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Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 1251', '§ 303', 'art 131', '§ 2', '§ 2', '§ 1', '§ 2', '§ 3', '§ 25', '§ 2', '§ 18', '§ 4', '§ 1', '§ 24', '§ 1250', '§ 1251']

S: 1251 C: 47 T: 10 - Definitions The Vermont Statutes Online
10 V.S.A. § 1251. Definitions
(3) "Discharge" means the placing, depositing or emission of any wastes, directly or indirectly, into an injection well or into the waters of the state.
(4) "Effluent limitation" means any restrictions or prohibitions established in accordance with the provisions of this chapter or under federal law including, but not limited to, effluent limitations, standards of performance for new sources, and toxic effluent standards, on quantities, rates, and concentrations of chemical, physical, biological, and other constituents which are discharged to waters of the state, including schedules of compliance.
(7) "Oil" means oil of any kind, including but not limited to petroleum, fuel oils, oily sludge, waste oil, gasoline, kerosene, jet fuel, tar, asphalt, crude oils, lube oil, insoluble or partially soluble derivatives of mineral, animal or vegetable oils, or any product or mixture thereof.
(8) "Person" means any individual; partnership; company; corporation; association; joint venture; trust; municipality; the state of Vermont or any agency, department, or subdivision of the state, any federal agency, or any other legal or commercial entity.
(11) "Secretary" means the secretary of the agency of natural resources or his authorized representative.
(12) "Waste" means effluent, sewage or any substance or material, liquid, gaseous, solid or radioactive, including heated liquids, whether or not harmful or deleterious to waters; provided however, the term "sewage" as used in this chapter shall not include the rinse or process water from a cheese manufacturing process.
(13) "Waters" includes all rivers, streams, creeks, brooks, reservoirs, ponds, lakes, springs and all bodies of surface waters, artificial or natural, which are contained within, flow through or border upon the state or any portion of it.
(14) "Injection well" means any opening in the ground used as a means of discharging waste except for a dry hole not exceeding seven feet in depth which is constructed as, and used solely for the disposal of domestic wastes.
(15) "Indirect discharge" means any discharge to groundwater, whether subsurface, land-based or otherwise.
(17) "Basin plan" means a plan prepared by the secretary for each of Vermont's 17 basins in conjunction with the basin planning process required by § 303(e) of the federal Clean Water Act and 40 C.F.R. part 131. (Amended 1961, No. 100, § 2; 1964, No. 37 (Sp. Sess.), § 2; 1969, No. 252 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. April 4, 1970; 1973, No. 103, § 2, eff. April 24, 1973; 1973, No. 112, § 3, eff. April 25, 1973; 1981, No. 222 (Adj. Sess.), § 25; 1985, No. 199 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. May 17, 1986; 1987, No. 76, § 18; 1991, No. 157 (Adj. Sess.), § 4, eff. May 5, 1992; 1991, No. 211 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; 2003, No. 115 (Adj. Sess.), § 24, eff. Jan. 31, 2005.)
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