For the purposes of this article, the following definitions shall apply:
(A) Extremely hazardous substances (“EHS”) are those substances designated as such by the Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency as listed in Title 40, Part 355 of the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations.
(B) Facility means all buildings, equipment, and other fixed structures that are located on a single site, or on contiguous or adjacent sites, and which are owned or operated by 1 person or entity (or by any person or entity which controls, is controlled by, or under common control with, such person or entity). Facility includes manmade and natural structures in and from which chemicals are intentionally placed or removed, thus rendering such structures chemical depositories.
(C) Hazardous substances (“HS”) means any chemical substance in liquid, solid, or gas form that, if accidentally released, may pose a threat or risk or be harmful to human health, safety, animals, crops, water systems, or other elements of the environment. Substances so designated may include, but are not limited to, explosives, radioactive materials, etiologic agents, flammable and combustible liquids, solids and gases, poisons, oxidizing substances and corrosive substances.
(D) Local Emergency Planning Committee (“LEPC”): appointed by the State Emergency Response Commission (“SERC”).
(E) Office of Emergency Management (“OEM”) is a department of Greenville County Government charged with coordinating available resources to plan, prepare for, respond to and recover from, medium to large scale community emergencies. OEM receives copies of Tier II reports from companies in Greenville County which are required annually to file a Tier II report to the DCDHEC, Bureau of Air Quality. OEM also oversees and coordinates the activities of the Local Emergency Planning Committee.
(F) Tier II Report: Under SARA, Title III, within the State of South Carolina, any facility located in Greenville County which stores, at any time during the calendar year, 10,000 pounds or more of a hazardous substance, or threshold planning quantities (“TPQ”) or more of an extremely hazardous substance.
(Ord. 4295, § 3, passed 6-16-20-09)