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<section article="gen" article_name="Environment" number="6-1601" title_number="6" title_name="Toxic, Carcinogenic, and Flammable Substances" subtitle_number="16" subtitle_name="Pfas Chemicals">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Class B fire–fighting foam” or “foam” means a foam designed for flammable liquid fire.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“Intentionally added” means the act of deliberately using a chemical in the formation of a product where the chemical’s continued presence is desired in the product to provide a specific characteristic.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“Personal protective equipment” means items designed, intended, or marketed to be worn by fire–fighting personnel in the performance of their fire and rescue activities, including jackets, pants, shoes, gloves, helmets, and respiratory equipment.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>“PFAS chemicals” means, when used in fire–fighting agents, fire–fighting equipment, food packaging, and rugs and carpets, a class of fluorinated organic chemicals that contain at least one fully fluorinated carbon atom, including perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>“Rug or carpet” means a thick fabric used to cover a floor, including:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Commercial or residential broadloom carpet; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A pad or an underlayment used in conjunction with a carpet.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>“Terminal” means:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>A bulk liquid storage facility exclusively engaged in the merchant wholesale distribution of petroleum products, including liquefied petroleum gas, that contains at least one storage tank containing petroleum products with a surface area of 120 square meters or greater; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A facility engaged in the distribution of crude petroleum from extraction or processing facilities that includes at least one storage tank containing crude petroleum with a surface area of 120 square meters or greater.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
