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flammable and non-flammable gases, corrosives, oxidizers, organic peroxides,
<br /> flammable solids, radioactive materials, etiological agents. Hazardous Materials
<br /> also includes hazardous substances and hazardous wastes.
<br /> (g) Hazardous Substances. Any substance designated under the Clean Water
<br /> Act and Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, Liability Act
<br /> (CERCLA) (42 USC Sec. 9601 et• sea•), as now or hereafter amended, as posing
<br /> a threat to the waterways and the environment when released.
<br /> (h) Hazardous Waste. Discarded material under Resource Conservation and
<br /> Recovery Act(RCRA) (42 USC Sec. 6901 et• sea.) regulated by the United States
<br /> Environmental Protection Agency because of public health and safety concerns.
<br /> (i) Incident defined. A fire, a release or threatened release of hazardous materials or
<br /> environmentally damaging substances.
<br /> (j) Person. Any individual,business, firm,partnership, corporation, association,
<br /> trust, estate,joint venture or other legal entity, or their legal representative or agent.
<br /> (k) Placarded Vehicle. A vehicle,that when transporting hazardous materials, is
<br /> required by the United States Department of Transportation to be marked with
<br /> placards to warn emergency responders of the hazardous cargo, pursuant to the
<br /> Hazardous Materials Transportation Act,49 USC Sec. 1801 et• sea.
<br /> (1) Release. Any spilling, leaking,pumping, pouring, emitting escaping,
<br /> emptying, discharging, injecting, leaching, dumping, disposing, exploding or
<br /> burning of hazardous materials or environmentally damaging substances into or
<br /> on any land, air, water, well, stream, sewer, or pipe such that hazardous materials
<br /> or any constituent or environmentally damaging substances thereof,that may
<br /> enter the environment.
<br /> (m) Remedial Action. Any action consistent with a permanent remedy of a release
<br /> or threatened release of hazardous materials or environmentally damaging substances
<br /> into the environment. The term includes, but is not limited to actions at the location
<br /> of a release such as diking, damming, trenching, covering, diverting, foaming,
<br /> neutralizing, isolating, burning, closing, plugging, moving,repairing, transferring,
<br /> recycling, etc. The actions required may also include the evacuation, sheltering or
<br /> feeding of people provision of alternative water supplies and other activities to protect
<br /> the public's health and welfare and the environment.
<br /> (n) Responsible Partv or Parties. The Responsible party includes the following:
<br /> (1) The owner and operator of a facility or vessel from which there is a fire
<br /> or release or threatened release of hazardous materials or environmentally
<br /> damaging substances;
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