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SAN JOAQUIN <br />GENERAL HOSPITAL <br />Department Administration <br />IPage 14 of 17 <br />Effective Date December 2008 <br />Date Replaces JUIY 2007 <br />Title of Policy/Procedure Hazardous Materials and Waste <br />LD50 <br />The amount of a material, given all at once, which causes the death of 50% of a group of test <br />animals. <br />Lecture Bottle <br />Very small compressed gas cylinder, typically 2-3 inches in diameter and 12-18 inches in height. <br />Management <br />A program for controlling the generation, storage, collection, transportation, treatment, use, <br />conversion or disposal of hazardous wastes. It includes administrative, financial, legal and <br />planning activities as well as operational aspects of hazardous waste handling, disposal and <br />resource recovery systems. <br />Non-RCRA <br />A California hazardous waste that does not meet the definition of hazardous waste in RCRA. <br />Nuisance <br />Anything which is injurious to health, or is indecent or offensive to the senses, or an obstruction <br />to the free use of property, so as to interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property. <br />Off-site Hazardous Waste Facility <br />An operation involving handling, treatment, storage or disposal of a hazardous waste at a site <br />which is not owned by, or leased to, the generator of the waste. <br />On-site Hazardous Waste Facility <br />An operation involving handling, treatment, storage or disposal of a hazardous waste on land <br />owned by, or leased to, the County, and which receives hazardous waste generated by county <br />personnel. <br />Person <br />An individual, trust, firm, joint stock company, corporation (including a government corporation), <br />partnership, association, municipality, commission or political subdivision. <br />Producer <br />Any person who generates a waste material. <br />RCRA <br />Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. <br />Recyclable Hazardous Waste <br />Any hazardous waste for which recycling is both economically and technologically feasible. <br />Recycle <br />To redirect or utilize a waste or a substance from a waste in a manner that, in the judgment of <br />the State Department of Health Services, will not result in a substantial hazard to the health and <br />safety of persons or to livestock, wildlife or the environment. <br />Storage <br />