Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 11 > Chapter 4 - Fiscal Provisions

• Active ingredient: has the meaning assigned to the term by title 7 United States Code § 136. See Arizona Laws 49-301
• Administrator: means the administrator of the United States environmental protection agency. See Arizona Laws 49-201
• Administrator: means the administrator of the United States environmental protection agency. See Arizona Laws 49-401.01
• Administrator: means the administrator of the United States environmental protection agency. See Arizona Laws 49-701
• Adverse effects to human health: means those effects that result in or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible or incapacitating reversible illness, including adverse effects that are known to be or may reasonably be anticipated to be caused by substances that are acutely toxic, chronically toxic, carcinogenic, mutagenic, teratogenic, neurotoxic or causative of reproductive dysfunction. See Arizona Laws 49-401.01
• Advisory council: means any county air pollution control advisory council established pursuant to this article. See Arizona Laws 49-471
• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
• Air contaminants: includes smoke, vapors, charred paper, dust, soot, grime, carbon, fumes, gases, sulfuric acid mist aerosols, aerosol droplets, odors, particulate matter, wind-borne matter, radioactive materials, or noxious chemicals, or any other material in the outdoor atmosphere. See Arizona Laws 49-421
• Air contaminants: includes smoke, vapors, charred paper, dust, soot, grime, carbon, fumes, gases, sulfuric acid mist aerosols, aerosol droplets, odors, particulate matter, wind-borne matter, radioactive materials or noxious chemicals, or any other material in the outdoor atmosphere. See Arizona Laws 49-471
• Air pollution: means the presence in the outdoor atmosphere of one or more air contaminants or combinations thereof in sufficient quantities, which either alone or in connection with other substances by reason of their concentration and duration are or tend to be injurious to human, plant or animal life, or cause damage to property, or unreasonably interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property of a substantial part of a community, or obscure visibility, or which in any way degrade the quality of the ambient air below the standards established by the director. See Arizona Laws 49-421
• Air pollution: means the presence in the outdoor atmosphere of one or more air contaminants or combinations thereof in sufficient quantities, which either alone or in connection with other substances, by reason of their concentration and duration are or tend to be injurious to human, plant or animal life, or cause damage to property, or unreasonably interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property of a substantial part of a community, or obscure visibility, or which in any way degrade the quality of the ambient air below the standards established by the board of supervisors. See Arizona Laws 49-471
• Allegation: something that someone says happened.
• Alternate mode: means any mode of commute transportation other than the single occupancy motor vehicle. See Arizona Laws 49-581
• Alternative fuel: means :

  (a) Electricity. See Arizona Laws 1-215

• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• Any public transportation purpose: includes any one or more of the following purposes:

  (a) The payment of public transportation obligations. See Arizona Laws 48-5161

• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Applicant: means any individual, employee, officer, managing body, trust, firm, joint stock company, consortium, public or private corporation, including a government corporation, partnership or association, this state, a political subdivision of this state, or a commission of the United States government or a federal facility, an interstate body or any other entity that applies for a settlement under either Section 49-292. See Arizona Laws 49-281
• Applicant: means any person who applies for a registration or amended registration pursuant to Title 3, Chapter 2, Article 5 or a conditional registration pursuant to section 49-310. See Arizona Laws 49-301
• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Approvable travel reduction plan: means a plan that is submitted by a major employer and that meets the requirements set forth in section 49-588. See Arizona Laws 49-581
• Approximately equal: means , for purposes of fees adopted pursuant to section 49-480, excluding per ton emissions fees, an amount that is not greater than ten per cent more than the fees or costs charged by the state for similar state permits or approvals. See Arizona Laws 49-101
• Aquifer: means a geologic unit that contains sufficient saturated permeable material to yield usable quantities of water to a well or spring. See Arizona Laws 49-201
• Arizona Grand Canyon visibility transport commission class I areas: means the following four mandatory federal class I areas in this state that were the subject of recommendations made by the Grand Canyon visibility transport commission pursuant to the clean air act:

  (a) Grand Canyon national park. See Arizona Laws 49-401.01

• Arizona mandatory federal class I areas: means the following eight national parks and wilderness areas that are designated as mandatory federal class I areas in this state pursuant to the clean air act and does not include the Arizona Grand Canyon visibility transport commission class I areas:

