Illinois Administrative Code › Title 35 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › Part 1600 - STANDARDS AND REQUIREMENTS FOR POTABLE WATER SUPPLY WELL SURVEYS AND FOR COMMUNITY RELATIONS ACTIVITIES PERFORMED IN CONJUNCTION WITH AGENCY NOTICES OF THREATS FROM CONTAMINATION › Subpart A - GENERAL › Section 1600.110 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
Unless otherwise provided in this Section, or unless a
				  different meaning of a word or term is clear from the context, the definitions
				  of the Environmental Protection Act apply to the same words or terms in this
				  Part.
"Act" means the Environmental Protection Act [ 415 ILCS 5
				  ].
"Agency" is the Illinois Environmental Protection
				  Agency
. [
				  415 ILCS 5/3.105 ]
"Authorized party" means a person authorized by the Agency
				  under Section 25d-3(c) of the Act [ 415 ILCS 5 ] and Subpart C to provide
				  notice as part of Agency-approved community relations activities in lieu of a
				  notice required to be given by the Agency.
"Board" is the Pollution Control Board.
[
				  415 ILCS 5/3.130 ]
"Building control technology" means any technology or barrier
				  that affects air flow or air pressure within a building for purposes of
				  reducing or preventing contaminant migration to the indoor air.
"Class I groundwater quality standards" means the Class I
				  groundwater quality standards specified in 35 Ill. Adm. Code
				  620.410.
"Contaminant" is any solid, liquid or gaseous matter,
				  any odor, or any form of energy, from whatever source.
[
				  415 ILCS 5/3.165
				  ]
"CRP" means the community relations plan required under Title
				  VI-D of the Act and Subpart C.
"Person" means individual, trust, firm, joint stock
				  company, joint venture, consortium, commercial entity, corporation (including a
				  government corporation), partnership, association, state, municipality,
				  commission, political subdivision of a state, or any interstate body, including
				  the United States Government and each department, agency, and instrumentality
				  of the United States.
[
				  415 ILCS 5/58.2
				  ]
"Person performing a response action" means the person or
				  persons taking responsibility for addressing a release by authorizing or
				  approving the performance of a response action (e.g., Leaking Underground
				  Storage Tank Program owner or operator, Site Remediation Program Remediation
				  Applicant, permittees). The phrase does not include persons who have been hired
				  or authorized to perform the response action by the person taking
				  responsibility for the release or persons with whom the person taking
				  responsibility for the release has contracted or subcontracted to perform the
				  response action.
"Release" means any spilling, leaking, pumping,
				  pouring, emitting, emptying, discharging, injecting, escaping, leaching,
				  dumping, or disposing into the environment, but excludes any release which
				  results in exposure to persons solely within a workplace, with respect to a
				  claim which such persons may assert against the employer or such persons;
				  emissions from the engine exhaust of a motor vehicle, rolling stock, aircraft,
				  vessel, or pipeline pumping station engine; release of source, byproduct, or
				  special nuclear material from a nuclear incident, as those terms are defined in
				  the federal Atomic Energy Act of 1954, if such release is subject to
				  requirements with respect to financial protection established by the Nuclear
				  Regulatory Commission under Section 170 of such Act; and the normal application
				  of fertilizer.
[
				  415 ILCS 5/3.395 ]
"Response action" means any action or series of actions taken
				  to address a release of contaminants or its effects as may be necessary or
				  appropriate to protect human health or the environment. A response action may
				  include release investigation and characterization, soil remediation, and
				  groundwater remediation.
"Soil gas" means the air existing in void spaces in
				  the soil between the groundwater table and the ground surface.
[
				  415 ILCS 5/25d-1
				  ]
"Tier 1 remediation objectives" means the Tier 1 remediation
				  objectives specified in 35 Ill. Adm. Code 742.
"Volatile chemicals" means chemicals with a Dimensionless
				  Henry's Law Constant of greater than 1.9 x 10-2 or a
				  vapor pressure greater than 0.1 Torr (mmHg) at 25°C. For purposes of the
				  indoor inhalation exposure route, elemental mercury is included in this
				  definition.