Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 49 > Chapter 6 > Article 3 - Underground Storage Tank Revolving Fund Payment Process

• Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• 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.
• Closure: means the removal of an underground storage tank from operation. See Arizona Laws 49-1001
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Corrective actions: means those actions that are prescribed pursuant to section 49-1005. See Arizona Laws 49-1001
• Designated representative: means a person to whom an owner or an operator, or both, assign in writing any right, title or interest that the owner or operator, or both, may have in and to the proceeds of a reimbursement for a corrective action made under article 3 of this chapter. See Arizona Laws 49-1001
• Director: means the director of environmental quality who is also the director of the department. See Arizona Laws 49-101
• including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Month: means a calendar month unless otherwise expressed. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Occurrence: means an incident or accident, including continuous or repeated exposure to conditions, which results in a release from an underground storage tank. See Arizona Laws 49-1001
• Operator: means a person in control of, or having responsibility for, the day-to-day operation of an underground storage tank. See Arizona Laws 49-1001
• Person: means an individual, trust, firm, joint stock company, corporation, joint venture, partnership, association, consortium, state, municipality, interstate body, commission, political subdivision of a state and the United States government. See Arizona Laws 49-1001
• Political subdivision: means a county, city, town or other taxing district other than the state that is authorized to take property by eminent domain. See Arizona Laws 49-1001
• Process: means a citation, writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Property: includes both real and personal property. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Regulated substance: means :

  (a) Petroleum. See Arizona Laws 49-1001

• Release: means a spill, leak, emission, discharge, escape, leach or disposal of a regulated substance from an underground storage tank into groundwater, surface water or soils. See Arizona Laws 49-1001
• Tank: means a stationary device constructed of wood, concrete, steel, plastic or other nonearthen materials and used to contain regulated substances. See Arizona Laws 49-1001
• Underground storage tank: means a tank or combination of tanks and underground pipes and impact valves connected to tanks being used or having been used to contain regulated substances and which has at least ten percent of the total volume of the tank and underground portions of pipes connected to the tank underground. See Arizona Laws 49-1001