  (a) Pine Mountain Wilderness. See Arizona Laws 49-401.01

• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Assessment: means a tax assessment made under this chapter for the purpose of financing the maintenance and operating costs of the district. See Arizona Laws 48-6001
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Attainment area: means any area in this state that has been identified in regulations promulgated by the administrator as being in compliance with national ambient air quality standards. See Arizona Laws 49-401.01
• Authority: means a regional public transportation authority organized under this chapter. See Arizona Laws 48-5101
• Authority: means a regional transportation authority organized under this chapter. See Arizona Laws 48-5301
• AZPDES: means the Arizona pollutant discharge elimination system program as adopted under section 402(b) of the clean water act for WOTUS and under Section 49-255. See Arizona Laws 49-255
• Bail: Security given for the release of a criminal defendant or witness from legal custody (usually in the form of money) to secure his/her appearance on the day and time appointed.
• Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
• Baseline: Projection of the receipts, outlays, and other budget amounts that would ensue in the future without any change in existing policy. Baseline projections are used to gauge the extent to which proposed legislation, if enacted into law, would alter current spending and revenue levels.
• Begin actual construction: means initiation of physical on-site construction activities on an emissions unit which are of a permanent nature. See Arizona Laws 49-401.01
• Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
• Bequest: Property gifted by will.
• Best management practices: means those methods, measures or practices to prevent or reduce discharges and includes structural and nonstructural controls and operation and maintenance procedures. See Arizona Laws 49-201
• Board: means the board of directors of a regional public transportation authority. See Arizona Laws 48-5101
• Board: means the board of directors of a regional transportation authority established pursuant to section 48-5303. See Arizona Laws 48-5301
• Board: means the board of directors of a public health services district. See Arizona Laws 48-5801
• Board: means the board of directors of a multijurisdictional water facilities district formed pursuant to this chapter. See Arizona Laws 48-5901
• Board: means the board of directors of a district. See Arizona Laws 48-6201
• Board: means the elected board of directors of the upper San Pedro water district formed pursuant to this chapter. See Arizona Laws 48-6402
• Board: means the county board of supervisors. See Arizona Laws 11-681
• Board: means the district board of directors. See Arizona Laws 48-5701
• Board: means the board of supervisors of a county with a population of more than one million two hundred thousand persons according to the most recent United States decennial census. See Arizona Laws 49-581
• Board of supervisors: means any county board of supervisors. See Arizona Laws 49-471
• Bond related expenses: means any expenses incurred by the county to issue and administer bonds issued under this article, including underwriting fees and costs, trustee fees, financial consultant fees, printing and advertising costs, paying agent fees, transfer agent fees, legal, accounting, feasibility consultant and other professional fees and expenses, credit enhancement fees, attorney and accounting fees and expenses related to credit enhancement, bond insurance or liquidity enhancement, remarketing fees, rating agency fees and costs, travel and telecommunications expenses and all other expenses considered necessary by the county board of supervisors in order to market and administer the bonds. See Arizona Laws 11-681
• Bond related expenses: means expenses incurred by the authority to issue and administer its bonds, including underwriting fees and costs, trustee fees, financial consultant fees, printing and advertising costs, paying agent fees, transfer agent fees, legal, accounting, feasibility consultant and other expert fees and expenses, cost of credit enhancement fees, attorney and accounting fees and expenses related to credit enhancement, bond insurance or liquidity enhancement, remarketing fees, rating agency fees and costs, travel and telephone expenses and all other fees deemed necessary by the board in order to market and administer the bonds. See Arizona Laws 48-5161
• Bond related expenses: means any expenses incurred by the district to issue and administer its bonds, including underwriting fees and costs, trustee fees, financial consultant fees, printing and advertising costs, paying agent fees, transfer agent fees, legal, accounting, feasibility consultant and other professional fees and expenses, credit enhancement fees, attorney and accounting fees and expenses related to credit enhancement, bond insurance or liquidity enhancement, remarketing fees, rating agency fees and costs, travel and telephone expenses and all other fees considered necessary by the district in order to market and administer the bonds. See Arizona Laws 48-6271
• Bonds: means the bonds issued pursuant to this article. See Arizona Laws 11-681
• Bonds: means bonds of the authority issued pursuant to this article. See Arizona Laws 48-5161
• Bonds: means the revenue bonds of the district issued pursuant to this article. See Arizona Laws 48-6271
• Carton: means an egg carton as used in commercial practice in the United States. See Arizona Laws 3-701
• Case: means a standard thirty-dozen egg case as used in commercial practice in the United States. See Arizona Laws 3-701
• CCR: means fly ash, bottom ash, boiler slag and flue gas desulfurization materials generated from burning coal for the purpose of generating electricity by electric utilities and independent power producers. See Arizona Laws 49-701
• CERCLA: means the comprehensive environmental response, compensation, and liability act of 1980, as amended (P. See Arizona Laws 49-201
• CERCLA brownfields cleanup revolving loan fund program: means the program established by the United States environmental protection agency to provide financial assistance in the form of loans or grants to eligible persons to remediate contamination at eligible sites as provided in section 104(k) of CERCLA and applicable guidance documents prepared by the United States environmental protection agency to implement this program. See Arizona Laws 49-218
• Certificate of inspection: means a serially numbered device or symbol, as may be prescribed by the director, indicating that a vehicle has been inspected pursuant to the provisions of section 49-546 and has passed inspection. See Arizona Laws 49-541
• Certificate of waiver: means a uniquely numbered device or symbol, as may be prescribed by the director, indicating that the requirement of passing reinspection has been waived for a vehicle pursuant to the provisions of this article. See Arizona Laws 49-541
• Chairman: means the person elected to preside over meetings of the board of directors. See Arizona Laws 48-5701
• Chairman of the board: means the person designated to preside over meetings of the board of directors of the district. See Arizona Laws 48-6001
• Chambers: A judge's office.
• Characterization: means a process to determine the nature, degree and extent of contaminants at a site or a portion of a site. See Arizona Laws 49-171
• Chemigation: means a method of irrigation by which a pesticide is mixed with irrigation water before the water is applied to the crop or the soil. See Arizona Laws 49-301
• Circumstantial evidence: All evidence except eyewitness testimony.
• Clean air act: means the clean air act of 1963 (P. See Arizona Laws 49-401.01
• Clean burning fuel: means :

  (a) An emulsion of water-phased hydrocarbon fuel that contains not less than twenty percent water by volume and that complies with any of the following:

  (i) Is used in an engine that is certified to meet at a minimum the United States environmental protection agency low emission vehicle standard pursuant to 40 C. See Arizona Laws 1-215

• Clean closure: means implementation of all actions specified in an aquifer protection permit, if any, as closure requirements, as well as elimination, to the greatest degree practicable, of any reasonable probability of further discharge from the facility and of either exceeding aquifer water quality standards at the applicable point of compliance or, if an aquifer water quality standard is exceeded at the time the permit is issued, causing further degradation of the aquifer at the applicable point of compliance as provided in section 49-243, subsection B, paragraph 3. See Arizona Laws 49-201
• Clean water act: means the federal water pollution control act amendments of 1972 (P. See Arizona Laws 49-201
• Clerk: includes any person or official who performs the duties of clerk of the municipality or any person appointed by the district board to be the district clerk. See Arizona Laws 48-6801
• Closed facility: means :

  (a) A facility that ceased operation before January 1, 1986, that is not, on August 13, 1986, engaged in the activity for which the facility was designed and that was previously operated and for which there is no intent to resume operation. See Arizona Laws 49-201

• Closed solid waste facility: means any of the following:

  (a) A solid waste facility other than a CCR unit that ceases storing, treating, processing or receiving for disposal solid waste before the effective date of design and operation rules for that type of facility adopted pursuant to section 49-761. See Arizona Laws 49-701

• Commence: means , as applied to construction of a source:

  (a) For purposes other than title IV of the clean air act, that the owner or operator has obtained all necessary preconstruction approval or permits required by federal law and this chapter and has done either of the following:

  (i) Begun or caused to begin a continuous program of physical on-site construction of the source to be completed within a reasonable time. See Arizona Laws 49-401.01

• Commission: means the Arizona emergency response commission. See Arizona Laws 49-121
• Committee: means a local emergency planning committee. See Arizona Laws 49-121
• Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
• Community: means the broad spectrum of persons determined by the director to be within an existing or proposed site placed on the registry pursuant to Section 49-287. See Arizona Laws 49-281
• Community involvement area: means the geographical area that is within a site placed on the registry pursuant to Section 49-287. See Arizona Laws 49-281
• Commute trip: means a trip taken by an employee to or from a work site located within the county. See Arizona Laws 49-581
• Commuter matching service: means a system, whether it uses computer or manual methods, which assists in matching employees for the purpose of sharing rides to reduce the drive alone travel. See Arizona Laws 49-581
• Concentrated animal feeding operation: means an animal feeding operation that meets the criteria prescribed in Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 122, appendix B for determining a concentrated animal feeding operation for purposes of 40 Code of Federal Regulations sections 122. See Arizona Laws 49-201
• Conditionally exempt small quantity generator waste: means hazardous waste in quantities as defined by rules adopted pursuant to section 49-922. See Arizona Laws 49-701
• Conditioning mode: means either a fast idle test or a loaded test. See Arizona Laws 49-541
• Construction: means any physical change in a source or change in the method of operation of a source including fabrication, erection, installation or demolition of a source that would result in a change in actual emissions. See Arizona Laws 49-401.01
• Construction debris: means solid waste derived from the construction, repair or remodeling of buildings or other structures. See Arizona Laws 49-701
• Container: means any box, one-half case, basket, flat or other receptacle, excluding a carton and a case. See Arizona Laws 3-701
• Contaminant: means any substance that has been released to the environment and that qualifies as any of the following:

