40 CFR § 29.2 - What definitions apply to these regulations?
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identifier: "/us/cfr/t40/s29.2"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "40 CFR § 29.2 - What definitions apply to these regulations?"
title_number: 40
title_name: "Protection of Environment"
section_number: "29.2"
section_name: "What definitions apply to these regulations?"
chapter_name: "ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY"
subchapter_number: "A"
subchapter_name: "GENERAL"
part_number: "29"
part_name: "INTERGOVERNMENTAL REVIEW OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-03-24"
last_updated: "2026-03-24"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "E.O. 12372, July 14, 1982 (47 FR 30959), as amended Apr. 8, 1983 (48 FR 15887); sec. 401 of the Intergovernmental Cooperation Act of 1968 as amended (31 U.S.C. 6506); sec. 204 of the Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act of 1966, as amended (42 U.S.C. 3334)."
regulatory_source: "48 FR 29300, June 24, 1983, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "29"
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# 29.2 What definitions apply to these regulations?
*Administrator* means the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency or an official or employee of the Agency acting for the Administrator under a delegation of authority.
*Agency* means the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). *Order* means Executive Order 12372, issued July 14, 1982, and amended April 8, 1983, and titled “Intergovernmental Review of Federal Programs.”
*States* means any of the 50 States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands, or the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.