production or the effect on the quality of the air, groundwater, surface water, unsaturated zone, or soils. NR 182.103(44)(44) “Non-mining solid waste” means solid waste generated as part of a nonferrous prospecting or mining operation that is not mining waste and includes materials such as discarded vegetation, tires, barrels, sanitary waste, and various other solid waste materials defined in ch. NR 500, including construction and demolition waste, garbage, commercial solid waste and municipal solid waste. NR 182.103(45)(45) “Operator” means the person who is responsible for the overall operation of a nonferrous mining waste facility or for part of a nonferrous mining waste facility. NR 182.103(46)(46) “Ore” means a naturally occurring material from which nonferrous metallic minerals can be recovered at a profit. NR 182.103(47)(47) “Overburden” means any unconsolidated geologic material such as till, sand and gravel, or weathered bedrock that may be removed during mining. NR 182.103(48)(48) “Owner” means any person who owns a nonferrous mining waste facility or part of a nonferrous mining waste facility whether individually, jointly, or through subsidiaries, agents, employees, or contractors. NR 182.103(49)(49) “Person” means an individual, trust, firm, cooperative, institution, joint stock company, corporation, including a government corporation, partnership, association, state, municipality, commission, political subdivision of a state, interstate body, or federal or state department, agency, or instrumentality. NR 182.103(50)(50) “Plan of operation” means a report submitted for a nonferrous mining waste disposal site or facility that describes its location, design, construction, sanitation, operation, maintenance, closing, and long-term care. NR 182.103(51)(51) “Pollution” means the contaminating or rendering unclean or impure the air, land, or waters of the state, or making the same injurious to public health, harmful for commercial or recreational use, or deleterious to fish, bird, animal, or plant life. NR 182.103(53)(53) “Proof of financial responsibility” means a deposit or other financial instrument in compliance with ss. 289.41 and 293.51 (1g), Stats., ensuring that sufficient funds will be available to comply with the closure and long-term care requirements of this chapter and the approved plan of operation. NR 182.103(55)(55) “Reclamation plan” means the proposal for the reclamation of the nonferrous prospecting or mining site, including the closure of a mining waste disposal site or facility, that is approved by the department under s. 293.45 or 293.49, Stats., and ch. NR 131 or 132 as part of the prospecting or mining permit.