Responsible Official

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-024147",
  "term": "Responsible Official",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. 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.(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., Regional Administrators of EPA).\n\n2. Responsible official as defined at 40 CFR 70.2. [40 CFR 63.11151] [40 CFR 63.8665 (CFR 2020)]\n\n3. One of the following: 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 dry cleaning facilities; For a partnership: A general partner; For a sole proprietorship: The owner; or (4) For a municipality, State, Federal, or other public agency: Either a principal executive officer or ranking official.\n\n4. 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 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 Administrator. (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 the EPA). (4) For affected sources (as defined in this part) applying for or subject to a title V permit: “responsible official” shall have the same meaning as defined in part 70 of this chapter or Federal title V regulations (42 U.S.C. 7661), whichever is applicable.",
  "abbreviation": "RO",
  "references": [
    "40 CFR 63.71 (CFR 2013)",
    "40 CFR 63.1459 (CFR 2024)",
    "40 CFR 63.321 (CFR 2018)",
    "40 CFR 63.401 (CFR 2018)"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/responsible-official/"
}