Section 3.02. Definitions.

  In this chapter:

(1)  "Division" means the division of emergency management.

(2)  "EPA" means the United States environmental protection agency

(3)  "Facility" has the meaning given in s. 323.60 (1) (c) , Stats.

(4)  "Full time employee" means 2,000 hours per year of full-time equivalent employment.

(5)  "Import" means to cause a chemical to be imported into the customs territory of the United States. For purposes of this definition, "to cause" means to intend that the chemical be imported and to control the identity of the imported chemical and the amount to be imported.

(6)  "Manufacture" means any of the following:

(a) To produce, prepare, import or compound a toxic chemical.

(b) To produce a toxic chemical coincidentally during the manufacture, processing, use, or disposal of another chemical or mixture of chemicals, including a toxic chemical that is separated from that other chemical or mixture of chemicals as a by-product, and toxic chemical that remains in that other chemical or mixture of chemicals as an impurity.

(7)  "Otherwise use" or "use" means any use of a toxic chemical that is not covered by the terms"manufacture" or "process" and includes use of a toxic chemical contained in a mixture or trade name product. Relabeling or redistributing a container of a toxic chemical where no repackaging of the toxic chemical occurs does not constitute use of the toxic chemical.

(8)  "Private agency" has the meaning given in s. 323.60 (1) (h) , Stats.

(9)  

(a) "Process" means the preparation of a toxic chemical, after its manufacture, for distribution in commerce:

1. In the same form or physical state as, or in a different form or physical state from, that in which it was received by the person so preparing such substance, or

2. As part of an article or mixture containing the toxic chemical or trade name product.

(b) "Process" does not include the relabeling or redistribution of a container of a toxic chemical where no repackaging of the toxic chemical occurs.

(10)  "Public agency" has the meaning given in s. 323.60 (1) (i) , Stats.

(11)  "Threshold quantity" has the meaning given in s. 323.60 (1) (j) , Stats.

(12)  "Toxic chemical" has the meaning given in s. 323.60 (1) (k) , Stats.

History: Cr. Register, November, 1991, No. 431 , eff. 12-1-91; corrections in (3), (8), (10), (11) and (12) made under s. 13.92 (4) (b) 7. , Stats., Register February 2010 No. 650 .