New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 7 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › Chapter 14D - DETERMINATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFIT OF THE REUSE OF FURTHER TREATED EFFLUENT IN INDUSTRIAL FACILITIES › Subchapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 7:14D-1.2 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
When used in this chapter, the following words and terms
				  have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
				  otherwise.
"Applicant" means the person who purchases treatment
				  equipment or conveyance equipment on behalf of an industrial facility and who
				  submits an application to the Department for a determination of environmental
				  benefit under this chapter.
"Conveyance equipment" means any equipment, including, but
				  not limited to, pipes, pumps and/or other appurtenances, that is used
				  exclusively to transport effluent to the facility in which the treatment
				  equipment has been or is to be installed and any equipment that is used
				  exclusively to transport further treated effluent to an industrial facility for
				  reuse in an industrial process. This does not include any conveyance equipment
				  used to transport wastewater.
"Department" means the New Jersey Department of Environmental
				  Protection.
"DEB" means the determination of environmental benefit issued
				  by the Department under this chapter.
"Effluent" means the liquid that results from treatment by
				  either a domestic or an industrial wastewater treatment facility in accordance
				  with a New Jersey Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NJPDES) permit issued
				  under N.J.A.C. 7:14A.
"Further treated effluent" means effluent that is subjected
				  to additional treatment for the purpose of reusing the effluent in an
				  industrial process.
"Industrial facility" means a facility where an industrial
				  process takes place.
"Industrial process" means any manufacturing process
				  including, but not limited to, such processes as power generation, paper
				  production and oil refining. An industrial process does not include
				  recreational activities, such as dust control at athletic fields.
"Person" means an individual, corporation, partnership or
				  owner or operator of an industrial facility or an agent or employee thereof.
				  "Person" shall also mean a responsible official.
"Pollutant" means pollutant as that term is defined in the
				  New Jersey Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NJPDES) rules at
				  7:14A-1.2.
"Responsible official" means one of the following:
1. For a corporation:
i. A president, secretary, treasurer or vice-president of the
				  corporation, who is in charge of a principal business function;
ii. Any other person who performs similar policy or
				  decision-making functions for the corporation; or
iii. A duly authorized representative of the person in 1i or
				  1ii above, if the representative is responsible for the overall operation of
				  one or more manufacturing, production, or operating facilities applying for the
				  determination of environmental benefit, and either:
(1) The facilities, for which the representative is
				  responsible, employ more than 250 persons or have gross annual sales or
				  expenditures exceeding $ 25 million (in second quarter 1980 dollars); or
(2) The delegation of authority to the representative is
				  approved in writing in advance by the Department; or
2. For a partnership or sole proprietorship: a general
				  partner or the proprietor, respectively.
"Treatment equipment" means any equipment that is used
				  exclusively to treat effluent from a wastewater treatment facility, which
				  effluent would otherwise have been legally discharged into waters of the State,
				  for purposes of reuse in an industrial process.
"Wastewater" means untreated liquid waste from either a
				  domestic or an industrial source. For purposes of this chapter, wastewater also
				  includes the wastewater that results from the reuse of further treated effluent
				  in an industrial process.
"Wastewater treatment facility" means a facility that treats
				  wastewater to reduce the levels of pollutants contained in the
				  wastewater.