§ 27-0908. Hazardous waste reduction plans.\n 1. When used in this section, the following terms shall have the\nfollowing definitions:\n a. "Acute hazardous waste" means any waste identified or listed as\nsuch in the regulations promulgated under section 27-0903 of this title.\n b. "Generator" means any person, by site, whose act or process\nproduces hazardous waste or whose act first causes a hazardous waste to\nbecome subject to regulation.\n c. "Hazardous waste" means any waste identified or listed as such in\nthe regulations promulgated under section 27-0903 of this title,\nincluding "acute hazardous waste".\n 2. For the purposes of this section, hazardous wastes generated by any\ncorrective action required pursuant to this title for a release from a\nhazardous waste treatment, storage or disposal facility, or by the\nremediation of an inactive hazardous waste disposal site as defined in\nsubdivision two of section 27-1301 of this article, or by the cleanup of\na release to the environment reported pursuant to article 17, 37 or 40\nof this chapter, or demolition and construction debris, or wastes which\nare otherwise subject to the requirements of this section shall not be\nincluded in the calculation of the amount of hazardous wastes generated\nby a person annually, nor shall such wastes be subject to the waste\nreduction planning requirements for this section.\n 3. a. Any generator of equal to or greater than one thousand tons of\nhazardous waste in the calendar year nineteen hundred ninety or any\nsubsequent calendar year shall prepare, implement and submit to the\ndepartment a written hazardous waste reduction plan on or before July\nfirst of the following calendar year.\n b. Any generator of equal to or greater than five hundred tons of\nhazardous waste in the calendar year nineteen hundred ninety-one or any\nsubsequent calendar year shall prepare, implement and submit to the\ndepartment a written hazardous waste reduction plan on or before July\nfirst of the following calendar year.\n c. Any generator of equal to or greater than fifty tons of hazardous\nwaste in the calendar year nineteen hundred ninety-two or any subsequent\ncalendar year shall prepare, implement and submit to the department a\nwritten hazardous waste reduction plan on or before July first of the\nfollowing calendar year.\n d. Any generator of equal to or greater than twenty-five tons of\nhazardous waste in the calendar year nineteen hundred ninety-five or any\nsubsequent calendar year shall prepare, implement and submit to the\ndepartment a written hazardous waste reduction plan on or before July\nfirst of the following calendar year.\n e. Notwithstanding any other provision of this subdivision, any\ngenerator required to hold a hazardous waste storage, treatment or\ndisposal permit for the on-site management of hazardous waste pursuant\nto section 27-0913 of this title shall prepare and submit to the\ndepartment, a written hazardous waste reduction plan on or before July\nfirst, nineteen hundred ninety-one or as part of any new permit\napplication, and shall thereafter implement the plan.\n 4. The hazardous waste reduction plan required under this section\nshall include:\n a. an identification of the amounts and types of any acute hazardous\nwaste as reported pursuant to subdivision six of section 27-0907 of this\ntitle; and an identification of the amounts and types of hazardous\nwastes generated during the previous calendar year which are either (i)\nin amounts greater than five tons or (ii) which account for at least\nninety percent of all hazardous wastes generated by such generator at\nthat facility, whichever represents the greater amount of hazardous\nwastes. For each such hazardous waste, such plan shall also include:\n (1) a description of the process, operation or activity that resulted\nin the generation of such waste;\n (2) a calculation of the amount of such waste generated per unit of\nproduction output or raw material
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