Attachment 02 - Definitions.pdf

SP4500-19-R-0000

HW Sasebo

Attachment 02 Definitions

Asbestos Containing Materials. Japanese Law defines any material containing equal to or greater than 0.1 percent asbestos by weight, as an Asbestos Containing Material (ACM).

Biodegradation: Wastes are degraded by microbial action. Such units shall be operated under aerobic or anaerobic conditions so that the concentrations in a representative compound or indicator parameter (e.g., total organic carbon) have been substantially reduced in concentration in the residuals.

Contracting Officer (KO): A Contracting Officer is a person duly appointed with the authority to enter into, change, and administer contracts on behalf of the US Government.

Contracting Officer's Representative (COR): A Contracting Officer may designate in writing individuals, in accordance with subsection 201.602-2 of the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement, as CORs to perform specific technical or administrative functions (see clause G-3). The CORs under this contract will be located at DRMO Sagami. The CORs will be the contractor's primary point of contact for the duration of this contract.

Controlled Substances: Narcotics, depressants, stimulants, or hallucinogenic drugs regulated under U.S.

law or which by international treaty, convention, or protocol is to be controlled by the United States.

Corrosives: Corrosive wastes are defined as wastes possessing a characteristic of corrosivity, which generally corresponds to a pH of less than or equal to 2 or greater than or equal to12.5.

Disposal: The utilization of those methods of treatment and/or containment technologies (as listed in this section) which effectively mitigate the hazards to human health or the environment when hazardous waste is discharged, deposited, injected, dumped, spilled, leaked or placed into the land, air or water.

Fuel Substitution: Units used for fuel substitution shall be operated, according to applicable technical operating requirements, to achieve destruction of hazardous constituents and to control emissions as efficiently as a hazardous waste incinerator. Air emissions must be monitored in a capacity equal to or greater than those standards identified by host nation regulations or FGS standards, as applicable.

FINAL TREATMENT: Final treatment means processing at a facility that is appropriately licensed/permitted by the Government of Japan or local prefecture to accept the waste for treatment in accordance with local laws.

Hazardous/Special Waste: Hazardous wastes are those wastes which meet one or more hazardous characteristics on terms of physical properties (e.g. solid, liquid, contained gas), chemical properties (e.g.

chemical constituents, technical or chemical name) and/or other descriptive properties (e.g. ignitable, corrosive, reactive, toxic). Those items defined as or considered dangerous in accordance with Japanese Prefectural environmental regulations are, likewise, defined as hazardous waste. The properties defining the characteristics should be measured by standardized and available testing protocols.

Industrial Waste (IW): Wastes that are generated by business or governmental activities as listed in Japanese regulations such as cinder, sludge, waste oil, waste alkali, waste acid, waste plastics, waste paper, waste residue, waste fibers, organic residue, waste rubber, waste metals, waste glass and china, slag, construction debris, animal waste, dead animals, soot.

Specially Controlled industrial Waste (SCIW): Waste regulated in Japan meeting one or more of the following criteria:

(a) A waste oil having a flash point less than 70 degrees Centigrade. (b) Waste Acid with a pH of less than 2.

(c) Waste alkali with a pH greater than 12.5.

(d) Infectious industrial wastes (medical) from specific sources. (e) Specified Hazardous Industrial Wastes

(SHIW).

Hazardous Waste Accumulation Point (HWAP): Hazardous Waste Accumulation Points are areas at or near the point of waste production (photo lab, paint shop, vehicle maintenance shop, etc.) where the waste is temporarily stored until removed to a Hazardous Waste Storage Area or shipped for disposal. The limits of storage at a HWAP are up to 208 liters (55 gallons) of hazardous waste or one liter (quart) of acute hazardous waste of each waste stream.

Hazardous Waste Storage Area (HWSA): Hazardous Waste Storage Area refers to a location on a US military installation, where more than 208 liters (55 gallons) of hazardous waste, or one liter (quart) of an acute hazardous waste, from any one waste stream is stored prior to shipment to a treatment or disposal/recycling facility. This is not the point of waste production.

