As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
COSTS: All expenses incurred by the village for any removal or remedial action.
FACILITY: Any building, structure, installation, equipment, pipe or pipeline, 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, truck trailer, rolling stock or aircraft. Also, any site or area where a hazardous material has been deposited, stored, disposed of, abandoned, placed, or otherwise come to be located.
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS: Any material, substance or mixture of materials or substances which are toxic, flammable, corrosive, explosive, carcinogenic or radioactive including, but not limited to, any substance or material which is designated a hazardous material pursuant to the "hazardous materials transportation act" (49 USC section 5101 et seq.) in a quantity and form which may pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health, property or the environment when improperly released, treated, stored, transported, disposed of, or otherwise managed.
MUTUAL AID: Any action taken by a public entity pursuant to an intergovernmental agreement.
PERSON: Any individual, business, firm, partnership, corporation, association, trust, estate, joint venture or other legal entity, or their legal representative, agent, or assign.
RELEASE: Any spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, escaping, emptying, discharging, injecting, leaching, dumping, disposing, and/or otherwise depositing of a 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: Any action taken in the event of a release or threatened release of a hazardous material into the environment, to prevent and/or minimize the release of hazardous materials so that they do not migrate or cause a substantial present or potential hazard to the public health and/or welfare, to any property, and/or to the environment. The term includes, but is not limited to, such actions at the location of the release such as storage, confinement, perimeter protection using dikes, trenches, or ditches, clay cover, neutralization, cleanup of released hazardous materials or contaminated materials, recycling or reuse, 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 by the village and/or any other applicable governmental agency to assure that such actions protect the public health and/or welfare, to any property, and/or to the environment.
REMOVAL: The cleanup and/or removal of released hazardous materials from the environment, such actions as may be necessary, required, and/or appropriate to monitor, assess, and/or evaluate the release of, and/or threat of release of, any hazardous materials, the disposal of removed hazardous material, or the taking of such action as may be necessary, required, and/or appropriate to prevent, minimize, and/or mitigate damage to the public health and/or welfare, to any property, and/or to the environment. The term includes, but is not limited to, security fencing, provision of alternative water supplies, and temporary evacuation of threatened humans and/or other living things.
RESPONSE: Any removal or remedial action.
VILLAGE: The village of Lake Villa, Lake County, Illinois, an Illinois municipal corporation. (Ord. 2009-01-03, 1-14-2009)