Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 19 > Chapter 1 > Part 6 - Environmental Mitigation and Response Act

• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Division: means the Division of Outdoor Recreation. See Utah Code 41-22-2
• Environmental mitigation: means an action or activity intended to remedy, reduce, or offset known negative impacts to the environment. See Utah Code 19-1-602
• Environmental response action: means action taken to prevent, eliminate, minimize, investigate, monitor, clean up, or remove contaminants in the environment. See Utah Code 19-1-602
• Financial assurance: means a mechanism or instrument intended to provide funds if necessary to the department to conduct closure, monitoring, or cleanup of a specific facility or site in accordance with the applicable environmental requirements provided in this title. See Utah Code 19-1-602
• Funding source: means an individual or entity that provides a monetary contribution to the Environmental Mitigation and Response Fund. See Utah Code 19-1-602
• Land: includes :Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Motor vehicle: includes an off-highway vehicle. See Utah Code 41-22-2
• Natural resource damage: means damages to land, fish, wildlife, biota, air, water, ground water, drinking water supplies, and other resources that are held in trust for the public or otherwise controlled by the United States, the state, or local government. See Utah Code 19-1-602
• Off-highway vehicle: means any snowmobile, all-terrain type I vehicle, all-terrain type II vehicle, all-terrain type III vehicle, or motorcycle. See Utah Code 41-22-2
• Operator: means the person who is in actual physical control of an off-highway vehicle. See Utah Code 41-22-2
• Owner: means a person, other than a person with a security interest, having a property interest or title to an off-highway vehicle and entitled to the use and possession of that vehicle. See Utah Code 41-22-2
• Person: means :Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Property: includes both real and personal property. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes a state, district, or territory of the United States. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• United States: includes each state, district, and territory of the United States of America. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Unused funds: means the remaining funds from a specific funding source following the complete implementation of the environmental mitigation or response actions pursuant to the terms and conditions of the contribution. See Utah Code 19-1-602