part_subject: "STANDARDS OF PERFORMANCE FOR NEW STATIONARY SOURCES"
subpart_code: "C"
subpart_subject: "c—Emission Guidelines and Compliance Times for Municipal Solid Waste Landfills"
section_number: "60.31c"
section_subject: "Definitions."
cfr_reference: "40 CFR 60.31c"
title_name: "Title 40"
title_subject: "Protection of Environment"
parts_covered: "Part 60 (§§ 60.1 to 60.499)"
revised_date: "Revised as of July 1, 2019"
publication_date: "As of July 1, 2019"
contains_description: "Containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect"
publication_info: "Published by the Office of the Federal Register National Archives and Records Administration as a Special Edition of the Federal Register"
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Terms used but not defined in this subpart have the meaning given them in the Act and in subparts A, B, and WWW of this part.
Municipal solid waste landfill or MSW landfill means an entire disposal facility in a contiguous geographical space where household waste is placed in or on land. An MSW landfill may also receive other types of RCRA Subtitle D wastes such as commercial solid waste, nonhazardous sludge, conditionally exempt small quantity generator waste, and industrial solid waste. Portions of an MSW landfill may be separated by access roads. An MSW landfill may be publicly or privately owned. An MSW landfill may be a new MSW landfill, an existing MSW landfill or a lateral expansion.