Title 42, The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-110

§11049 Definitions

Title 42 › CHAPTER 116 — EMERGENCY PLANNING AND COMMUNITY RIGHT-TO-KNOW › SUBCHAPTER III — GENERAL PROVISIONS › § 11049

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

Defines key words used in this chapter. Administrator is the head of the Environmental Protection Agency. Environment means water, air, land, and how they interact with living things. Extremely hazardous substance and toxic chemical point to the lists in sections 11002(a)(2) and 11023(c). Facility means all buildings, equipment, structures, and other fixed items on one site or next to it that are owned or run by the same person; for section 11004 it also includes motor vehicles, rolling stock, and aircraft. Hazardous chemical refers to section 11021(e). Material safety data sheet is the form required by 29 C.F.R. 1910.1200(g). Person covers people, companies, governments, and similar legal entities. Release means any way such a chemical gets into the environment, including dumping or abandoning containers. State lists U.S. states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, and other U.S. territories and possessions.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §11049

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For purposes of this chapter—

(1)Administrator (2) Environment

The term “Administrator” means the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.

(3)Extremely hazardous substance

The term “extremely hazardous substance” means a substance on the list described in section 11002(a)(2) of this title.

(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 11004 of this title, the term includes motor vehicles, rolling stock, and aircraft.

(5)Hazardous chemical

The term “hazardous chemical” has the meaning given such term by section 11021(e) of this title.

(6)Material safety data sheet

The term “material safety data sheet” means the sheet required to be developed under section 1910.1200(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 11023(c) of this title.

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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 11049

Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110