Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 28 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT › Article 16 - WATER POLLUTION CONTROL › Section 28-16-56c - Sewage permit fees; definitions

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 28, July 11,
			 2024
For the purposes of
				K.A.R.
				28-16-56d, the following terms shall be
				defined as specified in this regulation:
(a) "Animal unit," for the purpose of
			 determining permit fees, has the meaning specified in
			 K.S.A.
			 65-171d, and amendments thereto.
(b) "Animal unit capacity" means the maximum
			 number of animal units that a confined feeding facility is designed to
			 accommodate at any one time.
(c)
			 "Commercial wastewater treatment facility" means a facility serving a
			 commercial enterprise or group or a combination of commercial enterprises, for
			 the purpose of treating primarily domestic sewage by physical, chemical, or
			 biological means or by a combination of these methods. This term shall include
			 any slaughterhouse with an average slaughter rate of 50 animals or less per
			 week.
(d) "Confined feeding
			 facility" has the meaning specified in
			 K.S.A.
			 65-171d, and amendments thereto.
(e) "Cooling water discharge" means cooling
			 water discharged from any system in which there is no contact with process
			 pollutants and there is no measured chemical buildup.
(f) "Dewatering discharge" means a discharge
			 resulting from the drainage or removal of water from a lagoon, quarry, pit, or
			 any other holding device. This term shall not include any discharge in which
			 there is a measured chemical buildup or to which chemicals have been added for
			 any purpose.
(g) "Domestic sewage"
			 means sewage originating primarily from kitchen, bathroom, and laundry sources,
			 including waste from food preparation, dishwashing, garbage grinding, toilets,
			 baths, showers, and sinks.
(h)
			 "General permit" has the meaning specified in
			 40 CFR
			 122.2 and adopted by reference in K.A.R.
			 28-16-151.
(i) "Industrial
			 wastewater treatment facility" means a facility treating primarily sewage or
			 process-generated wastewater, other than domestic sewage, by physical,
			 chemical, or biological means or by a combination of these methods.
This term shall not include any private truck-washing or
				trailer-washing facility for washing animal waste from not more than two trucks
				or trailers, or a combination of both, owned by the private truck-washing or
				trailerwashing facility.
(j) "Municipal wastewater treatment facility"
			 means a facility serving a city, county, township, sewer district, or other
			 local governmental unit, or a facility serving a state or federal agency,
			 establishment, or institution, for the purpose of treating primarily domestic
			 sewage by physical, chemical, or biological means or by a combination of these
			 methods.
(k) "Point source" means
			 any discernible, confined, and discrete conveyance from which pollutants are or
			 can be discharged, including any pipe, ditch, channel, tunnel, conduit, well,
			 discrete fissure, container, rolling stock, confined animal feeding facility,
			 landfill leachate collection system, and any vessel or other floating craft.
			 This term shall not include the return flows from irrigated agriculture or
			 agricultural storm water runoff.
(l) "Pretreatment permit" means a permit that
			 is issued to a source subject to pretreatment standards and that discharges to
			 a municipal wastewater treatment facility not having an approved pretreatment
			 program.
(m) "Private
			 truck-washing facility for animal wastes" means a truck-washing facility for
			 animal wastes that exists primarily for the purpose of washing animal wastes
			 from trucks or trailers owned by the facility.
(n) "Sewage" has the meaning specified in
			 K.S.A.
			 65-164, and amendments thereto.
(o) "Storm water discharge" means any
			 discharge of storm water runoff from a point source. This term may include any
			 of the following:
(1) Storm water runoff from
			 a municipal, industrial, or commercial facility or from a construction site;
(2) a discharge from any
			 conveyance or system of conveyances used for collecting and conveying storm
			 water runoff; or
(3) a system of
			 discharges from municipal storm sewers that are separate from sanitary sewers.