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(1) Definitions. The following definitions shall apply in the interpretation and enforcement of this section:

(a) Hazardous Substances. Any liquid, solid, gas, sludge, including any material, substance, product, commodity, or waste, regardless of quantity that exhibits any of the characteristics or criteria of hazardous waste as defined in RCW 70.105.010 as now existing or hereafter amended.

(b) Hazardous Waste. All dangerous and extremely hazardous waste as defined in RCW 70.105.010 as now existing or hereafter amended.

(c) Hazardous Waste Storage. The holding of dangerous waste for a temporary period. Accumulation of dangerous waste by the generator or the site of generation is not storage as long as the generator complies with the applicable requirements of WAC 173-303-200 and 173-303-201 as now existing or hereafter amended.

(d) Hazardous Waste Treatment. The physical, chemical, or biological processing of dangerous wastes to make such wastes nondangerous or less dangerous, safer for transport, amenable for energy or material resource recovery, amenable for storage, or reduced in volume.

(e) Hazardous Waste Storage and Treatment Facilities (Off-site). Facilities that treat and store wastes from generators on properties other than those on which the off-site facilities are located.

(f) Hazardous Waste Storage and Treatment Facilities (On-site). Facilities that treat and store wastes generated on the same property.

(2) Off-site and On-site Hazardous Waste Treatment and Storage Facilities are allowed as set forth in the Use Chart in Section 17.30.030.

(3) All Hazardous Waste Treatment and Storage Facilities must comply with the State Location Standards for Siting Hazardous Waste Management Facilities as adopted pursuant to the provisions of RCW 70.105.020. (Ord. 88-6 §1, 1988).