42 USC 11049 – Definitions
For purposes of this chapter—
(1) Administrator
The term “Administrator” means the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.
(2) Environment
The 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 substance
The term “extremely hazardous substance” means a substance on the list described in section 11002(a)(2) of this title.
(4) Facility
The 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 chemical
The term “hazardous chemical” has the meaning given such term by section 11021(e) of this title.
(6) Material safety data sheet
The 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) Person
The 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) Release
The 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) State
The 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 chemical
The term “toxic chemical” means a substance on the list described in section 11023(c) of this title.
Terms Used In 42 USC 11049
- association: when used in reference to a corporation, shall be deemed to embrace the words "successors and assigns of such company or association" in like manner as if these last-named words, or words of similar import, were expressed. See 1 USC 5
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- individual: shall include every infant member of the species homo sapiens who is born alive at any stage of development. See 1 USC 8
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
- State: means a State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or any other territory or possession of the United States. See 1 USC 7