PUBLIC LAW 96-510—DEC. 11, 1980 Public Law 96- -510 96th Congress
94 STAT. 2767
An Act To provide for liability, compensation, cleanup, and emergency response for hazardous substances released into the environment and the cleanup of inactive hazardous waste disposal sites.
Dec. 11, 1980 [H.R. 7020]
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of American in Congress assembled, That this Act mayComprehensive be cited as the "Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensa- Environmental Response, tion, and Liability Act of 1980". Compensation, TITLE I—HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES RELEASES, LIABILITY, COMPENSATION
and Liability Act of 1980 42 USC 9601 note.
DEFINITIONS 42 USC 9601. SEC. 101. For purpose of this title, the term— (1) "act of God" means an unanticipated g^rave natural disaster or other natural phenomenon of an exceptional, inevitable, and irresistible character, the effects of which could not have been prevented or avoided by the exercise of due care or foresight; (2) "Administrator" means the Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency; (3) "barrel" means forty-two United States gallons at sixty degrees Fahrenheit; (4) "claim" means a demand in writing for a sum certain; (5) "claimant" means any person who presents a claim for compensation under this Act; (6) "damages" means damages for injury or loss of natural resources as set forth in section 107(a) or 1110)) of this Act; (7) "drinking water supply" means any raw or finished water source that is or may be used by a public water system (as defined in the Safe Drinking Water Act) or as drinking water by one or 42 USC 201 note. more individuals; (8) "environment" means (A) the navigable waters, the waters of the contiguous zone, and the ocean waters of which the natural resources are under the exclusive management authority of the United States under the Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 1976, and (B) any other surface water, ground water, Post, p. 3300. drinking water supply, land surface or subsurface strata, or ambient air within the United States or under the jurisdiction of the United States; (9) "facility" means (A) any building, structure, installation, equipment, pipe or pipeline (including any pipe into a sewer or publicly owned treatment works), well, pit, pond, lagoon, impoundment, ditch, landfill, storage container, motor vehicle, rolling stock, or aircraft, or (B) any site or area where a hazardous substance has been deposited, stored, disposed of, or placed, or otherwise come to be located; but does not include any consumer product in consumer use or any vessel;
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