Vermont § 6602 - Definitions As used in this chapter:

§ 6602. Definitions As used in this chapter:

• (1) “Secretary” means the Secretary of Natural Resources or his or her duly authorized
  representative. (2) “Solid waste” means any discarded garbage; refuse; septage; sludge from a waste treatment
  plant, water supply plant, or pollution control facility; and other discarded material,
  including solid, liquid, semi-solid, or contained gaseous materials resulting from
  industrial, commercial, mining, or agricultural operations and from community activities
  but does not include animal manure and absorbent bedding used for soil enrichment;
  high carbon bulking agents used in composting; or solid or dissolved materials in
  industrial discharges that are point sources subject to permits under the Water Pollution
  Control Act, chapter 47 of this title. (3) “Generator” means any person, by site, whose act or process produces hazardous waste
  or whose act first causes a hazardous waste to become subject to regulation. (4) “Hazardous waste” means any waste or combination of wastes of a solid, liquid, contained
  gaseous, or semi-solid form, including those that are toxic, corrosive, ignitable,
  reactive, strong sensitizers, or that generate pressure through decomposition, heat,
  or other means, that in the judgment of the Secretary may cause or contribute to an
  increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible or incapacitating reversible
  illness, taking into account the toxicity of such waste, its persistence and degradability
  in nature, and its potential for assimilation, or concentration in tissue, and other
  factors that may otherwise cause or contribute to adverse acute or chronic effects
  on the health of persons or other living organisms, or any matter that may have an
  unusually destructive effect on water quality if discharged to ground or surface waters
  of the State. All special nuclear, source, or by-product material, as defined by the
  Atomic Energy Act of 1954 as subsequently amended and codified in 42 U.S.C. § 2014, is specifically excluded from this definition. (5) “Hazardous waste management” means the systematic and comprehensive management of
  the generation; storage; transport; treatment, including recycling and recovery; or
  disposal of hazardous waste materials. (6) “Person” means any individual; partnership; company; corporation; association; unincorporated
  association; joint venture; trust; municipality; the State of Vermont or any agency,
  department, or subdivision of the State; federal agency; or any other legal or commercial
  entity. (7) “Storage” means the actual or intended containment of wastes, either on a temporary
  basis or for a period of years, in such a manner as not to constitute disposal of
  such wastes. (8) “Transport” or “transportation” means the movement of wastes by air, rail, highway,
  or water. (9) “Treatment” means any method, technique, or process, including neutralization, designed
  to change the physical, chemical, or biological character or composition of any hazardous
  or solid waste, so as to neutralize such waste, or so as to recover energy or material
  resources from the waste, or so as to render such waste safer for transport, amenable
  for recovery, amenable for storage, or reduced in volume, or for hazardous wastes,
  so as to render such waste nonhazardous. (10) “Facility” means all contiguous land, structures, other appurtenances, and improvements
  on the land, used for treating, storing, or disposing of waste. A facility may consist
  of several treatment, storage, or disposal operational units. (11) “Sanitary landfill” means a land disposal site employing an engineered method of disposing
  of solid waste on land in a manner that minimizes environmental hazards by spreading
  the solid waste in thin layers, compacting the solid waste to the smallest practical
  volume, and applying and compacting cover material at the end of each operating day. (12) “Disposal” means the discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking, emitting,
  or placing of any solid waste or hazardous waste into or on any land or water so that
  such solid waste or hazardous waste or any constituent thereof may enter the environment
  or be emitted into the air or discharged into any ground or surface waters. (13) “Waste” means a material that is discarded or is being accumulated, stored, or physically,
  chemically, or biologically treated prior to being discarded or has served its original
  intended use and is normally discarded or is a manufacturing or mining by-product
  and is normally discarded. (14) “Economic poison” means: (A) any substance produced, distributed, or used as a plant regulator, defoliant, or desiccant;
  and (B) any substance produced, distributed, or used for preventing, destroying, or repelling
  any insects, rodents, nematodes, fungi, weeds, or other forms of plant or animal life
  or viruses, except viruses on or in living human or other animals, which the Commissioner
  shall declare to be a pest. (15) [Repealed.] (16)(A) “Hazardous material” means all petroleum and toxic, corrosive, or other chemicals
  and related sludge included in any of the following: