Section 430.20  Definitions

            "Accident" means a release that occurs unintentionally, for example, as a result of malfunctioning equipment or an Act of God.

            "CERCLA" means the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. 9601, et seq.).

            "Emergency Planning District" means a district designated by the SERC in accordance with Section 301(b) of the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 (SARA), Title III (42 U.S.C. 11001(b)).

            "Environment" means water, air and land and the interrelationship which exists among and between water, air and land and all living things.

            "Etiologic Agent" means disease-causing agent.

            "Extremely Hazardous Substance" means any substance listed in Appendix A of 40 CFR 355, dated April 22, 1987.  This incorporation does not include any later amendments or editions.

            "Evacuation" means the withdrawal of any member of the general public from an area threatened by exposure to a hazardous material.

            "Facility" means all buildings, equipment, structures, and other stationary items which are located on a single site or on contiguous or adjacent sites and which are owned or operated by the same person (or by any person which controls, is controlled by, or under common control with, such person). For the purposes of this Part, the term includes motor vehicles, rolling stock and aircraft.

            "General Public" means any individual not employed by, or authorized to be within the area under the control of, the person responsible for the hazardous material; the exclusion of employees from this definition applies only during actual hours of employment.

            "Hazardous Material" means a substance or material which is designated a hazardous material pursuant to the "Hazardous Materials Transportation Act" (49 U.S.C.A. 1801 et seq.).

            "Hazardous Substance" means any substance listed in Table 302.4 of 40 CFR 302, dated July 1, 1987.  This incorporation does not include any later amendments or editions.

            "IESDA" means the Illinois Emergency Services and Disaster Agency.

            "Incident" means a release that occurs intentionally, for example, as a result of sabotage or a permit violation, or intentionally disposing of hazardous materials in violation of federal or state statutes.

            "Local Emergency Agency" means police, fire, civil defense, or any other local government agency or department charged with the responsibility of responding to an accident involving a hazardous material.

            "Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC)" means the committee appointed by the SERC in accordance with Section 301(c) of the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 (SARA), Title III.

            "Oil" means oil of any kind or in any form, including, but not limited to, petroleum, fuel oil, sludge, oil refuse, oil mixed with wastes other than dredged spoil, and generally including and of a large class of oily, combustible substances which are liquid, or easily liquifiable on warming, and soluble in ether but not in water.

            "Release" means any spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, discharging, injecting, escaping, leaching, dumping, or disposing into the environment (including the abandonment or discharging of barrels, containers, and other closed receptacles).  For the purposes of this Part 430, "Release" includes the loss of containment of a reportable hazardous substance which is not wholly contained within a building or structure inside plant or facility boundaries.

            "Reportable Quantity" means any hazardous material that equals or exceeds the reportable quantity listed in Appendix A of 40 CFR 355, for any extremely hazardous substance, and that equals or exceeds the reportable quantity listed in Table 302.4 of 40 CFR 302 dated July 1, 1987.  This incorporation includes no later amendments or editions.

            "Responsible Party" means the individual, partnership, corporation or association in control of any reportable hazardous material or hazardous substance at the time of an accident or incident involving that reportable hazardous substance.

            "State Emergency Response Commission (SERC)" means the Illinois Emergency Services and Disaster Agency as appointed by the Governor in accordance with Section 301 of the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 (42 U.S.C. 11001 et seq.) to carry out all state responsibilities required by this Act.