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Publications
Environment Protection and Heritage Council
April 2003 edition
In this management plan:
| 1.1 | 'ADG Code' means the Australian Code for the Transport of Dangerous Goods by Road and Rail, published by the Commonwealth Government (as amended from time to time); |
| 1.2 | 'agency' means the agency charged by the relevant Commonwealth, State or Territory Government with the responsibility for scheduled wastes; |
| 1.3 | 'ANZECC' means the Australian and New Zealand Environment and Conservation Council; |
| 1.4 | 'approved' means approved by the agency; |
| 1.5 | 'ARMCANZ' means the Agricultural and Resource Management Council of Australia and New Zealand; |
| 1.6 | 'Askarel' and 'Aroclor' mean well-defined commercial PCB mixtures; |
| 1.7 | 'concentrated PCB material' means scheduled PCB material containing 10% or more of PCBs by mass; |
| 1.8 | 'concentration' with respect to PCBs means the concentration of PCBs in the diluent; |
| 1.9 | 'congeners' means a group of chemicals which have the same basic structure; |
| 1.10 | 'diluent' means a matrix within which PCBs are distributed, such as oil, soil, concrete and some equipment parts. It does not mean the bulk casing or other solids surrounding PCB material. |
| 1.11 | 'licence' means a statutory approval issued by the agency; |
| 1.12 | 'management plan' means a plan approved by ANZECC for the management and disposal of specific categories or a combination of categories of scheduled wastes; |
| 1.13 | 'NATA' means the National Association of Testing Authorities; |
| 1.14 | 'National Protocol' means the National Protocol for the Approval/Licensing of Commercial-Scale Facilities for the Treatment of Schedule X Wastes (July 1994); |
| 1.15 | 'National Strategy' means the Draft National Strategy for the Management of Scheduled Waste (Nov. 1992), supplemented and amended by the Scheduled Wastes Working Group Report to the Australian and New Zealand Environment and Conservation Council (Version B, May 1993) 1; |
| 1.16 | 'NHMRC' means the National Health and Medical Research Council; |
| 1.17 | 'non-scheduled PCB material' means any material (including material in equipment) which contains PCBs at levels below the threshold concentration or threshold quantity and above the concentration level defined as PCB-free; |
| 1.18 | 'non-scheduled PCB waste' means any material (including material in equipment) which has no further use and which contains PCBs at levels below the threshold concentration or threshold quantity and above the concentration level defined as PCB-free; |
| 1.19 | 'notifiable quantity' means more than 10 kg of PCBs in scheduled PCB material or scheduled PCB waste held on any one premises; |
| 1.20 | 'PCB-free' for the purposes of this plan means material or waste containing PCBs at a concentration of 2 mg/kg or less; |
| 1.21 | polychlorinated biphenyl' or PCB means a substance in which the biphenyl structure has chlorine atoms substituted for hydrogen atoms to varying degrees - PCB has the chemical formula C12H10-nCln where 'n' is 1-10; |
| 1.22 | 'premises' includes any property, building and public place, ship, boat, aircraft and any other vehicle; |
| 1.23 | 'priority area' means an area which requires a particularly high level of protection. Such areas include, but are not restricted to, proclaimed potable surface and underground water catchment areas, food processing facilities, animal feed lots, schools, hospitals, aquatic spawning areas and endangered species habitats 2; |
| 1.24 | 'scheduled PCB material' means any material (including material in equipment) which contains PCBs at levels at or in excess of the threshold concentration and threshold quantity; |
| 1.25 | 'scheduled PCB waste' means any material (including material in equipment) which has no further use and which contains PCBs at levels at or in excess of the threshold concentration and threshold quantity; |
| 1.26 | 'threshold concentration' means a concentration of PCBs of 50 mg/kg; and |
| 1.27 | 'threshold quantity' means a quantity of PCBs of 50 g. |