New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 7 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › Chapter 15 - WATER QUALITY MANAGEMENT PLANNING › Subchapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS AND PLANNING REQUIREMENTS › Section 7:15-1.5 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
The following words and terms, as used in this chapter, shall
				  have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
				  otherwise.
"Act" or "WQPA" means the Water Quality Planning Act,
58:11A-1
et seq.
"Advanced wastewater pretreatment device" means an NSF
				  International (NSF) Standard 40 or Standard 245 certified technology which may
				  be incorporated as a part of an onsite wastewater treatment system, which bears
				  the NSF mark and is designed, installed, operated, monitored, and maintained in
				  accordance with that certification and
N.J.A.C. 7:9A
. This
				  definition also includes those technologies that are authorized for use in the
				  Pinelands Area through the Pinelands Advanced Wastewater Treatment Systems
				  Pilot Program at
7:50-10.23
.
"Agriculturally dependent endangered or threatened wildlife
				  species" means fauna that have been listed as endangered or threatened whose
				  current suitable habitat within New Jersey is primarily a result of ongoing
				  agricultural practices including, but not limited to, mowing, haying, and
				  grazing, and whose persistence at a particular location is dependent on the
				  continuation of specific agricultural practices. The following species meet
				  this definition when their presence at a site is dependent upon specific
				  ongoing agricultural practices: Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis), American Kestrel
				  (Falco sparverius), Upland Sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda), Henslow's Sparrow
				  (Ammodramus henslowii), Vesper Sparrow (Pooecetes gramineus), Grasshopper
				  Sparrow (Ammodramus savannarum), Savannah Sparrow (Passerculus sandwichensis),
				  Horned Lark (Eremophila alpestris), Bobolink (Dolichonyx oryzivorus), and
				  Checkered White (Pontia protodice).
"Applicant" means any person, corporation, government body,
				  or other legal entity that applies for an approval pursuant to this
				  chapter.
"Areawide plan" or "areawide WQM plan" or "WQM plan" means
				  the areawide water quality management plan prepared pursuant to the Act and the
				  Clean Water Act.
"Assigned sewer service area" means the eligible sewer
				  service area from which sewage flows are conveyed to a specific DTW, or for the
				  purposes of the wastewater capacity analysis, is reasonably expected by the WMP
				  agency to generate sewage that will be conveyed to the DTW, or to an industrial
				  treatment works that accepts sewage generated from areas other than the
				  industrial facility.
"Best management practices (BMPs)" means:
1. Schedules of activities, prohibitions of practices,
				  maintenance procedures, and other management practices to prevent or reduce the
				  pollution of waters of the State; or
2. Methods, measures, or practices selected by an agency to
				  meet its nonpoint source control needs.
BMPs also include treatment requirements, operating
				  procedures, and techniques to control site runoff, spillage, or leaks, sludge
				  or waste disposal, or drainage from raw material storage. BMPs include, but are
				  not limited to, structural and nonstructural controls and operation and
				  maintenance procedures. BMPs can be applied before, during, and after
				  pollution-producing activities to reduce or eliminate the introduction of
				  pollutants into receiving waters.
"BPU-regulated sewer or water utilities" means sewer
				  utilities or water utilities regulated by the Board of Public Utilities
				  pursuant to
48:1-1
et seq. and
N.J.A.C. 14:9
.
"Category One waters" or "C1 waters" means waters designated
				  as "C1 waters" in the Surface Water Quality Standards,
N.J.A.C.
				  7:9B
.
"Clean Water Act" means the "Federal Water Pollution Control
				  Act,"
33 U.S.C.
				  §§
											1251
et seq., also
				  known as the "Federal Clean Water Act" including all subsequent supplements and
				  amendments.
"Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the New Jersey
				  Department of Environmental Protection or his or her designee.
"Composite zoning" means a compilation of various similarly
				  zoned areas into a single representative zoning designation. Under composite
				  zoning, residential zones that would allow a similar density of units would be
				  consolidated into a single zone with an intermediate density of units that
				  represents a weighted average of similar zones.
"Conservation measures" means techniques to acquire,
				  preserve, create, enhance, restore, or manage habitat for endangered or
				  threatened wildlife species.
"Conservation restriction" means an interest in land as
				  defined in
				  13:8B-2.b.
