Kan. Admin. Regs. § 28-16-58 - Definitions
As used in K.A.R. 28-16-57a through 28-16-63, each of the following terms shall have the meaning specified in this regulation:
(a)
(1)
"Administrator" means administrator of the United States environmental
protection agency (EPA).
(2)
"Application" means all documents required by the division of environment in
the Kansas department of health and environment that are necessary for
obtaining a permit.
(3)
"Department" and "KDHE" mean Kansas department of health and
environment.
(4) "Director" means
director of the division of environment, KDHE.
(5) "Division" means division of environment,
KDHE.
(6) "Draft permit" means a
permit that has not been issued as a final action of the secretary.
(7) "EPA" means United States environmental
protection agency.
(8) "Kansas
implementation procedures: wastewater permitting" means the procedures dated
July 1, 2014 and written and used by the department for the development of
national pollutant discharge elimination system permit limitations, available
upon request from the division.
(9)
"Minimum standards of design, construction, and maintenance" means effluent
standards, effluent limitations, pretreatment standards, other performance
standards, and other standards of design, construction, and maintenance for
wastewater control facilities published by the department in 1978 as "minimum
standards of design for water pollution control facilities."
(10) "Municipal system" means a system under
the jurisdiction of a city, county, township, district, or other governmental
unit.
(11) "National pollutant
discharge elimination system" and "NPDES" mean the national system for the
issuance of permits under 33 U.S.C. Section 1342 and shall include any state or
interstate program that has been approved by the administrator, in whole or in
part, pursuant to 33 U.S.C. Section 1342.
(12) "Refuse act application" means an
application for a permit under 33 U.S.C. Section 407, commonly known as the
refuse act, of 33 U.S.C. Chapter 9, "protection of navigable waters and of
harbor and river improvements generally."
(13) "Regional administrator" means the
regional administrator for region VII of the EPA.
(14) "Secretary" means secretary of
KDHE.
(15) "Water quality
standards" means all water quality standards, as specified in K.A.R. 28-16-28b
through K.A.R. 28-16-28g, to which a discharge is subject.
(16) "Waters of the state" means all surface
and subsurface waters occurring within the borders of the state or forming part
of the border between Kansas and one of the adjoining states.
(b) The definitions of the
following terms contained in 33 U.S.C. Section 1362, as amended July 29, 2008
and hereby adopted by reference, shall be applicable to the following terms as
used in K.A.R. 28-16-57a through K.A.R. 28-16-63, unless the context requires
otherwise:
(1) "Biological
monitoring";
(2) "effluent
limitations";
(3)
"municipality";
(4)
"person";
(5) "state";
and
(6) "toxic
pollutant."
Notes
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