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27A OK Stat § 27A-2-6-202 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 27A. Environment and Natural Resources|§27A-2-6-202. Definitions.

|For purposes of the Oklahoma Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Act: |1. "Discharge" includes but is not limited to a discharge of a pollutant or pollutants, and means any addition of any pollutant to waters of the state from any point source regulated by the Department of Environmental Quality;2. "Effluent limitation" means any established restriction on quantities, rates, and concentrations of chemical, physical, biological, and other constituents which are discharged from point sources into waters of the state, including schedules of compliance;3. "Organization" means a legal entity, other than a government, established or organized for any purpose, and such term includes a corporation, company, association, firm, partnership, joint stock company, foundation, institution, trust, society, union, or any other association of persons;4. "Point source" means any discernible, confined and discrete conveyance, including but not limited to any pipe, ditch, channel, tunnel, conduit, well, discrete fissure, container, rolling stock, or vessel or other floating craft, from which pollutants or wastes are or may be discharged. The term "point source" does not include agricultural stormwater discharges and return flows from irrigated agriculture;5. "Pretreatment" means the reduction of the amount of pollutants, or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties in wastewater prior to or in lieu of discharging or otherwise introducing into a treatment works;6. "Schedule of compliance" means a schedule of remedial measures including but not limited to an enforceable sequence of actions or operations leading to compliance with an effluent limitation, other limitation, prohibition, or standard;7. "Serious bodily injury" means bodily injury which involves a substantial risk of death, unconsciousness, extreme physical pain, protracted and obvious disfigurement, or protracted loss or impairment of the function of a bodily member, organ, or mental faculty; and8. "Storm water" means rain water runoff, snow melt runoff, and surface runoff and drainage.Added by Laws 1992, c. 398, § 14, eff. July 1, 1993. Amended by Laws 1993, c. 145, § 63, eff. July 1, 1993. Renumbered from § 1002 of this title by Laws 1993, c. 145, § 359, eff. July 1, 1993.
27A OK Stat § 27A-2-6-205 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 27A. Environment and Natural Resources|§27A-2-6-205. Unlawful discharge - Permit requirements - Authority of Department.

|A. Except as otherwise provided in subsection B of this section, it shall be unlawful for any facility, activity or entity regulated by the Department of Environmental Quality pursuant to the Oklahoma Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Act to discharge any pollutant into waters of the state or elsewhere without first obtaining a permit from the Executive Director. |B. The Environmental Quality Board shall promulgate rules which prescribe permit requirements applicable to discharges composed entirely of stormwater. The rules may require permits on a case-by-case basis, exempt categories of discharges, or provide a schedule for obtaining a permit. No later than the date that the Department is to receive authorization to administer a state National Pollutant Discharge Elimination Systems program, the Board shall have promulgated rules for stormwater discharges which comply with Environmental Protection Agency requirements for approval of the state National Pollutant Discharge Elimination Systems program.C. The Department of Environmental Quality shall have the authority to determine whether a facility, activity or entity regulated by the Department pursuant to the Oklahoma Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Act is required to obtain a stormwater permit. No other state agency shall condition any license, permit or other form of authorization issued by that agency upon the applicant obtaining a stormwater permit from the Department if the applicant is not required to obtain a stormwater permit pursuant to Department statutes and rules promulgated by the Board.Added by Laws 1992, c. 398, § 17, eff. July 1, 1993. Amended by Laws 1993, c. 145, § 66, eff. July 1, 1993. Renumbered from § 1005 of this title by Laws 1993, c. 145, § 359, eff. July 1, 1993. Amended by Laws 2007, c. 146, § 6, eff. July 1, 2007.
27A OK Stat § 27A-2-6-301 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 27A. Environment and Natural Resources|§27A-2-6-301. Oklahoma Water Supply Systems Act - Short title.

|This part shall be known and may be cited as the "Oklahoma Water Supply Systems Act". |Added by Laws 1993, c. 145, § 68, eff. July 1, 1993.
27A OK Stat § 27A-2-6-302 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 27A. Environment and Natural Resources|§27A-2-6-302. Cooperation with federal agencies.

