Kentucky Statutes 224.60-115 – Definitions for KRS 224.60-120 to 224.60-150
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As used in KRS § 224.60-120 to KRS § 224.60-150, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) “Bodily injury and property damage” means only those actual economic losses to an individual or the individual’s property resulting from bodily injuries and damages to property caused by a release into the environment from a petroleum storage tank. In this context, property damage includes damage to natural resources;
(2) “Cabinet” means the Energy and Environment Cabinet; (3) “Claim” means any demand in writing for a certain sum;
(4) “Corrective action” means those actions necessary to protect human health and the environment in the event of a release from a petroleum storage tank. Corrective action includes initial responses taken pursuant to KRS § 224.60-135, remedial actions to clean up contaminated groundwater, surface waters, or soil, actions to address residual effects after initial corrective action is taken, and actions taken to restore or replace potable water supplies. Corrective action also includes actions necessary to monitor, assess, and evaluate a release, as well as actions necessary to monitor, assess, and evaluate the effectiveness of remedial action after a release has occurred;
(5) “Dealer” has the same meaning as in KRS § 138.210;
(6) “Division” means the Division of Waste Management;
(7) “Facility” means, with respect to any owner or operator, all petroleum storage tanks which are owned or operated by an owner or operator and are located on a single parcel of property or on any contiguous or adjacent property;
(8) “Federal regulations” means regulations for underground petroleum storage tanks promulgated by the United States Environmental Protection Agency pursuant to Subtitle I of the Solid Waste Disposal Act, as amended by the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act;
(9) “Free product” means a regulated substance that is present as a non-aqueous phase liquid;
(10) “Fund” means the petroleum storage tank environmental assurance fund and its subaccounts, the financial responsibility account and the petroleum storage tank account established pursuant to KRS § 224.60-140;
(11) “Gasoline” has the same meaning as in KRS § 138.210;
(12) “Motor fuel” means petroleum or a petroleum-based substance that is motor gasoline, aviation gasoline, No. 1 or No. 2 diesel fuel, or any grade of gasohol, that is typically used in the operation of a motor engine, jet fuel, and any petroleum or petroleum-based substance typically used in the operation of a motor vehicle, including used motor vehicle lubricants and oils;
(13) “Occurrence” means a release, or releases, of an accidental nature, requiring corrective action, from a petroleum storage tank or tanks located at the same facility, due to continuous or repeated exposure to conditions. An additional release or releases at the same facility in which the area requiring remedial action is separate from a previous remediation area or areas shall be considered a separate
occurrence;
(14) “Person” means an individual, trust, firm, joint stock company, federal agency, corporation, the state, a municipality, commission, or political subdivision of the state. The term includes a consortium, a joint venture, the United States government, or a commercial entity;
(15) “Petroleum” and “petroleum products” means crude oil, or any fraction thereof, which is liquid at standard conditions of temperature and pressure, which means at sixty (60) degrees Fahrenheit and 14.7 pounds per square inch absolute. The term includes motor gasoline, gasohol, other alcohol-blended fuels, diesel fuel, heating oil, special fuels, lubricants, and used oil;
(16) “Petroleum storage tank” means an underground storage tank, as defined by KRS
224.60-100, which contains petroleum or petroleum products but, for the purpose of participation or eligibility for the fund, shall only include tanks containing motor fuels and shall not include petroleum storage tanks used exclusively for storage of fuel used in the operation of a commercial ship or vessel or tanks used exclusively for storage of fuel used for the purposes of powering locomotives or tanks owned by a federal agency or the United States government;
(17) “Petroleum storage tank operator” means any person in control of, or having responsibility for, the daily operation of a petroleum storage tank;
(18) “Petroleum storage tank owner” means the person who owns a petroleum storage tank, except that petroleum storage tank owner does not include any person who, without participation in the management of a petroleum storage tank, holds indicia of ownership primarily to protect a security interest in the tank;
(19) “Received” has the same meaning as in KRS § 138.210;
(20) “Release” means any spilling, leaking, emitting, discharging, escaping, leaching, or disposing from a petroleum storage tank into groundwater, surface water, or surface or subsurface soils. The term shall not include releases that are permitted or authorized by the state or federal law;
(21) “Special fuels” has the same meaning as in KRS § 138.210; and
(22) “Third party” means a person other than the owner or operator of a facility, or the agents or employees of the owner or operator, who sustains bodily injury or property damage as a result of a release from that facility.
