As used in the Solid Waste Act:

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A. “agricultural” means all methods of production and management of livestock, crops, vegetation and soil. This includes, but is not limited to, raising, harvesting and marketing. It also includes, but is not limited to, the activities of feeding, housing and maintaining animals such as cattle, dairy cows, sheep, goats, hogs, horses and poultry;

B. “board” means the environmental improvement board;

C. “commercial hauler” means any person transporting solid waste for hire by whatever means for the purpose of disposing of the solid waste in a solid waste facility, except that the term does not include an individual transporting solid waste generated on or from his residential premises for the purpose of disposing of it in a solid waste facility;

D. “construction and demolition debris” means materials generally considered to be not water soluble and nonhazardous in nature, including, but not limited to, steel, glass, brick, concrete, asphalt roofing materials, pipe, gypsum wallboard and lumber from the construction or destruction of a structure as part of a construction or demolition project, and includes rocks, soil, tree remains, trees and other vegetative matter that normally results from land clearing or land development operations for a construction project, but if construction and demolition debris is mixed with any other types of solid waste, whether or not originating from the construction project, it loses its classification as construction and demolition debris;

E. “densified-refuse-derived fuel” means a product resulting from the processing of mixed municipal solid waste in a manner that produces a fuel suitable for combustion in existing or new solid-fuel-fired boilers;

F. “director” means the director of the environmental improvement division of the health and environment department [department of environment];

G. “division” means the environmental improvement division of the health and environment department [department of environment];

H. “municipality” means any incorporated city, town or village, whether incorporated under general act, special act or special charter, incorporated counties and H class counties;

I. “person” means an individual or any entity, including federal, state and local governmental entities, however organized;

J. “plan” or “state plan” means the solid waste management plan required to be developed under Section 4 [74-9-4 N.M. Stat. Ann.] of the Solid Waste Act;

K. “program” or “state program” means the comprehensive solid waste management program described in Section 12 [74-9-12 N.M. Stat. Ann.] of the Solid Waste Act;

L. “recyclable materials” means materials that would otherwise become solid waste if not recycled and that can be collected, separated or processed and placed in use in the form of raw materials, products or densified-refuse-derived fuels;

M. “recycling” means any process by which recyclable materials are collected, separated or processed and reused or returned to use in the form of raw materials or products;

N. “solid waste” means any garbage, refuse, sludge from a waste treatment plant, water supply treatment plant or air pollution control facility and other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semisolid or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, commercial, mining and agricultural operations and from community activities. “Solid waste” does not include:

(1)     drilling fluids, produced waters and other non-domestic wastes associated with the exploration, development or production, transportation, storage, treatment or refinement of crude oil, natural gas, carbon dioxide gas or geothermal energy;

(2)     fly ash waste, bottom ash waste, slag waste and flue gas emission control waste generated primarily from the combustion of coal or other fossil fuels and wastes produced in conjunction with the combustion of fossil fuels that are necessarily associated with the production of energy and that traditionally have been and actually are mixed with and are disposed of or treated at the same time with fly ash, bottom ash, boiler slag or flue gas emission control wastes from coal combustion;

(3)     waste from the extraction, beneficiation and processing of ores and minerals, including phosphate rock and overburden from the mining of uranium ore, coal, copper, molybdenum and other ores and minerals;

(4)     agricultural waste, including, but not limited to, manures and crop residues returned to the soil as fertilizer or soil conditioner;

(5)     cement kiln dust waste; (6)     sand and gravel;

(7)     solid or dissolved material in domestic sewage or solid or dissolved materials in irrigation return flows or industrial discharges that are point sources subject to permits under Section 402 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, 33 U.S.C. § 1342 or source, special nuclear or by-product material as defined by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, 42 U.S.C. § 2011 et seq.;

(8)     densified-refuse-derived fuel; or

(9)     any material regulated by Subtitle C of the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, substances regulated by the federal Toxic Substances Control Act or low-level radioactive waste;

O. “solid waste district” means a geographical area designated by the board as a solid waste district under Section 11 [74-9-11 N.M. Stat. Ann.] of the Solid Waste Act;

P. “solid waste facility” means any public or private system, facility, location, improvements on the land, structures or other appurtenances or methods used for processing, transformation, recycling or disposal of solid waste, including landfill disposal facilities, transfer stations, resource recovery facilities, incinerators and other similar facilities not specified, but does not include equipment specifically approved by order of the director to render medical waste noninfectious or a facility which is permitted pursuant to the provisions of the Hazardous Waste Act [N.M. Stat. Ann. Chapter 74, Article 4] and does not apply to a facility fueled by a densified-refuse-derived fuel that accepts no other solid waste;

Q. “source reduction” means any action that causes a net reduction in the generation, volume or toxicity of solid waste;

R. “special waste” means solid waste that has unique handling, transportation or disposal requirements to assure protection of the environment and the public health and safety;

S. “transformation” means incineration, pyrolysis, distillation, gasification or biological conversion other than composting; and

T. “yard refuse” means vegetative matter resulting from landscaping, land maintenance and land clearing operations.