Florida Administrative Code › 62 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 62 - Departmental › Chapter 62-620 - WASTEWATER FACILITY AND ACTIVITIES PERMITTING › Section 62-620.200 - Definitions

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
The following words and phrases when used in this chapter
				  shall, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, have the following
				  meanings:
(1) "Activity" means any
				action which results in a discharge of wastes into waters of the State or that
				is reasonably expected to be a source of water pollution.
(2) "Annual average discharge limitation"
				means the maximum annual average pollutant value allowed by the permit and
				calculated as the arithmetic mean of the 12 monthly average reclaimed water or
				effluent samples collected during any consecutive 12-month period.
(3) "Best management practices (BMPs)" means
				schedules of activities, prohibitions of practices, maintenance procedures, and
				other management practices to prevent or reduce the pollution of waters. BMPs
				also include treatment requirements, operating procedures, and practices to
				control plant site runoff, spillage or leaks, residuals, industrial sludge or
				waste disposal, or drainage from raw material storage.
(4) "Bypass" means the intentional diversion
				of waste streams from any portion of a treatment works.
(5) "CFR" means the Code of Federal
				Regulations.
(6) "Commercial
				wastewater" means non-toxic, non-hazardous wastewater from commercial
				facilities which is usually similar in composition to domestic wastewater, but
				which may occasionally have one or more of its constituents exceed typical
				domestic ranges. Included in this definition are wastewaters from commercial
				and institutional food service operations, commercial laundry facilities with
				no more than four washing machines, animal holding facilities (such as kennels,
				veterinary hospitals, and animal grooming facilities), and beauty salons,
				provided that toxic, hazardous, or industrial wastes are not introduced into
				the system.
(7) "Continuous
				discharge" means a discharge which occurs without interruption throughout the
				operating hours of the facility, except for infrequent shutdowns for
				maintenance, process changes, or other similar activities.
(8) "Co-permittee" means a permittee to a
				wastewater permit that is only responsible for permit conditions relating to
				the discharge for which it is the operator.
(9) "CWA" means the Clean Water Act, as
				amended, 33 U.S.C.
				1251 et seq., in existence on January 1,
				1993.
(10) "Daily discharge" means
				the discharge measured during a calendar day or any 24-hour period that
				reasonably represents the calendar day for purposes of sampling. For pollutants
				with limitations expressed in units of mass, the "daily discharge" is
				calculated as the total mass of the pollutant discharged over the day. For
				pollutants with limitations expressed in other units of measurement, the "daily
				discharge" is calculated as the average measurement of the pollutant over the
				day.
(11) "Demineralization
				Concentrate" means the concentrated byproduct water, brine, or reject water
				produced by ion exchange or membrane separation technologies such as reverse
				osmosis, membrane softening, ultra-filtration, membrane filtration,
				electrodialysis reversal used for desalination, softening, or reducing total
				dissolved solids during water treatment for public water supply purposes. This
				definition does not include reject discharged from membrane separation
				technologies used to produce water for industrial purposes which may also
				produce drinking water as an ancillary activity.
(12) "Department" means the State of Florida
				Department of Environmental Protection.
(13) "Discharge of a pollutant" means any
				addition of any pollutant or combination of pollutants, as defined in
				40 C.F.R.
				122.2, to waters from any point source other
				than a vessel or other floating craft which is being used as a means of
				transportation. This definition includes additions of pollutants into waters
				from surface runoff which is collected or channeled by man, and discharges
				through pipes, sewers, or other conveyances which do not lead to a treatment
				works. This term does not include an addition of pollutants by any indirect
				discharger.
(14) "Discharge of
				wastes" means the introduction or addition to waters of sewage, industrial
				wastes, and all other liquid, gaseous, solid, radioactive, or other substances
				that may pollute or tend to pollute any waters of the State. The term includes
				the discharge of a pollutant and the discharge of stormwater regulated under
				Section  403.0885, F.S.
(15) "Discharge point" means the outlet,
				structure, or designated location through which effluent is discharged to
				ground water.
(16) "Domestic
				wastewater" means wastewater derived principally from dwellings, business
				buildings, institutions, and the like, commonly referred to as sanitary
				wastewater or sewage. When industrial wastewater is combined with domestic
				wastewater for treatment, determination of whether the treatment plant is
				designated as domestic shall be in accordance with the definition of domestic
				wastewater provided in Rule
				 62-600.200, F.A.C.
(17) "Draft permit" means a document prepared
				under Rule  62-620.510, F.A.C., indicating
				the tentative decision of the Department to issue or deny, revise, revoke and
				reissue, terminate, or reissue a permit. Notices of intent to terminate a
				permit and to deny a permit are types of "draft permits." A denial of a request
				for revision, revocation and reissuance, or termination is not a "draft
				permit." A "proposed permit" is not a "draft permit."
(18) "Effluent limitation" means any
				restriction established by the Department on quantities, rates, or
				concentrations of chemical, physical, biological, or other constituents which
				are discharged from sources into waters of the State.
(19) "EPA" means the U.S. Environmental
				Protection Agency.
(20) "General
				permit" means a permit issued by rule of the Department under Section
				 403.814, F.S., which authorizes
				a person to undertake certain activities, which when performed in accordance
				with the specific requirements and practices set forth in the general permit
				have a minimal adverse environmental effect.
(21) "Industrial sludge" means the
				accumulated solids, residues, and precipitates generated as a result of
				industrial wastewater treatment.
(22) "Industrial wastewater" means process
				and non-process wastewater from manufacturing, commercial, mining, and
				silvicultural facilities or activities, including the runoff and leachate from
				areas that receive pollutants associated with industrial or commercial storage,
				handling or processing, and all other wastewater not otherwise defined as
				domestic wastewater.
(23) "Major
				facility" means any NPDES facility or activity classified as such by EPA with
				the concurrence of the Department.
(24) "Minor modification" means a
				modification to the facility or activity which is not expected to lead to a
				substantially different environmental impact or which will not involve a
				substantially different type of wastewater, residuals, or industrial sludge
				treatment, or reuse or disposal system. A minor modification does not
				substantially change the characteristics of the effluent, reclaimed water,
				residuals or industrial sludge nor does it change the permitted capacity of the
				treatment or reuse or disposal system. For domestic wastewater facilities, it
				includes construction to replace a unit operation or process structure, and
				construction to a unit operation or mechanical equipment which is not
				associated with routine facility maintenance.
(25) "Minor revision" means a change to the
				permit conditions, including any decrease or increase in staffing requirements
				or monitoring frequencies, correction of minor errors or typographical
				mistakes, transfer of a permit to a new owner, extension of compliance dates or
				construction schedules, deletion of outfalls or discharge points, incorporation
				of an approved pretreatment program by reference, or authorization of a minor
				modification to a facility or activity.
(26) "Modification" means the alteration,
				expansion, upgrade, extension, replacement of, or addition to an existing
				wastewater facility or activity. "Modification" does not include, and no permit
				revision is required for:
(a) Structural
				changes to an existing wastewater facility or activity, site or plant, that do
				not change the quality, nature, or quantity of the discharge of wastes or that
				do not cause water pollution, or
(b) Construction, replacement, or repair of
				components of an industrial site or plant which does not change the permitted
				treatment works or the terms and conditions of the wastewater
				permit.