Effective: March 25, 2015
History: Amended 2015 Ky. Acts ch. 67, sec. 20, effective March 25, 2015. — Amended 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 24, sec. 377, effective July 15, 2010. — Amended 2005
Ky. Acts ch. 123, sec. 24, effective June 20, 2005. — Amended 2002 Ky. Acts ch.
361, sec. 1, effective July 15, 2002. — Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 284, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1998; and ch. 498, sec. 2, effective July 15, 1998. — Amended
1996 Ky. Acts ch. 295, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1996. — Amended 1994 Ky. Acts ch.
419, sec. 1, effective April 11, 1994. – Amended 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 450, sec. 1, effective April 13, 1992. — Created 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 370, sec. 2, effective April 9,
1990.
Formerly codified as KRS § 224.816.
Legislative Research Commission Note (2/9/93). — When this statute was created in
1990, the introductory phrase “As used in KRS § 224.60-120 to KRS § 224.60-150, unless the context otherwise requires:” appeared before subsection (1) of the statute. See 1990
Ky. Acts ch. 370, sec. 2. The 1992 amendment to this statute, however, did not include this language. See 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 450, sec. 1. This erroneous omission has been corrected by restoring the language in question as required by KRS
446.280.
(1) “Bodily injury and property damage” means only those actual economic losses to an individual or the individual’s property resulting from bodily injuries and damages to property caused by a release into the environment from a petroleum storage tank. In this context, property damage includes damage to natural resources;
Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 224.60-115
- Action: includes all proceedings in any court of this state. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
- Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
- area: means any geographical area established or designated by the cabinet in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
- Cabinet: means the Energy and Environment Cabinet. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
- Company: may extend and be applied to any corporation, company, person, partnership, joint stock company, or association. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
- Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
- Disposal: means the discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking, or placing of any waste into or on any land or water so that such waste or any constituent thereof may enter the environment or be emitted into the air or discharged into any waters, including ground waters. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
- Federal: refers to the United States. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
- Owner: when applied to any animal, means any person having a property interest in such animal. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
- State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes territories, outlying possessions, and the District of Columbia. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
- Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
- Storage: means the containment of wastes, either on a temporary basis or for a period of years, in such a manner as not to constitute disposal of such wastes. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
- Waste: means :
(a) "Solid waste" means any garbage, refuse, sludge, and other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semi-solid, or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, commercial, mining (excluding coal mining wastes, coal mining by-products, refuse, and overburden), agricultural operations, and from community activities, but does not include those materials including, but not limited to, sand, soil, rock, gravel, or bridge debris extracted as part of a public road construction project funded wholly or in part with state funds, recovered material, post-use polymers or recovered feedstocks, tire-derived fuel, special wastes as designated by KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
(2) “Cabinet” means the Energy and Environment Cabinet; (3) “Claim” means any demand in writing for a certain sum;
(4) “Corrective action” means those actions necessary to protect human health and the environment in the event of a release from a petroleum storage tank. Corrective action includes initial responses taken pursuant to KRS § 224.60-135, remedial actions to clean up contaminated groundwater, surface waters, or soil, actions to address residual effects after initial corrective action is taken, and actions taken to restore or replace potable water supplies. Corrective action also includes actions necessary to monitor, assess, and evaluate a release, as well as actions necessary to monitor, assess, and evaluate the effectiveness of remedial action after a release has occurred;
(5) “Dealer” has the same meaning as in KRS § 138.210;
(6) “Division” means the Division of Waste Management;
(7) “Facility” means, with respect to any owner or operator, all petroleum storage tanks which are owned or operated by an owner or operator and are located on a single parcel of property or on any contiguous or adjacent property;
