Sec. 22a-448. (Formerly Sec. 25-54bb). Pollution by chemical liquid, hazardous waste, oil or petroleum, waste oil or solid, liquid or gaseous products: Definitions.

For the purposes of sections 22a-133a to 22a-133j, inclusive, sections 22a-448 to 22a-454, inclusive, and section 22a-457a:

(1) “Chemical liquids” means any chemical, chemical solution or chemical mixture in liquid form;

(2) “Emergency” means any situation which requires state or local efforts to save lives and protect property and public health or safety or to avert or lessen the threat of disaster;

(3) “Hazardous waste” means any waste material which may pose a present or potential hazard to human health or the environment when improperly treated, stored, transported or disposed of or otherwise managed including hazardous waste identified in accordance with Section 3001 of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, 42 USC 6901 et seq.;

(4) “Oil or petroleum” means oil or petroleum of any kind or in any form including, but not limited to, waste oils and distillation products such as fuel oil, kerosene, naphtha, gasoline and benzene, or their vapors;

(5) “Solid, liquid or gaseous products” means any substance or material including, but not limited to, hazardous chemicals, flammable liquids, explosives as defined in section 29-343, liquefied petroleum gas, as defined in section 43-36, hazardous materials designated in accordance with the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act, 49 USC 1801 et seq. and hazardous substances designated in accordance with Section 311 of the federal Water Pollution Control Act;

(6) “Waste oil” means oil having a flash point at or above one hundred forty degrees Fahrenheit (sixty degrees Centigrade) which is no longer suitable for the services for which it was manufactured due to the presence of impurities or a loss of original properties, including, but not limited to, crude oil, fuel oil, lubricating oil, kerosene, diesel fuels, cutting oil, emulsions, hydraulic oils, polychlorinated biphenyls and other halogenated oils that have been discarded as waste or are recovered from oil separators, oil spills, tank bottoms or other sources;

(7) “Floating boom retention device” means a floating containment barrier used to contain floating oil or petroleum;

(8) “Hazardous chemicals” means (A) any materials that are highly flammable or that may react to cause fires or explosions, or which by their presence create or augment a fire or explosion hazard, or which because of their toxicity, flammability or liability to explosion render fire fighting abnormally dangerous or difficult; (B) flammable liquids that are chemically unstable and that may spontaneously form explosive compounds, or undergo spontaneous reactions of explosive violence, or with sufficient evolution of heat to be a fire hazard; or (C) such materials as compressed gases, liquefied gases, flammable solids, corrosive liquids, oxidizing materials, potentially explosive chemicals, highly toxic materials and poisonous gases;

(9) “Compressed gas” means any mixture or material having in the container either an absolute pressure exceeding forty pounds per square inch at seventy degrees Fahrenheit, or an absolute pressure exceeding one hundred four pounds per square inch at one hundred thirty degrees Fahrenheit, or both, or any liquid flammable material having a vapor pressure exceeding forty pounds per square inch at one hundred degrees Fahrenheit;

(10) “Corrosive liquids” means those acids, alkaline caustic liquids and other corrosive liquids that, when in contact with living tissue, will cause severe damage of such tissue by chemical action or are liable to cause fire when in contact with organic matter or with certain chemicals;

(11) “Flammable solid” means a solid substance, other than one classified as an explosive, that is liable to cause fires through friction, absorption of moisture, spontaneous chemical changes or as a result of retained heat from manufacturing or processing;

(12) “Highly toxic materials” means materials so toxic to man as to afford an unusual hazard to life and health during firefighting operations, including parathion, malathion, TEPP (tetraethyl phosphate), HETP (hexaethyl tetraphosphate), and similar insecticides and pesticides;

(13) “Oxidizing materials” means substances such as chlorates, permanganates, peroxides or nitrates, that yield oxygen readily to stimulate combustion;

(14) “Poisonous gas” means and includes any noxious gas of such nature that a small amount of the gas when mixed with air is dangerous to life, including chlorpicrin, cyanogen, hydrogen cyanide, nitrogen peroxide and phosgene;

(15) “Potentially explosive chemical” means any chemical substance, other than one classified as an explosive, which can be exploded by heat or shock when it is unconfined and unmixed with air or other materials; and

(16) “Vapor pressure” means the pressure, measured in pounds per square inch (absolute), exerted by a volatile liquid as determined by the nationally recognized good practice known as the Reid method.

(1969, P.A. 765, S. 1; P.A. 79-605, S. 2, 17; P.A. 82-151, S. 1; P.A. 87-561, S. 11, 13; P.A. 88-364, S. 86, 123; P.A. 90-274, S. 12; P.A. 09-177, S. 23; P.A. 10-54, S. 5, 6; P.A. 17-80, S. 5.)

History: P.A. 79-605 defined “petroleum” in same terms as apply for “oil” and clarified definition adding reference to kerosene, naphtha, gasoline, benzene or their vapors, etc. and defined “chemical liquids”, “solid, liquid or gaseous products”, “hazardous waste” and “emergency”; P.A. 82-151 made technical revisions and defined “waste oil”; Sec. 25-54bb transferred to Sec. 22a-448 in 1983; P.A. 87-561 specified applicability of definitions to Secs. 22a-133a to 22a-133j, inclusive; P.A. 88-364 made a technical change deleting an obsolete reference; P.A. 90-274 added a new Subdiv. (7) defining a floating boom retention device and specified that definitions apply to Sec. 22a-454a; P.A. 09-177 made technical changes in Subdivs. (4) and (5), amended Subdiv. (5) to delete “as defined in section 29-336”, and added Subdivs. (8) to (16) defining “hazardous chemicals”, “compressed gas”, “corrosive liquids”, “flammable solid”, “highly toxic materials”, “oxidizing materials”, “poisonous gas”, “potentially explosive chemical” and “vapor pressure”, respectively, effective January 1, 2011; P.A. 10-54 made technical changes in Subdivs. (3), (5) and (6), effective January 1, 2013, and changed effective date of P.A. 09-177, S. 23, from January 1, 2011, to January 1, 2013, effective May 18, 2010; P.A. 17-80 amended Subdiv. (5) by deleting “as defined in section 29-320,”, effective July 1, 2017.

Notation

See Secs. 22a-133a to 22a-133j, inclusive, re hazardous waste disposal site discovery program.

Cited. 231 C. 756; 239 C. 284.