Terms Used In Nebraska Statutes > Nebraska Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act

• Action: shall include any proceeding in any court of this state. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Administrator: means the Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency. See Nebraska Statutes 81-15,194
• Attorney: shall mean attorney at law. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Commission: means the State Emergency Response Commission. See Nebraska Statutes 81-15,195
• Committee print: A publication used by committees for various purposes. For example, the rules of each standing committee may be published as a committee print, and drafts of bills or committee reports may be produced as committee prints.
• Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Director: means the Director of Environment and Energy. See Nebraska Statutes 81-15,196
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Environment: includes water, air, and land and the interrelationship which exists among and between water, air, and land and all living things. See Nebraska Statutes 81-15,197
• Extremely hazardous substance: means a substance which meets the threshold requirements identified on the List of Extremely Hazardous Substances under 40 C. See Nebraska Statutes 81-15,198
• Facility: means the buildings, equipment, structures, and other stationary items located on a single site or on contiguous or adjacent sites and owned or operated by the same person or by any person which controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with such person. See Nebraska Statutes 81-15,199
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• Governing body: means the governing body of a village, city, or county. See Nebraska Statutes 81-15,200
• Inventory form: means an emergency and hazardous chemical inventory form required to be prepared by an owner or operator of any facility required to prepare or have available a material safety data sheet for a hazardous chemical under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, 29 U. See Nebraska Statutes 81-15,203
• 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.
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• List of chemicals: includes each of the following:

  (1) A list of the hazardous chemicals for which a material safety data sheet is required under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, 29 U. See Nebraska Statutes 81-15,204

• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Material safety data sheet: means the sheet required to be developed under 29 C. See Nebraska Statutes 81-15,205
• Person: shall include bodies politic and corporate, societies, communities, the public generally, individuals, partnerships, limited liability companies, joint-stock companies, and associations. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Process: shall mean a summons, subpoena, or notice to appear issued out of a court in the course of judicial proceedings. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Release: means to spill, leak, pump, pour, emit, empty, discharge, inject, escape, leach, dump, or dispose any hazardous chemical, extremely hazardous substance, or toxic chemical into the environment and includes the abandonment or discarding of barrels, containers, and other closed receptacles containing any such chemical or substance. See Nebraska Statutes 81-15,206
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• State: when applied to different states of the United States shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories organized by Congress. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Title III: means the Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act pursuant to Title III of the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986, as amended. See Nebraska Statutes 81-15,208
• Toxic chemical: means a substance on the list in Committee Print Number 99-169, as amended, of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, titled "Toxic Chemicals Subject to Section 313 of the Emergency Planning and Community Right-To-Know Act of 1986" including any revised version as may be made pursuant to section 313 of Title III. See Nebraska Statutes 81-15,209
• United States: shall include territories, outlying possessions, and the District of Columbia. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Year: shall mean calendar year. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801