|A. The Department of Environmental Quality shall be the official agency of the State of Oklahoma to cooperate with federal agencies in all matters affecting public water supplies. |B. The Department shall administer the wellhead protection program and the Public Water Supply Supervision program for the State of Oklahoma pursuant to the federal Safe Drinking Water Act.Added by Laws 1963, c. 325, art. 9, § 911, operative July 1, 1963. Amended by Laws 1993, c. 145, § 69, eff. July 1, 1993. Renumbered from Title 63, § 1-911 by Laws 1993, c. 145, § 359, eff. July 1, 1993.
27A OK Stat § 27A-2-6-303 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 27A. Environment and Natural Resources|§27A-2-6-303. Rules and standards.

|A. The Board shall promulgate rules as may be necessary to implement the provisions of this part pertaining to water supply systems and the treatment and distribution of water to the public, including but not limited to rules for: |1. The construction and extension of such systems;2. Specifications and directions as to the source, manner of storage, purification, treatment and distribution of water supplied to the public;3. Requirements for control tests, laboratory checks, operating records and reports, including the submission of water samples for testing or sample analyses as prescribed by the federal Safe Drinking Water Act and this Code; and4. Permitting requirements.B. The Department of Environmental Quality shall recommend standards to the public for individual water supplies.C. Such rules may provide for the exemption, and conditions therefor, of specified categories of water supply systems from any of the requirements thereof, except for wastewater discharges, if the public health will not thereby be endangered.Added by Laws 1963, c. 325, art. 9, § 904, operative July 1, 1963. Amended by Laws 1981, c. 277, § 2, emerg. eff. June 26, 1981; Laws 1993, c. 145, § 70, eff. July 1, 1993. Renumbered from Title 63, § 1-904 by Laws 1993, c. 145, § 359, eff. July 1, 1993.
27A OK Stat § 27A-2-6-305 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 27A. Environment and Natural Resources|§27A-2-6-305. Waterworks - Filing of plans and surveys.

|Every person supplying or authorized to supply water to the public shall file with the Department a certified copy of the plans and surveys of the waterworks, with a description of the source from which the water supply is derived. No additional source of supply or well shall thereafter be used without a written permit from the Department. |Added by Laws 1963, c. 325, art. 9, § 906, operative July 1, 1963. Amended by Laws 1993, c. 145, § 72, eff. July 1, 1993. Renumbered from Title 63, § 1-906 by Laws 1993, c. 145, § 359, eff. July 1, 1993.
27A OK Stat § 27A-2-6-306 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 27A. Environment and Natural Resources|§27A-2-6-306. Annual service fee - Laboratory analyses.

|A. 1. The Board shall establish an annual fee for public water supply system regulatory services based on the size and type of the system and the resultant regulatory cost of the services to the state. Such annual fee shall not result in an increase of more than thirty cents ($0.30) per month per residential user of the public water supply systems per year. With the exception of state, federal, and nontransient noncommunity public water systems which shall pay actual costs of public water supply system regulatory services, no system shall pay less than four cents ($0.04) per service connection per month. |2. The Board may assess an annual minimum fee charged for:a.purchase water systems, Fifty Dollars ($50.00),b.groundwater systems, Seventy-five Dollars ($75.00), andc.surface water systems, One Hundred Fifty Dollars ($150.00).3. Any state funds appropriated for public water supply system regulatory services shall be used to offset the increased costs of regulatory services to the smaller public water supply systems with a population of up to two thousand (2,000) people.B. A water supply system, required by state or federal law to submit laboratory analyses to the Department, may submit analyses which have been performed by a laboratory certified by the Department pursuant to this Code in lieu of analyses performed by the Department. In such case, the cost of the submitted certified laboratory analyses shall be deducted from the portion of the system's annual fee that is applicable to laboratory tests.Added by Laws 1993, c. 145, § 73, eff. July 1, 1993.
27A OK Stat § 27A-2-6-307 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 27A. Environment and Natural Resources|§27A-2-6-307. Investigations of sanitary quality of water.

