(a) In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.
(b) "Activity and use limitation" means a restriction or obligation
created under this subtitle with respect to real property.
(c) "Agency" means the Department or any other state or federal agency
that determines or approves the environmental response project pursuant
to which an environmental covenant is created.
(d) "Common interest community" means a condominium, cooperative, or
other real property with respect to which a person, by virtue of the
person's ownership of a parcel of real property, is obligated to pay
property taxes or insurance premiums, or for maintenance, or
improvement of other real property described in a recorded covenant
that creates the common interest community.
(e) "Environmental covenant" means a servitude arising under an
environmental response project that imposes activity and use
limitations.
(f) "Environmental response project" means a plan or work performed for
environmental remediation of real property that is conducted:
(1) Under a federal or state program governing environmental remediation of
real property, including Title 7, Subtitle 5 of this article; or
(2) Incident to closure of a solid or hazardous waste management unit, if
the closure is conducted with approval of an agency.
(g) "Holder" means the grantee of an environmental covenant.
(h) "Person" means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate,
trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint
venture, public corporation, government, governmental subdivision,
agency, or instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity.
(i) "Record", when used as a noun, means information that is inscribed
on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium
and is retrievable in perceivable form.
(j) "State" means a state of the United States, the District of
Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any
territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the
United States.
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