Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 33 - ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Part IX - Water Quality › Subpart 1 - Water Pollution Control › Chapter 15 - Water Quality Certification Procedures › Section IX-1505 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
Administrative Authority
-the Secretary of
					 the Department of Environmental Quality or his designee or the appropriate
					 assistant secretary or his designee.
Certification
-approval by the
					 administrative authority that any activity which may result in any discharge
					 into or potential change of the waters of the state and as such requires
					 application for a federal permit, will comply with the applicable provisions of
					 Sections
					 301 (Effluent Limitations), 302
					 (Water Quality Related Effluent Limitations), 303 (Water Quality Standards and
					 Implementation Plans), 306 (National Standards of Performance) and 307 (Toxic
					 and Pretreatment Effluent Standards) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act
					 as amended.
Commercial Activity
-any conduct,
					 operation, or process performed by governmental agencies for public use or by
					 private interests for business or other use for profit.
Commission
-the Environmental Control
					 Commission.
Discharge
-the placing, releasing,
					 spilling, percolating, draining, pumping, leaking, seeping, emitting,
					 disposing, bypassing or other escaping of pollutants into the air, waters,
					 subsurface water or the ground as the result of a prior act or the placing of
					 pollutants into natural or man-made pits or drums, barrels, or similar
					 containers under conditions and circumstances that leaking, seeping, draining,
					 or escaping of the pollutants can be reasonably anticipated.
Land Management Plan
-a land use plan
					 approved by the United States Soil Conservation Service or the State Department
					 of Transportation and Development Soil and Water Conservation Committee.
Noncommercial Activity
-any conduct,
					 operation, or process intended strictly for private use with no future profit
					 potential expected.
Person
-any individual, municipality,
					 public or private corporation, partnership, firm, the United States Government
					 and any agent or subdivision thereof, or any other juridical person.
Waste
-any material for which no use or
					 reuse is intended and which is to be discarded.
Water Pollution
-the introduction into
					 waters of the state by any means including dredge and fill operations, of any
					 substance in concentrations which tend to degrade the chemical, physical,
					 biological, or radiological integrity of such waters, including, but not
					 limited to, the discharge of brine from salt domes which are located on the
					 coastline of Louisiana and the Gulf of Mexico into any waters off said
					 coastline and extending therefrom 3 miles into the Gulf of Mexico.
Water Quality Management Plan
-an approved
					 water quality management plan prepared pursuant to the Act [R.S.
					 30:2074(A)(1)].
Water Quality Standards
-standards and
					 criteria established pursuant to the Act [R.S.
					 30:2074(A)(1)].
AUTHORITY NOTE:
					 Promulgated in accordance with
					 R.S.
					 30:2074(A)(3).