§ 13-61. Definitions.

The following terms are defined as follows:

Costs shall mean all expenses incurred by the city or any public agency assisting the city, as a result of any removal or remedial action.

Engine company shall mean one (1) fire fighting apparatus engine and a three-man fire fighting crew.

Facility shall mean any building, structure, installation, equipment, pipe or pipe line, including, but not limited to, any pipe into a sewer or publicly-owned treatment works, well, pond, lagoon, impoundment, ditch, landfill, storage container, tank, motor vehicle.

Hazardous materials shall have that meaning set forth in 430 ILCS 55/3(f).

Mutual aid shall mean any action taken by the city or any other public agency, pursuant to an intergovernmental agreement, including, but not limited to any agreement that is part of the mutual aid box alarm system.

Person shall mean any individual, business, firm, partnership, corporation, association, trust, estate, joint venture, or other legal entity, or their legal representative, each of their assign.

Release shall mean any spill, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, escaping, emptying, discharging, injecting, leaching, dumping or disposing of hazardous material into or on any land, air, water, well, stream, sewer or pipe so that such hazardous material or any constituent thereof may enter the environment.

Remedial action shall have that meaning set forth in 430 ILCS 55/3(a) and shall further mean any action consistent with permanent remedy taken instead or, or in addition to, removal actions in the event of a release or threatened release of a hazardous material into the environment, to prevent or minimize the releases of hazardous materials so that they do not migrate to cause a substantial present or potential hazard to human health, property, or environment. The term includes, but is not limited to, such actions at the location of the release as storage, isolation, confinement, perimeter protection using dikes, trenches or ditches, clay cover, neutralization, cleanup of released diversion, destruction, segregation of reactive wastes, repair or replacement of leaking containers collection of leachate and runoff, on-site treatment or incineration, provision of alternate water supplies and any monitoring reasonably required to assure that such actions protect the public health and welfare and the environment.

Removal shall mean any cleanup or removal of released hazardous materials from the environment, such actions as may be necessary or appropriate to monitor, assess and evaluate the release or threat of release of hazardous materials, the disposal of removed material or the taking of such action as may be necessary to prevent, minimize or mitigate damage to the public health or welfare of an environment. The term includes, but is not limited to, security, fencing, provision of alternative water supplies and temporary evacuation of threatened individuals.

Response shall have that meaning set forth in 430 ILCS 55/3(a) and shall further mean any removal or remedial action.

(Ord. No. 17-2005, § I, 3-17-2005)