2013 US Code
Title 42 - The Public Health and Welfare
Chapter 116 - EMERGENCY PLANNING AND COMMUNITY RIGHT-TO-KNOW (§§ 11001 - 11050)
Subchapter III - GENERAL PROVISIONS (§§ 11041 - 11050)
Section 11049 - Definitions
Publication Title | United States Code, 2012 Edition, Supplement 1, Title 42 - THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE |
Category | Bills and Statutes |
Collection | United States Code |
SuDoc Class Number | Y 1.2/5: |
Contained Within | Title 42 - THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE CHAPTER 116 - EMERGENCY PLANNING AND COMMUNITY RIGHT-TO-KNOW SUBCHAPTER III - GENERAL PROVISIONS Sec. 11049 - Definitions |
Contains | section 11049 |
Date | 2013 |
Laws in Effect as of Date | January 16, 2014 |
Positive Law | No |
Disposition | standard |
Source Credit | Pub. L. 99-499, title III, §329, Oct. 17, 1986, 100 Stat. 1757. |
Statutes at Large Reference | 100 Stat. 1757 |
Public Law Reference | Public Law 99-499 |
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For purposes of this chapter—
(1) AdministratorThe term "Administrator" means the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.
(2) EnvironmentThe term "environment" includes water, air, and land and the interrelationship which exists among and between water, air, and land and all living things.
(3) Extremely hazardous substanceThe term "extremely hazardous substance" means a substance on the list described in section 11002(a)(2) of this title.
(4) FacilityThe term "facility" means all buildings, equipment, structures, and other stationary items which are located on a single site or on contiguous or adjacent sites and which are owned or operated by the same person (or by any person which controls, is controlled by, or under common control with, such person). For purposes of section 11004 of this title, the term includes motor vehicles, rolling stock, and aircraft.
(5) Hazardous chemicalThe term "hazardous chemical" has the meaning given such term by section 11021(e) of this title.
(6) Material safety data sheetThe term "material safety data sheet" means the sheet required to be developed under section 1910.1200(g) of title 29 of the Code of Federal Regulations, as that section may be amended from time to time.
(7) PersonThe term "person" means any individual, trust, firm, joint stock company, corporation (including a government corporation), partnership, association, State, municipality, commission, political subdivision of a State, or interstate body.
(8) ReleaseThe term "release" means any spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, discharging, injecting, escaping, leaching, dumping, or disposing into the environment (including the abandonment or discarding of barrels, containers, and other closed receptacles) of any hazardous chemical, extremely hazardous substance, or toxic chemical.
(9) StateThe term "State" means any State of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the United States Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, and any other territory or possession over which the United States has jurisdiction.
(10) Toxic chemicalThe term "toxic chemical" means a substance on the list described in section 11023(c) of this title.
(Pub. L. 99–499, title III, §329, Oct. 17, 1986, 100 Stat. 1757.)
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