2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVI - Conservation, Resources and Development › Chapter 260 - Environmental Control › Section 260.900 - Definitions.

Title XVI CONSERVATION, RESOURCES AND DEVELOPMENT
Chapter 260
• Effective - 06 Jul 2005, see footnote
260.900. Definitions. —
As used in sections 260.900 to 260.960, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, the following terms mean:
(1)
"Abandoned dry-cleaning facility"
, any real property premises or individual leasehold space in which a dry-cleaning facility formerly operated;
(2)
"Active dry-cleaning facility"
, any real property premises or individual leasehold space in which a dry-cleaning facility currently operates;
(3)
"Chlorinated dry-cleaning solvent"
, any dry-cleaning solvent which contains a compound which has a molecular structure containing the element chlorine;
(4)
"Commission"
, the hazardous waste management commission created in section 260.365;
(5)
"Corrective action"
, those activities described in subsection 1 of section 260.925;
(6)
"Corrective action plan"
, a plan approved by the director to perform corrective action at a dry-cleaning facility;
(7)
"Department"
, the Missouri department of natural resources;
(8)
"Director"
, the director of the Missouri department of natural resources;
(9)
"Dry-cleaning facility"
, a commercial establishment that operates, or has operated in the past in whole or in part for the purpose of cleaning garments or other fabrics on site utilizing a process that involves any use of dry-cleaning solvents. Dry-cleaning facility includes all contiguous land, structures and other appurtenances and improvements on the land used in connection with a dry-cleaning facility but does not include prisons, governmental entities, hotels, motels or industrial laundries. Dry-cleaning facility does include coin-operated dry-cleaning facilities;
(10)
"Dry-cleaning solvent"
, any and all nonaqueous solvents used or to be used in the cleaning of garments and other fabrics at a dry-cleaning facility and includes but is not limited to perchloroethylene, also known as tetrachloroethylene, chlorinated dry-cleaning, and the products into which such solvents degrade;
(11)
"Dry-cleaning unit"
, a machine or device which utilizes dry-cleaning solvents to clean garments and other fabrics and includes any associated piping and ancillary equipment and any containment system;
(12)
"Environmental response surcharge"
, either the active dry-cleaning facility registration surcharge or the dry-cleaning solvent surcharge;
(13)
"Fund"
, the dry-cleaning environmental response trust fund created in section 260.920;
(14)
"Immediate response to a release"
, containment and control of a known release in excess of a reportable quantity and notification to the department of any known release in excess of a reportable quantity;
(15)
"Operator"
, any person who is or has been responsible for the operation of dry-cleaning operations at a dry-cleaning facility;
(16)
"Owner"
, any person who owns the real property where a dry-cleaning facility is or has operated;
(17)
"Person"
, an individual, trust, firm, joint venture, consortium, joint-stock company, corporation, partnership, association or limited liability company. Person does not include any governmental organization;
(18)
"Release"
, any spill, leak, emission, discharge, escape, leak or disposal of dry-cleaning solvent from a dry-cleaning facility into the soils or waters of the state;
(19)
"Reportable quantity"
, a known release of a dry-cleaning solvent deemed reportable by applicable federal or state law or regulation.
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(L. 2000 S.B. 577, A.L. 2005 S.B. 170 merged with S.B. 225)
Effective 7-06-05 (S.B. 170); 8-28-05 (S.B. 225)
Expires 8-28-17