Or. Admin. R. 340-170-0010 - Definitions
As used in these rules:
(1) "Commission " means the Environmental
Quality Commission .
(2) "Corrective
Action " means remedial action taken to protect the present or future public
health, safety, welfare, or the environment from a release of a regulated
substance. "Corrective action " includes but is not limited to:
(a) The prevention, elimination, removal,
abatement, control, minimization, investigation , assessment, evaluation or
monitoring of a hazard or potential hazard or threat, including migration of a
regulated substance; or
(b)
Transportation, storage, treatment or disposal of a regulated substance or
contaminated material from a site.
(3) "Department " means the Department of
Environmental Quality.
(4)
"Director " means the Director of the Department of Environmental
Quality.
(5) "Facility " means any
one or combination of underground storage tanks and underground pipes connected
to the tanks, used to contain an accumulation of motor fuel, including gasoline
or diesel oil, that are located at one contiguous geographical site.
(6) "Firm " means any business, including but
not limited to corporations, limited partnerships, and sole proprietorships,
engaged in the performance of tank services.
(7) "Grant " means reimbursement for costs
incurred for UST tightness testing and soil assessment at a facility with
underground storage tanks containing motor fuel.
(8) "Investigation " means monitoring,
surveying, testing or other information gathering.
(9) "Licensed " means that a firm or an
individual with supervisory responsibility for the performance of tank services
has met the Department 's experience and qualification requirements to offer or
perform services related to underground storage tanks and has been issued a
license by the Department to perform those services.
(10) "Motor Fuel " means a petroleum or a
petroleum-based substance that is a motor gasoline, aviation gasoline, No. 1 or
2 diesel fuel, or any grade of gasohol, and is typically used in the operation
of a motor engine.
(11) "Owner "
means the owner of an underground storage tank.
(12) "Permittee " means the owner or a person
designated by the owner who is in control of or has responsibility for the
daily operation or daily maintenance of an underground storage tank under a
permit issued pursuant to these rules.
(13) "Property Owner " means the legal owner
of the property where the underground storage tank resides.
(14) "Release " means the discharge, deposit,
injection, dumping, spilling, emitting, leaking or placing of a regulated
substance from an underground storage tank into the air or into or on land or
the waters of the state, other than as authorized by a permit issued under
state or federal law.
(15) "Soil
Assessment " means evaluating the soil adjacent to the UST system for
contamination from motor fuel .
(16)
"Soil Remediation " means those corrective actions taken to excavate, remove,
treat or dispose of soil contaminated with motor fuel so as to bring a site
containing underground storage tanks into compliance with the Department 's
Cleanup Rules for Leaking Petroleum UST System, OAR Chapter 340, Division 122.
(17) "Supervisor " means a licensed individual
operating alone or employed by a contractor and charged with the responsibility
to direct and oversee the performance of tank services at a underground storage
tank facility .
(18) "Tank Services "
include but are not limited to tank installation, decommissioning,
retrofitting, testing, and inspection.
(19) "Tank Services Provider" is an
individual or firm registered and, if required, licensed to offer or perform
tank services on regulated underground storage tanks in Oregon.
(20) "Tightness Testing " means a procedure
for testing the ability of a tank system to prevent an inadvertent release of
any stored substance into the environment (or, in the case of an underground
storage tank system, intrusion of groundwater into a tank system).
(21) "Underground Storage Tank " or "UST"
means an underground storage tank as defined in OAR Chapter 340, Division
150.
Notes
Stat. Auth.: ORS 466.706 -ORS 466.995
Stats. Implemented:ORS 466.706 & OL 1989, Ch. 1071
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