ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION. Means the actual, alleged, potential or threatened contamination or exposure of, or damage or injury to, air, environment, atmosphere, soil, sediments, property (tangible or intangible), water (including, without limitation, groundwater, surface water and any other form or body of water), natural resources, plant life, or animal life, within, on, over, under, about or through the PROPERTY or OFF-SITE PROPERTY, by, involving, arising from or relating to the presence, existence, movement,
... migration, emanation, emission, discharge, seepage, release, disposal, dumping, landfilling or escape of irritants, contaminations, pollutants, toxins vapors, soot, smoke, fumes, acids, alkalis, chemicals, noise, energy, radiation, volatile organic compounds, chlorinated solvents (including, without limitation trichloroethylene, cis-1,2, dichlorethylene, vinyl chloride, and trichloroethane), polychlorinated biphenyls, benzene, oil, petroleum, petroleum products or derivatives, asbestos, silica, liquids or gases, waste materials of any type, or any other substance, irritant, contaminant or pollutant, or any form of toxic, hazardous or injurious substance or material including, without limitation: (1) "hazardous wastes" as defined by the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, as amended; (2) "hazardous substances" and "pollutant(s) or contaminant(s)" as defined by the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, as amended, 42 U.S.C. ss.9601, et seq. : (3) "toxic substances" as defined by the Toxic Substances Control Act, as amended; (4) "hazardous materials" as defined by the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act, as amended; (5) substances defined or deemed hazardous under New Jersey statutes and regulations including, without limitation, the New Jersey Spill Compensation and Control Act, N.J.S.A. 58:10-23.11 et seq. and the New Jersey Environmental Rights Act, N.J.S.A. 2A:35A-1 et seq. ; together with amendments thereto, regulations promulgated thereunder and all successor legislation and regulations thereof, as well as words of similar purport or meaning referred to in any other federal, state, county or municipal statute, ordinance, rule or regulation; and (6) any other substance or material alleged by any PERSON now or in the future to be (whether before or after its or their presence, existence, movement, migration, emanation, emission, discharge, seepage, release, disposal, dumping, landfilling or escape) detrimental, harmful, injurious, hazardous, noxious, nuisance-causing or toxic, whether within, on, over, under, about or through the PROPERTY or OFF-SITE PROPERTY. 3
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