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Rule 1. As used in this part: (a) "Act" means 1994 PA 451, MCL 324.101 et seq., and known as the natural resources and environmental protection act. (b) "Department" means the department of environmental quality. (c) "Indoors" means within a building or other enclosure which provides protection from the elements, which has doors or other means of entry that can be closed or otherwise protected from unauthorized entry, and which has a floor capable of containing liquid or solid materials. (d) "Manufactured item" means any solid article, other than a container holding solid or liquid polluting materials, which is formed to specific shape during manufacture, and which does not leach or otherwise release polluting materials to the groundwaters or surface waters of the state under normal conditions of use or storage. (e) "Oil" means oil of any kind or in any form, including any of the following: (i) Petroleum. (ii) Gasoline. (iii) Fuel oil. (iv) Grease. (v) Oily sludges. (vi) Oil refuse. (vii) Oil mixed with waste. (f) "Oil storage facility" means a temporary or permanent land-based industry, plant, establishment, firm, or other facility which receives, processes, manufactures, uses, stores, or ships oil, and at which there is present an amount of oil equal to or more than the threshold management quantity and which is so situated that oil could directly or indirectly reach the surface or groundwaters of this state, including any facility that discharges through a public sewer system. "Oil-storage facility" does not include an oil field petroleum or brine storage facility, a recreational marina, installations of oil-containing electrical equipment, or any transportation-related facility, as defined in 40 C.F.R. part 112. (g) "On-land facility" means a temporary or permanent land-based industry, plant, establishment, firm, storage site, or other facility, which receives, processes, manufactures, uses, stores or ships polluting materials and at which there is present an amount of any polluting material equal to or more than its threshold management quantity and which is so situated that loss of polluting materials could directly or indirectly reach the surface or groundwaters of this state, including any facility which discharges through a public sewer system. "On-land facility" does not include an oil storage facility, an oil field petroleum or brine storage facility, a recreational marina, installations of oil containing electrical equipment, or a transportation-related facility as defined in 40 C.F.R. part 112.