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bb) Clean-up Contractor. A person, company or corporation that
<br /> performs clean-up activities at hazardous materials release sites.
<br /> (c) Cost defined . All expenses incurred by the City for any fire
<br /> fighting, medical treatment, remedial, removal, or clean-up activities
<br /> involving a hazardous materials or environmentally damaging substances
<br /> release, threatened release or fire. Costs include but are not limited to
<br /> contractual services, wages, salaries, damaged or destroyed equipment, spill
<br /> control supplies, protective clothing, fire fighting or vapor suppressing foam,
<br /> medical care and medical supplies. Costs include expenses incurred by the City
<br /> for the supervision and verification of remedial and clean-up activities.
<br /> Costs shall not include the expense of actual fire suppression services and
<br /> emergency medical service which are normally or usually provided to the
<br /> public by the Fire Department, except as those costs directly relate to hazardous
<br /> materials or environmentally damaging substances, such as remedial activities
<br /> by the Fire Department Hazardous Material Response Team and fire
<br /> fighting foam operations at petroleum, alcohol, organic oils, flammable or
<br /> combustible liquid spills.
<br /> Environmentallyging substances. Any substance spilled or
<br /> released into the environment in sufficient quantity so as to cause actual or
<br /> potential human health problems if not dealt with by remedial action, or to
<br /> contaminate air,land or water.
<br /> (e) Facilily. Any building, structure, installation, equipment, pipe or
<br /> pipeline including but not limited to any pit, pond, lagoon, impoundment,
<br /> ditch, landfill, storage container,motor vehicle,rolling stock or air craft or any
<br /> site where hazardous materials or environmentally damaging substances have
<br /> been deposited, stored, disposed of,placed or otherwise came to be located.
<br /> (f Hazardous Materials. Substances or materials in quantity and
<br /> forms that may pose an unreasonable risk to health, safety or property when
<br /> stored, transported or used in commerce. Such materials include but are not
<br /> limited to: explosives, blasting agents, poisons, flammable and combustible
<br /> liquids, flammable and non-flammable gases, corrosives, oxidizers, organic
<br /> peroxides, flammable solids, radioactive materials, etiological agents.
<br /> Hazardous Materials also includes hazardous substances and hazardous
<br /> wastes.
<br /> W Hazardous Substances. Any substance designated under the Clean
<br /> Water Act and Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation,
<br /> Liability Act (CERCLA) (42 USC Sec. 9601 et. se as now or hereafter
<br /> amended, as posing a threat to the waterways and the environment when
<br /> released.
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