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"(1) The term 'Administrator' means the Ad- 

 ministrator of the Environmental Protection 

 Agency. 



"(2) The term 'construction,' with respect to any 

 project of construction under this Act, means (A) 

 the erection or building of new structures and ac- 

 quisition of lands or interests therein, or the ac- 

 quisition, replacement, expansion, remodeling, al- 

 teration, modernization, or extension of existing 

 structures, and (B) the acquisition and installation 

 of initial equipment of, or required in connection 

 with, new or newly acquired structures or the ex- 

 panded, remodeled, altered, modernized or extended 

 part of existing structures (including trucks and 

 other motor vehicles, and tractors, cranes, and 

 other machinery) necessary for the proper utiliza- 

 tion and operation of the facility after completion 

 of the project; and includes preliminary planning 

 to determine the economic and engineering feasi- 

 bility and the public health and safety aspects of 

 the project, the engineering, architectural, legal, 

 fiscal, and economic investigations and studies, and 

 any surveys, designs, plans, working drawings, 

 specifications, and other action necessary for the 

 carrying out of the project, and (C) the inspection 

 and supervision of the process of carrying out the 

 project to completion. 



"(2A) The term 'demonstration' means the in- 

 itial exhibition of a new technology process or prac- 

 tice or a significantly new combination or use of 

 technologies, processes or practices, subsequent to 

 the development stage, for the purpose of proving 

 technological feasibility and cost effectiveness. 



"(3) The term 'disposal' means the discharge, 

 deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking, 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 en- 

 ter the environment or be emitted into the air or 

 discharged into any waters, including ground 

 waters. 



"(4) The term "Federal agency' means any de- 

 partment, agency, or other instrumentality of the 

 Federal Government, any independent agency or 

 establishment of the Federal Government includ- 

 ing any Goverrmient corporation, and the Govern- 

 ment Printing Office. 



"(5) The term 'hazardous waste' means a solid 

 waste, or combination of solid wastes, which be- 

 cause of its quantity, concentration, or physical, 

 chemical, or infectioias characteristics may — 



"(A) cause, or significantly contribute to an 



increase in mortality or an increase in serious 



irreversable, or incapacitating reversible, illness; 



or 

 "(B) pose a substantial present or potential 



hazard to human health or the enviromnent 



when improperly treated, stored, transported, or 



disp)osed of, or otherwise managed. 



"(6) The term 'hazardous waste generation' 

 means the act or process of producing hazardous 

 waste. 



"(7) The term 'hazardous waste management' 

 means the systematic control of the collection. 



source separation, storage, transportation, proces- 

 sing, treatment recovery, and disposal of hazardous 

 wastes. 



"(8) For purposes of Federal financial assist- 

 ance (other than rural commimities assistance) , 

 the term 'implementation' does not include the 

 acquisition, leasing, construction, or modification 

 of facilities or equipment or the acquisition, leas- 

 ing, or improvement of land and after Decem- 

 ber 31, 1979, such term does not include salaries of 

 employees due pursuant to subtitle D of this Act. 



"(9) The term 'mtermunicipal agency' means an 

 agency established by two or more mimicipalities 

 with responsibility for planning or administration 

 of solid waste. 



"(10) The term 'interstate agency" means an 

 agency of two or more municipalities in different 

 States, or an agency established by two or more 

 States, with authority to provide for the disposal 

 of solid wastes and serving two or more municipali- 

 ties located In different States. 



"(11) The term 'long-term contract' means, when 

 used In relation to solid waste supply, a contract of 

 sufllcient duration to assure the viability of a re- 

 source recovery facility (to the extent that such 

 viability depends upon solid waste supply) . 



"(12) The term 'manifest' means the form used 

 for identifying the quantity, composition, and the 

 origin, routing, and destination of hazardous waste 

 during its transportation from the point of genera- 

 tion to the point of disposal, treatment, or storage. 



"(13) The term 'municipality' (A) means a city, 

 town, borough, county, parish, district, or other 

 public body created by or pursuant to State law, 

 with responsibility for the planning or adminis- 

 tration of solid waste management, or an Indian 

 tribe or authorized tribal organization or Alaska 

 Native village or organization, and (B) includes 

 any rural community or unincorporated town or 

 village or any other public entity for which an 

 application for assistance is made by a State or 

 political subdivision thereof. 



"(14) The term 'open dump' means a site for 

 the disposal of solid waste which is not a sanitary 

 landfill within the meaning of section 4004. 



"(15) The term 'person' means an individual, 

 trust, firm, joint stock company, corporation (In- 

 cluding a government corporation), partnership, 

 association. State, municipality, commission, polit- 

 ical subdivision of a State, or any interstate body. 



"(16) The term 'procurement item' means any 

 device, good, substance, material, product, or other 

 item whether real or personal property which is 

 the subject of any purchase, barter, or other ex- 

 change made to procure such item. 



"(17) The term 'procuring agency' means any 

 Federal agency, or any State agency or agency 

 of a political subdivision of a State which is using 

 appropriated Federal funds for such procurement, 

 or any person contracting with any such agency 

 with respect to work pyerformed under such con- 

 tract. 



"(18) The term 'recoverable' refers to the capa- 

 bility and likelihood of being recovered from solid 



