Guam § 49103 - Definitions.
Full text of Guam Guam Code Annotated § 49103 — Definitions., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 49103. Definitions.
As used in this Chapter:
(a) Administrator means the Administrator of the Guam
Environmental Protection Agency, or the Administrator's
designee.
(b) Agency means the Guam Environmental Protection
Agency.
(c) Air Pollutant means any air pollution agent or
combination of such agents, including any physical;
chemical; biological; radioactive, inclusive of source
material special nuclear material, and byproduct material;
substance; or matter which is emitted or otherwise enters the
ambient air. The term includes any precursors to the
formation of any pollutant, to the extent that the agent or
combination of such agents is identified in any Federal or
Territory rules as precursors.
(d) Air Pollution means the presence in the outdoor
atmosphere of one (1) or more substances in such quantities
and duration as is, or tends to be, injurious to human health,
welfare, plant life, animal life, or property, or would
unreasonably interfere with the enjoyment of life or property.
(e) Air Pollution Emission Source means property, real
or personal, which emits, or may emit, air pollution.
(f) Applicable Requirements means any standard or
other requirement, term or condition, adopted by the
Administrator through regulation.
(g) Clean Air Act means the Federal Clean Air Act of
1963, as amended.
(h) Compliance Plan means a plan which includes a
description of how a source proposes to comply with all
applicable requirements pursuant to this Chapter, and
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includes a schedule of compliance and a schedule under
which the permittee will submit progress reports to the
Agency.
(i) Emission means a release of air pollutants into the
outdoor atmosphere.
(j) Fugitive Emissions means those emissions which
could not reasonably pass through a stack, chimney, vent or
other functionally equivalent opening.
(k) Hazardous Air Pollutant means those hazardous air
pollutants listed in '112(b) of the Clean Air Act, as amended,
42 United States Code '7412(b), and any other pollutant
designated by Federal or Territory rules as hazardous.
(l) Major Source means any air pollution emission
source, or any group of sources, that is located on one (1) or
more contiguous properties or adjacent properties, and is
under common control of the same person or persons, and
that emits or has the potential to emit, considering controls:
(1) any hazardous air pollutant, except
radionuclides, in the aggregate if ten (10) tons per year
or more, including fugitive emissions, or twenty-five
(25) tons per year or more of any combination, including
fugitive emissions or such lesser quantity as the
Administrator may establish by rule; or
(2) one hundred (100) tons per year or more of any
air pollutant belonging to a single major industrial
grouping, including fugitive emissions, as established
by the Administrator by rule; or
(3) for radionuclides, major source shall have the
meaning specified by the United States Environmental
Protection Agency (AUSEPA@) Administrator by rule.
(m) Owner or Operator means any person who owns,
leases, operates, controls or supervises an air pollution
emission source.
(n) Permit means written authorization from the
Administrator to construct, modify, relocate or operate an air
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pollution emission source. A permit authorizes the permittee
to cause or allow the emission of an air pollutant in a
specified manner or amount, or to do any act, not forbidden
by this Chapter or by rules adopted pursuant to the Chapter.
(o) Person means any individual, partnership, firm,
association, municipality, public or private corporation,
subdivision, or agency of the Territory, trust, estate or any
other legal entity.
(p) Pollution Prevention means the reduction or
elimination, through any measures, of the amount of
pollutants produced or created at the source.
(q) USEPA Administrator means the Administrator of
the United States Environmental Protection Agency, or his
designee.
Frequently Asked Questions About Guam § 49103
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