|A. The Department may, of its own accord, investigate the sanitary quality of water supplied to the public if the Department has reason to believe that such water supply is prejudicial to the public health or environment. Such investigation shall be made whenever a complaint is made to the Department by the mayor of any city, the president of the board of trustees of any incorporated town or any other public entity including a public works authority, or a rural water or sewage district, or by the Department's local representative, about the sanitary quality of water supply within their respective counties. |B. During such investigation, the person in charge of the water supply shall furnish the Department all the information requested by it relative to the source or sources from which the supply of water is derived, and the manner of storage, distribution and purification or treatment necessary or desirable for the determination of its sanitary quality.Added by Laws 1993, c. 145, § 74, eff. July 1, 1993.
27A OK Stat § 27A-2-6-308 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 27A. Environment and Natural Resources|§27A-2-6-308. Orders.

|A. The Department may issue an order to a respondent requiring compliance with the Oklahoma Water Supply Systems Act, rules of the Board, and orders previously issued to such respondent. Such orders may require a change in the source or sources of a public water supply, or in the manner of storage, distribution, purification or treatment of the supply before delivery to consumers, as may be necessary to safeguard the public health or environment. Such orders shall be issued pursuant to the Administrative Procedures Act, this Code and rules promulgated thereunder. |B. The Department may issue an emergency order to any public water supply system requiring change in the source of the water supply or in the manner of storage, distribution, purification or treatment of the supply before delivery to consumers, or any other action which, in the Executive Director's judgment, is necessary to safeguard the health of the consumers or the environment.1. The order may require public water supply systems to notify consumers of the problem with the supply and the action required by order of the Executive Director.2. Any respondent to whom such an order is directed and who considers the requirements of the order to be illegal, unjust or unreasonable may request an administrative hearing within ten (10) days after the order is served. Such hearing shall be subject to the Administrative Procedures Act, rules promulgated by the Board and this Code.3. The order shall remain in full effect until it is rescinded by the Executive Director.Added by Laws 1993, c. 145, § 75, eff. July 1, 1993.
27A OK Stat § 27A-2-6-310.1 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 27A. Environment and Natural Resources|§27A-2-6-310.1. Legislative findings and declaration.

|A. The Oklahoma Legislature finds that a safe public groundwater supply is one of the most valuable natural resources in this state. |B. The Legislature recognizes and declares that the management, funding, protection and conservation of public groundwater supplies and the beneficial uses thereof are essential to the economic prosperity and future well-being of the state. As such, the public interest demands procedures for the development and implementation of management practices to conserve and protect public groundwater supplies.Added by Laws 1997, c. 241, § 1, eff. July 1, 1997. Amended by Laws 2019, c. 34, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2019.
27A OK Stat § 27A-2-6-310.2 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 27A. Environment and Natural Resources|§27A-2-6-310.2. Promulgation of rules - Wellhead protection program.

|A. The Environmental Quality Board shall promulgate rules necessary to safeguard public health and welfare and prevent pollution of public water supply systems pursuant to the Oklahoma Water Supply Systems Act. |B. The Department of Environmental Quality shall develop an Oklahoma wellhead protection program to assist municipalities, rural water districts, nonprofit water corporations and other public groundwater suppliers in the conservation and protection of their public groundwater supplies which will specify the following:1. Guidelines specifying the duties of the Department in developing a wellhead protection program;2. Guidelines specifying the duties of local governments in developing and implementing the wellhead protection program;3. Guidelines for determining all potential and actual pollution sources which may have an adverse effect on public health;4. Guidelines for taking into consideration potential sources of pollution when siting new wells for public water supplies;5. Guidelines for developing contingency plans for pollution release containment, cleanup and the provision of alternative drinking water supplies for each public water system in the event of groundwater well or groundwater wellfield pollution; and6. Guidelines including such other information or assistance as deemed necessary by the Department.Added by Laws 1997, c. 241, § 2, eff. July 1, 1997.
27A OK Stat § 27A-2-6-310.3 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 27A. Environment and Natural Resources|§27A-2-6-310.3. Groundwater protection education program.

