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[CITE: 42USC11049]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
       CHAPTER 116--EMERGENCY PLANNING AND COMMUNITY RIGHT-TO-KNOW
 
                   SUBCHAPTER III--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 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.

(Pub. L. 99-499, title III, Sec. 329, Oct. 17, 1986, 100 Stat. 1757.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 13102 of this title.
