Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 90 Part 2.djvu/1332

 90 STAT. 2800

Post, p. 2816.

PUBLIC LAW 94-580—OCT. 21, 1976 viability of a resource recovery facility (to the extent that such viability depends upon solid waste supply). "(12) The term 'manifest' means the form used for identifying the ({uantity, composition, and the origin, routing, and destination of hazardous waste during its transportation from the point of generation to the point of disposal, treatment, or storage. "(13) The term 'municipality' (A) means a city, town, borough, county, parish, district, or other public body created by or pursuant to State law, with responsibility for the planning or administration of solid waste management, or an Indian tribe or authorized tribal organization or Alaska Native village or organization, and (B) includes any rural community or unincorporated town or village or any other public entity for which an application for assistance is made by a State or political subdivision thereof. "(14) The term 'open dump' means a site for the disposal of solid waste which is not a sanitary landfill within the meaning of section 4004. "(15) The term 'person'means an individual, trust, firm, joint stock company, corporation (including a government corporation), partnership, association, State, municipality, commission, political subdivision of a State, or any interstate body. "(16) The term 'procurement item' means any device, good, substance, material, product, or other item whether real or personal property which is the subject of any purchase, barter, or other exchange made to procure such item. "(17) The term 'procuring agency' means any Federal agency, or any State agency or agency of a political subdivision of a State which is using appropriated Federal funds for such procurement, or any person contracting with any such agency with respect to work performed under such contract. " (18) The term 'recoverable' refers to the capability and likelihood of being recovered from solid waste for a commercial or industrial use. " (19) The term 'recovered material' means material which has been collected or recovered from solid waste. "(20) The term 'recovered resources' means material or energy recovered from solid waste. "(21) The term 'resource conservation' means reduction of the amounts of solid waste that are generated, reduction of overall resource consmnption, and utilization of recovered resources. "(22) The term 'resource recovery' means the recovery of material or energy from solid waste. " (23) The term 'resource recovery system' means a solid waste management system which provides for collection, separation, recycling, and recovery of solid wastes, including disposal of nonrecoverable waste residues. "(24) The term 'resource recovery facility' means any facility at which solid waste is processed for the purpose of extracting, converting to energy, or otherwise separating and preparing solid waste for reuse. " (25) The term 'regional authority' means the authority established or designated under section 4006. "(26) The term 'sanitary landfill' means a facility for the disposal of solid waste which meets the criteria published under section 4004. "(26A) The term 'sludge' means any solid, semisolid or liquid waste generated from a municipal, commercial, or industrial wastewater treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control

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