"Continuing planning process" or "CPP" means the Statewide
				  planning process conducted by the Department pursuant to the Act.
"County utilities authority" means any public body created
				  and organized by a county governing body pursuant to
40:14B-1
et seq., or any
				  sewerage authority or county sewer authority reorganized as a county utilities
				  authority pursuant to
				  40:14B-6.b.
"Department" means the New Jersey Department of Environmental
				  Protection.
"Designated area" means an area designated by the Governor as
				  an areawide WQM planning area pursuant to the Act.
"Designated planning agency" or "DPA" means an agency
				  designated by the Governor to conduct areawide WQM planning pursuant to the
				  Act.
"Designated use" means those surface water uses, both
				  existing and potential, established by the Department under the Surface Water
				  Quality Standards,
N.J.A.C. 7:9B
, for the waters of the
				  State.
"Discharge Monitoring Report" or "DMR" means the USEPA's
				  uniform national form, as amended, for the reporting of self-monitoring results
				  by permittees, and includes Baseline Reports.
"District" means any or all of the following, depending on
				  the context: the district of a sewerage authority as defined in
40:14A-3(6)
,
				  or the district of a municipal authority as defined in
40:14B-3(6)
,
				  or the Passaic Valley Sewerage District as defined at
				  58:14-1.
"Disturbance" means the placement of impervious surface, the
				  exposure or movement of soil or bedrock, or the clearing, cutting, or removing
				  of vegetation.
"Domestic treatment works" or "DTW" means a publicly owned
				  treatment works as well as any other treatment works processing primarily
				  domestic sewage and pollutants together with any ground water, surface water,
				  stormwater, or process wastewater that may be present.
"Effluent limitation" means any restriction on quantities,
				  quality, discharge rates, and concentration of chemical, physical, thermal,
				  biological, radiological, and other constituents of pollutants established by
				  permit, or imposed as an interim enforcement limit pursuant to an
				  administrative order, including an administrative consent order.
"Eligible for sewer service area" means areas determined to
				  meet the criteria for designation as sewer service in accordance with this
				  chapter and are either assigned or unassigned to a specific wastewater
				  treatment facility in the areawide WQM plan(s).
"Endangered wildlife species" means species of wildlife
				  included on the list of endangered species promulgated pursuant to the
				  Endangered and Nongame Species Conservation Act,
23:2A-13
et seq., at
7:25-4.13
, and any species
				  or subspecies of wildlife appearing on any Federal endangered species list
				  pursuant to the Endangered Species Act of 1973,
16
				  U.S.C. §§
											1531
et
				  seq.
"Environmentally sensitive areas" means those areas
				  identified in an areawide WQM plan as land areas possessing characteristics or
				  features that are important to the maintenance or improvement of water quality,
				  or to the conservation of the natural resources of the State. Environmentally
				  sensitive areas include, but are not limited to, areas mapped as endangered or
				  threatened wildlife species habitat on the Department's most currently
				  available Landscape Maps of Habitat for Endangered, Threatened or Other
				  Priority Species, Natural Heritage Priority Sites, wetlands and riparian
				  zones.
"Equivalent dwelling unit" means the standard residential
				  unit upon which the nitrate dilution model is based, which is a single-family
				  home with three bedrooms and three residents, or its equivalent in terms of
				  flow generated or pounds of nitrate generated. The standard residential unit is
				  assumed to generate 500 gallons per day of wastewater or 30 pounds per year of
				  nitrate. The equivalency measure of 500 gallons per day is to be used for
				  systems that do not have effluent limits established through a NJPDES permit.
				  The equivalency measure of 30 pounds per year of nitrate is to be used for
				  systems that have effluent limits for nitrate established through a NJPDES
				  permit.
"Franchise area" means the geographic area over which a
				  designated private entity has the privilege or the exclusive right to control,
				  operate, and provide for a specified utility or utilities that has been granted
				  by the Board of Public Utilities for a period or periods of time and upon such
				  other terms and conditions as it may fix and agree upon.
"Governmental entity" means a Federal, state, county, or
				  municipal government or school district whose jurisdiction is partially or
				  entirely within New Jersey.
"Highlands center" means areas designated as such by the
				  Highlands Council.
