Arkansas Code of 1987 (2023)
Title 8 - ENVIRONMENTAL LAW (§§ 8-1-101 — 8-15-119)
Chapter 6 - DISPOSAL OF SOLID WASTES AND OTHER REFUSE (§§ 8-6-201 — 8-6-2019)
Subchapter 10 - LANDFILL POST-CLOSURE TRUST FUND (§§ 8-6-1001 — 8-6-1007)
Section 8-6-1001 - Definitions

As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

• (1) "Commission" means the Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission;

• (2) "Landfill" means a landfill permitted under the Arkansas Solid Waste Management Act, § 8-6-201 et seq., except a landfill where a private industry bears the expense of operating and maintaining the landfill solely for the disposal of wastes generated by the industry or wastes of a similar kind or character;

• (3) "Permittee" means any person holding a solid waste disposal permit as provided in the Arkansas Solid Waste Management Act, § 8-6-201 et seq.;

• (4) "Post-closure corrective action" means any measures deemed necessary by the Director of the Division of Environmental Quality to prevent or abate contamination of the environment from any landfill which has been certified as properly closed by the Division of Environmental Quality;

• (5) "Solid waste" means any garbage or refuse, sludge from a wastewater 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, but does not include solid or dissolved materials in domestic sewage or solid or dissolved materials in irrigation return flows or industrial discharges that are point sources subject to permit under 33 U.S.C. § 1342 or source material, special nuclear material, or by-product material as defined by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, Pub. L. No. 83-703;

• (6) "Solid waste disposal permit" means a permit issued by the State of Arkansas under the provisions of the Arkansas Solid Waste Management Act, § 8-6-201 et seq., for the construction and operation of a landfill waste disposal facility; and

• (7) "Transporter" or "solid waste transporter" means any individual, corporation, company, firm, partnership, association, trust, local solid waste authority, institution, county, city, town, or municipal authority or trust, venture, or other legal entity transporting solid waste within the state that is to be disposed of outside of the state.

Amended by Act 2019, No. 910,§ 2677, eff. 7/1/2019.

Amended by Act 2019, No. 910,§ 2676, eff. 7/1/2019.

Acts 1991, No. 747, § 1; 1993, No. 1127, § 2; 1995, No. 511, § 3; 1999, No. 1164, § 77.