Environmental Protection Agency § 302.4
Environmental Protection Agency § 302.4 State, municipality, commission, polit- ern Marianas, and any other territory ical subdivision of a State, or any or possession over which the United interstate body; States has jurisdiction; and Release means any spilling, leaking, Vessel means every description of pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, watercraft or other artificial contriv- discharging, injecting, escaping, leach- ance used, or capable of being used, as ing, dumping, or disposing into the en- a means of transportation on water. vironment (including the abandonment or discarding of barrels, containers, [50 FR 13474, Apr. 4, 1985, as amended at 67 FR 45321, July 9, 2002] and other closed receptacles containing any hazardous substance or pollutant § 302.4 Designation of hazardous sub- or contaminant), but excludes: stances. (1) Any release which results in expo- (a) Listed hazardous substances. The sure to persons solely within a work- place, with respect to a claim which elements and compounds and haz- such persons may assert against the ardous wastes appearing in table 302.4 employer of such persons; are designated as hazardous substances (2) Emissions from the engine ex- under section 102(a) of the Act. haust of a motor vehicle, rolling stock, (b) Unlisted hazardous substances. A aircraft, vessel, or pipeline pumping solid waste, as defined in 40 CFR 261.2, station engine; which is not excluded from regulation (3) Release of source, byproduct, or as a hazardous waste under 40 CFR special nuclear material from a nuclear 261.4(b), is a hazardous substance under incident, as those terms are defined in section 101(14) of the Act if it exhibits the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, if such any of the characteristics identified in release is subject to requirements with 40 CFR 261.20 through 261.24.
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