Title 133 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS
001 "Applicant" means a person, organization, state or local government unit or agency, or any other public or private, profit or non-profit entities applying for a grant from the fund pursuant to these regulations.
002 "Application" means an application for a grant from the Litter Reduction and Recycling Fund on a form prescribed by the Department.
003 "Citizen Advisory Committee" means a committee appointed by the Director to make grant funding recommendations to the Director.
004 "Community recycling programs" means programs which recycle post-consumer wastes or programs which recycle wastes generated by industry for which there are no generally recognized markets; and which benefit a Nebraska community or communities by removing wastes from the solid waste stream or by preventing their entrance thereto.
005 "Community source separation programs" means programs which separate for the purpose of recycling post-consumer wastes before such wastes enter the solid waste stream.
006 "Council" means the Nebraska Environmental Quality Council.
007 "Department" means the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality.
008 "Director" means the Director of the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality.
009 "Equipment" means all personal property and fixed assets other than land and buildings purchased by a grantee with grant funding to carry out activities approved by the Department.
010 "Fund" means the Litter Reduction and Recycling Fund.
011 "Grant" means funds allocated by the Director from the fund under conditions as prescribed by the Department.
012 "Grantee" means the person, organization, state or local government unit or agency, or other public or private, profit or non-profit entity receiving funds or equipment to carry out a program approved by the Department based on the application and grant award.
013 "Litter" means all waste materials susceptible to being dropped, deposited, discarded or otherwise disposed of by any person upon any property in the State, but not including the wastes of primary processes of farming or manufacturing. Waste material as used in this section shall mean any material appearing in a place or in a context not associated with that material's function or origin.
014 "Matching cash" means cash expenditures for products or services directly related to the program.
015 "Matching in-kind" means services, materials, labor or other items provided that are directly related to the program.
016 "Program" means a project or plan incorporated in a grant application.
017 "Public Use Area" means any place or area in the state that is used or held out for use by the public, whether owned or operated by public or private interests.
018 "Recycling" means the process of separating, cleaning, treating, and reconstituting waste or other discarded materials for the purpose of recovering and reusing the resources contained therein.
019 "Source Separation" means separation by the public from their general refuse of recyclable material.
Enabling Legislation: Neb. Rev. Stat. 81-1549 (Reissue 1987)
Legal Citation: Title 133, Ch. 1, Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality
Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality
1200 "N" Street, Suite 400
P.O. Box 98922
Lincoln, Nebraska 68509
(402) 471-2186