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Cost defined . All expenses incurred by the City for any fire
<br /> fighting, medical treatment, remedial, removal, or clean-up activities involving
<br /> a hazardous materials or environmentally damaging substances release,
<br /> threatened release or fire. Costs include but are not limited to contractual
<br /> services, wages, salaries, damaged or destroyed equipment, spill control
<br /> supplies, protective clothing, fire fighting or vapor suppressing foam, medical
<br /> care and medical supplies. Costs include expenses incurred by the City for the
<br /> supervision and verification of remedial and clean-up activities. Costs shall
<br /> not include the expense of actual fire suppression services and emergency
<br /> medical service which are normally or usually provided to the public by the
<br /> Fire Department, except as those costs directly relate to hazardous materials or
<br /> environmentally damaging substances, such as remedial activities by the Fire
<br /> Department Hazardous Material Response Team and fire fighting foam
<br /> operations at petroleum, alcohol, organic oils, flammable or combustible liquid
<br /> spills.
<br /> (d,) Environmentally damaging 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) Facility. 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 forms
<br /> that may pose an unreasonable risk to health, safety or property when stored,
<br /> transported or used in commerce. Such materials include but are not limited
<br /> to: explosives, blasting agents, poisons, flammable and combustible liquids,
<br /> flammable and non-flammable gases, corrosives, oxidizers, organic peroxides,
<br /> flammable solids, radioactive materials, etiological agents. Hazardous
<br /> Materials also includes hazardous substances and hazardous 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.
<br /> Lh,) Hazardous Waste. Discarded material under Resource
<br /> Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) (42 USC Sec. 6901 et. seg.)
<br /> regulated by the United States Environmental Protection Agency because of
<br /> public health and safety concerns.
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