Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 11 - Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality › Part 9 - Pollution Emergency Response Regulations › Chapter 1 - Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality Pollution Emergency Response Regulations › Rule 11-9-1.1 - Definitions

Current through June 25, 2024
The words and phrases used in this Chapter shall have the
				  meanings set forth in this rule.
A.
				"Air pollution" means the presence in the outdoor atmosphere of one or more air
				contaminants in quantities, of characteristic, and of a duration which are
				materially injurious or can be reasonably expected to become materially
				injurious to human, plant or animal life or to property, or which unreasonably
				interfere with enjoyment of life or use of property throughout the state or
				throughout such area of the state as shall be affected thereby.
B. "Commission" means the Mississippi
				Commission on Environmental Quality acting through the Office of Pollution
				Control of the Department of Environmental Quality.
C. "Facility" means any and all sources that
				may cause pollution of the air or any waters of the state or may cause any
				wastes or other products or substances to be placed in a location where they
				are likely to cause pollution of the air or any waters of the state, including
				any building, structure, installation, house, business, vehicle, car, truck,
				train, bus, boat, ship, airplane, or any other means of transportation for
				persons or property.
D. "Person"
				means 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.
E. "Pollution" means air pollution and/or
				water pollution and/or placing or causing to be placed any wastes in a location
				where they are likely to cause pollution of any waters of the state.
F. "Pollution Emergency Fund" means the fund
				established under Miss. Code Ann. Section
				49-17-68.
G. "Responsible Party" or "RP" means the
				owner or operator of a facility that causes pollution necessitating immediate
				remedial or clean-up action.
H.
				"Wastes" means sewage, industrial wastes, oil field wastes, and all other
				liquid, gaseous, solid, radioactive, or other substances which may pollute or
				tend to pollute any waters of the state.
I. "Water Pollution" means such
				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 such discharge of any liquid,
				gaseous, solid, radioactive, or other substance or leak into any waters of the
				state unless in compliance with a valid permit issued therefor by the Permit
				Board.
J. "Waters of the state"
				means all 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, and which
				are not regulated under the Federal Clean Water Act (
				33 U.S.C.
				1251 et seq).
Miss. Code Ann.
				  §§
										17-17-1,
				  et seq., 49-2-1, et seq. and 49-17-1, et seq.