Pennsylvania Code › Title 25 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › Part I - Department of Environmental Protection › Subpart D - Environmental Health and Safety › Article VI - General Health and Safety › Chapter 250 - ADMINISTRATION OF LAND RECYCLING PROGRAM › Subchapter A - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 250.1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
In addition to the words and terms defined in the act,
						  the following words and terms, when used in this chapter, have the following
						  meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
ASTM
-The American Society for Testing
						  and Materials.
Act
-The Land Recycling and
						  Environmental Remediation Standards Act (35 P. S.
						  §§
													6026.101-6026.909).
Agricultural purposes
-Commercial
						  agricultural activities, including, but not limited to, irrigation of crops,
						  watering of livestock, and food production, processing or packaging.
Anisotropy
-The variability of a
						  physical property based on direction, for example, variation in permeability in
						  relation to direction of groundwater flow.
Community water system
-As defined in
						  the Pennsylvania Safe Drinking Water Act (35 P.S. §§
													721.1-721.17), a public water system, which
						  serves at least 15 service connections used by year-round residents or
						  regularly serves at least 25 year-round residents.
EQL-Estimated quantitation limit
-The
						  lowest concentration that can be reliably achieved within specified limits of
						  precision and accuracy during routine laboratory operating conditions.
Enterprise zone
-An area specially
						  designated as an enterprise zone under requirements determined by the
						  Department of Community and Economic Development.
Environmental covenant
-A servitude, as
						  set forth in a document prepared under 27 Pa.C.S. Chapter 65 (relating to
						  Uniform Environmental Covenants Act), arising under an environmental response
						  project which imposes activity and use limitations.
Environmental protection
						  acts
-Includes:
(i) The Clean
						Streams Law (35 P.S. §§
													691.1-691.1001).
(ii) The Municipal Waste Planning, Recycling
						and Waste Reduction Act (53 P.S. §§
													4001.101-4001.1904).
(iii) The Hazardous Sites Cleanup Act
						(35
						P.S. §§
													6020.101-6020.1305).
(iv) The Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal
						Act (35 P.S. §§
													7130.101-7130.906).
(v) The act of July 13, 1988 (35 P.S.
						§§
													6019.1-6019.6), known as the
						Infectious and Chemotherapeutic Waste Disposal Law.
(vi) The Air Pollution Control Act
						(35
						P.S. §§
													4001-4015).
(vii) The Surface Mining Conservation and
						Reclamation Act (52 P.S. §§
													1396.1-1396.31).
(viii) The Noncoal Surface Mining
						Conservation and Reclamation Act (35 P.S. §§
													3301-3326).
(ix) The Dam Safety and Encroachments Act
						(32
						P.S. §§
													693.1-693.27).
(x) The Solid Waste Management Act
						(35
						P.S. §§
													6018.101-6018.1003).
(xi) Other State or Federal statutes relating
						to environmental protection or the protection of public health.
Habitats of concern
-A habitat defined
						  as one of the following:
(i) Typical
						wetlands with identifiable function and value, except for exceptional value
						wetlands as defined in §
												105.17 (relating to
						wetlands).
(ii) Breeding areas for
						species of concern.
(iii) Migratory
						stopover areas for species of concern.
(iv) Wintering areas for species of
						concern.
(v) Habitat for State
						endangered plant and animal species.
(vi) Federal, State and local parks and
						wilderness areas, and areas designated as wild, scenic or
						recreational.
(vii) Areas otherwise
						designated as critical or of concern by the Game Commission, the Fish and Boat
						Commission or the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.
Heterogeneity
-Nonhomogeneous
						  structure, composition and physical properties.
MCL
-Maximum contaminant level.
MDL-Method detection limit
-The
						  instrument-specific minimum measured concentration of a substance that can be
						  reported with 99% confidence to be distinguishable from the method blank
						  result.
MSC
-Medium-specific
						  concentration.
NIR
-Notice of Intent to
						  Remediate.
NPDES-National Pollutant Discharge Elimination
						  System
-The National system for the issuance of permits under section
						  402 of the Federal Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C.A. §
													1342) including
						  a state or interstate program which has been approved in whole or in part by
						  the EPA.
PQL-Practical quantitation limit
-The
						  lowest limit that can be reliably achieved within specified limits of precision
						  and accuracy under routine laboratory conditions for a specified matrix and
						  based on quantitation, precision and accuracy, normal operation of a laboratory
						  and the practical need in a compliance-monitoring program to have a sufficient
						  number of laboratories available to conduct the analyses.
Property
-A parcel of land defined by
						  the metes and bounds set forth in the deed for that land.
Regulated discharge
-A point or
						  nonpoint source discharge subject to the permit or approval requirements of
						  Chapters 91-96, 97 (reserved) and 102-105 and any diffuse surface or
						  groundwater discharge to surface waters which has the potential to cause an
						  exceedance of the water quality standards in Chapter 93 (relating to water
						  quality standards).
Risk assessment
-A process to quantify
						  the risk posed by exposure of a human or ecological receptor to regulated
						  substances. The term includes baseline risk assessment, development of
						  site-specific standards and risk assessment of the remedial
						  alternatives.
SIA-special industrial area
-Property
						  where there is no financially viable responsible person to perform remediation
						  or property located within an enterprise zone, and where the property was used
						  for industrial activity.
Secondary contaminants
-A regulated
						  substance for which a secondary MCL exists, and no lifetime health advisory
						  level exists.
Site
-The extent of contamination
						  originating within the property boundaries and all areas in close proximity to
						  the contamination necessary for the implementation of remediation activities to
						  be conducted under the act.
Species of concern
-Species designated
						  as of special concern, rare, endangered, threatened or candidate by the Game
						  Commission, the Fish and Boat Commission or the Department of Conservation and
						  Natural Resources, if the species has not also been designated threatened or
						  endangered by the Federal government.
TF
-Transfer factor.
Volatile compound
-A chemical compound
						  with either a boiling point less than 200° centigrade at 1 atmosphere or a
						  Henry's law constant greater than or equal to 1 x
						  10-5 atm-m3/mol and a
						  molecular weight less than 200 g/mol, where:
atm = standard atmosphere
m3 = cubic meter
mol = mole
g = gram
g/mol = molar mass
The provisions of this §
														250.1 amended under sections
							 104(a) and 303(a) of the Land Recycling and Environmental Remediation Standards
							 Act (35 P.S. §§
															6026.104(a) and
							 6026.303(a)); and section
							 1920-A of The Administrative Code of 1929 (71 P.S. §
															510-20).