  (a) A hazardous substance as defined in section 49-201. See Arizona Laws 49-171

• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Control officer: means the executive head of the department authorized or designated to enforce air pollution regulations, or the executive head of an air pollution control district established pursuant to section 49-473. See Arizona Laws 49-471
• Conventional air pollutant: means any pollutant for which the administrator has promulgated a primary or secondary national ambient air quality standard. See Arizona Laws 49-401.01
• Counterclaim: A claim that a defendant makes against a plaintiff.
• County: means a county with a population of less than one million two hundred thousand persons in which a regional transportation authority is established pursuant to section 48-5302. See Arizona Laws 48-5301
• County: means the county in which the district is located. See Arizona Laws 48-6402
• County: means :

  (a) The board of supervisors in the context of the exercise of powers or duties. See Arizona Laws 49-701

• County judgment purpose: includes the following purposes:

  (a) The payment of obligations of the county resulting from a final court judgment against the county, court costs and attorney fees, including outside legal counsel retained by the county, but not costs incurred by the county attorney in connection with the judgment. See Arizona Laws 11-681

• Curb idle test: means an exhaust emissions test conducted with the engine of a vehicle running at the manufacturer's specified idle speed plus or minus one hundred revolutions per minute but without pressure exerted on the accelerator. See Arizona Laws 49-541
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Debt service: means the principal of, interest on and premium, if any, on the bonds, when due, whether at maturity or prior redemption and fees and costs of registrars, trustees, paying agents or other agents necessary to handle the bonds and the costs of credit enhancement or liquidity support. See Arizona Laws 48-6801
• Deceptive: means any arrangement of the contents of any case, container, subcontainer, lot, load or display in which the eggs in the outer layer or in any portion exposed to view are in grade, size, condition or any other respect so superior to those in the interior or unexposed portion as to materially misrepresent the contents or any part of the contents as to size, grade, condition or any other respects. See Arizona Laws 3-701
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Degradation product: means a substance resulting from the transformation of a pesticide by physicochemical or biochemical means. See Arizona Laws 49-301
• Demolition debris: means solid waste derived from the demolition of buildings or other structures. See Arizona Laws 49-701
• Department: means the Arizona department of agriculture. See Arizona Laws 3-101
• Department: means the department of water resources. See Arizona Laws 48-6402
• Department: means the department of environmental quality. See Arizona Laws 49-201
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Depolymerization: means a manufacturing process through which post-use polymers are broken into smaller molecules such as monomers and oligomers or raw, intermediate or final products, plastics and chemical feedstocks, basic and unfinished chemicals, crude oil, naphtha, liquid transportation fuels, waxes, lubricants, coatings and other basic hydrocarbons. See Arizona Laws 49-701
• Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
• Direct reuse: means the beneficial use of reclaimed water for specific purposes authorized pursuant to section 49-203, subsection A, paragraph 7. See Arizona Laws 49-201
• Director: means the director of environmental quality who is also the director of the department. See Arizona Laws 49-101
• Director: means the director of water resources. See Arizona Laws 48-6402
• Director: means the director of environmental quality or the director's designee. See Arizona Laws 49-201
• Discharge: means the direct or indirect addition of any pollutant to the waters of the state from a facility. See Arizona Laws 49-201
• Discharge impact area: means the potential areal extent of pollutant migration, as projected on the land surface, as the result of a discharge from a facility. See Arizona Laws 49-201
• Discharge limitation: means any restriction, prohibition, limitation or criteria established by the director, through a rule, permit or order, on quantities, rates, concentrations, combinations, toxicity and characteristics of pollutants. See Arizona Laws 49-201
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• District: means a public health services district formed pursuant to this chapter. See Arizona Laws 48-5801
• District: means a multijurisdictional water facilities district formed pursuant to this chapter. See Arizona Laws 48-5901
• District: means a recreational corridor channelization district established pursuant to this chapter. See Arizona Laws 48-6001
• District: means a theme park district established pursuant to this chapter. See Arizona Laws 48-6201
• District: means the upper San Pedro water district formed pursuant to this chapter. See Arizona Laws 48-6402
• District: means an agriculture preservation district established pursuant to this article. See Arizona Laws 48-5701
• District: means a tax levying revitalization district formed pursuant to this article. See Arizona Laws 48-6801
• District board: means the board of directors of the district. See Arizona Laws 48-6801
• Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Effluent-dependent water: means a surface water or portion of a surface water that consists of a point source discharge without which the surface water would be ephemeral. See Arizona Laws 49-201
• Eggs: means eggs that are in the shell and that are from chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese or any other species of fowl. See Arizona Laws 3-701
• Electronic funds transfer: The transfer of money between accounts by consumer electronic systems-such as automated teller machines (ATMs) and electronic payment of bills-rather than by check or cash. (Wire transfers, checks, drafts, and paper instruments do not fall into this category.) ^{Source: OCC}
• Eligible activities: means removal as defined by section 101(23) of CERCLA and includes required engineering evaluations, cost analysis of cleanup alternatives, public participation requirements and reasonable and necessary site monitoring activities during the remediation. See Arizona Laws 49-218
• Eligible party: means a person who enters into a written agreement with the director to implement and complete a remedial investigation and feasibility study with respect to a site or portion of a site that was on the annual priority list on May 1, 1997 or any other person who incurs costs for a remedial action that is in substantial compliance with Section 49-282. See Arizona Laws 49-281
• Emissions inspection station permit: means a certificate issued by the director authorizing the holder to perform vehicular inspections pursuant to this article. See Arizona Laws 49-541
• Employer: means any sole proprietor, partnership, corporation, unincorporated association, cooperative, joint venture, agency, department, district or other individual or entity, either public or private, that employs workers. See Arizona Laws 49-581
• Engineering control: means a remediation method such as a barrier or cap that is used to prevent or minimize exposure to contaminants and that includes technologies that reduce the mobility or migration of contaminants. See Arizona Laws 49-151
• Enhanced municipal services: means public service provided within the district at a higher level or to a greater degree than provided outside the district. See Arizona Laws 48-6801
• Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
• Environment: means WOTUS, any other surface waters, groundwater, drinking water supply, land surface or subsurface strata or ambient air, within or bordering on this state. See Arizona Laws 49-201
• Environmental claim: means a claim for defense or indemnity submitted under a general liability insurance policy by an insured in response to a claim of potential liability for bodily injury or property damage arising from a release of pollutants onto or into land, air or water. See Arizona Laws 49-171
• Environmental laws: means this title and any rules, permits and orders that are adopted or issued pursuant to this title. See Arizona Laws 49-192
• Environmental management system: means a set of documented processes and practices that enable an organization to reduce its environmental impacts and increase its operating efficiency by continuously improving its environmental performance. See Arizona Laws 49-192
• Environmental performance: means the effect of a facility or activity on air, water, land, natural resources or human health and the generation of waste by a facility or activity. See Arizona Laws 49-192
• Ephemeral water: means a surface water or portion of surface water that flows or pools only in direct response to precipitation. See Arizona Laws 49-201
• Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
• Existing facility: means a facility on which construction began before August 13, 1986 and that is neither a new facility nor a closed facility. See Arizona Laws 49-201
• Facility: means any land, building, installation, structure, equipment, device, conveyance, area, source, activity or practice from which there is, or with reasonable probability may be, a discharge. See Arizona Laws 49-201
• Facility: means any land, building, installation, structure, equipment, device, conveyance, area, source, activity or practice. See Arizona Laws 49-281
• Facility plan: means any design or operating plan for a solid waste facility or group of solid waste facilities other than a permit issued under article 11 of this chapter. See Arizona Laws 49-701
• Fast idle test: means an exhaust emissions test conducted with the engine of the vehicle running under an accelerated condition to an extent prescribed by the director. See Arizona Laws 49-541
• Federally listed hazardous air pollutant: means any air pollutant adopted pursuant to Section 49-426. See Arizona Laws 49-401.01
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Fiscal agent: means a bank or trust company authorized to do business in this state or the county treasurer as designated by the board. See Arizona Laws 48-5101
• Fiscal agent: means a bank or trust company authorized to do business in this state or the county treasurer as designated by the board. See Arizona Laws 48-5301
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• Fleet emissions inspection station: means any inspection facility operated under a permit issued to a qualified fleet owner or lessee as determined by the director. See Arizona Laws 49-541
• Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. ^{Source: OCC}
• Fund: means the water quality assurance revolving fund established by section 49-282. See Arizona Laws 49-281
• Gasification: means a manufacturing process through which recovered feedstocks are heated and converted into a fuel and gas mixture in an oxygen-deficient atmosphere and the mixture is converted into valuable raw, intermediate and final products, including plastic monomers, chemicals, waxes, lubricants, chemical feedstocks, crude oil, diesel, gasoline, diesel and gasoline blendstocks, home heating oil and other fuels, including ethanol and transportation fuel, that are returned to economic utility in the form of raw materials, products or fuels. See Arizona Laws 49-701
• General plan: means a municipal statement of land development policies, that may include maps, charts, graphs and text that set forth objectives, principles and standards for local growth and redevelopment enacted under the provisions of this article or any prior statute. See Arizona Laws 9-461
• General plan: means the general plan described in section 48-6802, subsection B, as the plan may be amended. See Arizona Laws 48-6801
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Golf cart: means a motor vehicle which has not less than three wheels in contact with the ground, has an unladen weight of less than thirteen hundred pounds, is designed to be and is operated at not more than fifteen miles an hour and is designed to carry golf equipment and persons. See Arizona Laws 49-541
• Governing body: means the body or board that by law is constituted as the legislative department of the municipality, Indian tribe or community. See Arizona Laws 48-6801
• Grade: means classified as to quality and applies to a dozen, case, lot or load of eggs. See Arizona Laws 3-701
• Grand Canyon visibility transport commission: means the visibility transport commission established pursuant to section 169B of the clean air act for the region affecting the visibility of the Grand Canyon national park. See Arizona Laws 49-401.01
• Grand Canyon visibility transport commission class I areas: means the following sixteen mandatory federal class I areas in the region of Grand Canyon national park that were the subject of recommendations by the Grand Canyon visibility transport commission pursuant to the clean air act:

