The Allegheny County Health Department.
Those operations which include tilling, cultivation and animal
husbandry and which qualify as earthmoving pursuant to Chapter 102
of the DEP Rules and Regulations.
The area surrounding a pumping well within which the water
table elevation has been lowered due to groundwater withdrawal.
The Allegheny County Conservation District.
An erosion and sedimentation control plan prepared for agricultural
properties as required by Chapter 102 of the DEP Rules and Regulations
and as reviewed and approved by the Conservation District.
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.
A basin designed to retard stormwater runoff by temporarily
storing the runoff and releasing it at a predetermined rate through
a defined outlet structure.
A document authorized by the Pennsylvania Worker and Community
Right-to-Know Act[1] which, if required by the Department of Labor and Industry
for a facility, describes the hazardous substances emitted, discharged
or disposed of from the workplace.
The Federal Environmental Protection Agency.
See Exhibit 1, Groundwater Sources, on file at the Hampton
Shaler Water Authority.[2]
A product or waste or combination of substances that, because
of the quantity, concentration, physical, chemical or infectious characteristics,
if not properly treated, stored, transported, used or disposed of,
or otherwise managed, would create a potential threat to public health
through direct or indirect introduction into groundwater resources
and the subsurface environment, which includes the soil and all subsequent
materials located below. Such hazardous materials include, but are
not limited to, materials which may be included on one or more of
the following lists:
Occupational Safety and Health Act, 29 CFR Part 1910, Subpart
Z, Extremely Hazardous Substance List.
American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists, Threshold
Limit Values for Chemical Substances and Physical Agents in the Work
Environment (latest edition).
National Toxicology Program, Annual Report on Carcinogens (latest
edition).
International Agency for Research on Cancer Monographs (latest
edition).
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Labor and Industry,
Hazardous Substance List (latest edition).
"Hazardous substances" defined pursuant to Section 311 of the
Federal Clean Water Act.
"Toxic materials" defined pursuant to Chapter 75 of the DEP
Rules and Regulations.
"Hazardous wastes" defined pursuant to Section 101 of the Federal
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act.
A document required by the Pennsylvania Worker and Community
Right-to-Know Act which provides a listing of all hazardous substances
found in the workplace.
Any of the following activities:
The improvement of one lot or two more contiguous lots, tracts
or parcels of land for any purpose involving:
A group of two or more residential or nonresidential buildings,
whether proposed initially or cumulatively, or a single nonresidential
building on a lot or lots regardless of the number of occupants or
tenure; or
The division or allocation of land or space, whether initially
or cumulatively, between or among two or more existing or prospective
occupants by means of, or for the purpose of, streets, common areas,
leaseholds, condominiums, building groups or other features.
A subdivision of land.
Development in accordance with Section 503(1.1) of the Municipalities
Planning Code.
A sewage disposal facility which is designed to discharge
directly to the soil profile, whether natural or enhanced, and which
has a design capacity in excess of 10,000 gallons per day.
Industrial, commercial, public or retail establishments which
engage in manufacturing, fabrication or service activities and which
appear on the following list:
Bulk agricultural products dealers and distributors.
Mining and quarrying.
Highway deicing material storage.
Textile and apparel products.
Lumber and wood preserving.
Printing and publishing.
Chemical products.
Leather products.
Mineral products: glass and cement.
Metal products.
Machine shops.
Electronics and electronic equipment.
Transportation maintenance.
Scrap trade and metal container recyclers.
Chemical and petroleum storage and sales.
Automotive repair, service and related parking.
Personal services; laundry, pest control and photo finishing.
Repair service; furniture, welding and septage services.
Amusement and recreation.
Educational, medical and engineering laboratories.
Landscapers.
Industrial establishments which produce primary products
from raw materials.
The Township of Shaler.
A document applicable to agricultural properties which describes
the storage, handling and application of fertilizers, including manure,
related to agricultural production.
An individual, association, public or private corporation
for profit or not-for-profit, partnership, firm, trust, estate, department,
board, bureau or agency of the commonwealth, political subdivision,
municipality, district, authority or any other legal entity whatsoever
which is recognized by law as the subject of rights and duties.
A document applicable to agricultural properties which describes
the storage, handling and application of products to control pests
and undesirable vegetation related to agricultural production.
An environmental emergency response document authorized by
Chapter 101 of the DEP Rules and Regulations which is applicable to
facilities which handle materials with the potential for accidental
pollution of the waters of the commonwealth. Specific requirements
for a PIP plan are contained in "Guidelines for the Development and
Implementation of Environmental Emergency Response Plans," PADEP,
September 1990.
An environmental emergency response document required by
the Federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act[3] of facilities which generate, store, treat or dispose
of hazardous wastes. Hazardous wastes are those defined within the
DEP regulations or other wastes which meet specific characteristic
tests.
