[Code of Federal Regulations] [Title 40, Volume 26] [Revised as of July 1, 2006] From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access [CITE: 40CFR273.9] [Page 463-464] TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT CHAPTER I--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED) PART 273_STANDARDS FOR UNIVERSAL WASTE MANAGEMENT--Table of Contents Subpart A_General Sec. 273.9 Definitions. Ampule means an airtight vial made of glass, plastic, metal, or any combination of these materials. Battery means a device consisting of one or more electrically connected electrochemical cells which is designed to receive, store, and deliver electric energy. An electrochemical cell is a system consisting of an anode, cathode, and an electrolyte, plus such connections (electrical and mechanical) as may be needed to allow the cell to deliver or receive electrical energy. The term battery also includes an intact, unbroken battery from which the electrolyte has been removed. Destination facility means a facility that treats, disposes of, or recycles a particular category of universal waste, except those management activities described in Sec. 273.13 (a) and (c) and Sec. 273.33 (a) and (c). A facility at which a particular category of universal waste is only accumulated, is not a destination facility for purposes of managing that category of universal waste. FIFRA means the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (7 U.S.C. 136-136y). Generator means any person, by site, whose act or process produces hazardous waste identified or listed in part 261 of this chapter or whose act first causes a hazardous waste to become subject to regulation. Lamp, also referred to as ``universal waste lamp'' is defined as the bulb or tube portion of an electric lighting device. A lamp is specifically designed to produce radiant energy, most often in the ultraviolet, visible, and infra-red regions of the electromagnetic spectrum. Examples of common universal waste electric lamps include, but are not limited to, fluorescent, high intensity discharge, neon, mercury vapor, high pressure sodium, and metal halide lamps. Large Quantity Handler of Universal Waste means a universal waste handler (as defined in this section) who accumulates 5,000 kilograms or more total of universal waste (batteries, pesticides, mercury-containing equipment, or lamps, calculated collectively) at any time. This designation as a large quantity handler of universal waste is retained through the end of the calendar year in which the 5,000 kilogram limit is met or exceeded. Mercury-containing equipment means a device or part of a device (including thermostats, but excluding batteries and lamps) that contains elemental mercury integral to its function. Pesticide means any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any pest, or intended for use as a plant regulator, defoliant, or desiccant, other than any article that: (a) Is a new animal drug under FFDCA section 201(w), or (b) Is an animal drug that has been determined by regulation of the Secretary of Health and Human Services not to be a new animal drug, or (c) Is an animal feed under FFDCA section 201(x) that bears or contains any substances described by paragraph (a) or (b) of this section. Small Quantity Handler of Universal Waste means a universal waste handler (as defined in this section) who does not accumulate 5,000 kilograms or more of universal waste (batteries, pesticides, mercury- containing equipment, or lamps, calculated collectively) at any time. Thermostat means a temperature control device that contains metallic mercury in an ampule attached to a bimetal sensing element, and mercury- containing ampules that have been removed from these temperature control devices in compliance with the requirements of 40 CFR 273.13(c)(2) or 273.33(c)(2). Universal Waste means any of the following hazardous waste that are subject to the universal waste requirements of this part 273: (1) Batteries as described in Sec. 273.2 (2) Pesticides as described in Sec. 273.3 (3) Mercury-containing equipment as described in Sec. 273.4; and (4) Lamps as described in Sec. 273.5. Universal Waste Handler: (a) Means: (1) A generator (as defined in this section) of universal waste; or (2) The owner or operator of a facility, including all contiguous property, [[Page 464]] that receives universal waste from other universal waste handlers, accumulates universal waste, and sends universal waste to another universal waste handler, to a destination facility, or to a foreign destination. (b) Does not mean: (1) A person who treats (except under the provisions of 40 CFR 273.13 (a) or (c), or 273.33 (a) or (c)), disposes of, or recycles universal waste; or (2) A person engaged in the off-site transportation of universal waste by air, rail, highway, or water, including a universal waste transfer facility. Universal Waste Transfer Facility means any transportation-related facility including loading docks, parking areas, storage areas and other similar areas where shipments of universal waste are held during the normal course of transportation for ten days or less. Universal Waste Transporter means a person engaged in the off-site transportation of universal waste by air, rail, highway, or water. [60 FR 25542, May 11, 1995, as amended at 63 FR 71230, Dec. 24, 1998. Redesignated and amended at 64 FR 36488, 36489, July 6, 1999; 70 FR 45521, Aug. 5, 2005]