  (a) Grand Canyon national park in Arizona. See Arizona Laws 49-401.01

• Gray water: means wastewater that has been collected separately from a sewage flow and that originates from a clothes washer or a bathroom tub, shower or sink but that does not include wastewater from a kitchen sink, dishwasher or toilet. See Arizona Laws 49-201
• Groundwater protection data gap: means that a pesticide for agricultural use has been registered with the Arizona department of agriculture without the director of environmental quality finding that the information submitted pursuant to section 49-302 meets the requirements of this article. See Arizona Laws 49-301
• Guarantor: A party who agrees to be responsible for the payment of another party's debts should that party default. ^{Source: OCC}
• Hazardous air pollutant: means any federally listed hazardous air pollutant and any air pollutant that the director has designated as a hazardous air pollutant pursuant to Section 49-426. See Arizona Laws 49-401.01
• Hazardous air pollutant reasonably available control technology: means an emissions standard for hazardous air pollutants that the director, acting pursuant to Section 49-426. See Arizona Laws 49-401.01
• Hazardous substance: means :

  (a) Any substance designated pursuant to sections 311(b)(2)(A) and 307(a) of the clean water act. See Arizona Laws 49-201

• Hazardous substance: has the meaning set forth in the comprehensive environmental response, compensation, and liability act of 1980 (P. See Arizona Laws 49-121
• Hearing board: means any county air pollution hearing board established pursuant to this article. See Arizona Laws 49-471
• Hearsay: Statements by a witness who did not see or hear the incident in question but heard about it from someone else. Hearsay is usually not admissible as evidence in court.
• Household hazardous waste: means solid waste as described in 40 C. See Arizona Laws 49-701
• Impaired water: means a protected surface water for which credible scientific data exists that satisfies the requirements of section 49-232, and that, in the case of WOTUS, demonstrates that the water should be identified pursuant to 33 United States Code § 1313(d) and the regulations implementing that statute. See Arizona Laws 49-231
• impoundment: means a natural topographic depression, man-made excavation or diked area, which is designed to hold an accumulation of CCR and liquids, and the CCR unit treats, stores or disposes of CCR. See Arizona Laws 49-701
• Independent contractor: means any person, business, firm, partnership or corporation with which the director may enter into an agreement providing for the construction, equipment, maintenance, personnel, management and operation of official emissions inspection stations pursuant to section 49-545. See Arizona Laws 49-541
• Indirect discharge: means either of the following:

  (a) The introduction of pollutants into a publicly owned treatment works from any nondomestic source that is regulated under section 307(b), (c) or (d) of the clean water act. See Arizona Laws 49-255

• Industrial user: means a source of indirect discharge. See Arizona Laws 49-255
• Inert material: means broken concrete, asphaltic pavement, manufactured asbestos-containing products, brick, rock, gravel, sand and soil. See Arizona Laws 49-201
• Infrastructure: means all improvements listed in this paragraph that will result in a beneficial use principally to land within the geographical limits of the district and may include a district's share of any improvements listed in this paragraph if the district board determines such share is proportionate to the beneficial use of such improvements to land within the geographical limits of the district, improvements within or outside the geographical limits of the district, necessary or incidental work, whether newly constructed, renovated or existing, and all necessary or desirable appurtenances. See Arizona Laws 48-6801
• Infrastructure purpose: means :

  (a) Planning, design, engineering, construction, demolition, acquisition or installation of infrastructure. See Arizona Laws 48-6801

• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Inspector: means an egg inspector who is appointed or assigned pursuant to section 3-709. See Arizona Laws 3-701
• installation: means all of the pollutant-emitting activities that belong to the same industrial grouping, are located on one or more contiguous or adjacent properties and are under the control of the same person or persons under common control except the activities of any vessel. See Arizona Laws 49-401.01
• Institutional control: means a legal or administrative tool or action taken to reduce the potential for exposure to contaminants. See Arizona Laws 49-151
• Insured: means any person who is included as a named insured on a general liability insurance policy and who has or had a property interest in a site in this state that involves an environmental claim. See Arizona Laws 49-171
• Joint tenancy: A form of property ownership in which two or more parties hold an undivided interest in the same property that was conveyed under the same instrument at the same time. A joint tenant can sell his (her) interest but not dispose of it by will. Upon the death of a joint tenant, his (her) undivided interest is distributed among the surviving joint tenants.
• Judgement: The official decision of a court finally determining the respective rights and claims of the parties to a suit.
• Jurisdiction: means a city, town or county. See Arizona Laws 48-5901
• Landscaping rubble: means material that is derived from landscaping or reclamation activities and that may contain inert material and not more than ten percent by volume of vegetative waste. See Arizona Laws 49-701
• Lateral expansion: means , for the purposes of the coal combustion residuals program established pursuant to article 11 of this chapter, a horizontal expansion of the waste boundaries of an existing CCR landfill or existing CCR surface impoundment made after October 19, 2015. See Arizona Laws 49-701
• Lawsuit: A legal action started by a plaintiff against a defendant based on a complaint that the defendant failed to perform a legal duty, resulting in harm to the plaintiff.
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Loaded test: means an exhaust emissions test conducted at cruise or transient conditions as prescribed by the director. See Arizona Laws 49-541
• Magistrate: means an officer having power to issue a warrant for the arrest of a person charged with a public offense and includes the chief justice and justices of the supreme court, judges of the superior court, judges of the court of appeals, justices of the peace and judges of a municipal court. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Maintenance area: means any nonattainment area that has been redesignated by the administrator to attainment status. See Arizona Laws 49-401.01
• Major employer: means an employer with one hundred or more employees working at or reporting to a single work site during any twenty-four hour period for at least three days per week during at least six months of the year, except that in area A the threshold is fifty employees. See Arizona Laws 49-581
• Major modification: means a physical change in an existing facility or a change in its method of operation that results in a significant increase or adverse alteration in the characteristics or volume of the pollutants discharged, or the addition of a process or major piece of production equipment, building or structure that is physically separated from the existing operation and that causes a discharge, provided that:

  (a) A modification to a groundwater protection permit facility as defined in Section 49-241. See Arizona Laws 49-201

• Major source: means a stationary source or a group of stationary sources that is located within a contiguous area, that is under common control and that is defined as a major source in section 501(2) of the clean air act or that is a major emitting facility as defined in title I, part C of the clean air act or that is defined in department rules as a major source consistent with the clean air act. See Arizona Laws 49-401.01
• Management agency: means any person responsible for the day-to-day operation, maintenance and management of a particular public facility or group of public facilities. See Arizona Laws 49-701
• Maximum achievable control technology: means an emission standard that requires the maximum degree of reduction in emissions of the hazardous air pollutants subject to this chapter, including a prohibition on such emissions where achievable, and that the director, after considering the cost of achieving such emission reduction and any non-air quality health and environmental impacts and energy requirements, determines to be achievable by an affected source to which such standard applies, through application of measures, processes, methods, systems or techniques including measures that:

  (a) Reduce the volume of, or eliminate emissions of, such pollutants through process changes, substitution of materials or other modifications. See Arizona Laws 49-401.01

• Medical clinic: means a facility that provides for physical evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of patients and that does not keep patients overnight as bed patients or treat patients under general anesthesia. See Arizona Laws 48-5501
• Medically underserved: means populations that exhibit one or more of the following indicators:

  (a) Limitations on the availability of primary care providers, prenatal care or other health care services. See Arizona Laws 48-5501

• Minor: means a person under eighteen years of age. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Minor source: means any stationary or portable source that is not a major source. See Arizona Laws 49-401.01
• Mobile source: means any combustion engine, device, machine or equipment that operates during transport and that emits or generates air contaminants whether in motion or at rest. See Arizona Laws 49-401.01
• Mode: means the type of conveyance used in transportation, including single occupancy motor vehicle, rideshare vehicles, transit, bicycle and walking. See Arizona Laws 49-581
• modify: means a physical change in or change in the method of operation of a source that increases the emissions of any regulated air pollutant emitted by such source by more than any relevant de minimis amount or that results in the emission of any regulated air pollutant not previously emitted by more than such de minimis amount. See Arizona Laws 49-401.01
• Month: means a calendar month unless otherwise expressed. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Motor vehicle: means any self-propelled vehicle including a car, van, bus or motorcycle and all other motorized vehicles. See Arizona Laws 49-581
• Multipurpose event center: means a building, a group of buildings or a structure that is designed or configured to be adaptable in providing venues that can accommodate various events such as musical concerts, theater performances, trade shows, sporting events, conventions, conferences and other social, cultural, business or entertainment events. See Arizona Laws 48-6801
• Municipal water delivery system: means an entity that distributes or sells potable water primarily through a pipeline delivery system that is owned by either:

  (a) A city or town incorporated or chartered under the constitution and laws of this state. See Arizona Laws 48-6402

• Municipal water provider: means a city, town, domestic water improvement district, private water company or irrigation district that supplies water for nonirrigation use. See Arizona Laws 48-5901
• Municipality: means an incorporated city or town. See Arizona Laws 48-5301
• municipality: means an incorporated city or town. See Arizona Laws 9-461
• Municipality: means an incorporated city or town and includes an Indian tribe or community. See Arizona Laws 48-6801
• National ambient air quality standard: means the ambient air pollutant concentration limits established by the administrator pursuant to 42 United States Code § 7409. See Arizona Laws 49-401.01
• New facility: means a previously closed facility that resumes operation or a facility on which construction was begun after August 13, 1986 on a site at which no other facility is located or to totally replace the process or production equipment that causes the discharge from an existing facility. See Arizona Laws 49-201
• New pesticide: means a pesticide that contains an active ingredient for which the information required under section 49-302, subsection A has not been submitted by the applicant for registration and that has not been approved by the director of environmental quality. See Arizona Laws 49-301
• Nonattainment area: means any area in this state that is designated as prescribed by section 49-405 and where violations of national ambient air quality standards have been measured. See Arizona Laws 49-401.01
• Nonattainment area plan: means an air pollution control plan developed in accordance with 42 United States Code §§ 7501 through 7515. See Arizona Laws 49-401.01
• Nonpoint source: means any conveyance that is not a point source from which pollutants are or may be discharged to WOTUS. See Arizona Laws 49-201
• Nonrecoverable costs: means any costs incurred by the director after June 30, 1997:

  (a) That consist of salaries and benefits paid to state employees, including direct and indirect costs, except as specifically provided in Section 49-282. See Arizona Laws 49-281

• Nonresidential use: means those uses of property other than residential uses. See Arizona Laws 49-151
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• Oath: includes an affirmation or declaration. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Official emissions inspection station: means an inspection facility, other than a fleet emissions inspection station, whether placed in a permanent structure or in a mobile unit for conveyance among various locations within this state, for the purpose of conducting emissions inspections of all vehicles required to be inspected pursuant to this article. See Arizona Laws 49-541
• On site: means the same or geographically contiguous property that may be divided by public or private right-of-way if the entrance and exit between the properties are at a crossroads intersection and access is by crossing the right-of-way and not by traveling along the right-of-way. See Arizona Laws 49-701
• On-site wastewater treatment facility: means a conventional septic tank system or alternative system that is installed at a site to treat and dispose of wastewater of predominantly human origin that is generated at that site. See Arizona Laws 49-201
• Oral argument: An opportunity for lawyers to summarize their position before the court and also to answer the judges' questions.
• Ordinary high watermark: means the line on the shore of an intermittent or perennial protected surface water established by the fluctuations of water and indicated by physical characteristics such as a clear, natural line impressed on the bank, shelving, changes in the character of soil, destruction of terrestrial vegetation, the presence of litter and debris or other appropriate means that consider the characteristics of the channel, floodplain and riparian area. See Arizona Laws 49-201
• Organization: means a company, corporation, political subdivision, firm, enterprise or institution, or any part or combination, whether incorporated or not, public or private, that has its own functions and administration. See Arizona Laws 49-192
• Orphan shares: means the shares of the cost of a remedial action that are allocated to an identified person who is determined to be a responsible party and that are not paid or otherwise satisfied by that responsible party due to any of the following:

