Construction

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-006242",
  "term": "Construction",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. Construction involves all programs and activities in which the Federal Government builds or constructs facilities, roads, dams, etc.\n\n2. Activity and material related to the construction of buildings and other structures.\n\n3. Erection, alteration, or repair (including dredging, excavating, and painting) of buildings, structures, or other improvements to real property, and activities in response to a release or a threat of a release of a hazardous substance into the environment, or activities to prevent the introduction of a hazardous substance into a water supply.\n\n4. Any one or more of the following: Preliminary planning to determine the feasibility of treatment works, engineering, architectural, legal, fiscal, or economic investigations or studies, surveys, designs, plans, working drawings, specifications, procedures, field testing of innovative or alternative wastewater treatment processes and techniques (excluding operation and maintenance) meeting guidelines promulgated under section 304(d)(3) of the Act, or other necessary actions, erection, building, acquisition, alteration, remodeling, improvement, or extension of treatment works, or the inspection or supervision of any of the foregoing items.\n\n5. Erection, building, alteration, repair, remodeling, improvement, or extension of buildings, structures or other property.\n\n6. May include the preliminary planning to determine the economic and engineering feasibility of a facility, the engineering, architectural, legal, fiscal, and economic investigations and studies, surveys, designs, plans, working drawings, specifications, procedures, and other action necessary to the construction of a facility, the erection, acquisition, alteration, remodeling, improvement, or extension of a facility, and the inspection and supervision of the construction of a facility.\n\n7. Erection, building, acquisition, alteration, remodeling, modification, improvement, or extension of any facility; Provided, That it does not mean preparation or undertaking of: Plans to determine feasibility; engineering, architectural, legal, fiscal, or economic investigations or studies; surveys, designs, plans, writings, drawings, specifications or procedures. Comment: This provision would not later preclude SBA financial assistance being utilized for any planning or design effort conducted previous to construction.\n\n8. For purposes of this subpart, means the fabrication (onsite), erection, or installation of a dry cleaning system subject to this subpart.\n\n9. On-site fabrication, erection, or installation of an IPCT.\n\n10. On-site fabrication, erection, or installation of an affected source. Construction also means the on-site fabrication, erection, or installation of a process unit or combination of process units which subsequently becomes an affected source or part of an affected source, due to a change in primary product.\n\n11. The erection, building, alteration, remodeling, improvement, or extension of buildings, structures or other property. Construction also includes remedial actions in response to a release, or a threat of a release, of a hazardous substance into the environment as determined by the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) of 1980.",
  "subject": "Information management and systems",
  "references": [
    "EPA BRM",
    "EPA EV-Built Environments-Buildings, Building Materials, Construction",
    "40 CFR 33.103 (CFR 2018)",
    "40 CFR 35.2005 (CFR 2018)",
    "40 CFR 35.6015 (CFR 2018)",
    "40 CFR 40.115 (CFR 2018)",
    "40 CFR 21.2 (CFR 2018)",
    "40 CFR 63.321 (CFR 2018)",
    "40 CFR 63.401 (CFR 2018)",
    "40 CFR 63.482 (CFR 2018)",
    "Exchange Network Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/construction/"
}