Incidental Spill: A small spill occurring as a result of improper waste transfer from small containers to drums, small leaks in containers, minor engine leaks. The quantity shall be no more than 1.5 gallons (5 liters).

Incinerator Standards: An incinerator must be licensed or permitted by the competent authority after demonstrating its technical effectiveness in accordance with regulations. A hazardous waste incinerator is any device for thermally destroying or recovering heat from a waste, such as an incinerator, industrial boiler and furnace. It must be designed and operated to effectively achieve a destruction and removal efficiency of 99.99% for the organic hazardous constituents which represent the greatest degree of difficulty of Incineration in each waste or mixture of waste. The incinerator must minimize emission or particulate matter and emit no more than 1.8 Kg (4 pounds) of hydrogen chloride per hour.

Land Disposal Requirements: The land disposal facility, authorized by the competent authority, must have at least one (1) liner and a leachate collection system. The liner made of either natural or man-made materials, must restrict the downward or lateral escape of hazardous waste, hazardous constituents or leachate and have a permeability rate equal to or less than 10-7 cm/sec. The land disposal facility must also monitor and determine the impact on groundwater quality, if the facility overlays an aquifer or if the runoff from the facility flows into an aquifer recharge area. Other land disposal facilities may qualify as a secure landfill, provided the methods for preventing migration are proven to be at least as effective as a liner and leachate collection system, as described above.

Reactive wastes: Reactive wastes are those with compounds or mixtures that are unstable, react with water, contain cyanide, bear sulfide or are capable of generating toxic gases when exposed to acidic or basic compounds; or are readily capable of detonation, explosive decomposition or reaction at standard temperature and pressure.

Recovery (organics): Wastes are treated to recover organic compounds. This shall be done using, but not limited to, one or more of the following technologies: distillation; thin film evaporation; steam stripping; carbon adsorption; critical fluid extraction; liquid-liquid extraction; precipitation/crystallization or chemical phase separation techniques, such as decantation, filtration and centrifugation when used in conjunction with one of the above techniques.

Recovery (metal wastes): Wastes are treated to recover the metal fraction by thermal processing;

precipitation; exchange; carbon adsorption, or other techniques that yield non-hazardous levels of heavy metals in the residuals.

Recycling: Beneficial use, reuse, or reclamation.

Shipping papers: Any transport document used in the shipment of hazardous materials or hazardous wastes, including in-country hazardous waste manifests.

Stabilization or Fixation: Wastes are treated in such a way that soluble heavy metals are fixed by oxidation/reduction, or by some other means which renders the metals immobile in a landfill environment.

Treatment: Any method, technique, or process, designed to change the physical, chemical, or biological character or composition of any hazardous waste. Treatment includes neutralization, energy or material resource recovery, or any process rendering a waste non-hazardous or less hazardous; safer to transport, store or dispose of; or amenable for recovery, amenable for storage, or reduced in volume.

Used Oil: Used oil that is burned for energy recovery is termed "used oil fuel." Used oil fuel includes any fuel produced from used oil by processing, blending or other treatment. "Used oil" means any oil or other waste petroleum, oil, or lubricant (POL) product that has been refined from crude oil, or is a synthetic oil, has been used, and as a result of such use, is contaminated by physical or chemical impurities. Used oil exhibiting the characteristics of reactivity, ignitability, corrosivity, and toxicity, is still considered used oil, unless it has been mixed with other hazardous waste. Used oil mixed with hazardous waste is a hazardous waste and will be managed as such. Used oil burned for energy recovery must not exceed the following specifications. Used oil exceeding these specifications is considered to be a hazardous waste: Arsenic – 5ppm maximum; cadmium – 2 ppm maximum; chromium – 10 ppm maximum; lead – 100 ppm maximum, flash point 100 degrees F, minimum; total halogens 1000 ppm maximum. Facilities used for the combustion of used oil must meet the applicable air quality standards. Used oil may be burned only in industrial furnaces or utility boilers used to produce electric power, steam, or heated or cooled air or other gases or fluids; or in industrial boilers located on the site of a facility engaged in a manufacturing process where substances are transformed into new products, including the component parts of products, by mechanical or chemical processes.