Terms Used In South Carolina Code > Title 51 > Chapter 9 - Fort Watson Memorial

• Department: means the Department of Health and Environmental Control. See South Carolina Code 44-56-410
• Dry drop-off facility: means a commercial retail business (including routes) that receives clothing and other fabrics, from customers, for drycleaning or laundering at an off-site drycleaning facility. See South Carolina Code 44-56-410
• Drycleaning facility: includes laundry facilities that are using or have used drycleaning solvent as part of their cleaning process but does not include textile mills, uniform rental and linen supply facilities, or drycleaning facilities owned or operated by a local, state, or federal government. See South Carolina Code 44-56-410
• Drycleaning solvent: includes solvent that has been recycled for use at a drycleaning facility and applies only to those solvents used at a drycleaning facility or handled by a wholesale supply facility. See South Carolina Code 44-56-410
• Freedom of Information Act: A federal law that mandates that all the records created and kept by federal agencies in the executive branch of government must be open for public inspection and copying. The only exceptions are those records that fall into one of nine exempted categories listed in the statute. ^{Source: OCC}
• Fund: means Drycleaning Facility Restoration Trust Fund. See South Carolina Code 44-56-410
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Halogenated drycleaning fluid: means any nonaqueous solvent formulated, in whole or in part, with ten percent or more by volume of any of the halogenated compounds including, but not limited to, chlorine, bromine, fluorine, or iodine. See South Carolina Code 44-56-410
• 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}
• New drycleaning facility: means a drycleaning facility that started operation on or after November 24, 2004. See South Carolina Code 44-56-410
• Nonhalogenated drycleaning fluid: means any nonaqueous solvent used in a drycleaning facility that contains less than ten percent by volume of any halogenated drycleaning fluid. See South Carolina Code 44-56-410
• Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, trust, estate, receiver, company, limited liability company, or another entity or group. See South Carolina Code 44-56-410
• Property owner: means a person who is vested with ownership, dominion, or legal or rightful title to the real property or who has a ground lease interest in the real property on which a drycleaning or wholesale supply facility is or has ever been located. See South Carolina Code 44-56-410
• Storage: means the actual or intended containment of wastes, either on a temporary basis or for a period of years, in such manner as not to constitute disposal of such hazardous wastes. See South Carolina Code 44-56-20
• Wholesale supply facility: means a commercial establishment that supplies drycleaning solvent to drycleaning facilities. See South Carolina Code 44-56-410