2012-09-06_REVISION - M2008070 (23)

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treatment or incineration, provision of alternative water supplies, any monitoring reasonably required to assure that such actions protect the public health and welfare and the environment, and, where appropriate, post - removal site control activities. The term includes the costs of permanent relocation of residents and businesses and community facilities (including the cost of providing "alternative land of equivalent value" to an Indian tribe pursuant to CERCLA section 126(b)) where the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency determines that relocation is more cost - effective than, and environmentally preferable to, the transportation, storage, treatment, destruction, or secure disposition off -site of such hazardous substances, or may otherwise be necessary to protect public health or welfare; the term includes off -site transport and off -site storage, treatment, destruction, or secure disposition of hazardous substances and associated contaminated + materials. "Remove" or "Removal' means the cleanup or removal of released hazardous substances from the environment; such actions as may be necessary taken in the event of the threat of release of hazardous substances into the environment; such actions as may be necessary to monitor, assess, and evaluate the release or threat of release of hazardous substances; the disposal of removed material; or the taking of such other actions as may be necessary to prevent, minimize, or mitigate damage to the public health or welfare or to the environment, which may otherwise result from a release or threat of release. The term includes, in addition, without being limited to, security fencing and other measures to limit access, provision of alternative water supplies, temporary evacuation and housing of threatened individuals not otherwise provided for, action taken under section 104(b) of CERCLA, post - removal site control, where appropriate, and any emergency assistance which may be provided under the Disaster Relief Act of 1974. "Render non - infectious" means to treat infectious waste by inactivating pathogens and other biologically active material to a level that will no longer present a potential hazard of infection when managed, stored or disposed. • "Residentially generated" as used in Section 16 of these Regulations means used lead -acid batteries, used oil, and waste tires generated by a person or by removal of said items from a personal vehicle not used primarily for a commercial or business purpose. "Residual sludge" means solids, semi - solids or liquids remaining in a waste impoundment after final evaporative or other treatment or storage of the waste is completed, or which may be dredged out during the active life. "Response activity" means remove, removal, remedy, or remedial action, including enforcement activities related thereto. September 30, 2011 0