Illinois Administrative Code › Title 29 - EMERGENCY SERVICES, DISASTERS, AND CIVIL DEFENSE › Part 620 - EMERGENCY PLANNING AND COMMUNITY RIGHT-TO-KNOW › Subpart A - EMERGENCY PLANNING AND NOTIFICATION › Section 620.20 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
"Act" or "SARA" means the Superfund Amendments and
				  Reauthorization Act of 1986 ( P.L. 99-499 ).
"CERCLA" means the Comprehensive Environmental Responses,
				  Compensation and Liability Act of 1980 ( 42 USCA 9601 et seq.), as
				  amended.
"CERCLA hazardous substance" means a substance on the list
				  defined in Section 101(14) of CERCLA.
"Extremely hazardous substance" means any substance listed in
				  Appendix A of 40 CFR 355, dated April 22, 1987. This Appendix does not include
				  any later amendments or editions.
"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 who controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with such
				  person).
"Hazardous chemical" means any hazardous chemical as defined
				  under 29 CFR 1910.2000(c), except that such term does not include the following
				  substances:
Any food, food additive, color additive, drug, or cosmetic
				  regulated by the Food and Drug Administration.
Any substance present as a solid in any manufactured item to
				  the extent exposure to the substance does not occur under normal conditions of
				  use.
Any substance to the extent it is used for personal, family,
				  or household purposes, or is presented in the same form and concentration as a
				  product packaged for distribution and use by the general public.
Any substance to the extent it is used in a research
				  laboratory or a hospital or other medical facility under the direct supervision
				  of someone who possesses at least an Associate's Degree or equivalent, or who
				  possesses a professional license or certificate issued by the State of Illinois
				  for which scientific knowledge or coursework is required for
				  certification.
Any substance to the extent it is used in routine
				  agricultural operations related to farming, such as but not limited to crop
				  fertilization, or is a fertilizer held for sale by a retailer to the ultimate
				  customer.
"IDOL" means the Illinois Department of Labor.
"IEMA" or "Agency" means the Illinois Emergency Management
				  Agency.
"Inventory form" means the Tier I and Tier II emergency and
				  hazardous chemical inventory forms set forth in Subpart D of 40 CFR 370, dated
				  October 15, 1987. This incorporation does not include any later amendments or
				  editions.
"Material Safety Data Sheet" or "MSDS" means the sheet
				  required to be developed under
				  29 CFR
				  1910.1200(g).
"Municipality" means city, village, or incorporated
				  town.
"Principal executive officer" means chairman of the county
				  board in the county, mayor of the city or incorporated town in the city or
				  incorporated town respectively, president of a village in the village, or in
				  their absence or disability, the interim successor as established pursuant to
				  Section 7 of the Emergency Interim Executive Succession Act [5 ILCS 275
				  ].
"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 substance
				  or CERCLA hazardous substance.
"Reportable quantity" means, for any CERCLA hazardous
				  substance, the reportable quantity established in Table 302.4 of 40 CFR 302 for
				  such substance, or, for any other substance, one pound.
"State Emergency Response Commission" or "SERC" means the
				  Illinois Emergency Management Agency as appointed by the Governor in accordance
				  with Section 301 of the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 to
				  carry out all State responsibilities required by that Act.
"Threshold planning quantity" means, for a substance listed
				  in Appendices A and B of 40 CFR 355, the quantity listed in the column
				  "threshold planning quantity" for that substance.
"TPQ" means threshold planning quantity.
"USEPA" means the United States Environmental Protection
				  Agency.