Wis. Admin. Code Department of Military Affairs [Emergency Management] § WEM 3.02 - Definitions
In this chapter:
(1)
"Division" means the division of emergency management.
(2) "EPA" means the United States
environmental protection agency
(3)
"Facility" has the meaning given in s.
323.60(1)
(c), Stats.
(4) "Full time employee" means 2,000 hours
per year of full-time equivalent employment.
(5) "Import" means to cause a chemical to be
imported into the customs territory of the United States. For purposes of this
definition, "to cause" means to intend that the chemical be imported and to
control the identity of the imported chemical and the amount to be
imported.
(6) "Manufacture" means
any of the following:
(a) To produce, prepare,
import or compound a toxic chemical.
(b) To produce a toxic chemical
coincidentally during the manufacture, processing, use, or disposal of another
chemical or mixture of chemicals, including a toxic chemical that is separated
from that other chemical or mixture of chemicals as a by-product, and toxic
chemical that remains in that other chemical or mixture of chemicals as an
impurity.
(7) "Otherwise
use" or "use" means any use of a toxic chemical that is not covered by the
terms "manufacture" or "process" and includes use of a toxic chemical contained
in a mixture or trade name product. Relabeling or redistributing a container of
a toxic chemical where no repackaging of the toxic chemical occurs does not
constitute use of the toxic chemical.
(8) "Private agency" has the meaning given in
s.
323.60(1)
(h), Stats.
(9)
(a)
"Process" means the preparation of a toxic chemical, after its manufacture, for
distribution in commerce:
1. In the same form
or physical state as, or in a different form or physical state from, that in
which it was received by the person so preparing such substance, or
2. As part of an article or mixture
containing the toxic chemical or trade name product.
(b) "Process" does not include the relabeling
or redistribution of a container of a toxic chemical where no repackaging of
the toxic chemical occurs.
(10) "Public agency" has the meaning given in
s.
323.60(1)
(i), Stats.
(11) "Threshold quantity" has the meaning
given in s.
323.60(1)
(j), Stats.
(12) "Toxic chemical" has the meaning given
in s.
323.60(1)
(k), Stats.
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