Oklahoma Administrative Code › Title 252 - Department of Environmental Quality › Chapter 606 - Oklahoma Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (OPDES) Standards › Subchapter 1 - Introduction › Section 252:606-1-2 - Definitions

Current through Vol. 41, No. 20, July 1, 2024
In addition to terms defined in Title 27A of the Oklahoma
				  Statutes, the following words or terms, when used in this Chapter, have the
				  following meaning unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Accredited laboratory"
means a laboratory
				  accredited through the DEQ laboratory accreditation program.
"Beneficial use"
means the use of biosolids or
				  wastewater through land application for the purpose of soil conditioning, or
				  crop or vegetative fertilization, or erosion control, or the use of wastewater
				  for dust suppression where fugitive dust control would otherwise be an air
				  quality problem, in a manner which does not pollute or tend to pollute the
				  waters of the State of Oklahoma, the environment or pose a risk to human
				  health.
"Best professional judgment"
or
"BPJ"
means the technical opinion developed by a permit drafter
				  after consideration of all reasonably available and pertinent data or
				  information which forms the basis for the terms and conditions of a discharge
				  permit, and the use of sound engineering analysis of the industry, the nature
				  and quantity of potential pollutants which may be produced and of the proposed
				  treatment plant.
"Biosolids"
means primarily organically treated
				  wastewater materials from municipal wastewater treatment plants that are
				  suitable for recycling as amendments. This term is within the meaning of
				  "sludge" referenced in 27A O.S. §
									2-6-101(11).
				  Biosolids are divided into the following classes:
(A) Class A Biosolid meets the pathogen
				reduction requirements of 40
				CFR §
										503.32(a);
(B) Class B Biosolid meets the pathogen
				reduction requirements of 40
				CFR §
										503.32(b).
"Bypass"
means the intentional or unintentional
				  diversion of waste streams from any portion of a treatment, disposal or
				  collection facility.
"Compliance Testing"
means any chemical,
				  physical or bacteriological tests conducted in accordance with permit
				  requirements.
"Control tests"
means any chemical, physical or
				  bacteriological tests, including visual observations, performed to aid in
				  operational decisions and to control wastewater treatment system performance.
"CFR"
means the Code of Federal
				  Regulations.
"CROMERR"
means the Cross-Media Electronic
				  Reporting Rule.
"DEQ"
means the Oklahoma Department of
				  Environmental Quality.
"Discharge point"
means the point at which
				  pollutants, wastewater or stormwater enters waters of the state or become
				  waters of the state.
"DMR"
means "Discharge Monitoring
				  Report".
"EPA"
means the United States Environmental
				  Protection Agency.
"Generator"
or
"operator"
means
				  authorized person under whose ownership or management authority, biosolids are
				  used or disposed.
"Impoundment"
or
"Surface
				  impoundment"
have the same meaning used in OAC
				  252:616-1-2.
"Industrial user"
means "industrial users
				  subject to categorical pretreatment standards" and "significant industrial
				  users" as those terms are used in 40 CFR, Part 403 .
"Land application"
means the application of
				  biosolids onto a land surface; injection below land surface; or spreading
				  biosolids onto land surface followed by incorporation into the soil. Land
				  application does not include the disposal of biosolids in a municipal solid
				  waste landfill permitted by the DEQ, or the use of Class A biosolids whose
				  production is permitted by the DEQ.
"Listed metal"
means those metals listed in
				  Tables I, II, and III of 40 CFR, Part 503.13 .
"Loading rate"
means the amount (concentration
				  or mass) of constituents or parameters applied to a unit area per
				  application.
"NRCS"
means Natural Resources Conservation
				  Service.
"OAC"
means Oklahoma Administrative Code.
"OS"
means Oklahoma Statutes.
"Oklahoma Water Quality Standards"
means the DEQ
				  rules (OAC 252:730) which classify waters of the state, designate beneficial
				  uses for which the various waters of the state must be maintained and
				  protected, and prescribe the water quality required to sustain designated uses.
"Operating records and reports"
means the daily
				  record of data connected with the operation of the system compiled in a monthly
				  report on forms approved by the DEQ.
"Prior converted cropland"
means those croplands
				  as defined or used in the Federal Swampbuster Provisions located at Title 16,
				  USC, §§
									3821 through
				  3823.
"USC"
means United States Code.
"USGS"
means United States Geological
				  Survey.
Added at 21 Ok Reg 1584,
				  eff 6-11-04; Amended at 26 Ok Reg 1901, eff 7-1-09; Amended at 28 Ok Reg 1231,
				  eff 7-1-11