|A. The Department of Environmental Quality shall develop and implement a groundwater protection education program. In developing such program, the Department shall consult with public health agencies, water utilities, state educational and research institutions, nonprofit environmental organizations and any other person or agency the Department deems necessary. |B. The Department shall develop a program to provide public recognition of users of land located within a public groundwater supply wellhead protection area who demonstrate successful and committed efforts to protect drinking water supplies by implementing innovative approaches to groundwater protection. Such program shall also promote groundwater protection through education of members of businesses and industry and the public.Added by Laws 1997, c. 241, § 3, eff. July 1, 1997.
27A OK Stat § 27A-2-6-310.4 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 27A. Environment and Natural Resources|§27A-2-6-310.4. Act not to affect certain agencies' powers and duties.

|No provision of this act shall affect the powers and duties of any state agency or any agency of any political subdivision of the state which is charged with responsibility for water control or water management. |Added by Laws 1997, c. 241, § 4, eff. July 1, 1997.
27A OK Stat § 27A-2-6-402 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 27A. Environment and Natural Resources|§27A-2-6-402. Rules - Exemptions.

|A. The Board shall promulgate rules as necessary to implement the provisions of this part pertaining to the treatment of nonindustrial wastewater, and the treatment, storage, use and disposal of sewage sludge and other waste by wastewater treatment systems or treatment works. Such rules shall include but are not limited to requirements for: |1. The construction, operation and extension of municipal, public, private and other nonindustrial wastewater treatment systems or treatment works, including the construction or use of surface impoundments and lagoons;2. Pretreatment;3. Control tests, laboratory checks, monitoring or operating records and reports;4. Applications, plans and specifications, permitting and other authorizations;5. The monitoring, maintenance and closure of wastewater treatment systems; and6. Treatment, sampling, record keeping, reporting and other requirements for sewage sludge consistent with federal regulations.B. Such rules may provide for the exemption, and conditions therefor, of specified categories of wastewater treatment systems or treatment works for small public sewage systems from any of the requirements thereof if the public health or the environment will not thereby be endangered. Provided, no exemption shall be allowed which is inconsistent with applicable minimum federal requirements for discharges or use, transportation or disposal of sludge.Added by Laws 1993, c. 145, § 77, eff. July 1, 1993. Amended by Laws 1994, c. 353, § 15, eff. July 1, 1994.
27A OK Stat § 27A-2-6-403.1 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 27A. Environment and Natural Resources|§27A-2-6-403.1. Inspections of existing sewage disposal systems.

|The Department of Environmental Quality shall not require a departmental inspection of an existing individual sewage disposal system prior to a service connection to a public water supply system. |Added by Laws 1997, c. 131, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 1997.
27A OK Stat § 27A-2-6-501.2 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 27A. Environment and Natural Resources|§27A-2-6-501.2. Sludge management land application plan.

|A. Any permit application received by the Department on or after July 1, 1993, for a discharge permit, a municipal or industrial wastewater construction or treatment permit or a public water supply permit shall include or provide for a sludge management plan if the applicant proposes the beneficial use of such sludge or wastewater through land application. |B. Any permittee proposing the land application of wastewater or sludge under the terms of an existing Department issued municipal or industrial construction or wastewater treatment permit, a discharge permit or a water supply permit, must receive the Department's approval on a sludge management plan. Adding a sludge management land application plan to an existing individual industrial discharge permit or an industrial wastewater treatment permit issued by the Department shall require the major modification of the existing permit. For purposes of this section, permits issued by the Oklahoma Water Resources Board and the State Department of Health prior to June 30, 1993 shall be deemed issued by the Department upon the transfer of such permits to the Department effective July 1, 1993.C. Sludge management plans for the land application of sludge or wastewater which have been approved by the Department may be modified or amended by the Department pursuant to rules promulgated by the Board.D. Any use or final disposition of sludge other than land application shall require the approval of the Department pursuant to rules promulgated by the Board.Added by Laws 1993, c. 324, § 27, eff. July 1, 1993.
27A OK Stat § 27A-2-6-501.3 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 27A. Environment and Natural Resources|§27A-2-6-501.3. Promulgation of rules.

