(415 ILCS 5/3.395) (was 415 ILCS 5/3.33)
Sec. 3.395.
Release.
"Release" means any spilling, leaking,
pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, discharging, injecting, escaping,
leaching, dumping, or disposing into the environment, but excludes (a) any
release which results in exposure to persons solely within a workplace, with
respect to a claim which such persons may assert against the employer of such
persons; (b) emissions from the engine exhaust of a motor vehicle, rolling
stock, aircraft, vessel, or pipeline pumping station engine; (c) release of
source, byproduct, or special nuclear material from a nuclear incident, as
those terms are defined in the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, if such release
is subject to requirements with respect to financial protection established
by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission under Section 170 of such Act; and (d)
the normal application of fertilizer.
(Source: P.A. 92-574, eff. 6-26-02.)
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