CHAPTEr 292
REMEDIAL ACTION
SUBCHAPTER I
DEFINITIONS
SUBCHAPTER II
REMEDIAL ACTION
292.11 Hazardous substance spills.
292.13 Property affected by off-site discharge.
292.15 Voluntary party remediation and exemption from liability.
292.16 Responsibility of certain municipalities acquiring closed landfills.
292.19 Responsibility of persons conducting investigations.
292.21 Responsibility of lenders and representatives.
292.24 Responsibility of local governmental units; hazardous waste.
292.25 Report on impact of exemptions from liability.
292.255 Report on brownfield efforts.
292.26 Civil immunity; local governmental units.
292.31 Environmental repair.
292.33 Local government cost recovery cause of action.
292.35 Local governmental unit negotiation and cost recovery.
292.37 Confidentiality of records.
292.41 Abandoned containers.
292.51 Cooperative remedial action.
292.53 Availability of environmental insurance.
292.55 Requests for liability clarification and technical assistance.
292.57 Database of properties on which groundwater standards are exceeded.
292.65 Dry cleaner environmental response program.
292.70 Indemnification for disposal of polychlorinated biphenyls.
292.72 Brownfields revolving loan program.
292.75 Brownfield site assessment grants.
292.79 Brownfields green space grants.
SUBCHAPTER III
ENFORCEMENT; PENALTIES
292.94 Fees related to enforcement actions.
292.95 Review of alleged violations; environmental repair and cost recovery.
292.98 Violations and enforcement; environmental repair and cost recovery.
DEFINITIONS
292.01
292.01
Definitions. In this chapter:
292.01(2)
(2) "Department" means the department of natural resources.
292.01(3)
(3) "Discharge" means, but is not limited to, spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying or dumping.
292.01(4)
(4) "Environmental pollution" means the contaminating or rendering unclean or impure the air, land or waters of the state, or making the same injurious to public health, harmful for commercial or recreational use, or deleterious to fish, bird, animal or plant life.
292.01(5)
(5) "Hazardous substance" means any substance or combination of substances including any waste of a solid, semisolid, liquid or gaseous form which may cause or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible or incapacitating reversible illness or which may pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or the environment because of its quantity, concentration or physical, chemical or infectious characteristics. This term includes, but is not limited to, substances which are toxic, corrosive, flammable, irritants, strong sensitizers or explosives as determined by the department.
292.01(6)
(6) "Hazardous waste" means any solid waste identified by the department as hazardous under
s. 291.05.
292.01(7)
(7) "Landfill" means a solid waste facility for solid waste disposal.
292.01(8)
(8) "Lender" means a bank, credit union, savings bank, savings and loan association, mortgage banker or similar financial institution, the primary business of which is to engage in lending activities or an insurance company, pension fund or government agency engaged in secured lending.
292.01(9)
(9) "Lending activities" means advancing funds or credit to and collecting funds from another person; entering into security agreements, including executing mortgages, liens, factoring agreements, accounts receivable financing arrangements, conditional sales, sale and leaseback arrangements and installment sales contracts; conducting inspections of or monitoring a borrower's business and collateral; providing financial assistance; restructuring or renegotiating the terms of a loan obligation; requiring payment of additional interest; extending the payment period of a loan obligation; initiating foreclosure or other proceedings to enforce a security interest in property before obtaining title; requesting and obtaining the appointment of a receiver; and making decisions related to extending or refusing to extend credit.
292.01(10)
(10) "Long-term care" means the routine care, maintenance and monitoring of a solid or hazardous waste facility following closing of the facility.
292.01(11)
(11) "Municipality" means any city, town, village, county, county utility district, town sanitary district, public inland lake protection and rehabilitation district or metropolitan sewage district.
292.01(13)
(13) "Person" means an individual, owner, operator, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, association, municipality, interstate agency, state agency or federal agency.
292.01(15)
(15) "Preventive measures" mean the installation or testing of equipment or devices, a designated way of performing a specified operation or the preparation of an emergency response plan.
292.01(16)
(16) "Representative" means any person acting in the capacity of a conservator, guardian, court-appointed receiver, personal representative, testamentary trustee of a deceased person, trustee of a living trust, or fiduciary of real or personal property.