"Highlands conforming municipality" means a municipality in
				  the Highlands planning area that has had its RMP conformance petition approved
				  by the Highlands Council and has adopted a planning area conformance petition
				  ordinance and land use ordinance amendments consistent with that
				  approval.
"Highlands Council" means the Highlands Water Protection and
				  Planning Council established pursuant to the Highlands Water Protection and
				  Planning Act,
13:20-1
et
				  seq.
"Highlands planning area" means that portion of the Highlands
				  Region not included within the Highlands preservation area as defined in the
				  Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act,
				  13:20-7.c.
"Highlands preservation area" means that portion of the
				  Highlands Region as defined in the Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act,
				  N.J.S.A 13:20-7.b.
"Highlands redevelopment area" means previously developed
				  areas, such as brownfields or grayfields, designated as such by the Highlands
				  Council.
"Highlands Region" means that region as defined in the
				  Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act, N.J.S.A. 13:20-7.a.
"Highlands Regional Master Plan" means the master plan and
				  any revisions thereto, adopted by the Highlands Council pursuant to
				  13:20-8.
"HUC 11" or "hydrologic unit code 11" means an area within
				  which water drains to a particular receiving surface water body, also known as
				  a watershed, which is identified by an 11-digit hydrologic unit boundary
				  designation, delineated within New Jersey by the United States Geological
				  Survey.
"HUC 14" or "hydrologic unit code 14" means an area within
				  which water drains to a particular receiving surface water body, also known as
				  a subwatershed, which is identified by a 14-digit hydrologic unit boundary
				  designation, delineated within New Jersey by the United States Geological
				  Survey.
"Individual subsurface sewage disposal system" or "ISSDS"
				  means a collection of components for disposal of sanitary sewage into the
				  ground that is designed and constructed in conformance with
N.J.A.C.
				  7:9A
to treat sanitary sewage in a manner that will retain most of the
				  settleable solids in a septic tank or may incorporate an advanced wastewater
				  pretreatment device and discharges liquid effluent of typical domestic strength
				  to a disposal field. An ISSDS may include advanced wastewater pretreatment. The
				  terms "onsite wastewater treatment system" and "system" are equivalent in
				  meaning.
"Industrial treatment works" means an industrial treatment
				  works as defined at
N.J.A.C. 7:14A
.
"Infill development" means development of undeveloped or
				  underdeveloped land in an area that is contiguous to and substantially
				  surrounded by developed land that is served by a wastewater treatment facility
				  as of the November 7, 2016, and that will generate less than or equal to 8,000
				  gallons of wastewater per day.
"Integrated Water Quality Monitoring and Assessment Report"
				  or "Integrated Report" means the biennial report prepared by the Department,
				  pursuant to Section 305(b) of the Clean Water Act,
33 U.S.C. §
											1315
(b), which inventories and
				  assesses the overall quality of the waters of the State and their support of
				  designated uses and includes the 303(d) List of Water Quality Limited Waters
				  required under Section 303(d) of the Clean Water Act,
33 U.S.C. §
											1313
(d).
"Joint meeting" means the meeting or assembly of the members
				  of the governing bodies or boards of the several municipalities having
				  authority to make and enter into contracts for the construction jointly of the
				  works or improvements authorized by
				  40:63-70.
"Landscape Maps of Habitat for Endangered, Threatened and
				  Other Priority Wildlife" or "Landscape Maps" means the Department's maps
				  delineating areas used by or necessary for endangered and threatened wildlife
				  species and other priority wildlife to sustain themselves successfully. The
				  maps depict areas of contiguous habitat types (forest, grassland, forested
				  wetland, emergent wetland, and beach/dune) that are ranked based upon
				  intersection with documented occurrences of endangered, threatened, and
				  priority wildlife species. Mapped habitat areas are classified based upon the
				  status of the wildlife species whose presence is documented. Rank 5 is assigned
				  to areas containing one or more documented occurrences of at least one wildlife
				  species listed as endangered or threatened on the Federal list of endangered
				  and threatened species. Rank 4 is assigned to areas with one or more documented
				  occurrences of at least one State endangered species. Rank 3 is assigned to
				  areas containing one or more documented occurrences of at least one State
				  threatened species. Rank 2 is assigned to areas containing one or more
				  documented occurrences of at least one non-listed State priority wildlife
				  species. The maps also delineate, as Rank 1, habitat areas that meet
				  habitat-specific suitability requirements, such as minimum area criteria for
				  endangered, threatened, and priority wildlife species, but that do not
				  intersect with any documented occurrences of such species.