A person who, by education, experience, certification or
licensure, has demonstrated expertise in a particular field.
Any well used or intended to be used as a groundwater supply
source as part of a public water supply system for which wellhead
protection areas have been established.
A basin designed to retard stormwater runoff by temporarily
storing the runoff, which does not have a defined outlet structure
and which empties through a combination of evaporation, transpiration
and infiltration.
A document required by the Federal Superfund Amendments and
Reauthorization Act (SARA) which applies to employers who have extremely
hazardous substances in the workplace. The document identifies the
transportation route of extremely hazardous substances, a description
of the workplace, and a risk analysis of the operation to the surrounding
community.
Documents required by the Federal Superfund Amendments and
Reauthorization Act (SARA) which apply to employers who have extremely
hazardous substances in the workplace. The Tier I document lists the
amounts and locations within the workplace of extremely hazardous
substances by type of hazard (e.g., fire, explosion, acute health
hazard). The Tier II document provides a listing of each specific
extremely hazardous substance in the workplace and each specific extremely
hazardous substance exceeding 10,000 pounds at any one time.
Any substance that contains any of the waste products or
excrement or other discharge from the bodies of human beings or animals
and any noxious or deleterious substances being harmful or inimical
to the public health, or to animal or aquatic life, or to the use
of water for domestic water supply or for recreation, or which constitutes
pollution under the Act of June 22, 1937 (P.L. 1987, No. 394), known
as "The Clean Streams Law," as amended.
A combination of piping, tanks or other facilities for the
collection, conveyance, treatment and disposal of sewage.
The course screenings, grit and dewatered or air-dried products
of sewage treatment, septic and holding tank pumping and any other
residues from sewage collection and treatment systems which require
disposal.
A closed, generally circular depression in the land surface
of variable depths and width, characterized by a distinct breaking
of the ground surface, and formed by solution of carbonate bedrock
and downward movement of soil into bedrock voids or by collapse of
underlying caves.
An environmental quality emergency response document required
by the Federal Clean Water Act for facilities which handle hazardous
substances, as defined in the Clean Water Act. The plan requirements
are virtually the same as for a PIP plan.
An environmental emergency response document required by
the Pennsylvania Storage Tank and Spill Prevention Act (STSPA)[4] for facilities with an aboveground storage tank exceeding
a volume of 21,000 gallons. The plan requirements are specified in
Sections 902 and 903 of the STSPA. A downstream notification requirement
applies to regulated tanks adjacent to surface waters.
The containment of hazardous material on a temporary basis
in such a manner as not to constitute disposal of such waste. It shall
be presumed that the containment of hazardous material in excess of
one year constitutes disposal. This presumption can be overcome by
clear and convincing evidence to the contrary.
A tank which contains substances as regulated under the Storage
Tank and Spill Prevention Act (STSPA)[5] which meets the following criteria: a stationary tank
with 250 gallons or more of capacity with greater than 90% of its
capacity aboveground. Specific exceptions to this definition are included
within the STSPA.
A tank which contains substances as regulated under the Storage
Tank and Spill Prevention Act (STSPA) which meets the following criteria:
a tank with 110 gallons or more of capacity with 10% or greater of
its capacity beneath the ground surface. Specific exceptions to this
definition are included within the STSPA.
The division or redivision of a lot, tract or parcel of land
by any means into two or more lots, parcels or other divisions of
land, including changes in the existing lot lines for the purpose,
whether immediate or future, of lease, partition by the court for
distribution to heirs or devisees, transfer of ownership or building
or lot development; provided, however, that the subdivision by lease
of land for agricultural purposes into parcels of more than 10 acres,
not involving any new street or easement of access or any residential
dwelling, shall be exempted.
A bored, driven or dug well for the emplacement of fluids
into the ground (except drilling muds and similar materials used in
well construction).
Garbage, refuse and other discarded materials, including,
but not limited to, solid and liquid materials resulting from municipal,
industrial, commercial, institutional, agricultural and residential
activities.
Any excavation that is drilled, cored, bored, washed, driven,
dug, jetted or otherwise constructed, and when the intended use of
such excavation is to conduct groundwater from an aquifer or aquifer
system to the surface by pumping or natural flow, or to monitor the
characteristics of groundwater within an aquifer system.
The area of the land surface that is within the area of protected
public water supply wells.
[1]
Editor's Note: See 35 P.S. § 7301 et seq., Act 159 of
1984.
[2]
Editor's Note: Said Exhibit 1, Groundwater Sources, defines
the three-tiered wellhead protection area as provided in the Pennsylvania
State Drinking Water Act Regulations for groundwater sources serving
public water supplies.
[3]
Editor's Note: See 42 U.S.C. §6901 et seq.
[4]
Editor's Note: See 35 P.S. § 6021.101 et seq.
[5]
Editor's Note: See 35 P.S. § 6021.101 et seq.
