Generator

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-012194",
  "term": "Generator",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. A facility or mobile source that emits pollutants into the air; any person who produces a hazardous waste that is listed by EPA and therefore subject to regulation.\n\n2. A facility or mobile source that emits pollutants into the air or releases hazardous waste into water or soil.\n\n3. Any person whose act first creates or produces hazardous waste.\n\n4. Any person, by site, whose act or process produces regulated medical waste or whose act first causes such waste to become subject to regulation. Where more than one person (e.g. doctors with separate medical practices) are located in the same building, each business entity is a separate generator.\n\n5. Any person, by site, whose act or process produces hazardous waste identified or listed in part 261 of this chapter or whose act first causes a hazardous waste to become subject to regulation. See 40 CFR 260.10 (http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CFR-2012-title40-vol27/xml/CFR-2012-title40-vol27-sec260-10.xml).\n\n6. Any person, by site, whose act first creates or produces a hazardous waste, used oil, or medical waste, or first brings such materials into RCRA regulation.\n\n7. Device that produces electricity. [40 CFR 63.10042 (CFR 2013)] [40 CFR 97.2 (CFR 2013)][40 CFR 97.102 (CFR 2013)][40 CFR 97.402 (CFR 2013)] [40 CFR 97.202 (CFR 2013)][40 CFR 97.302 (CFR 2013)][40 CFR 97.502 (CFR 2013)][40 CFR 97.602 (CFR 2013)][40 CFR 97.702 (CFR 2013)][40 CFR 96.202 (CFR 2018)][40 CFR 96.302 (CFR 2018)]\n\n8. Device that produces electricity and was or would have been required to be reported as a generating unit pursuant to the United States Department of Energy Form 860 (1990 edition).\n\n9. Device that converts the rotational energy from a turbine to electrical energy.",
  "subject": "Land, waste and cleanup",
  "references": [
    "Environmental Issues Terms & Acronyms; Pesticides Glossary",
    "RCRA Glossary of Terms; Terms of Environment",
    "Land Disposal Restrictions Glossary",
    "Terms of Environment",
    "Universal Waste: Glossary of Regulatory Terms",
    "RCRA Orientation Manual 2008 Glossary",
    "40 CFR 96.2 (CFR 2018)",
    "40 CFR 72.2 (CFR 2013)",
    "DOE Water Power Technologies Office Glossary of Hydropower Terms"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/generator/"
}