"Load allocation" means the portion of a receiving water's
				  total maximum daily load for a specific pollutant that is allocated to existing
				  or future nonpoint sources of pollution.
"Municipal authority" means a municipal authority as defined
				  in the Municipal and County Utilities Authorities Law at
40:14B-3(5)
,
				  and shall include a municipal utilities authority created by one or more
				  municipalities and a county utilities authority created by a county.
"Municipal government" means a city, town, borough, village,
				  township, or other municipal government created by State law, which has an
				  elected governing body, a chief executive, and municipal public officials
				  including a municipal clerk, tax assessor, and tax collector.
"Natural Heritage Database" means the manual and computerized
				  file maintained by the Department at
http://www.nj.gov/dep/parksandforests/natural/heritage/index.html
that includes continuously updated information on the location and status of
				  endangered and threatened wildlife species, endangered plant species, plant
				  species of concern, and ecological communities of concern in New Jersey.
"Natural Heritage Priority Sites" means areas identified on
				  the Department's geographic information systems (GIS) coverage that conserve
				  New Jersey's biological diversity, with particular emphasis on the habitat of
				  endangered plant species, plant species of concern, and ecological communities
				  of concern. These components of biological diversity are referred to as
				  "natural resource elements" for the purposes of these rules. Natural Heritage
				  Priority Sites are based on analysis of information in the Natural Heritage
				  Database.
"Natural resource elements" means the habitat of endangered
				  plant species, plant species of concern, and ecological communities of concern,
				  which includes areas required to maintain the natural processes necessary for
				  continued viability of such plant species or ecological community, such as
				  ground water flow and water quality. Natural resource elements are the basis
				  for the Department's Natural Heritage Priority Sites.
"NJPDES" means the New Jersey Pollutant Discharge Elimination
				  System established in
N.J.A.C. 7:14A
.
"NJPDES discharge permit" means a permit issued by the
				  Department pursuant to
N.J.A.C. 7:14A
for a discharge to
				  surface water or a discharge to ground water.
"No net loss of habitat value" means, when considering the
				  net effects of a proposed activity and any required conservation measures, no
				  net reduction in the capacity of an area to support a population of any
				  endangered or threatened wildlife species similar in size and health to any
				  such population that the same area was capable of supporting prior to
				  completing the regulated activity. In this context, the area under
				  consideration includes the combined area of suitable habitat affected by a
				  proposed activity and the area where required conservation measures are
				  implemented.
"Nonpoint source" means:
1. Any man-made or man-induced activity, factor, or
				  condition, other than a point source, from which pollutants are or may be
				  discharged;
2. Any man-made or man-induced activity, factor, or
				  condition, other than a point source, that may temporarily or permanently
				  change any chemical, physical, biological, or radiological characteristic of
				  waters of the State from what was or is the natural, pristine condition of such
				  waters, or that may increase the degree of such change; or
3. Any activity, factor, or condition, other than a point
				  source, that contributes or may contribute to water pollution.
" Non-sewer service area" means areas that are not designated
				  as eligible to receive sewer service from a NJPDES permitted domestic or
				  industrial treatment works. This type of wastewater service area allows
				  wastewater facilities with discharge to ground water of 2,000 gallons per day
				  or less.
"OWRMC" means the Office of Water Resource Management
				  Coordination, or its successor, in the Department of Environmental
				  Protection.
"Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners" means the body
				  described by that name pursuant to
				  58:14-2.
"Permitted flow" means maximum allowable flow (usually in
				  million gallons per day, or other appropriate unit of flow such as gallons per
				  day) for a treatment works as stated in the facility's NJPDES permit or TWA,
				  whichever is less.
"Pinelands Area" means that area as defined in the Pinelands
				  Protection Act,
				  N.J.S.A.
				  13:18A-11.
"Pinelands Commission" means the Pinelands Commission created
				  pursuant to
13:18A-4
and as
				  authorized by the Pinelands Protection Act,
13:18A-1
et seq., and
				  section 502 of the National Parks and Recreation Act of 1978,
16 U.S.C. §
											471i,
creating the Pinelands
				  National Reserve.
