§ 46-12.5.1-1 Definitions. – As used in this chapter these terms shall, where the context permits, beconstrued to mean:
(1) "Containment and cleanup" includes all direct andindirect efforts associated with the prevention, abatement, containment, orremoval of a pollutant, the restoration of the environment to its former state,and all incidental administrative costs;
(2) "Contaminated ballast water" means ballast water carriedin uncleaned cargo tanks or mixed with oil in some other manner such that thedischarge of such water would produce a visible sheen.
(3) "Department" means the department of environmentalmanagement or its successor;
(4) "Director" means the director of the department ofenvironmental management;
(5) "Oil" means oil of any kind and in any form, whethercrude, refined, or a petroleum by product, including, but not limited to,petroleum, fuel oil, gasoline, lubricating oils, oily sludge, oil refuse, oilmixed with other wastes, crude oils, liquified natural gas, propane, butane, orother liquid hydrocarbons regardless of specific gravity;
(6) "Oil pollution" means discharging, causing to bedischarged, or permitting the discharge of oil into or upon the waters of thisstate, or to construct or install any industrial, commercial, or otherestablishment, to make any modification or addition thereto, or to undertakeany development which may result in the discharge of oil into the waters of thestate, unless the discharge is made to a system or means to prevent pollutionapproved by the director;
(7) "Operator" means the person who, through contract, lease,sublease, or otherwise, exerts general supervision and control of activitiesincluding, but not limited to, a prime general contractor, the "master" of avessel and the master's employer or any other person who, personally or throughan agent or contractor, undertakes the general functioning of the facility;
(8) "Person" includes an individual, trust, firm, joint stockcompany, corporation (including a quasi government corporation), municipality,municipal or state agency, fire district, club, nonprofit agency, or country;
(9) "Discharge" means any spilling, leaking, pumping,pouring, emitting, emptying, releasing, injecting, escaping, leaching, dumping,or disposing into the environment;
(10) "Vessel" means every description of watercraft or otherartificial contrivance used, or capable of being used, as a means oftransportation on water, whether self propelled or otherwise, and includesbarges and tugs;
(11) "Waters of the state" include all surface watersincluding all waters of the territorial sea, tidewaters, all inland waters ofany river, stream, brook, pond or lake; and all ground waters and wetlands ofthe state of R.I.
§ 46-12.5.1-1 Definitions. – As used in this chapter these terms shall, where the context permits, beconstrued to mean:
(1) "Containment and cleanup" includes all direct andindirect efforts associated with the prevention, abatement, containment, orremoval of a pollutant, the restoration of the environment to its former state,and all incidental administrative costs;
(2) "Contaminated ballast water" means ballast water carriedin uncleaned cargo tanks or mixed with oil in some other manner such that thedischarge of such water would produce a visible sheen.
(3) "Department" means the department of environmentalmanagement or its successor;
(4) "Director" means the director of the department ofenvironmental management;
(5) "Oil" means oil of any kind and in any form, whethercrude, refined, or a petroleum by product, including, but not limited to,petroleum, fuel oil, gasoline, lubricating oils, oily sludge, oil refuse, oilmixed with other wastes, crude oils, liquified natural gas, propane, butane, orother liquid hydrocarbons regardless of specific gravity;
(6) "Oil pollution" means discharging, causing to bedischarged, or permitting the discharge of oil into or upon the waters of thisstate, or to construct or install any industrial, commercial, or otherestablishment, to make any modification or addition thereto, or to undertakeany development which may result in the discharge of oil into the waters of thestate, unless the discharge is made to a system or means to prevent pollutionapproved by the director;
(7) "Operator" means the person who, through contract, lease,sublease, or otherwise, exerts general supervision and control of activitiesincluding, but not limited to, a prime general contractor, the "master" of avessel and the master's employer or any other person who, personally or throughan agent or contractor, undertakes the general functioning of the facility;
(8) "Person" includes an individual, trust, firm, joint stockcompany, corporation (including a quasi government corporation), municipality,municipal or state agency, fire district, club, nonprofit agency, or country;
(9) "Discharge" means any spilling, leaking, pumping,pouring, emitting, emptying, releasing, injecting, escaping, leaching, dumping,or disposing into the environment;
(10) "Vessel" means every description of watercraft or otherartificial contrivance used, or capable of being used, as a means oftransportation on water, whether self propelled or otherwise, and includesbarges and tugs;
(11) "Waters of the state" include all surface watersincluding all waters of the territorial sea, tidewaters, all inland waters ofany river, stream, brook, pond or lake; and all ground waters and wetlands ofthe state of R.I.
§ 46-12.5.1-1 Definitions. – As used in this chapter these terms shall, where the context permits, beconstrued to mean:
(1) "Containment and cleanup" includes all direct andindirect efforts associated with the prevention, abatement, containment, orremoval of a pollutant, the restoration of the environment to its former state,and all incidental administrative costs;
(2) "Contaminated ballast water" means ballast water carriedin uncleaned cargo tanks or mixed with oil in some other manner such that thedischarge of such water would produce a visible sheen.
(3) "Department" means the department of environmentalmanagement or its successor;
(4) "Director" means the director of the department ofenvironmental management;
(5) "Oil" means oil of any kind and in any form, whethercrude, refined, or a petroleum by product, including, but not limited to,petroleum, fuel oil, gasoline, lubricating oils, oily sludge, oil refuse, oilmixed with other wastes, crude oils, liquified natural gas, propane, butane, orother liquid hydrocarbons regardless of specific gravity;
(6) "Oil pollution" means discharging, causing to bedischarged, or permitting the discharge of oil into or upon the waters of thisstate, or to construct or install any industrial, commercial, or otherestablishment, to make any modification or addition thereto, or to undertakeany development which may result in the discharge of oil into the waters of thestate, unless the discharge is made to a system or means to prevent pollutionapproved by the director;
(7) "Operator" means the person who, through contract, lease,sublease, or otherwise, exerts general supervision and control of activitiesincluding, but not limited to, a prime general contractor, the "master" of avessel and the master's employer or any other person who, personally or throughan agent or contractor, undertakes the general functioning of the facility;
(8) "Person" includes an individual, trust, firm, joint stockcompany, corporation (including a quasi government corporation), municipality,municipal or state agency, fire district, club, nonprofit agency, or country;
(9) "Discharge" means any spilling, leaking, pumping,pouring, emitting, emptying, releasing, injecting, escaping, leaching, dumping,or disposing into the environment;
(10) "Vessel" means every description of watercraft or otherartificial contrivance used, or capable of being used, as a means oftransportation on water, whether self propelled or otherwise, and includesbarges and tugs;
(11) "Waters of the state" include all surface watersincluding all waters of the territorial sea, tidewaters, all inland waters ofany river, stream, brook, pond or lake; and all ground waters and wetlands ofthe state of R.I.
