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DEFINITIONS (40 CFR 112.2) The following definitions are defined in 40 CFR 112.2 and are used throughout the document. Adverse weather means weather conditions that make it difficult for response equipment and personnel to clean up or remove spilled oil, and that must be considered when identifying response systems and equipment in a response plan for the applicable operating environment. Factors to consider include significant wave height as specified in appendix E to this part (as appropriate), ice conditions, temperatures, weather-related visibility, and currents within the area in which the systems or equipment is intended to function. Alteration means any work on a container involving cutting, burning,welding, or heating operations that changes the physical dimensions or configuration of the container. Animal fat means a non-petroleum oil, fat, or grease of animal, fislmarine mammal origin. I Breakout tank means a container used to relieve surges in an oil pipeline system or to receive and store oil transported by a pipeline for reinjection and continued transportation by pipeline. I Bulk storage container means any container used to store oil. These containers are used for purposes including, but not limited to, the storage of oil prior to use,while being used, or prior to further distribution in commerce. Oil-filled electrical, opera ' , or manufacturing equipment is not a bulk storage container. j i Bunkered tank means a container constructed or placed in the ground by cutting the earth and re- covering the container in a manner that breaks the surrounding natural grade, or that lies above grade, and is covered with earth, sand, gravel, asphalt, or other material. A bunkered tank is considered an aboveground storage container for purposes of this part. L Completely buried to \storntainers y container completely below grade and covered with earth, sand, gravel, asphalt, or other ontainers in vaults, bunkered tanks, or partially buried tanks are considered aboveground for purposes of this part. i Complex means a facility possess a combination of transportation-related and non-transportation- related components that is subject to the jurisdiction of more than one Federal agency under section 3110) of the CWA. Contiguous zone means the zone established by the United States under Article 24 of the Convention of the Territorial Sea and Contiguous Zone,that is contiguous to the territorial sea and that extends nine miles seaward from the outer limit of the territorial area. I Contract or other approved means means: i i (1)A written contractual agreement with an oil spill removal organization that identifies and ensures the availability of the necessary personnel and equipment within appropriate response times; and/or Joe's Travel Plaza 15600 Harlan Road,Lathrop,CA Page 4 i