Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 49 > Chapter 4 > Article 9 - Management of Special Waste

• Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• Best management practices: means a method or combination of methods that is used in the treatment, storage and disposal of a special waste and that achieves the maximum practical cost effective protection of public health or the environment. See Arizona Laws 49-851
• County: means :

  (a) The board of supervisors in the context of the exercise of powers or duties. See Arizona Laws 49-701

• Director: means the director of environmental quality who is also the director of the department. See Arizona Laws 49-101
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Facility plan: means any design or operating plan for a solid waste facility or group of solid waste facilities other than a permit issued under article 11 of this chapter. See Arizona Laws 49-701
• including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Management agency: means any person responsible for the day-to-day operation, maintenance and management of a particular public facility or group of public facilities. See Arizona Laws 49-701
• On site: means at or on the same or geographically contiguous property that may be divided by public or private right-of-way, provided the entrance and exit between the properties are at a crossroads intersection and access is by crossing as opposed to travel along the right-of-way. See Arizona Laws 49-851
• Person: means any public or private corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society of persons, the federal government and any of its departments or agencies, this state or any of its agencies, departments, political subdivisions, counties, towns or municipal corporations, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 49-701
• Petroleum contaminated soils: means soils excavated for storage, treatment or disposal containing benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, total xylenes, acenaphthylene, anthracene, benz(A)anthracene, benzo(A)pyrene, benzo(B)fluoranthene, benzo(K)fluoranthene, cyrysene, dibenz(A, H)anthracene, fluoranthene, fluorene, indenopyrene, naphthalene or pyrene in concentrations in excess of levels determined by the director pursuant to section 49-152 to protect the public health and the environment. See Arizona Laws 49-851
• Process: means a citation, writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• processing: means the reduction, separation, recovery, conversion or recycling of solid waste. See Arizona Laws 49-701
• Property: includes both real and personal property. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Shipper: means a person who transports a special waste in commerce. See Arizona Laws 49-851
• Special waste: means a solid waste as defined in Section 49-701. See Arizona Laws 49-851
• Storage: means the holding of special waste for a period of not more than one year unless a lesser period of time is designated by the director pursuant to best management practices rules. See Arizona Laws 49-851
• Temporary restraining order: Prohibits a person from an action that is likely to cause irreparable harm. This differs from an injunction in that it may be granted immediately, without notice to the opposing party, and without a hearing. It is intended to last only until a hearing can be held.
• Treatment: means any method, technique or process used to change the physical, chemical or biological character of solid waste so as to render that waste safer for transport, amenable for processing, amenable for storage or reduced in volume. See Arizona Laws 49-701
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Writing: includes printing. See Arizona Laws 1-215