Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 22a - Environmental Protection › 39 - Inland Wetlands and Water Courses Regulations of the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection › Section 22a-39-2 - Definitions

Current through July 10, 2024
Definitions, as used in these regulations:
1. "The Act" means Sections
			 22a-36
			 to 45 inclusive of the General Statutes, as amended;
2. "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of
			 the Department of Environmental Protection;
3. "Department" means the Department of
			 Environmental Protection;
4.
			 "Deposit" includes, but shall not be limited to fill, grade, dump, place,
			 discharge or emit;
5. "Discharge"
			 means the emission of any water, substance or material into waters of the State
			 of Connecticut whether or not such substance causes pollution;
6. "License" means the whole or any part of a
			 permit, certificate of approval or similar form of permission which may be
			 required of any person by the provisions of these regulations or the
			 Act;
7. "Local Inland Wetlands
			 Agency" means the agency empowered by municipal ordinance to implement and
			 administer the Act and having jurisdiction over the inland wetlands and water
			 courses of such municipality;
8.
			 "Material" means any substance, solid or liquid, organic or inorganic,
			 including but not limited to soil, sediment, aggregate, land, gravel, clay,
			 bog, mud, debris, sand, refuse, or waste;
9. "Person" means any person, firm,
			 partnership, association, corporation, company, organization or legal entity of
			 any kind, including municipal corporations, government agencies or subdivisions
			 thereof;
10. "Pollution" means any
			 harmful thermal effect or the contamination or rendering unclean or impure of
			 any wetlands or water courses of the State of Connecticut by reason of any
			 waste or other materials discharged or deposited therein by any public or
			 private sewer, or otherwise, so as directly or indirectly to come in contact
			 with any wetlands or water courses;
11. "Regulated activity" means any operation
			 within or use of a wetland or water course as listed in Section 4.2 of these
			 regulations;
12. "Regulated Area"
			 means any wetland or water course as defined in these regulations;
13. "Remove" includes, but shall not be
			 limited to drain, excavate, mine, dig, dredge, suck, bulldoze, dragline, or
			 blast;
14. "Rendering unclean or
			 impure" means any alteration of the physical, chemical or biological properties
			 of any wetlands or water courses of the State of Connecticut, including but not
			 limited to change in color, odor, turbidity or taste;
15. "Significant impact or major effect"
			 means:
a. Any activity involving a deposition
			 of material which will or may have a substantial adverse effect on the
			 regulated area or on another part of the inland wetland or water course system
			 or
b. Any activity involving a
			 removal of material which will or may have a substantial adverse effect on the
			 regulated area or on another part of the inland wetland or water course system
			 or
c. Any activity which
			 substantially changes the natural channel or may inhibit the natural dynamics
			 of a water course system or
d. Any
			 activity which substantially diminishes the natural capacity of an inland
			 wetland or water course to support desirable biological life, prevent flooding,
			 supply water, assimilate waste, facilitate drainage, and/or provide recreation
			 and open space;