Responsible Government Official

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-024143",
  "term": "Responsible Government Official",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. EPA Administrator or any EPA employee who is accountable to the Administrator for carrying out a power or duty delegated under section 301(a)(1) of the act, or is accountable in accordance with EPA's formal organization for a particular program or function as described in part 1 of this title.\n\n2. One of the following:(1) For a corporation: A president, secretary, treasurer, or vice-president of the corporation in charge of a principal business function, or any other person who performs similar policy or decision-making functions for the corporation, or a duly authorized representative of such person if the representative is responsible for the overall operation of one or more manufacturing, production, or operating facilities applying for or subject to a permit and either:(i) The facilities employ more than 250 persons or have gross annual sales or expenditures exceeding $25 million (in second quarter 1980 dollars); or(ii) The delegation of authority to such representatives is approved in advance by the permitting authority;(2) For a partnership or sole proprietorship: a general partner or the proprietor, respectively;(3) For a municipality, State, Federal, or other public agency: Either a principal executive officer or ranking elected official. For the purposes of this part, a principal executive officer of a Federal agency includes the chief executive officer having responsibility for the overall operations of a principal geographic unit of the agency (e.g., a Regional Administrator of EPA); or(4) For affected sources:(i) The designated representative in so far as actions, standards, requirements, or prohibitions under title IV of the Act or the regulations promulgated thereunder are concerned; and(ii) The designated representative for any other purposes under part 70. [40 CFR 63.761 (CFR 2013)][40 CFR 63.1271 (CFR 2013)]\n\n3. Meaning given to it in 40 CFR part 70, State Operating Permit Programs (Title V permits).\n\n4. Responsible official as defined in 40 CFR 70.2. [40 CFR 63.3561 (CFR 2013)][40 CFR 63.4181 (CFR 2013)][40 CFR 63.4371 (CFR 2013)][40 CFR 63.1579 (CFR 2013)] [40 CFR 63.1459 (CFR 2013)] [40 CFR 63.2192 (CFR 2013)] [40 CFR 63.2550] [40 CFR 63.3176 (CFR 2013)][40 CFR 63.10042 (CFR 2013)][40 CFR 63.11151 (CFR 2013)][40 CFR 63.11167 (CFR 2013)][40 CFR 63.11237 (CFR 2013)][40 CFR 63.11398 (CFR 2013)][40 CFR 63.11433 (CFR 2013)]\n\n5. Responsible official as defined in 40 CFR 70.2 and 40 CFR 71.2.\n\n6. One of the following:(1) For a corporation: a president, secretary, treasurer, or vice-president of the corporation in charge of a principal business function, or any other person who performs similar policy or decision-making functions for the corporation, or a duly authorized representative of such person if the representative is responsible for the overall operation of one or more manufacturing, production, or operating facilities applying for or subject to a permit and either:(i) The facilities employ more than 250 persons or have gross annual sales or expenditures exceeding $25 million (in second quarter 1980 dollars); or(ii) The delegation of authority to such representative is approved in advance by the permitting authority;(2) For a partnership or sole proprietorship: a general partner or the proprietor, respectively; or(3) For a municipality, State, Federal, or other public agency: Either a principal executive officer or ranking elected official. For the purposes of this part, a principal executive officer of a Federal agency includes the chief executive officer having responsibility for the overall operations of a principal geographic unit of the agency (e.g., a Regional Administrator of EPA). [40 CFR 71.22 (CFR 2013)][40 CFR 71.2 (CFR 2013)] [40 CFR 63.11607 (CFR 2013)][40 CFR 63.11588 (CFR 2013)][40 CFR 63.9824 (CFR 2013)]\n\n7. Responsible official as defined in § 63.2. [40 CFR 63.10906 (CFR 2013)][40 CFR 63.11566 (CFR 2013)]\n\n8. Responsible official as defined in 40 CFR 70.2 and 40 CFR 71.2, as applicable.\n\n9. EPA official responsible for compliance with NEPA for individual proposed actions.\n\n10. EPA Assistant Administrator or Regional Administrator as appropriate for the particular EPA program.",
  "references": [
    "40 CFR 56.1 (CFR 2013)",
    "40 CFR 63.9824 (CFR 2013)",
    "40 CFR 63.801 (CFR 2013)",
    "40 CFR 63.11522 (CFR 2013)",
    "40 CFR 63.2292",
    "40 CFR 70.2 (CFR 2013)",
    "40 CFR 63.9942(CFR 2013)",
    "40 CFR 63.2406 (CFR 2013)",
    "40 CFR 6.102 (CFR 2018)",
    "40 CFR 6.402 (CFR 2018)"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/responsible-government-official/"
}