(8) “Federal regulations” means regulations for underground petroleum storage tanks promulgated by the United States Environmental Protection Agency pursuant to Subtitle I of the Solid Waste Disposal Act, as amended by the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act;
(9) “Free product” means a regulated substance that is present as a non-aqueous phase liquid;
(10) “Fund” means the petroleum storage tank environmental assurance fund and its subaccounts, the financial responsibility account and the petroleum storage tank account established pursuant to KRS § 224.60-140;
(11) “Gasoline” has the same meaning as in KRS § 138.210;
(12) “Motor fuel” means petroleum or a petroleum-based substance that is motor gasoline, aviation gasoline, No. 1 or No. 2 diesel fuel, or any grade of gasohol, that is typically used in the operation of a motor engine, jet fuel, and any petroleum or petroleum-based substance typically used in the operation of a motor vehicle, including used motor vehicle lubricants and oils;
(13) “Occurrence” means a release, or releases, of an accidental nature, requiring corrective action, from a petroleum storage tank or tanks located at the same facility, due to continuous or repeated exposure to conditions. An additional release or releases at the same facility in which the area requiring remedial action is separate from a previous remediation area or areas shall be considered a separate
occurrence;
(14) “Person” means an individual, trust, firm, joint stock company, federal agency, corporation, the state, a municipality, commission, or political subdivision of the state. The term includes a consortium, a joint venture, the United States government, or a commercial entity;
(15) “Petroleum” and “petroleum products” means crude oil, or any fraction thereof, which is liquid at standard conditions of temperature and pressure, which means at sixty (60) degrees Fahrenheit and 14.7 pounds per square inch absolute. The term includes motor gasoline, gasohol, other alcohol-blended fuels, diesel fuel, heating oil, special fuels, lubricants, and used oil;
(16) “Petroleum storage tank” means an underground storage tank, as defined by KRS
224.60-100, which contains petroleum or petroleum products but, for the purpose of participation or eligibility for the fund, shall only include tanks containing motor fuels and shall not include petroleum storage tanks used exclusively for storage of fuel used in the operation of a commercial ship or vessel or tanks used exclusively for storage of fuel used for the purposes of powering locomotives or tanks owned by a federal agency or the United States government;
(17) “Petroleum storage tank operator” means any person in control of, or having responsibility for, the daily operation of a petroleum storage tank;
(18) “Petroleum storage tank owner” means the person who owns a petroleum storage tank, except that petroleum storage tank owner does not include any person who, without participation in the management of a petroleum storage tank, holds indicia of ownership primarily to protect a security interest in the tank;
(19) “Received” has the same meaning as in KRS § 138.210;
(20) “Release” means any spilling, leaking, emitting, discharging, escaping, leaching, or disposing from a petroleum storage tank into groundwater, surface water, or surface or subsurface soils. The term shall not include releases that are permitted or authorized by the state or federal law;
(21) “Special fuels” has the same meaning as in KRS § 138.210; and
(22) “Third party” means a person other than the owner or operator of a facility, or the agents or employees of the owner or operator, who sustains bodily injury or property damage as a result of a release from that facility.
Effective: March 25, 2015
History: Amended 2015 Ky. Acts ch. 67, sec. 20, effective March 25, 2015. — Amended 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 24, sec. 377, effective July 15, 2010. — Amended 2005
Ky. Acts ch. 123, sec. 24, effective June 20, 2005. — Amended 2002 Ky. Acts ch.
361, sec. 1, effective July 15, 2002. — Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 284, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1998; and ch. 498, sec. 2, effective July 15, 1998. — Amended
1996 Ky. Acts ch. 295, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1996. — Amended 1994 Ky. Acts ch.
419, sec. 1, effective April 11, 1994. – Amended 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 450, sec. 1, effective April 13, 1992. — Created 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 370, sec. 2, effective April 9,
1990.
Formerly codified as KRS § 224.816.
Legislative Research Commission Note (2/9/93). — When this statute was created in
1990, the introductory phrase “As used in KRS § 224.60-120 to KRS § 224.60-150, unless the context otherwise requires:” appeared before subsection (1) of the statute. See 1990
Ky. Acts ch. 370, sec. 2. The 1992 amendment to this statute, however, did not include this language. See 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 450, sec. 1. This erroneous omission has been corrected by restoring the language in question as required by KRS
446.280.