{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-27a-27a-2-7-103","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 27A, § 27A-2-7-103","heading":"Definitions","body":"As used in the Oklahoma Hazardous Waste Management Act:\n\n1. \"Affected property owners\" means all real property owners\n\nwithin one (1) mile of the outer perimeter of a proposed hazardous\n\nwaste site;\n\n2. \"Affiliated person\" means:\n\na. any officer, director or partner of the applicant,\n\nb. any person employed by the applicant as a general or\n\nkey manager who directs the operations of the site or\n\nfacility which is the subject of the application, and\n\nc. any person owning or controlling more than five\n\npercent (5%) of the applicant's debt or equity;\n\n3. \"Council\" means the Hazardous Waste Management Advisory\n\nCouncil;\n\n4. \"Demonstrated pattern of prohibited conduct\" means a series\n\nof conduct of the same or like character in violation of state or\n\nfederal environmental laws which, as a result of the applicant's or\n\naffiliated person's reckless disregard thereof, actually endangers,\n\nor reasonably has the potential to endanger, human health or the\n\nenvironment;\n\n5. \"Disclosure statement\" means a written statement by the\n\napplicant which contains:\n\na. the full name, business address, and social security\n\nnumber of the applicant, and all affiliated persons,\n\nb. the full name and address of any legal entity in which\n\nthe applicant holds a debt or equity interest of at\n\nleast five percent (5%), or which is a parent company\n\nor subsidiary of the applicant, and a description of\n\nthe on-going organizational relationships as they may\n\nimpact operations within the state,\n\nc. a description of the experience and credentials of the\n\napplicant, including any past or present permits,\n\nlicenses, certifications, or operational\n\nauthorizations relating to environmental facility\n\nregulation,\n\nd. a listing and explanation of any administrative, civil\n\nor criminal legal actions against the applicant or any\n\naffiliated person which resulted in a final agency\n\norder or final judgment by a court of record\n\nincluding, but not limited to, final orders or\n\njudgments on appeal in the ten (10) years immediately\n\npreceding the filing of the application relating to\n\nthe generation, transportation, storage, treatment,\n\nrecycling or disposal of \"hazardous waste\" as defined\n\nby the Oklahoma Hazardous Waste Management Act or by\n\nthe United States Environmental Protection Agency\n\npursuant to the Federal Resource Conservation and\n\nRecovery Act. Such actions shall include, without\n\nlimitation, any permit denial or any sanction imposed\n\nby a state regulatory authority or the United States\n\nEnvironmental Protection Agency, and\n\ne. a listing of any federal environmental agency and any\n\nstate environmental agency outside this state that has\n\nor has had regulatory responsibility over the\n\napplicant;\n\n6. \"Disposal\" means the final disposition of hazardous waste;\n\n7. \"Disposal site\" means the location where any final\n\ndisposition of hazardous waste occurs. Disposal sites include but\n\nare not limited to injection wells and surface disposal sites;\n\n8. \"Guarantor\" means any person other than the owner or\n\noperator, who provides evidence of financial responsibility for an\n\nowner or operator pursuant to the Oklahoma Hazardous Waste\n\nManagement Act;\n\n9. \"Hazardous waste\" means waste materials and byproducts,\n\neither solid or liquid or containerized gas, which are:\n\na. to be discarded by the generator or recycled,\n\nb. toxic to human, animal, aquatic or plant life, and\n\nc. generated in such quantity that they cannot be safely\n\ndisposed of in properly operated, state-approved solid\n\nwaste landfills or waste, sewage or wastewater\n\ntreatment facilities.\n\nThe term \"hazardous waste\" may include but is not limited to\n\nexplosives, flammable liquids, spent acids, caustic solutions,\n\npoisons, containerized gases, sludges, tank bottoms containing heavy\n\nmetallic ions, toxic organic chemicals, and materials such as paper,\n\nmetal, cloth or wood which are contaminated with hazardous waste.\nste landfills or waste, sewage or wastewater\n\ntreatment facilities.\n\nThe term \"hazardous waste\" may include but is not limited to\n\nexplosives, flammable liquids, spent acids, caustic solutions,\n\npoisons, containerized gases, sludges, tank bottoms containing heavy\n\nmetallic ions, toxic organic chemicals, and materials such as paper,\n\nmetal, cloth or wood which are contaminated with hazardous waste.\n\nThe term \"hazardous waste\" shall not include domestic sewage;\n\n10. \"Hazardous waste facility\" means and includes storage and\n\ntreatment facilities and disposal sites;\n\n11. \"History of noncompliance\" means any past operations by an\n\napplicant or affiliated persons which clearly indicate a reckless\n\ndisregard for environmental regulation or demonstrate a pattern of\n\nprohibited conduct which could reasonably be expected to result in\n\nendangerment to human health or the environment if a permit were\n\nissued, as evidenced by findings, conclusions and rulings of any\n\nfinal agency order or final order or judgment of a court of record;\n\n12. \"Multi-user on-site treatment facility\" means a treatment\n\nfacility for hazardous waste generated by the co-owners of the\n\nfacility and which meets the criteria specified by the Oklahoma\n\nHazardous Waste Management Act;\n\n13. \"Off-site treatment, storage, recycling or disposal\" means\n\nthe treatment, storage, recycling or disposal at a hazardous waste\n\nfacility of hazardous waste not generated by the owner of the\n\nfacility;\n\n14. \"On-site treatment, storage, recycling or disposal\" means\n\nthe treatment, storage, recycling or disposal at a hazardous waste\n\nfacility of hazardous waste generated by the owner of the facility;\n\n15. \"Person\" means any individual, corporation, industry, firm,\n\npartnership, association, venture, trust, institution, federal,\n\nstate or local governmental instrumentality, agency or body or any\n\nother legal entity however organized;\n\n16. \"Recycling\" means the reuse, processing, treating,\n\nneutralizing or rerefining of hazardous waste into a product which\n\nis being reused or which has been sold for beneficial use.\n\nHazardous waste which is intended for fuel is not deemed to be\n\nrecycled until it is actually burned;\n\n17. \"Regeneration\" or \"regenerated\" means the regeneration of\n\nspent activated carbon to render it reusable, and any treatment,\n\nstorage or disposal associated therewith;\n\n18. \"Site\" or \"proposed site\" means the surface area of a\n\ndisposal site, or other hazardous waste facility, as applied for in\n\nthe application for a permit for the facility;\n\n19. \"Storage facility\" means any location where the temporary\n\nholding of hazardous waste occurs, including any tank, pit, lagoon,\n\npond, or other specific place or area;\n\n20. \"Treatment\" means the detoxification, neutralization,\n\nincineration or biodegradation of hazardous waste in order to remove\n\nor reduce its harmful properties or characteristics; and\n\n21. \"Treatment facility\" means any location where treating or\n\nrecycling of hazardous waste occurs.","path":["OK Code","Title 27A"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os27A.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"d5299d286ef48628008151ea36177db5942fc4a5d9661dd3b05a69eb1090374b","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-27a-27a-2-7-102","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-27a-27a-2-7-104"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. 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