Transporter

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-028632",
  "term": "Transporter",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. Any person engaged in the off-site transportation of hazardous waste by air, rail, highway, or water.\n\n2. Hauling firm that picks up properly packaged and labeled hazardous waste from generators and transports it to designated facilities for treatment, storage, or disposal. Transporters are subject to EPA and DOT hazardous waste regulations.\n\n3. Means a person engaged in the off-site transportation of universal waste by air, rail, highway, or water. See 40 CFR 273.9 (http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CFR-2012-title40-vol28/xml/CFR-2012-title40-vol28-sec273-9.xml).\n\n4. Any person engaged in the off-site transportation of hazardous waste, used oil, universal waste, or medical waste.\n\n5. Person engaged in the off-site transportation of hazardous waste by air, rail, highway or water.",
  "subject": "Land, waste and cleanup",
  "references": [
    "Land Disposal Restrictions Glossary",
    "Terms of Environment; Federal Remediation Technologies Roundtable Glossary",
    "Universal Waste: Glossary of Regulatory Terms",
    "RCRA Orientation Manual 2008 Glossary",
    "40 CFR 270.2 (CFR 2018)"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/transporter/"
}