§ 16.110.020. Definitions.

The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this chapter, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

Acute hazardous waste means a waste listed in 40 CFR 261.31, 261.32 or 261.33(e), as amended.

Consumer commodity means a hazardous material that is packaged and distributed in a form intended or suitable for retail sale for use by an individual, as defined in 49 CFR.

Extremely hazardous substance means a substance listed in the appendices to 40 CFR 355.

Facility means any land, building, equipment, structure, stationary item or combination thereof, not a transshipment facility, that is located on a single site or on contiguous or adjacent sites owned, leased, operated or otherwise controlled by the same person, other than a residential dwelling, as defined in the building code, as amended, as provided in title 23.

Handles means disposes of, generates, processes, stores, treats or uses.

Hazard category means the five physical or health classes defined in 40 CFR 370.2.

Hazard class means the class of hazardous materials authorized for transportation by 49 CFR subchapter C.

Hazardous chemical means any hazardous chemical as defined under 29 CFR 19100.1200(c).

Hazardous material means a material subject to 49 CFR subchapter C, including those:

1.

Defined at 49 CFR 171.8 or 171.11, as amended; or

2.

Listed in the hazardous materials table at 49 CFR 172.101 or 172.102, as amended, for any transportation mode;

and any other substance determined by the state department of public safety, division of fire prevention, to pose a significant health and safety hazard. The term "hazardous material" does not include food, drugs, alcoholic beverages, cosmetics, tobacco or tobacco products intended for personal consumption.

Hazardous waste means a waste as defined in 40 CFR 261, as amended.

Person means the owner, operator or manager of any entity or any other individual in charge handling hazardous materials, hazardous chemicals or hazardous wastes, and includes but is not limited to individuals, trusts, corporations (including government corporations), partnerships, joint ventures, or a state or political subdivision thereof.

Tier II inventory form means the hazardous chemical inventory form set forth in 40 CFR 370.41, as amended.

Threshold planning quantity means the quantity for an extremely hazardous substance defined in 40 CFR 355, as amended.

Transshipment facility means any land, building, equipment, structure, stationary item or combination thereof that is located on a single site or on contiguous or adjacent sites owned, leased, operated or otherwise controlled by the same person whose principal business consists of the handling of materials including handling hazardous materials or hazardous wastes while such materials remain in the stream of interstate, intrastate or international commerce.

Cross reference

Definitions and rules of construction generally, § 1.05.020.