Or. Admin. Code § 340-045-0010 - Definitions
(1) As used in this
division unless otherwise required by context:
(2) "Commission" means the Environmental
Quality Commission or the Commission's authorized designee.
(3) "DEQ" means the Oregon Department of
Environmental Quality.
(4)
"Director" means the Director of the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality
or the Director's authorized designee.
(5) "Discharge or Disposal" means placing
wastes into public waters, on land, or otherwise into the environment in a
manner that affects or may tend to affect the quality of public
waters.
(6) "Disposal System" means
a system for disposing of wastes by surface or underground methods and includes
sewerage systems, treatment works, disposal wells, and other systems but
excludes onsite sewage disposal systems regulated under OAR
340-071-0160,
340-071-0162, or ORS
454.655 and systems that
recirculate without discharge.
(7)
"Environmental Management Plan" means a document specified within the
conditions of a permit that identifies environmental impacts, establishes
environmental goals and periodic review for effectiveness in meeting
environmental goals, best management practices, monitoring, corrective actions
and other enforceable requirements of the permit.
(8) "Federal Act" means Public Law 92-500,
known as the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972, and
amendments.
(9) "General Permit"
means a permit issued to a category of qualifying sources under OAR
340-045-0033 in lieu of
individual permits for every source.
(10) "Industrial Waste" means any liquid,
gaseous, radioactive, or solid waste substance, or a combination of them,
resulting from any process of industry, manufacturing, trade, or business or
from developing or recovering any natural resources.
(11) "Municipal Separate Storm Sewer" means a
conveyance or system of conveyances including: roads with drainage systems,
municipal streets, catch basins, curbs, gutter, ditches, manmade channels, or
storm drains, that is:
(a) Owned or operated
by a state, city, county, district, association, or other public
body;
(b) Designed or used for
collecting or conveying stormwater; and,
(c) Is not a combined sewer or part of a
Publicly Owned Treatment Works as defined in
40
C.F.R. §
122.2.
(12) "Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System"
means all municipal separate storm sewers that are defined as "large,"
"medium," or "small" municipal separate storm sewer systems in
40
C.F.R. §
122.26(b).
(13) "NPDES Permit" means a waste discharge
permit issued under the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
authorized by the Federal Act and OAR chapter 340, division 045.
(14) "Navigable Waters" means all navigable
waters of the United States and their tributaries; interstate waters; and
intrastate lakes, rivers, and streams that are used by interstate travelers for
recreation or other purposes or from which fish or shellfish are taken and sold
in interstate commerce or that are used for industrial purposes by industries
in interstate commerce.
(15)
"Permit Action" means DEQ's issuing, modifying, renewing, or revoking a
permit.
(16) "Person" means the
United States and its agencies, state, individual, public or private
corporation, political subdivision, governmental agency, municipality,
co-partnership, association, firm, trust, estate, or any other legal
entity.
(17) "Point Source" means
any discernible, confined, discrete conveyance, including but not limited to,
any pipe, ditch, channel, tunnel, conduit, well, discrete fissure, container,
rolling stock, concentrated animal feeding operation, or vessel or other
floating craft from which pollutants are or may be discharged.
(18) "Pollutant" means dredged spoil, solid
waste, incinerator residue, sewage, garbage, sewerage sludge, munitions,
chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or
discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt, and industrial, municipal, and
agricultural waste discharged into water.
(19) "Pretreatment" means the waste treatment
that might take place before discharging to a sewerage system including but not
limited to pH adjustment, oil and grease removal, screening, and
detoxification.
(20) "Process
Wastewater" means wastewater contaminated by industrial processes but not
including non-contact cooling water or storm runoff.
(21) "Public Waters" or "Waters of the State"
means lakes, bays, ponds, impounding reservoirs, streams, creeks, estuaries,
marshes, inlets, canals, the Pacific Ocean within the territorial limits of the
State of Oregon, and all other bodies of surface or underground waters, natural
or artificial, inland or coastal, fresh or salt, public or private, except
those private waters that do not combine or effect a junction with natural
surface or underground waters, that are wholly or partially within or bordering
the state or within its jurisdiction.
(22) "Regional Administrator" means the
Regional Administrator of Region X of the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency.
(23) "Septage" means the
liquid and solid material pumped from a septic tank, holding tank, cesspool, or
similar domestic sewage treatment system.
(24) "Septage Alkaline Stabilization
Facility" means a facility that actively mixes alkaline material with raw
septage to increase and maintain pH at 12 in the resultant mixture for
sufficient time to achieve chemical stabilization.
(25) "Sewage" means water-carried human or
animal waste from residences, buildings, industrial establishments, or other
places, together with such groundwater infiltration and surface water as may be
present. The mixture of sewage with wastes or industrial wastes is also
considered sewage.
(26) "Sewerage
System" means pipelines or conduits, pumping stations, force mains, and all
other structures, devices, appurtenances, and facilities used for collecting or
conducting wastes to an ultimate point for treatment or disposal.
(27) "State" means the State of
Oregon.
(28) "Stormwater" means
stormwater runoff, snow melt runoff, and surface runoff and drainage.
(29) "Toxic Waste" means any waste that will
cause or can reasonably be expected to cause a hazard to fish or other aquatic
life or to human or animal life in the environment.
(30) "Treatment" or "Waste Treatment" means
altering the quality of wastewater by physical, chemical, or biological means,
or a combination of them, that reduces the tendency of the wastes to degrade
water quality or other environmental conditions.
(31) "Wastes" means sewage, industrial
wastes, and all other liquid, gaseous, solid, radioactive, or other substances,
that will or may cause or tend to cause pollution of any waters of the
state.
(32) "WPCF Permit" means a
Water Pollution Control Facilities permit to construct and operate a disposal
system with no discharge to navigable waters. A WPCF permit is issued by the
Director under the procedures of this division or OAR
340-071-0162.
Notes
Statutory/Other Authority: ORS 454.625, 454.745, 468.020, 468B.020 & 468B.035
Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS 468.065, 468B.015, 468B.035 & 468B.050
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