Facility

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-010617",
  "term": "Facility",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. Any mobile or fixed onshore or offshore building, structure, installation, equipment, pipe, or pipeline used in oil well drilling operations, oil production, oil refining, oil storage, and waste treatment. The boundaries of a facility may depend on several site-specific factors, including, but not limited to, the ownership or operation of buildings, structures, and equipment on the same site and the types of activities at the site.\n\n2. All contiguous land, and structures, other appurtenances, and improvements on the land, used for treating, storing, or disposing of hazardous waste. A facility may consist of several treatment, storage, or disposal operational units (e.g., one or more landfills, surface impoundments, or combinations of them).\n\n3. All contiguous property owned, operated, leased or under the control of the same person or entity.\n\n4. All buildings, equipment, structures, and other stationary items which are located on a single site or on contiguous or adjacent sites and which are owned or operated by the same person (or by any person who controls, who is controlled by, or who is under common control with such person).\n\n5. Any institutional, commercial, or industrial structure, installation, plant, source, or building.\n\n6. Any physical property, plant, building, structure, source, or stationary equipment located on one or more contiguous or adjacent properties in actual physical contact or separated solely by a public roadway or other public right-of-way and under common ownership or common control, that emits or may emit any greenhouse gas. Operators of military installations may classify such installations as more than a single facility based on distinct and independent functional groupings within contiguous military properties.\n\n7. As defined by section 101(9) of CERCLA, means any building, structure, installation, equipment, pipe or pipeline (including any pipe into a sewer or publicly owned treatment works), well, pit, pond, lagoon, impoundment, ditch, landfill, storage container, motor vehicle, rolling stock, or aircraft, or any site or area, where a hazardous substance has been deposited, stored, disposed of, or placed, or otherwise come to be located; but does not include any consumer product in consumer use or any vessel.\n\n8. All contiguous or adjoining property that is under common ownership or control, including properties that are separated only by a road or other public right-of-way.\n\n9. Any NPDES “point source” or any other facility or activity (including land or appurtenances thereto) that is subject to regulation under the NPDES program.\n\n10. As defined by section 1001 of the OPA, it means any structure, group of structures, equipment, or device (other than a vessel) which is used for one or more of the following purposes: Exploring for, drilling for, producing, storing, handling, transferring, processing, or transporting oil. This term includes any motor vehicle, rolling stock, or pipeline used for one or more of these purposes.\n\n11. Any “HWM facility,” UIC “injection well,” NPDES “point source” or “treatment works treating domestic sewage” or State 404 dredge or fill activity, or any other facility or activity (including land or appurtenances thereto) that is subject to regulation under the RCRA, UIC, NPDES, or 404 programs.\n\n12. Meaning given it in section 101(9) of the Act, 42 U.S.C. 9601(9).\n\n13. All or any portion of buildings, structures, equipment, roads, walks, parking lots, rolling stock or other conveyances, or other real or personal property.\n\n14. Property comprising any new identifiable treatment facility which removes, alters, disposes of, stores, or prevents the creation of pollutants, contaminants, wastes, or heat.\n\n15. Building, structure, installation or vessel, or portion thereof.\n\n16. All, or any part of, or any interests in structures, equipment, roads, walks, parking lots, or other real or personal property.\n\n17. All buildings, equipment, structures, and other stationary items which are located on a single site or on contiguous or adjacent sites and which are owned or operated by the same person (or by any person which controls, is controlled by, or under common controlwith such person). A facility may contain more than one establishment.\n\n18. Major or area source at which chromium electroplating or chromium anodizing is performed.\n\n19. Major PSD stationary source or major PSD modification.\n\n20. All buildings, structures and operations on one contiguous site.[40 CFR 60.91 (CFR 2013)]\n\n21. Any place, or series of places, where any fuel, fuel additive, or regulated blendstock is produced, imported, blended, transported, distributed, stored, or sold.\n\n22. One or more production lines at the same location owned by or under common control of the same person.\n\n23. All buildings, equipment, structures, and other stationary items which are located on a single site or on contiguous or adjacent sites and which are owned or operated by the same person (or by any person which controls, is controlled by, or under common control with such person). A facility may contain more than one establishment.",
  "subject": "Chemicals, toxics and pesticides",
  "references": [
    "Oil Pollution Prevention Glossary",
    "Corrective Action 101 Key Terms",
    "40 CFR 445.2 (CFR 2013)",
    "40 CFR 165.3 (CFR 2013)",
    "40 CFR 72.2 (CFR 2013)",
    "40 CFR 98.6 (CFR 2013)",
    "40 CFR 300.5 (CFR 2018)",
    "40 CFR 63.3310 (CFR 2013)",
    "40 CFR 122.2 (CFR 2013)",
    "40 CFR 124.2 (CFR 2013)",
    "40 CFR 2.310 (CFR 2018)",
    "40 CFR 12.103 (CFR 2018)",
    "40 CFR 20.2 (CFR 2018)",
    "40 CFR 21.2 (CFR 2018)",
    "40 CFR 7.25 (CFR 2018)",
    "40 CFR 372.3 (CFR 2018)",
    "40 CFR 63.341 (CFR 2018)",
    "40 CFR 124.41 (CFR 2013)",
    "40 CFR 60.101 (CFR 2013)",
    "40 CFR 1090.80 (CFR 2021)",
    "40 CFR 84.3(CFR 2022)",
    "40 CFR § 372.3"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/facility/"
}