6.19.010 - Definitions.

For the purposes of this chapter the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this chapter, unless clearly inapplicable. Words and phrases not ascribed a meaning by this chapter shall have the meaning ascribed by Division 30, Part 1, Chapter 2 of the Public Resources Code, §§ 40000, et seq., and the regulations of the California Integrated Waste Management Board, if defined therein, and if not, to the definitions found in the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act ("RCRA"), 42 U.S.C. §§ 6901, et seq. and the regulations implementing RCRA, as they may be amended from time to time.

(1)

"Applicant" means any person, firm, limited liability company, association, partnership, political subdivision, government agency, municipality, industry, public or private corporation, or any other entity whatsoever who applies to the city for the applicable permits to undertake any construction, demolition, or renovation project within the city. An applicant must comply with this chapter.

(2)

"Building official" means the designee of the director of community development.

(3)

"City sponsored project" means a project constructed by the city or a project receiving fifty percent or more of its financing from the city.

(4)

"Construction" means the building of any facility or structure or any portion thereof including any tenant improvements to an existing facility or structure. Construction does not include a project limited to interior plumbing work, interior electrical work or interior mechanical work.

(5)

"Construction and demolition debris or C&D debris" means waste building materials, packaging and rubble resulting from construction, remodeling, renovation, repair, and demolition operations on pavements, houses, commercial buildings and other structures.

(6)

"Construction and demolition waste management plan or C&D WMP" means a completed C&D WMP from, approved by the city for the purpose of compliance with this chapter, submitted by the applicant for any covered project.

(7)

"Construction and demolition waste management plan attachments" means a list of permitted haulers, reuse facilitators, disposal and recycling facilities, conversions for mass to weight, green building material suggestions, and any other information supplied by the city to support compliance with this chapter.

(8)

"Conversion rate" means the rate set forth in the standardized conversion rate table approved by the city pursuant to this chapter for use in estimating the volume or weight of materials identified in a C&D WMP.

(9)

"Covered project" means all projects which require a permit pursuant to Los Angeles County Codes as adopted by reference by Ordinance Number 610.

(10)

"Deconstruction" means a process to dismantle or remove useable materials from structures, in a manner that maximizes the recovery of building materials for reuse and recycling and minimizes the amount of waste transported for disposal in landfills and transformation facilities.

(11)

"Demolition" means the destruction, razing, ruining, tearing down, or wrecking of any facility, structure, pavement or building, whether in whole or in part, whether interior or exterior.

(12)

"Divert or diversion" means the activities, which reduce or eliminate the amount of C&D debris from disposal in a landfill or transformation facility.

(13)

"Diversion requirement" means the diversion of at least fifty percent of the total construction and demolition debris generated by a covered project by reuse or recycling, unless the applicant has been granted an exemption pursuant to Section 6.19.160 of this chapter. If the applicant has been granted an exemption, the diversion requirement shall be the maximum feasible diversion rate established by the environmental compliance official for the project.

(14)

"Environmental compliance official" means the designee of the director of community development.

(15)

"Exempt project" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 6.19.140 of this chapter.

(16)

"Feasible" shall have the meaning ascribed by Public Resources Code § 21061.1, as it, from time to time, may be amended.

(17)

"Inert materials" means non-liquid solid resources including, but not limited to, soil and concrete, that do not contain hazardous waste or soluble pollutants at concentrations in excess of water quality objectives established by a regional water board pursuant to Division 7 (Sections 13000, et seq.) of the California Water Code and does not contain significant quantities of decomposable solid resources.

(18)

"Project" means any activity, for which a permit for building, demolition, parking area construction, or other permit is required. See also "covered project".

(19)

"Recycling" means the process of collecting, sorting, cleansing, treating, and reconstituting materials that would otherwise be solid waste, and the return of those materials to the economic mainstream in the form of materials which meet the quality standards necessary to be used in the marketplace for new, reused, or reconstituted products.

(20)

"Renovation" or "tenant improvement" means any change, addition, or modification in an existing structure that requires a building permit or demolition permit but does not include a project limited to interior plumbing work, electrical work or mechanical work.

(21)

"Reuse" means the use, in the same or similar form as it was produced, of a material which might otherwise be discarded.

(22)

"Salvage" means the controlled removal of construction or demolition materials from a permitted building or demolition site for the purpose of recycling, reuse, or storage for later recycling or reuse.

(23)

"Solid waste" means all putrescible and non-putrescible solid, semisolid, and liquid wastes, including garbage, trash, refuse, paper, rubbish, ashes, industrial wastes, demolition and construction wastes, abandoned vehicles and parts thereof, discarded home and industrial appliances, dewatered, treated, or chemically fixed sewage sludge which is not hazardous waste, manure, vegetable or animal solid and semisolid wastes, and other discarded solid and semisolid wastes. "Solid waste" does not include any of the following wastes:

a.

Hazardous waste, as defined in Public Resources Code Section 40141;

b.

Radioactive waste regulated pursuant to the Radiation Control Law (Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 114960) of Part 9 of Division 104 of the Health and Safety Code);

c.

Medical waste regulated pursuant to the Medical Waste Management Act (Part 14 (commencing with Section 117600) of Division 104 of the Health and Safety Code).

(Ord. No. 618, § 1, 1-6-2009)