Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 11 - Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality › Part 6 - Wastewater Pollution Control Regulations › Chapter 3 - Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality Regulations for the Certification of Municipal and Domestic Wastewater Facility Operators › Rule 11-6-3.2 - Definitions

Current through June 25, 2024
A. "Association" means the Mississippi Water
				and Pollution Control Operator's Association.
B. "Certificate," the certification of
				competency issued by the Department stating that the operator has met the
				requirements for the specified operator classification.
C. "Commission," the Mississippi Commission
				on Environmental Quality.
D.
				"Community water system" means any water system serving piped water for human
				consumption to fifteen (15) or more individual service connections used
				year-round by consumers or regularly serving twenty-five (25) or more
				individual consumers year- round, including, but not by way of limitation, any
				collection, pretreatment, treatment, storage and/or distribution facilities or
				equipment used primarily as part of, or in connection with, such system,
				regardless of whether or not such components are under the ownership or control
				of the operator of such system.
E.
				"Department," the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality.
F. "Experience," means direct observation of
				and/or participation in the operation and maintenance of a wastewater facility,
				including, but not limited to, process control activities, facility
				maintenance, record keeping and NPDES monitoring activities. Experience
				requirements must be in accordance with the facility minimum visitation
				schedule as outlined in Section 5, Operator Responsibilities.
G. "Operator," the person who directly
				supervises and is personally responsible for the daily operation and
				maintenance of a wastewater facility, community water system or commercial
				nonhazardous solid waste management landfill.
H. "Person," the state or other agency or
				institution thereof, any municipality, political subdivision, public or private
				corporation, individual, partnership, association or other entity, and includes
				any officer or governing or managing body of any municipality, political
				subdivision, or public or private corporation, or the United States or any
				officer or employee thereof.
I.
				"Pollution," the contamination or other alteration of the physical, chemical or
				biological properties of any waters of the state, including change in
				temperature, taste, color, turbidity, or odor of the waters, or the discharge
				of any liquid, gaseous, solid, radioactive or other substance or heat into any
				waters of the State.
J.
				"Professional Reference," a certified operator (other than a relative or a
				subordinate) who is familiar with the applicant's experience working in a
				wastewater facility.
K. "Wastewater
				Facilities," the pipelines or conduits, pumping stations, force mains,
				treatment plants, lagoons or any other structure, device, appurtenance or
				facility, whether operated individually or in any combination, used for
				collecting, treating and/or disposing of municipal or domestic wastewater, by
				either surface or underground methods, which is required to have a permit under
				the provisions of Miss. Code Ann. Section
				49-17-29.
L. "Waters of the state," the waters within
				the jurisdiction of this state, including all streams, lakes, ponds, impounding
				reservoirs, marshes, watercourses, waterways, wells, springs, irrigation
				systems, drainage systems and all other bodies or accumulations of water,
				surface and underground, natural or artificial, situated wholly or partly
				within or bordering upon the state, and such coastal waters as are within the
				jurisdiction of the state, except lakes, ponds or other surface waters which
				are wholly landlocked and privately owned.
Miss. Code Ann.
				  §§
										21-27-201,
				  et seq., 49-2-1, et seq. and 49-17-1, et seq.