ORS 459.005
Definitions for ORS 459.005 to 459.437, 459.705 to 459.790 and 459A.005 to 459A.665


As used in ORS 459.005 (Definitions for ORS 459.005 to 459.437, 459.705 to 459.790 and 459A.005 to 459A.665) to 459.437 (Requirements for sale or promotion of mercuric oxide batteries), 459.705 (Definitions for ORS 459.705 to 459.790) to 459.790 (Exceptions to ORS 459.705 to 459.785) and 459A.005 (“Opportunity to recycle” defined) to 459A.665 (Opportunity to recycle rigid plastic containers):

(1)

“Affected person” means a person or entity involved in the solid waste collection service process including but not limited to a recycling collection service, disposal site permittee or owner, city, county and metropolitan service district.

(2)

“Board of county commissioners” or “board” includes a county court.

(3)

“Collection service” means a service that provides for collection of solid waste or recyclable material or both but does not include that part of a business operated under a certificate issued under ORS 822.110 (Dismantler certificate).

(4)

“Commercial” means stores, offices including manufacturing and industry offices, restaurants, warehouses, schools, colleges, universities, hospitals and other nonmanufacturing entities, but does not include other manufacturing activities or business, manufacturing or processing activities in residential dwellings.

(5)

“Commission” means the Environmental Quality Commission.

(6)

“Compost” means the controlled biological decomposition of organic material or the product resulting from such a process.

(7)

“Department” means the Department of Environmental Quality.

(8)

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(a)

“Disposal site” means land and facilities used for the disposal, handling or transfer of, or energy recovery, material recovery and recycling from solid wastes, including but not limited to dumps, landfills, sludge lagoons, sludge treatment facilities, disposal sites for septic tank pumping or cesspool cleaning service, transfer stations, energy recovery facilities, incinerators for solid waste delivered by the public or by a collection service, composting plants and land and facilities previously used for solid waste disposal at a land disposal site.

(b)

“Disposal site” does not include:

(A)

A facility authorized by a permit issued under ORS 466.005 (Definitions for ORS 453.635 and 466.005 to 466.385) to 466.385 (Amendment of comprehensive plan and land use regulations) to store, treat or dispose of both hazardous waste and solid waste;

(B)

A facility subject to the permit requirements of ORS 468B.050 (Water quality permit) or 468B.053 (Alternatives to obtaining water quality permit);

(C)

A site used by the owner or person in control of the premises to dispose of soil, rock, concrete or other similar nondecomposable material, unless the site is used by the public either directly or through a collection service; or

(D)

A site operated by a dismantler issued a certificate under ORS 822.110 (Dismantler certificate).

(9)

“Energy recovery” means recovery in which all or a part of the solid waste materials are processed to use the heat content, or other forms of energy, of or from the material.

(10)

“Franchise” includes a franchise, certificate, contract or license issued by a local government unit authorizing a person to provide solid waste management services.

(11)

“Hazardous waste” has the meaning given that term in ORS 466.005 (Definitions for ORS 453.635 and 466.005 to 466.385).

(12)

“Household hazardous waste” means any discarded, useless or unwanted chemical, material, substance or product that is or may be hazardous or toxic to the public or the environment and is commonly used in or around households and is generated by the household. “Household hazardous waste” may include but is not limited to some cleaners, solvents, pesticides and automotive and paint products.

(13)

“Land disposal site” means a disposal site in which the method of disposing of solid waste is by landfill, dump, pit, pond or lagoon.

(14)

“Landfill” means a facility for the disposal of solid waste involving the placement of solid waste on or beneath the land surface.

(15)

“Local government unit” means a city, county, metropolitan service district formed under ORS chapter 268, sanitary district or sanitary authority formed under ORS chapter 450, county service district formed under ORS chapter 451, regional air quality control authority formed under ORS 468A.100 (Definitions for ORS 468A.010 and 468A.100 to 468A.180) to 468A.130 (Advisory committee) and 468A.140 (Assumption, retention and transfer of control over classes of air contamination sources) to 468A.175 (State aid) or any other local government unit responsible for solid waste management.

(16)

“Material recovery” means any process of obtaining from solid waste, by presegregation or otherwise, materials that still have useful physical or chemical properties and can be reused or recycled for some purpose.

(17)

“Materials management” means an approach that seeks to reduce environmental impacts by managing materials throughout all stages of their life cycle, including but not limited to solid waste management.

(18)

“Metropolitan service district” means a district organized under ORS chapter 268 and exercising solid waste authority granted to such district under this chapter and ORS chapters 268 and 459A.

