---
kind: "section"
citation: "40 C.F.R. § 23.1"
title: "40"
number: "23.1"
heading: "Definitions."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/40/23.1"
---

# §23.1. Definitions.


As used in this part, the term:

- (a) Federal Register document means a document intended for publication in the Federal Register and bearing in its heading an identification code including the letters FRL.
- (b) Admininstrator means the Administrator or any official exercising authority delegated by the Administrator.
- (c) General Counsel means the General Counsel of EPA or any official exercising authority delegated by the General Counsel.

## Notes

### Amendments

[50 FR 7270, Feb. 21, 1985, as amended at 53 FR 29322, Aug. 3, 1988]

### Authority

Authority: Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. 1361(a), 1369(b); Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. 7601(a)(1), 7607(b); Resource, Conservation and Recovery Act, 42 U.S.C. 6912(a), 6976; Toxic Substances Control Act, 15 U.S.C. 2618; Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, 7 U.S.C. 136n(b), 136w(a); Safe Drinking Water Act, 42 U.S.C. 300j-7(a)(2), 300j-9(a); Atomic Energy Act, 42 U.S.C. 2201, 2239; Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, 21 U.S.C. 371(a), 346a, 28 U.S.C. 2112(a), 2343, 2344.

### Source

Source: 50 FR 7270, Feb. 21, 1985, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[50 FR 7270, Feb. 21, 1985, as amended at 53 FR 29322, Aug. 3, 1988]