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B 813
“audit” means an inspection of a facility, operations, processes,
procedures and documentation or records to ensure a licensee or permit
holder is in compliance with the relevant conditions and requirements of its
license or permit ;
“chemical vendors” means entities, companies, organisation licenced
by the Authority to sell chemical utilised for any process in the midstream
and downstream petroleum industry ;
“CNG” means Compressed Natural Gas ;
“Cradle to Grave” means the management of waste from its generation
to disposal ;
“downstream petroleum operations” shall have the meaning ascribed
to it in the Act ;
“environment” means —
(a)  land, water, air, including all layers of the atmosphere,
(b)  natural and physical resources,
(c)  ecosystems and their constituent parts, including people and
communities,
(d)  the qualities and characteristics of locations, places and areas, and
(e) the heritage value of places,
and includes the social, economic and cultural features of the matters
mentioned in (a) - (e) ;
“environmental issues” means any environmental problem such as
pollution, damage to lives and property, grievances caused to the community,
caused by operations of a licensee or permit holder in the midstream and
downstream petroleum industry ;
“environmental effect” means any change to the environment, whether
adverse or beneficial, that wholly or partly results from a petroleum activity ;
“environmental risk” means the chance of something happening that
will have an adverse environmental effect, measured in terms of the
environmental consequences and the likelihood of those particular
consequences occurring ;
“Emergency Response Plan”means an organised and predetermined
course of action to be pursued in the event of an emergency, such as spill or
leakage of oil, gas, chemicals or hazardous substances, fire, man overboard,
loss of containment, natural disaster, injury, piracy, security breach, and this
orderly arrangement of events to effectively manage the incident shall be
compiled in a document by a licensee or permit holder ;
“Environmental Remediation Fund” means the contributory fund
established in the Midstream and Downstream Environmental Remediation
Fund Regulations made by the Authority ;
“exogenous microbes” means micro-organisms that are not indigenous
to the Nigerian environment and may be contained in chemicals or products