39E.020 Definitions for chapter.

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As used in this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise:

(1)"Commission" means the Kentucky Emergency Response Commission and those

persons appointed by the Governor to implement provisions of Title III, Pub. L. No.

99-499 and this chapter.

(2)"Local emergency planning committee," hereafter referred to as the "local

committee," means those persons appointed by the commission to assist in the

implementation of Title III, Pub. L. No. 99-499 and this chapter.

(3)"Release" means, but is not limited to, any spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring,

emitting, emptying, discharging, injecting, escaping, leaching, dumping, or

disposing into the environment, including the abandonment or discarding of barrels,

containers and other closed receptacles, of any hazardous substance.

(4)"Reportable quantity" means an amount of hazardous substances released which

requires notification to local and state warning points.

(5)"Hazardous substance" means a substance specified by Title III, Pub. L. No. 99-499,

subsequent federal regulations, this chapter, and subsequent administrative

regulations as requiring notification if released or if stored, manufactured, or used.

(6)"Warning point" means that location, operated by state or local government, and

identified by the state commission or local committee, and which is continuously

staffed, and which has the capability or responsibility to contact governmental

emergency response organizations and, if capability exists, to warn the public of

hazards which may affect them.

(7)"Emergency response organization" means a unit of local government or a unit

authorized by local government which may be called to make a response because of

a release of a hazardous substance, and whose responsibilities are included in plans

developed under this chapter.

(8)"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, and which manufactures,

stores, or uses substances covered under this chapter. For purposes of KRS

39E.190, the term includes motor vehicles, rolling stock, and aircraft.