"Pinelands Comprehensive Management Plan" means the plan
				  codified at
N.J.A.C. 7:50
, as adopted by the Pinelands
				  Commission.
"Pinelands Management Area" means those areas as established
				  and amended pursuant to
N.J.A.C. 7:50
and as depicted on the
				  Pinelands Land Capability Map.
"Pinelands National Reserve" means that area as defined at
				  section 502 of the National Parks and Recreation Act of 1978,
16 U.S.C. §
											471i
(c).
"Planning flow" means that daily flow which is estimated or
				  anticipated to be contributed by wastewater generating facilities in a
				  wastewater service area. Planning flow is calculated based on
7:14A-23.3
or
7:9A-7.4
, as applicable for the type of wastewater facilities
				  being considered.
"Point source" means any discernible, confined, and discrete
				  conveyance, including, but not limited to, any pipe, ditch, channel, tunnel,
				  conduit, well, discrete fissure, container, rolling stock, concentrated animal
				  feeding operation, landfill leachate collection system, vessel, or other
				  floating craft, from which pollutants are or may be discharged. This term does
				  not include return flows from irrigated agriculture.
"Process wastewater" means any water that, during
				  manufacturing or processing, comes into direct contact with or results from the
				  production or use of any raw material, intermediate product, finished product,
				  byproduct, or waste product. Process wastewater includes, but is not limited
				  to, leachate and cooling water other than non-contact cooling water. This
				  definition includes the terms commercial wastewater and industrial wastewater
				  as used in 40 CFR Part 503.
"Public advisory committee" or "PAC" means a representative
				  committee of interests formed for the purpose of advising the Department on
				  policy and other relevant issues in the development and implementation of a
				  watershed management area plan or TMDL.
"Purveyor" or "water purveyor" means any person who owns or
				  operates a public water supply system as defined in
N.J.A.C.
				  7:10
.
"Riparian zone" means the land and vegetation adjacent to a
				  surface water that is regulated under the Flood Hazard Area Control Act Rules
				  at
7:13-1.2
.
"Sanitary sewage" means any liquid waste containing animal or
				  vegetable matter in suspension or solution, or the water carried wastes
				  resulting from the discharge of water closets, laundry tubs, washing machines,
				  sinks, dishwashers, or any other source of water carried wastes of human origin
				  or containing putrescible material. This term specifically excludes industrial,
				  hazardous, or toxic wastes and materials.
"Septage" means the liquid and solid material pumped from a
				  septic tank, cesspool, or similar domestic sewage treatment system, or a
				  holding tank when the system is cleaned or maintained.
"Sewage" means any wastes, including wastes from humans,
				  households, commercial establishments, industries, and stormwater runoff, that
				  are discharged to or otherwise enter a domestic treatment works.
"Sewer service area" means the land area identified in an
				  areawide WQM plan from which wastewater generated is conveyed to, or has been
				  determined to be eligible, in accordance with this chapter, to pursue a permit
				  to connect to a domestic treatment works or industrial treatment works.
				  Inclusion in a sewer service area does not guarantee that capacity exists or
				  will exist to provide treatment for all flow from that area.
"Sewerage agency" means the Passaic Valley Sewerage
				  Commissioners, a sewerage authority, a municipal authority, a municipal
				  utility, or a joint meeting
"Sewerage authority" means a sewerage authority created
				  pursuant to the Sewerage Authorities Law,
40:14A-1
et seq.
"State" means the State of New Jersey.
"State Plan" means the State Development and Redevelopment
				  Plan established pursuant to the State Planning Act,
52:18A-196
et seq.
"State Plan Policy Map" means the State Plan Policy Map
				  adopted by the State Planning Commission pursuant to the State Planning Act,
52:18A-196
et seq.
"Stormwater" means water resulting from precipitation
				  (including rain and snow) that runs off the land's surface, is transmitted to
				  the subsurface, is captured by separate storm sewers or other sewage or
				  drainage facilities, or is conveyed by snow removal equipment.
"Stormwater runoff" means water flow on the surface of the
				  ground or in storm sewers, resulting from precipitation.
"Subwatershed" means a portion of an identified watershed
				  containing all the lands from which water, sediments, and dissolved materials
				  drain to a particular receiving surface water body or to a particular point
				  along a receiving surface water body.
