11 CSR 10-11.220 - Definitions
PURPOSE: This rule provides definitions for terms used in 11 CSR 10.
(1)
Administrator-the administrator of the United States Environmental Protection
Agency.
(2) Business-each
corporation as defined under Chapter 351, RSMo; each business required to
register under Chapter 417, RSMo; each person engaged in or transacting
business in Missouri; each department of state government; and each political
subdivision of the state.
(3)
Commission-the Missouri Emergency Response Commission (MERC) established under
section
292.602,
RSMo.
(4) Covered facility-any
facility required to report to the commission under the state or federal
Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act.
(5) Department-the Department of Public
Safety.
(6) Director-director of
the Department of Public Safety.
(7) Emergency Planning and Community
Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA)-the federal Emergency Planning and Community
Right-to-Know Act of 1986 ( P.L. 99-499 ) and all rules promulgated under the
federal Act or the Missouri EPCRA (sections 292.600-292.625, RSMo). If not
specified as to the federal or state Act, it refers to both.
(8) Employer-a person engaged in business and
including the state and any political subdivision.
(9) Extremely hazardous substance-a substance
listed under 40 CFR part 355 by the administrator.
(10) Facility-all buildings, equipment,
structures and other stationary items that are located on a single site or on
contiguous or adjacent sites and that are owned or operated by the same person
(or by any person which controls, is controlled by or under common control with
that person). For purposes of emergency release notification, the term includes
motor vehicles, rolling stock and aircraft.
(11) Family farm-an unincorporated farming
unit owned or leased by one (1) or more persons residing on the farm or
actively engaged in farming.
(12)
Form R or toxic release inventory-the report form as developed by the
administrator to report toxic emissions under Section 313 of the
EPCRA.
(13) Hazard category-any of
the following:
(A) "Immediate (acute) health
hazard," including "highly toxic," "toxic," "irritant," "sensitizer,"
"corrosive," (as defined under Section 1910.1200 of Title 29 of the
Code of Federal Regulations) and other hazardous chemicals
that cause an adverse effect to a target organ and which effect usually occurs
rapidly as a result of short-term exposure and is of short duration;
(B) "Delayed (chronic) health hazard,"
including "carcinogens" (as defined under Section 1910.1200 of Title 29 of the
Code of Federal Regulations) and other hazardous chemicals
that cause an adverse effect to a target organ and which effect generally
occurs as a result of long-term exposure and is of long duration;
(C) "Fire hazard," including "flammable,"
"combustible liquid," "pyrophoric" and "oxidizer" (as defined under Section
1910.1200 of Title 29 of the Code of Federal
Regulations);
(D) "Sudden
release of pressure," including "explosive" and "compressed gas" (as defined
under Section 1910.1200 of Title 29 of the Code of Federal
Regulations); and
(E)
"Reactive," including "unstable reactive," "organic peroxide" and "water
reactive" (as defined under Section 1910.1200 of Title 29 of the Code
of Federal Regulations).
(14) Hazardous chemical-any hazardous
chemical as defined under Section 1910.1200(c) of Title 29 of the Code
of Federal Regulations, that term does not include the following
substances:
(A) Any food, food additive,
color additive, drug or cosmetic regulated by the Food and Drug
Administration;
(B) 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;
(C) Any substance to the extent it is used
for personal, family or household purposes, or is present in the same form and
concentration as a product packaged for distribution and use by the general
public;
(D) Any substance to the
extent it is used in a research laboratory or a hospital or other medical
facility under the direct supervision of a technically qualified individual;
or
(E) Any substance to the extent
it is used in routine agricultural operations or is a fertilizer held for sale
by a retailer to the ultimate customer.
(15) Hazardous Substance-any extremely
hazardous substance listed in 40 CFR part 355; any hazardous chemical as
defined in section (14); any pesticide for which a registration has been
canceled or suspended under the provisions of section
263.300, RSMo, or the
federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act of 1972 ( P.L. 92-516
).
(16) Local Emergency Planning
Committee (LEPC) chair-that person elected by the membership of the LEPC to
call and chair LEPC meetings, to assign tasks, to develop LEPC subcommittees
and to oversee the functioning of the LEPC. The LEPC chair and LEPC coordinator
may be the same person.
(17) LEPC
coordinator-a staff person, usually from local government, a regional planning
council or a volunteer that maintains the day-to-day operations of the LEPC.
Duties might include information management, facility compliance activities,
hazardous materials planning, fund management, providing the functions of the
community emergency coordinator and various other duties necessary for an LEPC
to function. The LEPC coordinator and LEPC chair may be the same
person.
(18) LEPC or committee-the
people appointed by the MERC for a local emergency planning district for the
purpose of improving hazardous chemical safety and preparedness.
(19) Local Emergency Planning District (LEPD)
or district-a geographical area in Missouri designated by MERC for the purpose
of hazardous chemical safety and planning.
(20) Local gas distribution system-a gas
distribution system regulated by the Public Service Commission (PSC) that
provides natural gas to the end use consumers of that gas. It does not include
any pipeline, feeder line or transmission line, as defined by the PSC, that
transports natural gas to other distribution systems or to other persons for
subsequent distribution.
(21) Local
government-any county, township, municipal corporation, school district or
other governmental body of equivalent rank.
(22) Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS)- the
sheet required to be developed under Section 1910.1200(g) of Title 29 of the
Code of Federal Regulations.
(23) Missouri Emergency Response Commission
(MERC) or commission-The commission established under section
292.602,
RSMo.
(24) Missouri Tier Two Form
(see
11
CSR 10-11.240 )-the emergency and hazardous chemical
inventory form developed by the MERC.
(25) Person-any individual, partnership,
copartnership, firm, company, public or private corporation, association, joint
stock company, trust, estate, political subdivision or any agency, board,
department or bureau of the state or federal government or any other legal
entity which is recognized by law as the subject of rights and
duties.
(26) Petroleum retail
facility-a facility where more than fifty percent (50%) of the hazardous
material revenues are from the retail sale and delivery of gasoline, diesel
fuel and propane to the general public at the facility.
(27) Petroleum-related employer-the person,
firm or corporation earns more than fifty percent (50%) of its hazardous
chemical revenues from the sale, delivery or transport of petroleum
products.
(28) Release-any
threatened or real emission, discharge, spillage, leakage, pumping, pouring,
emptying or dumping of a substance into or onto the land, air or waters of the
state unless done in compliance with the conditions of a federal or state
permit, unless the substance is confined and is expected to stay confined to
property owned, leased or otherwise controlled by the person having control
over the substance or unless, in the case of pesticides, application is done in
accordance with the product label.
(29) Threshold planning quantity-is the
quantity of an extremely hazardous substance established by the administrator
under 40 CFR part 355 for emergency planning purposes.
(30) Transportation fee-a fee paid to the
United States Department of Transportation under Section 117A(h) of the
Hazardous Materials Transportation Act (
P.L.
101-615 ).
(31) Waters of the state-all rivers, streams,
lakes and other bodies of surface and subsurface water lying within or forming
a part of the boundaries of the state which are not entirely confined and
located completely upon lands owned, leased or otherwise controlled by a single
person or by two (2) or more persons jointly or as tenants in common and
include waters of the United States lying within the state.
Notes
*Original authority: 292.613, RSMo 1988, amended 1993, 1995.
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