(19)

“Person” means the United States, the state or a public or private corporation, local government unit, public agency, individual, partnership, association, firm, trust, estate or any other legal entity.

(20)

“Recyclable material” means any material identified for recycling collection under ORS 459A.914 (Uniform statewide collection list) or any other material or group of materials that can be collected and sold for recycling at a net cost equal to or less than the cost of collection and disposal of the same material.

(21)

“Recycling” means any process by which solid waste materials are transformed into new products in a manner that the original products may lose their identity.

(22)

“Region” means the states of Idaho, Oregon and Washington and those counties in California and Nevada that share a common border with Oregon.

(23)

“Regional disposal site” means a disposal site that receives, or a proposed disposal site that is designed to receive more than 75,000 tons of solid waste a year from outside the immediate service area in which the disposal site is located. As used in this subsection, “immediate service area” means the county boundary of all counties except a county that is within the boundary of the metropolitan service district. For a county within the metropolitan service district, “immediate service area” means the metropolitan service district boundary.

(24)

“Reuse” means the return of a commodity into the economic stream for use in the same kind of application as before without change in its identity.

(25)

“Solid waste” means all useless or discarded putrescible and nonputrescible materials, including but not limited to garbage, rubbish, refuse, ashes, paper and cardboard, sewage sludge, septic tank and cesspool pumpings or other sludge, useless or discarded commercial, industrial, demolition and construction materials, discarded or abandoned vehicles or parts thereof, discarded home and industrial appliances, manure, vegetable or animal solid and semisolid materials, dead animals and infectious waste as defined in ORS 459.386 (Definitions for ORS 459.386 to 459.405). “Solid waste” does not include:

(a)

Hazardous waste as defined in ORS 466.005 (Definitions for ORS 453.635 and 466.005 to 466.385).

(b)

Materials used for fertilizer or for other productive purposes or which are salvageable as such materials are used on land in agricultural operations and the growing or harvesting of crops and the raising of animals.

(c)

Woody biomass that is combusted as a fuel by a facility that has obtained a permit described in ORS 468A.040 (Permits).

(26)

“Solid waste management” means prevention or reduction of solid waste, management of the storage, collection, transportation, treatment, utilization, processing and final disposal of solid waste, recycling, reuse and material or energy recovery from solid waste and facilities necessary or convenient to such activities.

(27)

“Source separate” means that the person who last uses recyclable material separates the recyclable material from solid waste.

(28)

“Transfer station” means a fixed or mobile facility other than a collection vehicle where solid waste is deposited temporarily after being removed from the site of generation but before being transported to a final disposal location.

(29)

“Waste prevention” means to reduce the amount of solid waste generated or resources used, without increasing toxicity, in the design, manufacture, purchase or use of products or packaging. “Waste prevention” does not include reuse, recycling or composting.

(30)

“Wasteshed” means an area of the state having a common solid waste disposal system or designated by the commission as an appropriate area of the state within which to develop a common recycling program.

(31)

“Woody biomass” means material from trees and woody plants, including limbs, tops, needles, leaves and other woody parts, grown in a forest, woodland, farm, rangeland or wildland-urban interface environment that is the by-product of forest management, ecosystem restoration or hazardous fuel reduction treatment.

(32)

“Yard debris” includes grass clippings, leaves, hedge trimmings and similar vegetative waste generated from residential property or landscaping activities, but does not include stumps or similar bulky wood materials. [1971 c.648 §2; 1973 c.811 §1; 1973 c.835 §135; 1975 c.239 §1; 1977 c.867 §21; 1983 c.338 §931; 1983 c.729 §14; 1983 c.766 §5; 1987 c.876 §17; 1989 c.763 §12; 1989 c.833 §67; 1991 c.385 §6; 1991 c.765 §1; 1993 c.343 §1; 1993 c.560 §2; 1997 c.286 §3; 1997 c.552 §1; 2003 c.14 §290; 2005 c.654 §24; 2011 c.717 §1; 2021 c.681 §45]

Source: Section 459.005 — Definitions for ORS 459.005 to 459.437, 459.705 to 459.790 and 459A.005 to 459A.665, https://www.­oregonlegislature.­gov/bills_laws/ors/ors459.­html.

