§ 8-5-902 - Definitions and applicability.

8-5-902. Definitions and applicability.

For the purposes of this subchapter:

(1) "Commission" means the Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission;

(2) "Department" means the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality;

(3) "Long-term improvement project" or "project" means any remediation or reclamation project at closed or abandoned:

(A) Mineral extraction sites;

(B) Solid waste management units as defined pursuant to the Arkansas Hazardous Waste Management Act of 1979, 8-7-201 et seq.;

(C) Oil and gas extraction sites;

(D) Brownfield Sites as defined in Acts 1995, No. 125 or as may be amended; and

(E) Hazardous substance sites listed on the National Priority List, 42 U.S.C. Section 9605, or state priority list, 8-7-509(e), or as may be amended; and

(4) "Water quality standard" means standards developed through administrative rulemaking by the commission.