  (a) The party cannot be located or no longer exists. See Arizona Laws 49-281

• Outlays: Outlays are payments made (generally through the issuance of checks or disbursement of cash) to liquidate obligations. Outlays during a fiscal year may be for payment of obligations incurred in prior years or in the same year.
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Owner: means the person in whose name legal title appears by recorded deed, or the person in possession under claim of title, as the person exercising acts of ownership for himself or as the personal representative of the owner, including the governing boards of school districts owning property within the district. See Arizona Laws 48-6001
• Owner: means the person in whose name legal title appears by recorded deed, or the person in possession under claim of title, as the person exercising acts of ownership or as the personal representative of the owner. See Arizona Laws 48-5701
• Owner: means the person who, on the day the action, election or proceeding is begun or held, appears to be the owner of real property as shown on the property tax assessment roll. See Arizona Laws 48-6801
• Owner: means all persons or entities that currently hold fee title to property other than as security for an obligation. See Arizona Laws 49-151
• Peace officers: means sheriffs of counties, constables, marshals, policemen of cities and towns, commissioned personnel of the department of public safety, personnel who are employed by the state department of corrections and the department of juvenile corrections and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board, peace officers who are appointed by a multicounty water conservation district and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board, police officers who are appointed by community college district governing boards and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board, police officers who are appointed by the Arizona board of regents and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board, police officers who are appointed by the governing body of a public airport pursuant to section 28-8426 and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board, peace officers who are appointed by a private postsecondary institution pursuant to section 15-1897 and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board and special agents from the office of the attorney general, or of a county attorney, and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Permit: means a written authorization issued by the director or prescribed by this chapter or in a rule adopted under this chapter stating the conditions and restrictions governing a discharge or governing the construction, operation or modification of a facility. See Arizona Laws 49-201
• Permit: includes all or any part of a county permit, license, certificate, approval, registration, charter or similar form of permission required by law. See Arizona Laws 49-471
• Permitting: includes the county process for granting, denying, renewing, revoking, suspending, annulling, withdrawing or amending a permit. See Arizona Laws 49-471
• Permitting authority: means the department or a county department or agency that is charged with enforcing a permit program adopted pursuant to section 49-480, subsection A. See Arizona Laws 49-401.01
• Person: means an individual, employee, officer, managing body, trust, firm, joint stock company, consortium, public or private corporation, including a government corporation, partnership, association or state, a political subdivision of this state, a commission, the United States government or any federal facility, interstate body or other entity. See Arizona Laws 49-201
• Person: means any public or private corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society of persons, the federal government and any of its departments or agencies, this state or any of its agencies, departments, political subdivisions, counties, towns or municipal corporations, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 49-701
• Person: includes an individual, household, firm, corporation, company or association. See Arizona Laws 3-701
• Person: includes any public or private corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society of persons, the federal government and any of its departments or agencies, the state and any of its agencies, departments or political subdivisions, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 49-421
• Person: includes any public or private corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society of persons, the federal government and any of its departments or agencies, the state and any of its agencies, departments or political subdivisions, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 49-471
• Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Personal property: includes money, goods, chattels, things in action and evidences of debt. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Pesticide: means any substance or mixture of substances intended for either:

  (a) Preventing, destroying, repelling or mitigating any pest. See Arizona Laws 49-301

• Petty offense: A federal misdemeanor punishable by six months or less in prison. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• physician: means a person licensed pursuant to Title 32, Chapter 13 or 17. See Arizona Laws 48-5501
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Planning agency: means an organization designated by the governor pursuant to 42 United States Code § 7504. See Arizona Laws 49-401.01
• Planning agency: means the official body designated by local ordinance to carry out the purposes of this article and may be a planning department, a planning commission, a hearing officer, the legislative body itself, or any combination thereof. See Arizona Laws 9-461
• Point source: means any discernible, confined and discrete conveyance, including any pipe, ditch, channel, tunnel, conduit, well, discrete fissure, container, rolling stock, concentrated animal feeding operation or vessel or other floating craft from which pollutants are or may be discharged to WOTUS or protected surface water. See Arizona Laws 49-201
• Political subdivision: means a city, town or county of this state. See Arizona Laws 49-581
• Pollutant: means fluids, contaminants, toxic wastes, toxic pollutants, dredged spoil, solid waste, substances and chemicals, pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers and other agricultural chemicals, incinerator residue, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, petroleum products, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt and mining, industrial, municipal and agricultural wastes or any other liquid, solid, gaseous or hazardous substances. See Arizona Laws 49-201
• Population: means the population determined in the most recent United States decennial census or the most recent special census as provided in section 28-6532. See Arizona Laws 48-5301
• Population: means the population according to the most recent United States decennial census. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Portable source: means any stationary source that is capable of being transported and operated in more than one county of this state. See Arizona Laws 49-401.01
• Postclosure monitoring and maintenance: means those activities that are conducted after closure notification and that are necessary to:

  (a) Keep the facility in compliance with either the aquifer water quality standards at the applicable point of compliance or, for any aquifer water quality standard that is exceeded at the time the aquifer protection permit is issued, the requirement to prevent the facility from further degrading the aquifer at the applicable point of compliance as provided under section 49-243, subsection B, paragraph 3. See Arizona Laws 49-201

