Environmental Emergency Response Act: Hearings Before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, Ninety-sixth Congress, Second Session, on S. 1480 ... September 11 and 12, 1980U.S. Government Printing Office, 1980 - 266 pages |
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Page 149 - The company will pay on behalf of the insured all sums which the insured shall become legally obligated to pay as damages because of bodily injury or property damage...
Page 83 - The parties shall be given written notice of the time and place of the hearing at least five days prior to the hearing. Any such hearing shall be of record and shall be subject to section 554 of title 5 of the United States Code.
Page 161 - pollutant or contaminant" shall include, but not be limited to, any element, substance, compound, or mixture, including disease-causing agents, which after release into the environment and upon exposure, ingestion, inhalation, or assimilation into any organism, either directly from the environment or indirectly by ingestion through food chains, will or may reasonably be anticipated to cause death, disease, behavioral abnormalities, cancer, genetic mutation, physiological malfunctions (including malfunctions...
Page 149 - It is agreed that the insurance does not apply to bodily injury or property damage arising out of the discharge, dispersal release or escape of smoke, vapors, soot, fumes acids, alkalis, toxic chemicals, liquids or gases, waste materials or other irritants, contaminants or pollutants into or upon land, the atmosphere or any watercourse or body of water; but this exclusion does not apply if such discharge, dispersal, release or escape is sudden and accidental.
Page 84 - If any provision of this Act, or the application of any provision of this Act to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the application of such provision to other persons or circumstances, and the remainder of this Act, shall not be affected thereby. "SHORT TITLE "SEC. 13. This Act may be cited as the 'Federal Water Pollution Control Act'.
Page 252 - ... chattels of others; (b) likelihood that the harm that results from it will be great; (c) inability to eliminate the risk by the exercise of reasonable care; (d) extent to which the activity is not a matter of common usage; (e) inappropriateness of the activity to the place where it is carried on; and (f) extent to which its value to the community is outweighed by its dangerous attributes".
Page 211 - ... means the entire zone established or to be established by the United States under article 24 of the Convention on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone ; (10) "onshore facility" means any facility (including, but not limited to, motor vehicles and rolling stock) of any kind located in, on, or under, any land within the United States other than submerged land ; (11) "offshore facility...
Page 148 - Act, (C) any hazardous waste having the characteristics identified under or listed pursuant to section 3001 of the Solid Waste Disposal Act...
Page 149 - B. property damage to which this insurance applies, caused by an occurrence, and the company shall have the right and duty to defend any suit against the insured seeking damages on account of such bodily injury or property damage...