§ 222-4. Definitions.

For the purpose of this regulation, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings:

COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL FACILITY

A public or private establishment where the principal use is the supply, sale, and/or manufacture of services, products, or information, including, but not limited to, manufacturing, processing, or other industrial operations; services or retail establishments; printing or publishing establishments; research and development facilities; small or large quantity generators of hazardous waste; laboratories, hospitals.

DEPARTMENT

The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection.

DISCHARGE

The accidental or intentional disposal, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking, incineration, or placing of toxic or hazardous material or waste upon or into any land or water so that such hazardous waste or any constituent thereof may enter the land or water of the Commonwealth. Discharge includes, without limitation, leaking of such materials from failed or discharged containers or storage systems and disposal of such materials into any on-site leaching structure or sewage disposal system.

FLOOR DRAIN

An intended drainage point on a floor constructed to be otherwise impervious which serves as the point of entry into any subsurface drainage, treatment, disposal, containment, or other plumbing system.

LEACHING STRUCTURE

Any subsurface structure through which a fluid that is introduced will pass and enter the environment, including, but not limited to, dry wells, leaching catch basins, cesspools, leach fields, and oil/water separators that are not watertight.

OIL/WATER SEPARATOR

A device designed and installed so as to separate and retain petroleum-based oil or grease, flammable wastes as well as sand and particles from normal wastes while permitting normal sewage or liquid wastes to discharge into the drainage system by gravity. Other common names for such systems include MDC traps, gasoline and sand traps, grit and oil separators, grease traps, and interceptors.

TOXIC OR HAZARDOUS MATERIALS

Any substance or mixture of physical, chemical, or infectious characteristics posing a significant, actual, or potential hazard to water supplies or other hazards to human health if such substance or mixture were discharged to land or water of the Town of Franklin. Toxic or hazardous materials include, without limitation, synthetic organic chemicals, petroleum products, heavy metals, radioactive or infectious wastes, acids and alkalis, and all substances defined as toxic or hazardous under MGL c. 21C, §§ 21C and 21E or Massachusetts Hazardous Waste Regulation (310 CMR 30.000), and also include such products as solvents, thinners, and pesticides in quantities greater than normal household use.

USE OF TOXIC OR HAZARDOUS MATERIAL

The handling, generation, treatment, storage, or management of toxic or hazardous materials.