Spill of National Significance

Term · Environment · MLC-T-ENV-026381

1. A spill that due to its severity, size, location, actual or potential impact on the public health and welfare or the environment, or the necessary response effort, is so complex that it requires extraordinary coordination of federal, state, local, and responsible party resources to contain and clean up the discharge.

2. A spill which due to its severity, size, location, actual or potential impact on the public health and welfare or the environment, or the necessary response effort, is so complex that it requires extraordinary coordination of federal, state, local, and responsible party resources to contain and cleanup the discharge.

Table 1. Record
Identifier	MLC-T-ENV-026381
Field	Environment
References	40 CFR 300.5 (CFR 2013); 40 CFR Appendix E to Part 300

Record as JSON

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