Section ENV.05.02 — Definitions

As used in this article, unless the context otherwise requires:

(a) "Air Contaminant" means fumes, smoke, particulate matter, vapor, gas, or any combination thereof, but it does not include water vapor or steam condensate.

(b) "Air Contaminant Source" means any source whatsoever, at, from or by reason of which there is emitted or discharged into the atmosphere any air contaminant.

(c) "Ambient Air" means the surrounding or outside air.

(d) "Commission" means the Environmental Protection Commission created by Section ENV.04.03 of Water Pollution Control, Chapter ENV.04.

(e) "Emission" means the discharge or release into the atmosphere of one or more air contaminants.

(f) "Emission Control Regulations" means and includes any standard promulgated by regulation which is applicable to all air contamination sources within a specified area and which prohibits or establishes limits for specific types of emissions in such area, and also any regulation which by its terms is applicable to a specified type of a facility, process, or activity for the purpose of controlling the extent, degree, or nature of contamination emitted from such type of facility, process, or activity, and also any regulation adopted for the purpose of preventing or minimizing emission or any air contaminant in potentially dangerous quantities.

(g) "Person" means any individual, public or private corporation, partnership, association, firm, trust, estate, the Tribe or its departments and agencies, and any other legal entity whatsoever which is recognized by law as the subject of rights and duties.