Sec. 329. DEFINITIONS
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## SEC. 329 DEFINITIONS For purposes of this title— ####
(1)Administrator The term “**Administrator**” means the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. ####
(2)Environment The term “**environment**” includes water, air, and land and the interrelationship which exists among and between water, air, and land and all living things. ####
(3)Extremely hazardous substance The term “**extremely hazardous substance**” means a substance on the list described in section 302(a)(2). ####
(4)Facility The term “**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 purposes of section 304, the term includes motor vehicles, rolling stock, and aircraft. ####
(5)Hazardous chemical The term “**hazardous chemical**” has the meaning given such term by section 311(e). ####
(6)Material safety data sheet The term “**material safety data sheet**” means the sheet required to be developed under section 1901.1200(g) of title 29 of the Code of Federal Regulations, as that section may be amended from time to time. ####
(7)Person The term “**person**” means any individual, trust, firm, joint stock company, corporation (including a government corporation), partnership, association, State, municipality, commission, political subdivision of a State, or interstate body. ####
(8)Release The term “**release**” means 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 chemical, extremely hazardous substance, or toxic chemical. ####
(9)State The term “**State**” means any State of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the United States Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, and any other territory or possession over which the United States has jurisdiction. ####
(10)Toxic chemical The term “**toxic chemical**” means a substance on the list described in section 313(c). **[**[42 U.S.C. 11049](/us/usc/t42/s11049)**]**
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