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  • (1) "Board" means the Waste Management and Radiation Control Board, as defined in Section 19-1-106, within the Department of Environmental Quality.
  • (2) "Certified decontamination specialist" means an individual who has met the standards for certification as a decontamination specialist and has been certified by the board under Subsection 19-6-906(2).
  • (3) "Contaminated" or "contamination" means:
    • (a) polluted by hazardous materials that cause property to be unfit for human habitation or use due to immediate or long-term health hazards; or
    • (b) that a property is polluted by hazardous materials as a result of the use, production, or presence of methamphetamine in excess of decontamination standards adopted by the Department of Health under Section 26-51-201.
  • (4) "Contamination list" means a list maintained by the local health department of properties:
    • (a) reported to the local health department under Section 19-6-903; and
    • (b) determined by the local health department to be contaminated.
  • (5)
    • (a) "Decontaminated" means property that at one time was contaminated, but the contaminants have been removed.
    • (b) "Decontaminated" for a property that was contaminated by the use, production, or presence of methamphetamine means that the property satisfies decontamination standards adopted by the Department of Health under Section 26-51-201.
  • (6) "Hazardous materials":
    • (a) has the same meaning as "hazardous or dangerous material" as defined in Section 58-37d-3; and
    • (b) includes any illegally manufactured controlled substances.
  • (7) "Health department" means a local health department under Title 26A, Local Health Authorities.
  • (8) "Owner of record":
    • (a) means the owner of real property as shown on the records of the county recorder in the county where the property is located; and
    • (b) may include an individual, financial institution, company, corporation, or other entity.
  • (9) "Property":
    • (a) means any real property, site, structure, part of a structure, or the grounds surrounding a structure; and
    • (b) includes single-family residences, outbuildings, garages, units of multiplexes, condominiums, apartment buildings, warehouses, hotels, motels, boats, motor vehicles, trailers, manufactured housing, shops, or booths.
  • (10) "Reported property" means property that is the subject of a law enforcement report under Section 19-6-903.




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