§ 23-19.7-3 - Definitions.
SECTION 23-19.7-3
§ 23-19.7-3 Definitions. – The following words and phrases have the meanings ascribed to them in thissection unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
(1) "Chief elected official" means the mayor, elected city ortown administrator or, in the absence of these officials, the city or towncouncil president.
(2) "Chief executive officer" means the mayor, elected cityor town administrator, appointed city or town manager or administrator, or, inthe absence of these officials, the city or town council president.
(3) "Compensation," in the context of a siting or impactagreement, means any money, thing of value or economic benefit conferred by thedeveloper on any city, town, or person under the terms and conditions specifiedin the siting or impact agreement established pursuant to this chapter.
(4) "Developer" means any person who proposes to site,construct, substantially alter, or operate a hazardous waste managementfacility as defined in this section.
(5) "Generator" means any hazardous waste generator as theterm is defined for the purposes of the Hazardous Waste Management Act, chapter19.1 of this title.
(6) "Hazardous waste" means hazardous waste as the term isdefined for purposes of the Hazardous Waste Management Act, chapter 19.1 ofthis title.
(7) "Hazardous waste management facility" means hazardouswaste management facility as that term is defined for purposes of the HazardousWaste Management Act, chapter 19.1 of this title.
(8) "Host community" means a city or town of the state inwhich a developer proposes to site, construct, substantially alter, or operatea hazardous waste management facility.
(9) "Impact agreement" means a contract negotiated between,binding upon, and enforceable against a developer and a neighboring communityas defined in this section. This agreement may address mitigation of orcompensation for impacts likely to be experienced by a neighboring community asa consequence of the siting, construction, operation, or alteration of ahazardous waste management facility.
(10) "Local assessment committee" means a body established bya host or neighboring community for the specific purpose of negotiating asiting or impact agreement with a hazardous waste management facility developer.
(11) "Local governing body" means any town or city council,commission or other elective governing body now or after this vested by statestatute, charter, or other law, with jurisdiction to initiate and adopt localordinances.
(12) "Neighboring community" means a city or town whichshares a common border with a host community as defined in this section, orwhich, absent a common border, lies in whole or in part within a one-mileradius of the lot or lots on which a developer proposes to site, construct,substantially alter, or operate a hazardous waste management facility.
(13) "On-site" means conducted at facilities which arelocated on property contiguous to or divided only by a public or private wayfrom the source of generation, and which are solely owned and operated by thesource and operated exclusively for the management of hazardous waste generatedby the source.
(14) "Person" means an individual, trust, firm, joint stockcompany, or corporation (including a government or public corporation,political subdivision of a state, local government body, any interstate body orany local, state, or federal agency).
(15) "Public drinking water supply aquifer" means agroundwater reservoir and recharge area or areas which supplies or has beenshown by competent hydrologic and water quality analysis to be capable ofsupplying water to any public water supply system as defined by the departmentof health under § 46-13-2.
(16) "Public drinking water supply reservoir" means a surfacewater body and related watershed area which supply water to any public watersupply system as defined by the department of health under § 46-13-2.
(17) "Siting agreement" means a contract negotiated between,binding upon, and enforceable against a developer and a host community. Thisagreement may address any of a variety of issues of mutual concern including,but not limited to, the mitigation of or compensation for impacts likely to beexperienced by the host community as a consequence of the siting, construction,operation, or alteration of a hazardous waste management facility.
(18) "State" means the state of Rhode Island and ProvidencePlantations.