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0 0 BOOK 20 PAGE 867 (22) "SOLID WASTE" means any hazardous garbage, refuse or sludge from a waste treatment plant, water supply treatment plant or air pollution control facility, domestic sewage and sludges generated by the treatment thereof in sanitary, and other material that is either discarded or is being accumulated, stored or treated prior to being discarded, or has served its original intended use and is generally discarded, including solid, liquid, semisolid or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, institutional, commercial and agricultural operations, and from community activities. The term does not includei a. Fecal waste from fowls and animals other than humans. b. Solid or dissolved material in: 1. Domestic sewage and sludges generated by treatment thereof in sanitary sewage collection, treatment and disposal systems which are designed to discharge effluents to the surface waters. 2. Irrigation return flows. 3. Wastewater discharges and the sludges incidental to and generated by treatment which are point sources subject to permits granted under Section 402 of the Water Pollution Control Act, as amended (P.L. 92-500), and permits granted under G.S. 143- 215.1 by the Environmental Management Commission. However, any sludges that meet the criteria for hazardous waste under RCRA shall also be a solid waste for the purposes of this article. c. Oils and other liquid hydrocarbons controlled under Article 21A of Chapter 143 of the General Statutes. However, any oils or other liquid hydrocarbons that meet the criteria for hazardous waste under RCRA shall also be a solid waste for purposes of this article. d. Any source, special nuclear or byproduct material as defined by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (42 U.S.C. Section 2011). e. Mining refuse covered by the North Carolina Mining Act, G.S. 74-46 through 74-68 regulated by the North Carolina Mining Commission (as defined under G.S. 14313-290). However, any specific mining waste that meets the criteria for hazardous waste under RCRA shall also be a solid waste for the purposes of this article. f. Recovered material. (23)"SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL SITE" means any place at which solid wastes are disposed of by incineration, sanitary landfill or any other method. (24)"SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT' means purposeful, systematic control of the generation, storage, collection, transport, separation, treatment, processing, recycling, recovery and disposal of solid wastes. (25)AII additional definitions set out in N.C. Gen. Stat § 130A-290(a) which are not specifically set forth herein but which may be utilized in this Ordinance, as amended, or any franchise issued hereunder. Such definitions being incorporated herein by reference thereto. 3