40 CFR § 40.115-5 - Person.

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title: "40 CFR § 40.115-5 - Person."
title_number: 40
title_name: "Protection of Environment"
section_number: "40.115-5"
section_name: "Person."
chapter_name: "ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY"
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# 40.115-5 Person.

(a) Under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, an individual, corporation, partnership, association, State, municipality, commission, or political subdivision of a State, or any interstate body.

(b) Under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, an individual, trust, firm, joint stock company, corporation (including a government corporation), partnership, association, State, municipality, commission, political subdivision of a State, or any interstate body.

[38 FR 12784, May 15, 1973, as amended at 42 FR 56057, Oct. 20, 1977]