|The Board shall promulgate rules which shall include, but not be limited to, the following: |1. Prohibiting the practice of plowing sludge that contains heavy metal concentrations significantly above concentrations normal to sludges with demonstrated effectiveness on Oklahoma soils prior to completion of a comprehensive study of all potential adverse effects by a qualified research institute familiar with the crops and soils of the State of Oklahoma, into or onto the soil surface;2. Requiring that each load of sludge generated outside the State of Oklahoma be sampled at the location at which it is generated and have appropriate analysis performed by an independent laboratory certified by the Department with random quality assurance samples taken by the Department to assure that the sludge falls within the requirements established by the Board; and3. Requiring the generators to submit the following information: Dates of shipment and application of sludge; weather conditions upon delivery and application; location of sludge application site; area to be used for land application; amount of sludge delivered or applied; a copy of the test results showing the quality of the sludge; and a copy of the sludge use agreement. Such records shall be retained by the Department for a period of five (5) years after any land application of sludge and shall be made available to the public for inspection.Added by Laws 1992, c. 361, § 3, emerg. eff. June 4, 1992. Amended by Laws 1993, c. 145, § 154, eff. July 1, 1993. Renumbered from Title 63, § 1-2308 by Laws 1993, c. 145, § 359, eff. July 1, 1993. Amended by Laws 1993, c. 324, § 39, eff. July 1, 1993. Renumbered from § 2-10-403 of this title by Laws 1994, c. 353, § 42, eff. July 1, 1994.
27A OK Stat § 27A-2-6-501.4 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 27A. Environment and Natural Resources|§27A-2-6-501.4. Sludge containing heavy metal concentrations significantly above normal ranges - Soil and crop studies - Municipal corrective action plans - Comprehensive study.

|A. 1. The Department shall not approve any sludge management plan or issue any permit for the land application of sludge which contains heavy metal concentrations significantly above concentration ranges normal to sludges with demonstrated effectiveness on Oklahoma soils as determined by the Department. Rules promulgated by the Board for applications for sludge management plans and permits shall require a study of the effects of the sludge on the various types of soils and crops found at the location of the proposed sludge application site. Such study shall encompass the effects of the sludge on the soils and crops during four (4) growing seasons. |2. Any municipality having a sludge management plan approved prior to May 25, 1992, for the land application of sludge containing heavy metal concentrations significantly above acceptable concentration ranges may discontinue such land application of the sludge or shall develop a corrective action plan containing a schedule of compliance for reducing the heavy metal concentration to an acceptable range. The municipality shall submit the corrective action plan to the Department for approval. If the Department disapproves of the plan or the municipality fails to comply with the plan so approved, the Department may require that any such land applications of sludge by the municipality be discontinued pursuant to Article II of the Administrative Procedures Act.B. For developing statewide criteria for application of sludge which contains heavy metal concentrations significantly above concentration ranges normal to sludge, the Department shall utilize a comprehensive study of the potential adverse effects of such sludge on the soils of this state completed by a qualified research institute familiar with the crops and soils of this state. Such study shall be completed by September 1, 1996, and a report of the findings shall be delivered to the Governor, the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Executive Director no later than September 1, 1996.Added by Laws 1992, c. 267, § 1, emerg. eff. May 25, 1992. Amended by Laws 1993, c. 145, § 155, eff. July 1, 1993. Renumbered from Title 63, § 1-2304.2 by Laws 1993, c. 145, § 359, eff. July 1, 1993. Amended by Laws 1993, c. 324, § 40, eff. July 1, 1993. Renumbered from § 2-10-404 of this title by Laws 1994, c. 353, § 43, eff. July 1, 1994.