• Potential to emit: means the maximum capacity of a stationary source to emit a pollutant, excluding secondary emissions, under its physical and operational design. See Arizona Laws 49-401.01
• Practicably: means able to be reasonably done from the standpoint of technical practicability and, except for pollutants addressed in section 49-243, subsection I, economically achievable on an industry-wide basis. See Arizona Laws 49-201
• Primary standard attainment date: means the date defined within a nonattainment area plan in accordance with 42 United States Code §§ 7401 through 7515 or applicable regulations adopted by the United States environmental protection agency by January 1, 1999 and after which date primary national ambient air quality standards may not be violated. See Arizona Laws 49-401.01
• Private water company: means a public service corporation as defined in article XV, Constitution of Arizona, that provides water or wastewater services or both. See Arizona Laws 48-5901
• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• processing: means the reduction, separation, recovery, conversion or recycling of solid waste. See Arizona Laws 49-701
• Property: includes both real and personal property. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• Protected surface waters: means waters of the state listed on the protected surface waters list under section 49-221, subsection G and all WOTUS. See Arizona Laws 49-201
• Public agency: includes this state and any county, city, town, district or other public agency or entity established under the laws of this state or the federal government. See Arizona Laws 48-5101
• Public interest group: means any nonprofit group whose purpose is to further the welfare of the community. See Arizona Laws 49-581
• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• Public transportation: means local transportation of passengers by means of a public conveyance. See Arizona Laws 48-5101
• Public transportation: means local transportation of passengers by means of a public conveyance, including para-transit. See Arizona Laws 48-5301
• Public waters: means waters of the state open to or managed for use by members of the general public. See Arizona Laws 49-201
• Publicly owned treatment works: means a treatment works owned by this state or a municipality of this state as defined in section 502(4) of the clean water act or that discharges to a protected surface water. See Arizona Laws 49-255
• Pyrolysis: means a manufacturing process through which post-use polymers are heated in the absence of oxygen until melted, are thermally decomposed and are then cooled, condensed and converted into valuable raw, intermediate and final products, including plastic monomers, chemicals, waxes, lubricants, chemical feedstocks, crude oil, diesel, gasoline, diesel and gasoline blendstocks, home heating oil and other fuels, including ethanol and transportation fuel, that are returned to economic utility in the form of raw materials, products or fuels. See Arizona Laws 49-701
• Qualified electors: means persons who are qualified to vote pursuant to title 16. See Arizona Laws 48-5501
• Quality: means the inherent properties of any product that determine its relative degree of excellence. See Arizona Laws 3-701
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Reasonable further progress: means the schedule of emission reductions defined within a nonattainment area plan as being necessary to come into compliance with a national ambient air quality standard by the primary standard attainment date. See Arizona Laws 49-401.01
• Recharge project: means a facility necessary or convenient to obtain, divert, withdraw, transport, exchange, deliver, treat or store water to infiltrate or reintroduce that water into the ground. See Arizona Laws 49-201
• Reclaimed water: means water that has been treated or processed by a wastewater treatment plant or an on-site wastewater treatment facility. See Arizona Laws 49-201
• Recourse: An arrangement in which a bank retains, in form or in substance, any credit risk directly or indirectly associated with an asset it has sold (in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles) that exceeds a pro rata share of the bank's claim on the asset. If a bank has no claim on an asset it has sold, then the retention of any credit risk is recourse. ^{Source: FDIC}
• Recycling facility: means a solid waste facility that is owned, operated or used for the storage, treatment or processing of recyclable solid waste and that handles wastes that have a significant adverse effect on the environment. See Arizona Laws 49-701
• Reduced emission vehicle: means a motor vehicle that is certified by the task force as being substantially lower emitting in actual use than vehicles generally purchased in the area and that shall be counted as less than a single motor vehicle for travel reduction plan purposes. See Arizona Laws 49-581
• Reduced emission vehicle factor: means a factor that is applied to the single occupancy vehicle count and the motor vehicle miles traveled count pursuant to section 49-588 to allow a reduced emission vehicle to receive less than the full count of a regular motor vehicle or a mile traveled by a regular motor vehicle. See Arizona Laws 49-581
• Regional: means an area which encompasses or overlaps territory within the jurisdiction of two or more political subdivisions of this state. See Arizona Laws 49-581
• Regional program: means the combination of all implemented plans within area A which program shall begin in January, 1989. See Arizona Laws 49-581
• Register: means the Arizona administrative register. See Arizona Laws 49-471
• Registrant: means a person that has registered a pesticide pursuant to Title 3, Chapter 2, Article 5. See Arizona Laws 49-301
• Regulated agricultural activity: means the application of nitrogen fertilizer or a concentrated animal feeding operation. See Arizona Laws 49-201
• Release: means any spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, discharging, injecting, escaping, leaching, dumping or disposing into the environment but excludes:

  (a) Any release that results in exposure to persons solely within a workplace, with respect to a claim that such persons may assert against the employer of such persons. See Arizona Laws 49-281

• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• Remand: When an appellate court sends a case back to a lower court for further proceedings.
• Remedial actions: means those actions that are reasonable, necessary, cost-effective and technically feasible in the event of the release or threat of release of hazardous substances into the environment, such actions as may be necessary to investigate, monitor, assess and evaluate such release or threat of release, actions of remediation, removal or disposal of hazardous substances or taking such other actions as may be necessary to prevent, minimize or mitigate damage to the public health or welfare or to the environment that may otherwise result from a release or threat of release of a hazardous substance. See Arizona Laws 49-281
• Remediation: means either:

  (a) The treatment or removal of contaminated environmental media to meet predetermined risk levels or site specific risk levels. See Arizona Laws 49-151

• Remediation: means action taken to address a contaminant by reducing the level of the contaminant in the environment or preventing or reducing exposure to the contaminant. See Arizona Laws 49-171
• Remedy: means a remedial action selected in a record of decision issued pursuant to Section 49-287. See Arizona Laws 49-281
• Reporter: Makes a record of court proceedings and prepares a transcript, and also publishes the court's opinions or decisions (in the courts of appeals).
• Rescission: The cancellation of budget authority previously provided by Congress. The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 specifies that the President may propose to Congress that funds be rescinded. If both Houses have not approved a rescission proposal (by passing legislation) within 45 days of continuous session, any funds being withheld must be made available for obligation.
• Revenue bonds: means those bonds that are issued pursuant to this article and that are secured by a pledge of revenues of the district or revenues collected by the county or municipality and returned to the district. See Arizona Laws 48-6801
• Ridesharing: means transportation of more than one person for commute purposes in a motor vehicle, with or without the assistance of a commuter matching service. See Arizona Laws 49-581
• Right-of-way: means any public right-of-way and includes any area required for public use pursuant to any general or specific plan. See Arizona Laws 9-461
• Rule or ordinance making: means the process for formulation and adoption of a rule or ordinance. See Arizona Laws 49-471
• Safe drinking water act: means the federal safe drinking water act, as amended (P. See Arizona Laws 49-201
• Salvaging: means the removal of solid waste from a solid waste facility with the permission and in accordance with rules or ordinances of the management agency for purposes of productive reuse. See Arizona Laws 49-701
• SARA: means the superfund amendments and reauthorization act of 1986 (P. See Arizona Laws 49-121
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• Site: means the areal extent of contamination. See Arizona Laws 49-171
• Site: means the geographical areal extent of contamination. See Arizona Laws 49-281
• Site host: means a city or county. See Arizona Laws 48-6201
• Size: means classified as to weight. See Arizona Laws 3-701
• Soil adsorption coefficient: means a measure of the tendency of a pesticide, or its biologically active transformation products, to bond to the surfaces of soil particles. See Arizona Laws 49-301
• Solid waste facility: means a transfer facility and any site owned, operated or used by any person for the storage, processing, treatment or disposal of solid waste, conditionally exempt small quantity generator waste or household hazardous waste but does not include the following:

  (a) A site at which less than one ton of solid waste that is not household waste, household hazardous waste, conditionally exempt small quantity generator waste, medical waste or special waste and that was generated on site is stored, processed, treated or disposed in compliance with Section 49-762. See Arizona Laws 49-701