"Suitable habitat" means habitat featuring ecological
				  characteristics that may provide for the breeding, feeding, resting, or
				  sheltering of any endangered and/or threatened wildlife species. Ecological
				  characteristics may include, but are not limited to, seasonal wetland or dry
				  land, roost sites, nesting grounds, spawning sites, feeding sites, vegetative
				  community size, age, structure, or diversity; waterway or pond water quality,
				  size, or substrate; and soil types or hydrologic characteristics.
"Surface water quality standards" or "SWQS" means the rules
				  at
N.J.A.C. 7:9B
that set forth, for the surface waters of the
				  State, designated uses, use classifications, and water quality criteria, and
				  the Department's policies concerning these uses, classifications, and
				  criteria.
"Threatened wildlife species" means species designated as
				  "threatened" on the list defining the status of indigenous nongame wildlife
				  species of New Jersey, promulgated pursuant to the Endangered and Nongame
				  Species Conservation Act,
23:2A-1
et
				  seq., at
7:25-4.17
, and any species
				  or subspecies of wildlife appearing on any Federal threatened species list
				  pursuant to the Endangered Species Act of 1973,
16
				  U.S.C. §§
											1531
et
				  seq.
"303(d) List of Water Quality Limited Waters" or "303(d)
				  List" means a list generated by the Department pursuant to Section 303(d) of
				  the Federal Clean Water Act,
33
				  U.S.C. §
											1313
(d).
"Total maximum daily load" or "TMDL" means a calculation of
				  the maximum amount of a pollutant that a water body can receive and still meet
				  water quality standards or a different target where the water quality is better
				  than the water quality standard. It is the sum of the allowable loads of a
				  single pollutant from all contributing point and nonpoint sources and includes
				  a margin of safety and consideration of seasonal variations.
"Treatment works" means treatment works as defined at
N.J.A.C. 7:14A
.
"Treatment works approval" means an approval issued pursuant
				  to 58:10A-6.b and
N.J.A.C.
				  7:14A
.
"201 Facilities Plans" means the plans for wastewater
				  facilities prepared pursuant to Section 201 of the Clean Water Act,
33 U.S.C.
				  §§
											1251
et seq.
"Unassigned sewer service area" means areas eligible for
				  sewer service for which a specific DTW or industrial treatment works has not
				  been identified.
"Undeveloped and underdeveloped areas" means areas that are
				  either unimproved or contain existing improvements but could be further
				  developed in a manner that would create additional wastewater flow without the
				  need to obtain a variance, according to existing zoning.
"Urbanized municipalities" means those where 90 percent of
				  the municipality's land area appears as "Urban Lands," as designated in the New
				  Jersey Department of Environmental Protection's most recent Land Use/Land Cover
				  geographical information systems database as amended and updated, available as
				  a digital data download from the Department at
www.state.nj.us/dep/gis
, based on
				  Level I of the Anderson Classification System (Anderson et al, 1976, modified
				  by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, 1999). Urbanized
				  municipalities also include those municipalities identified as "Urban Aid"
				  municipalities pursuant to the New Jersey Redevelopment Act,
55:19-20
et seq.; as an
				  Urban Enterprise Zone pursuant to the New Jersey Urban Enterprise Zones Act,
52:27H-60
et seq.; as a
				  "Garden State Growth Zone" municipality pursuant to the New Jersey Economic
				  Opportunity Act of 2013,
52:27D-489p
et seq.; and as Transit Villages approved by the New Jersey Department of
				  Transportation and NJ Transit.
"USEPA" means the United States Environmental Protection
				  Agency.
"Wasteload allocation" or "WLA" means the portion of a
				  receiving water's total maximum daily load for a specific pollutant that is
				  allocated to one of its existing or future point sources or categories of point
				  sources of pollution. Wasteload allocations constitute a type of water quality
				  based effluent limitation.
"Wastewater" means residential, commercial, industrial, or
				  agricultural liquid waste, sewage, septage, stormwater runoff, or any
				  combination thereof, or other residue discharged or collected into wastewater
				  facilities. Wastewater shall not include stormwater runoff conveyed by a
				  separate storm sewer system.
"Wastewater management plan" or "WMP" means a written and
				  graphic description of wastewater service areas, and wastewater treatment
				  needs.
