[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 32, Volume 4]
[Revised as of July 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 32CFR650.3]

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                       TITLE 32--NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
              CHAPTER V--DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY (CONTINUED)
 
PART 650--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND ENHANCEMENT (AR 200-1)--Table of Contents
 
                           Subpart A--General
 
Sec. 650.3  Explanation of terms.

    For the purpose of this regulation, the following apply:
    (a) Facility. (AR 310-25.) Facilities include buildings, 
installations, structures, public works, equipment, aircraft, vessels, 
and other vehicles and property under the control of or constructed or 
manufactured for leasing to the Army.
    (b) Environmental quality standard. The Federal, State and regional 
quality standards adopted pursuant to the Clean Air Act; Water Pollution 
Control Act, Noise Control Act and other Federal statutes established 
for the protection and enhancement of environmental quality.
    (c) Environmental performance specifications. Permissible limits of 
emissions, discharges, or other values applicable to activities which 
would provide for conformance to environmental quality standards to 
protect health and welfare.
    (d) Environmental pollution. The condition resulting from the 
presence of chemical, physical, radiological, or biological forces which 
alter the natural environment and thus adversely affect human health or 
the quality of life, biosystems, structures and equipment, recreational 
opportunity, aesthetics, and natural beauty.
    (e) Environmental enhancement. All actions taken to improve the 
environment, including but not limited to, those to abate environmental 
pollution

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and meet environmental quality standards and performance specifications.
    (f) Substantive standards and limitations. The qualitative and 
quantitative pollution control provisions contained in approved State 
implementation plans promulgated under Federal environmental protection 
statutes.
    (g) United States. The 50 States, the District of Columbia, the 
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Canal Zone, Guam, American Samoa, the 
Virgin Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.
    (h) Installation. A grouping of facilities, located in the same 
vicinity, which support particular functions.
    (i) Activity. A unit, organization or installation performing a 
function or mission.