In this article, unless the context otherwise requires:

Terms Used In Arizona Laws 49-218

  • CERCLA: means the comprehensive environmental response, compensation, and liability act of 1980, as amended (P. See Arizona Laws 49-201
  • CERCLA brownfields cleanup revolving loan fund program: means the program established by the United States environmental protection agency to provide financial assistance in the form of loans or grants to eligible persons to remediate contamination at eligible sites as provided in section 104(k) of CERCLA and applicable guidance documents prepared by the United States environmental protection agency to implement this program. See Arizona Laws 49-218
  • Department: means the department of environmental quality. See Arizona Laws 49-201
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • Person: means an individual, employee, officer, managing body, trust, firm, joint stock company, consortium, public or private corporation, including a government corporation, partnership, association or state, a political subdivision of this state, a commission, the United States government or any federal facility, interstate body or other entity. See Arizona Laws 49-201
  • United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Arizona Laws 1-215

1. "CERCLA brownfields cleanup revolving loan fund program" means the program established by the United States environmental protection agency to provide financial assistance in the form of loans or grants to eligible persons to remediate contamination at eligible sites as provided in section 104(k) of CERCLA and applicable guidance documents prepared by the United States environmental protection agency to implement this program.

2. "Eligible activities" means removal as defined by section 101(23) of CERCLA and includes required engineering evaluations, cost analysis of cleanup alternatives, public participation requirements and reasonable and necessary site monitoring activities during the remediation.

3. "Eligible person" means a person who is eligible to receive a loan or grant under the CERCLA brownfields cleanup revolving loan fund program.

4. "Eligible site" means a site that is a brownfields site as defined by section 101(39) of CERCLA, that is within an area designated in a cooperative agreement between the department and the United States environmental protection agency and that is one of the following:

(a) Accepted into the department’s voluntary remediation program.

(b) Subject to a remediation agreement with the department’s water quality assurance revolving fund program.

(c) Being addressed through another program or oversight mechanism that is approved by the department.