"Wastewater management plan area" or "WMP area" means the
				  geographic area for which a wastewater management planning agency has
				  wastewater management planning responsibility.
"Wastewater management planning agency" or "WMP agency" means
				  a governmental entity that has wastewater management planning
				  responsibility.
"Wastewater-related jurisdictions" means a public sewerage
				  authority district, as defined in
40:14A-3(6)
;
				  municipal authority, as defined in
40:14B-3(5)
;
				  joint meeting, as defined at
40:63-69
; county
				  utilities authority created pursuant to
				  40:14B-4.a; the Passaic Valley
				  Sewerage District defined under
58:14-1
et seq.; a
				  municipal utility or franchise areas for private sewer utilities regulated by
				  the Board of Public Utilities.
"Wastewater service area" means a sewer service area or
				  non-sewer service area as designated in a WQM plan adopted by the
				  Department.
"Wastewater treatment facility" means any device or system at
				  a fixed location, including a land application system or subsurface sewage
				  disposal system, that is or will be utilized for treatment of wastewater that
				  requires a NJPDES permit issued pursuant to
N.J.A.C. 7:14A
and
				  those wastewater treatment and recycling systems that handle wastewater flows
				  greater than 2,000 gallons per day as determined in accordance with
7:14A-23.3
or 7:9A.
"Water quality based effluent limitations" means effluent
				  limitations established so that the quality of the waters receiving a discharge
				  will meet the Surface Water Quality Standards,
N.J.A.C. 7:9B
,
				  after the introduction of the effluent.
"Watershed" means a geographic area containing all the lands
				  from which water, sediments, and dissolved materials drain to a particular
				  receiving surface water body or to a particular point along a receiving surface
				  water body.
"Watershed management activity" means activities or projects
				  undertaken by a watershed management group to improve the condition or prevent
				  further degradation of a watershed, and may include, but need not be limited
				  to, public meetings to discuss and exchange information on watershed issues,
				  the establishment and operation of a stakeholders advisory group or groups or
				  watershed associations dedicated to preserving and protecting a watershed, the
				  monitoring, water quality modeling, or assessment of the condition of a
				  watershed, the development of policy goals to reduce the amount of pollutants
				  discharged into a watershed, the development of projects designed to enhance or
				  restore a watershed, the development, in consultation with the Department, of a
				  watershed management strategy, or the reassessment of a watershed to determine
				  whether the policy goals or the objectives of a watershed management area plan
				  or watershed management strategy have been attained.
"Watershed Management Area" or "WMA" means a regional area
				  established by the Department that is comprised of multiple watersheds and
				  subwatersheds. WMA delineations are available from the Department and on the
				  Department's website at
http://www.state.nj.us/dep/gis
.
"Watershed Management Area Plan" or "WMA Plan" means the plan
				  developed and adopted by the Department, in consultation with the PAC, to
				  protect and improve New Jersey's water and water-related resources by
				  identifying actions to maintain, restore, and enhance existing water quality,
				  water quantity, and ecosystem health, wherever attainable, within a watershed
				  management area.
"Watershed management group" means a group recognized by the
				  Department pursuant to
7:15-6.3(b)
as the entity representing various
				  interests within one or more watersheds or subwatersheds located in a watershed
				  management area and whose purpose is to improve the condition or prevent
				  further degradation of a watershed or watersheds.
"Watershed management strategy" means a plan developed by a
				  watershed management group, in consultation with the PAC and the Department, to
				  improve the condition of one or more watersheds or reassess a watershed to
				  determine whether the policy goals or the objectives of the watershed
				  management area plan or watershed management strategy have been
				  attained.
"Wetlands" means those areas defined as wetlands under any of
				  the following statutes and implementing rules as applicable:
1. New Jersey Coastal Wetlands Act,
13:9A-1
et seq., at
13:9A-2
;
2. New Jersey Freshwater Wetlands Protection Act,
13:9B-1
et seq., at
13:9B-3
, and
7:7A-1.4
;
3. Coastal Area Facility Review Act,
13:19-1
et seq., at
13:19-4
, and
7:7-9.27
; and
4. Pinelands Protection Act,
13:18A-1
et seq., at
13:18A-3
and
13:18A-11
, and
7:50-2.11
,
6.3
,
6.4
, and
6.5
.