Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 7 > Chapter 91 > Subchapter II - Brownfields Development Program

• Brownfield: means real property, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be hindered by the reasonably held belief that the real property may be environmentally contaminated. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9103
• Brownfields developer: shall mean a person who, with respect to a facility:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9123

• Brownfields Development Agreement: means an agreement between the Secretary and a brownfield developer with respect to a certified brownfield that sets forth a scope and schedule of activities to assess and respond to the actual, threatened, or perceived release of hazardous substances at the facility. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9123
• buyer: means a person who buys a motor vehicle from a retail seller and who executed a retail installment contract in connection therewith. See Delaware Code Title 5 Sec. 2901
• Cash sale price: means the price stated in a retail installment contract for which the seller would have sold to the buyer, and the buyer would have bought from the seller, the motor vehicle which is the subject matter of the retail installment contract, if such sale has been a sale for cash instead of a retail installment transaction. See Delaware Code Title 5 Sec. 2901
• Certified brownfield: means a brownfield, as defined in § 9103(3) of this title, that the Secretary has certified pursuant to the regulations governing hazardous substance cleanup. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9123
• Commissioner: means the State Bank Commissioner. See Delaware Code Title 5 Sec. 2403
• Commissioner: means State Bank Commissioner. See Delaware Code Title 5 Sec. 2901
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• contract: means an agreement, entered into in this State, pursuant to which the title to, the property in or a lien upon the motor vehicle, which is the subject matter of a retail installment transaction, is retained or taken by a retail seller from a retail buyer as security, in whole or in part, for the buyer's obligation. See Delaware Code Title 5 Sec. 2901
• Contractual relationship: means , but is not limited to, land contracts, deeds, easements, leases or other instruments transferring title or possession. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9103
• 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.
• Department: means the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9103
• Environment: means the navigable waters, the waters of the contiguous zone, ocean waters, and any other surface water, ground water, drinking water supply, land surface or subsurface strata or ambient air within the State. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9103
• Existing environmental condition: means all known or discovered releases of hazardous substances which are found to be, or to have been, existing at or in the vicinity of the facility prior to a person entering into a Brownfields Development Agreement with the Secretary. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9123
• Facility: means any building, structure, installation, equipment, pipe or pipeline (including any pipe into a sewer or publicly owned treatment works), well, pit, pond, lagoon, impoundment, ditch, landfill, storage container, motor vehicle, rolling stock, vessel, aircraft, or any site or area where a hazardous substance has been generated, manufactured, refined, transported, stored, treated, handled, recycled, released, disposed of, placed or otherwise come to be located. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9103
• Hazardous substance: means :

  a. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9103

• Imminent threat of release: means potential for a release which requires action to prevent or mitigate damage to the environment or endangerment to public health or welfare which may result from such a release. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9103
• Licensee: means a holder of a license issued by the State Bank Commissioner pursuant to this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 5 Sec. 2901
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Motor vehicle: means any device propelled or drawn by any power other than muscular power, in, upon, or by which any person or property is, or may be transported or drawn upon a highway. See Delaware Code Title 5 Sec. 2901
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• 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.
• Person: means an individual, firm, corporation, association, partnership, consortium, joint venture, commercial entity, state government agency, unit of local government, school district, conservation district, federal government agency, Indian tribe or interstate body. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9103
• Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, and any other group however organized. See Delaware Code Title 5 Sec. 2901
• 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 containing any hazardous substance or pollutant or contaminant), but excludes:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9103

• Remedy: means any action, response or expenditure consistent with the purposes of this chapter to identify, minimize or eliminate any imminent threat posed by any hazardous substances to public health or welfare or the environment including preparation of any plans, conducting of any studies and any investigative, oversight of remedy or monitoring activities with respect to any release or imminent threat of release of a hazardous substance and any health assessments, risk assessments or health effect studies or natural resource damage assessments conducted in order to determine the risk or potential risk to public health or welfare or the environment. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9103
• Retail installment transaction: means any transaction evidenced by a retail installment contract entered into between a retail buyer and a retail seller wherein the retail buyer buys a motor vehicle from the retail seller at a time price payable in one or more deferred installments. See Delaware Code Title 5 Sec. 2901
• Sales finance company: means a person engaged, in whole or in part, in the business of purchasing retail installment contracts from one or more retail sellers. See Delaware Code Title 5 Sec. 2901
• Secretary: means Secretary of the Department or the Secretary's designee. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9103
• seller: means a person who sells a motor vehicle to a retail buyer under or subject to a retail installment contract. See Delaware Code Title 5 Sec. 2901
• State: means the State of Delaware; and when applied to different parts of the United States, it includes the District of Columbia and the several territories and possessions of the United States. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• United States: includes its territories and possessions and the District of Columbia. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Year: means a calendar year, and is equivalent to the words "year of our Lord. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302