459.005
Definitions for ORS 459.005 to 459.437, 459.705 to 459.790 and 459A.005 to 459A.665
459.007
Applicability of ORS 459.005 to wood residue
459.015
Policy
459.017
Relationship of state to local governments in solid waste management
459.025
General powers and duties of department
459.035
Assistance in development and implementation of solid waste management plans and practices and recycling programs
459.045
Rules
459.046
Solid waste regulatory program
459.047
Landfill assistance from department
459.049
Mandated landfills in certain counties
459.051
Procedural rules
459.053
Powers of department regarding landfills
459.055
Landfills in farm use areas
459.057
Department to limit wastes allowed in landfills in certain counties
459.061
Upland placement of dredged material
459.065
State preemption
459.075
Acquisition of property for disposal sites by cities and counties
459.085
County authority outside cities
459.095
Restrictions on authority of local government units
459.105
Regulations on use of disposal sites
459.108
Civil penalty to enforce ordinance prohibiting action described in ORS 164.775, 164.785 or 164.805
459.109
Effect of certain laws on cities and counties
459.118
Study of transportation routes and modes of transportation for transport of out-of-region solid waste
459.121
Legislative committee hearing on transportation study
459.125
Authority of Marion County over products or by-products of county disposal sites
459.135
Marion County authority over private facility in county
459.145
Limits on Marion County authority
459.153
Intent not to discourage recycling
459.205
Permit required
459.215
Exclusion of certain sites from permit requirement
459.225
Variances authorized
459.235
Applications for permits
459.236
Additional permit fees for remedial action or removal
459.243
Restrictions on issuance of permits under ORS 459.245
459.245
Issuance of permits
459.247
Prohibition on disposal of certain solid waste at disposal site
459.248
Cleanup of hazardous substance contaminating ground water
459.250
Place for collecting source separated recyclable material required for disposal site permit
459.255
Suspension or revocation of permits
459.265
Hearings
459.268
Closure of land disposal site
459.270
Renewal of permit prior to proposed closure of disposal site
459.272
Evidence of financial assurance for land disposal site
459.273
Disposition of excess moneys and interest received for financial assurance
459.280
Definitions for ORS 459.284 and 459.290
459.284
Use of disposal site fees
459.290
Disposal site rehabilitation and enhancement advisory committee
459.305
Certification or demonstration that government unit has implemented opportunity to recycle
459.310
Surcharge on solid waste disposal
459.311
Charge for remedial action or removal
459.315
Definitions for ORS 459.315 to 459.330
459.320
Regional disposal site advisory committee
459.325
Duties of regional disposal site advisory committee
459.330
Notification of advisory committee by regional disposal site permittee
459.335
Use of fees collected by the metropolitan service district
459.340
Implementation of the solid waste reduction program by metropolitan service district
459.345
Metropolitan service district report to commission
459.350
Commission review of metropolitan service district report
459.376
Action to enforce rules or orders
459.385
Entry upon private premises authorized
459.386
Definitions for ORS 459.386 to 459.405
459.387
Policy
459.388
Restrictions on discarding, storing or transporting infectious waste
459.390
Procedures for segregation and containment of infectious waste
459.395
Treatment of infectious wastes
459.398
Rules
459.400
Exceptions
459.405
Transport of infectious waste
459.411
Policy
459.412
Definition for ORS 459.411 to 459.417
459.413
Household hazardous waste depots
459.415
Department approval for collection activity required
459.417
Statewide household hazardous waste public education program
459.418
Contract for statewide collection of household hazardous waste
459.420
Permitted lead-acid battery disposal
459.422
Acceptance of used batteries by retailers and wholesalers
459.426
Notice to customers
459.431
Definitions for ORS 459.431 to 459.437
459.432
Policy
459.433
Limitation on sale or promotion of alkaline manganese or zinc carbon batteries
459.435
Prohibition on sale or promotion of button cell mercuric oxide batteries
459.437
Requirements for sale or promotion of mercuric oxide batteries
459.705
Definitions for ORS 459.705 to 459.790
459.708
Waste tire generator
459.710
Disposal in disposal site prohibited
459.712
Transport without carrier permit prohibited
459.715
Storage prohibited
459.720
Conditions for storage site permit
459.725
Application for storage site operator or carrier
459.730
Information in application for storage site permit
459.735
Notification of permit application in county of proposed disposal site
459.740
Hearing on site permit application
459.745
Department action on application
459.750
Storage site and carrier permit fees
459.755
Revocation of storage site or carrier permit
459.760
Monitoring and inspection of waste tire carriers and storage site
459.765
Department use of fees
459.772
Use of processed, source-separated waste tires for energy recovery
459.775
Waste Tire Recycling Account
459.780
Tire removal or processing plan
459.785
Rules
459.790
Exceptions to ORS 459.705 to 459.785
459.900
Thermostats and motor vehicle switches containing mercury
459.992
Criminal penalties
459.993
Penalties for violation of ORS 459A.757
459.995
Civil penalties
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