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This law was first created in 2025. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 279<\/a> of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year.<\/p>","references":[{"id":69197,"section_number":"62.1-44.34:37","catch_line":"Reporting of hazardous substance discharge","order_by":null,"url":"\/62.1-44.34_37\/"}],"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":269323,"object_type":"law","relational_id":80301,"identifier":"62.1-44.34:35","token":"62.1\/3.1\/14\/62.1-44.34_35","url":"\/62.1-44.34_35\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/62.1-44.34_35\/","token":"62.1\/3.1\/14\/62.1-44.34_35","dublin_core":{"Title":"Definitions. ","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 62.1-44.34:35","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

As used in this article, unless the context requires a different meaning:\n\t\t“Discharge<\/span>” means any spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, or dumping, except discharges<\/span> in compliance with a permit issued by the Board<\/span> or Department<\/span>.\n\t\t“EPA<\/span>” means the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.\n\t\t“Facility<\/span>” means any development, building, structure, or installation within the Commonwealth that is required to submit a facility<\/span> response plan pursuant to the EPA<\/span>’s Clean Water Act Hazardous Substances<\/span> Facility<\/span> Response Plans pursuant to 40 C.F.R. Part 118.\n\t\t“Hazardous substance<\/span>” means any federal Clean Water Act hazardous substance<\/span> designated in 40 C.F.R. Part 116. “Hazardous substance<\/span>” does not include oil<\/span>.\n\t\t“Oil<\/span>” means oil<\/span> of any kind and in any form, including animal fat, vegetable oil<\/span>, cooking oil<\/span>, petroleum and any petroleum by-product, fuel oil<\/span>, lubricating oil<\/span>, sludge, oil<\/span> refuse, oil<\/span> mixed with other wastes<\/span> that are not a hazardous substance<\/span>, crude oil<\/span>, and any other liquid hydrocarbon regardless of specific gravity.\n\t\t“Operator<\/span>” means any person<\/span> that owns, operates, charters, rents, or otherwise exercises control or responsibility for a facility<\/span>.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nDEFINITIONS. (\u00a7 62.1-44.34:35)\n\nAs used in this article, unless the context requires a different meaning:\n\t\t“Discharge” means any spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring,\nemitting, emptying, or dumping, except discharges in compliance with a permit\nissued by the Board or Department.\n\t\t“EPA” means the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.\n\t\t“Facility” means any development, building, structure, or\ninstallation within the Commonwealth that is required to submit a facility\nresponse plan pursuant to the EPA’s Clean Water Act Hazardous Substances\nFacility Response Plans pursuant to 40 C.F.R. Part 118.\n\t\t“Hazardous substance” means any federal Clean Water Act hazardous\nsubstance designated in 40 C.F.R. Part 116. “Hazardous substance”\ndoes not include oil.\n\t\t“Oil” means oil of any kind and in any form, including animal fat,\nvegetable oil, cooking oil, petroleum and any petroleum by-product, fuel oil,\nlubricating oil, sludge, oil refuse, oil mixed with other wastes that are not a\nhazardous substance, crude oil, and any other liquid hydrocarbon regardless of\nspecific gravity.\n\t\t“Operator” means any person that owns, operates, charters, rents,\nor otherwise exercises control or responsibility for a facility.\n\nHISTORY: 2025, c. 279.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}