• Solid waste management: means the systematic administration of activities that provide for the collection, source separation, storage, transportation, transfer, processing, treatment or disposal of solid waste in a manner that protects public health and safety and the environment and prevents and abates environmental nuisances. See Arizona Laws 49-701
• Source: means any building, structure, facility or installation that may cause or contribute to air pollution or the use of which may eliminate, reduce or control the emission of air pollution. See Arizona Laws 49-401.01
• Source: means a site or portion of a site where a contaminant is or may be released to waters of the state. See Arizona Laws 49-171
• Special payments: means any payments made pursuant to Section 36-2903. See Arizona Laws 48-5501
• Specific plan: means a detailed element of the general plan enacted under the provisions of this article or a prior statute. See Arizona Laws 9-461
• Staff: means the county staff assigned to the task force. See Arizona Laws 49-581
• Standards: means water quality standards, pretreatment standards and toxicity standards established pursuant to this chapter. See Arizona Laws 49-201
• State implementation plan: means the accumulated record of enforceable air pollution control measures, programs and plans adopted by the director and submitted to the administrator pursuant to 42 United States Code § 7410. See Arizona Laws 49-401.01
• Stationary source: means any facility, building, equipment, device or machine that operates at a fixed location and that emits or generates air contaminants. See Arizona Laws 49-401.01
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Storage: means the holding of solid waste. See Arizona Laws 49-701
• Street: means streets, highways, freeways, expressways, avenues, boulevards, parkways, roads, lanes, walks, alleys, viaducts, subways, tunnels, bridges, public access easements and rights-of-way. See Arizona Laws 9-461
• Subcontainer: means a container that is used within another container. See Arizona Laws 3-701
• Subdivision regulations: means a municipal ordinance regulating the design and improvement of subdivisions enacted under the provisions of article 6. See Arizona Laws 9-461
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Supervisor: means the supervisor of egg inspection or the supervisor's authorized representative. See Arizona Laws 3-701
• Surface water quality standard: means a standard adopted for a protected surface water pursuant to section 49-221 and, in the case of WOTUS, pursuant to section 49-222. See Arizona Laws 49-231
• Tampering: means removing, defeating or altering an emissions control device which was installed at the time a vehicle was manufactured. See Arizona Laws 49-541
• Tank: means a stationary device, including a sump, that is constructed of concrete, steel, plastic, fiberglass, or other non-earthen material that provides substantial structural support, and that is designed to contain an accumulation of solid, liquid or gaseous materials. See Arizona Laws 49-201
• Task force: means the travel reduction program regional task force in area A which is designated by the board as the responsible agency to implement and enforce this article. See Arizona Laws 49-581
• Temporary restraining order: Prohibits a person from an action that is likely to cause irreparable harm. This differs from an injunction in that it may be granted immediately, without notice to the opposing party, and without a hearing. It is intended to last only until a hearing can be held.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Theme park purpose: includes the following purposes:

  (a) The capital costs of acquiring, designing, developing, constructing, reconstructing, equipping and improving theme park facilities and directly related improvements and of on-site and off-site public infrastructure. See Arizona Laws 48-6271

• TMDL implementation plan: means a written strategy to implement a total maximum daily load that is developed for an impaired water. See Arizona Laws 49-231
• Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
• Total maximum daily load: means an estimation of the total amount of a pollutant from all sources that may be added to a water while still allowing the water to achieve and maintain applicable surface water quality standards. See Arizona Laws 49-231
• Toxic pollutant: means a substance that will cause significant adverse reactions if ingested in drinking water. See Arizona Laws 49-201
• Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
• Transit: means a bus or other public conveyance system. See Arizona Laws 49-581
• Transportation coordinator: means a person designated by an employer, property manager or transportation management association as the lead person in developing and implementing a travel reduction plan. See Arizona Laws 49-581
• Transportation management association: means a group of employers or associations formally organized to seek solutions for transportation problems experienced by the group. See Arizona Laws 49-581
• Travel reduction plan: means a written report outlining travel reduction measures. See Arizona Laws 49-581
• Travel reduction program: means a program that implements a travel reduction plan by an employer and is designed to achieve a predetermined level of travel reduction through various incentives and disincentives. See Arizona Laws 49-581
• Treasurer: includes any person or official who performs the duties of treasurer of the municipality or any person appointed by the district board as the district treasurer. See Arizona Laws 48-6801
• Treatment: means any method, technique or process used to change the physical, chemical or biological character of solid waste so as to render that waste safer for transport, amenable for processing, amenable for storage or reduced in volume. See Arizona Laws 49-701
• Treatment works: means any devices and systems that are used in the storage, treatment, recycling and reclamation of municipal sewage or industrial wastes of a liquid nature, the elements essential to providing a reliable recycled supply such as standby treatment units and clear well facilities, and any works that will be an integral part of the treatment process or that are used for residues resulting from that treatment. See Arizona Laws 49-255
• Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. ^{Source: OCC}
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• User fees: Fees charged to users of goods or services provided by the government. In levying or authorizing these fees, the legislature determines whether the revenue should go into the treasury or should be available to the agency providing the goods or services.
• Vadose zone: means the zone between the ground surface and any aquifer. See Arizona Laws 49-201
• vanpool: means two or more persons traveling in an automobile, truck or van to or from work. See Arizona Laws 49-581
• Vehicle: means any automobile, truck, truck tractor, motor bus or self-propelled or motor-driven vehicle registered or to be registered in this state and used upon the public highways of this state for the purpose of transporting persons or property, except implements of husbandry, road rollers or road machinery temporarily operated upon the highway. See Arizona Laws 49-541
• Vehicle miles traveled: means the number of miles traveled by a motor vehicle for commute trips. See Arizona Laws 49-581
• Vertical cross-contamination: means the vertical migration of released hazardous substances in groundwater through a well from an aquifer or aquifer layer to another aquifer or aquifer layer. See Arizona Laws 49-281
• Waste pile: means any noncontainerized accumulation of solid, nonflowing waste that is used for treatment or storage. See Arizona Laws 49-701
• Waste tire facility: means a solid waste facility at which five thousand or more waste tires are stored outdoors on any day. See Arizona Laws 49-701
• Watercourse master plan: means a hydraulic plan for a watercourse that is prepared by a county flood control district, that examines the cumulative impacts of existing development and future encroachment in the floodplain and future development in the watershed on potential flood damages and that establishes technical criteria for subsequent development so as to minimize potential flood damages for all flood events up to and including the one hundred-year flood. See Arizona Laws 48-6001
• Waters of the state: means all waters within the jurisdiction of this state including all perennial or intermittent streams, lakes, ponds, impounding reservoirs, marshes, watercourses, waterways, wells, aquifers, springs, irrigation systems, drainage systems and other bodies or accumulations of surface, underground, natural, artificial, public or private water situated wholly or partly in or bordering on the state. See Arizona Laws 49-201
• Well: means a bored, drilled or driven shaft, pit or hole whose depth is greater than its largest surface dimension. See Arizona Laws 49-201
• Wilfully: means , with respect to conduct or to a circumstance described by a statute defining an offense, that a person is aware or believes that the person's conduct is of that nature or that the circumstance exists. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Work site: means a building and any grouping of buildings which are on physically contiguous parcels of land or on parcels separated solely by private or public roadways or rights-of-way and which are owned or operated by the same employer. See Arizona Laws 49-581
• WOTUS: means waters of the state that are also navigable waters as defined by section 502(7) of the clean water act. See Arizona Laws 49-201
• WOTUS protected surface water: means a protected surface water that is a WOTUS. See Arizona Laws 49-201
• Zoning ordinance: means a municipal ordinance regulating the use of land or structures, or both, under the provisions of this article. See Arizona Laws 9-461