North Carolina Administrative Code › Title 15A - Environmental Quality › Chapter 02 - Environmental Management › Subchapter E - WATER USE REGISTRATION AND ALLOCATION › Section .0600 - WATER USE DURING DROUGHTS AND WATER SUPPLY EMERGENCIES › Section 02E .0602 - DEFINITIONS

Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 2, July 15, 2024
The following definitions shall apply for the purposes of
					 this Section:
(1) "Council" and
				  "NCDMAC" mean the North Carolina Drought Management Advisory Council.
(2) "Department" means the North Carolina
				  Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ).
(3) "Drought Advisory" means an advisory
				  issued by the NCDMAC that delineates the geographic extent and severity of a
				  water deficit significant enough to have social, environmental, or economic
				  effects. Drought Advisories shall be designated as Abnormally Dry, Moderate
				  Drought, Severe Drought, Extreme Drought, and Exceptional Drought to indicate
				  the severity of conditions from least to most severe, respectively.
(4) "Effective" means producing the desired
				  or intended result.
(5) "Efficient"
				  achieving maximum productivity with minimum wasted effort or expense.
(6) "Efficient use" is reducing water wastage
				  by measuring the amount of water required for a particular purpose and the
				  amount of water used or delivered.
(7) "Essential water use" means the use of
				  water necessary for fire fighting, health, and safety purposes; water needed to
				  sustain human and animal life; and water necessary to satisfy federal, state,
				  and local public health, safety, or environmental protection
				  requirements.
(8) "Industry Best
				  Management Practices" are methods that are the most effective and practical
				  means of completing a task.
(9)
				  "Industry Standards" are a set of criteria within an industry relating to the
				  standard functioning and carrying out of operations in their respective fields
				  of production.
(10) "Normal
				  Operating Procedures (NOPs)" is a set of step-by-step instructions compiled by
				  an organization to help workers carry out routine operations. NOPs aim to
				  achieve efficiency, quality output, and uniformity of performance, while
				  reducing miscommunication and failure to comply with industry
				  regulations.
(11) "Non-essential
				  water use" means categories of water use, other than essential water use, that
				  may be curtailed during droughts and water emergencies.
(12) "Person" means any individual,
				  corporation, company, association, partnership, unit of local government, state
				  agency, federal agency, or other legal entity.
(13) "Privately owned" are water systems that
				  can be for-profit systems managed by investors or shareholders.
(14) "Publicly owned" are water systems that
				  are non-profit entities managed by local or state governments, for which rates
				  are set by a governing board.
(15)
				  "State agencies" includes all agencies of the executive branch of the
				  government of North Carolina, the General Assembly, the General Court of
				  Justice, and the University of North Carolina.
(16) "Syringing" means the application of
				  0.10 inch or less of water, near midday to correct plant water deficits, reduce
				  plant tissue temperatures, and reduce the heat stress on turfgrass
				  plants.
(17) "Unit of local
				  government" means a county, city, town, incorporated village, consolidated
				  city-county, sanitary district or other local political subdivision, or
				  authority or agency of local government.
(18) "Water" means any waters of the State
				  located on or below the land surface as well as water contained within a water
				  treatment and distribution system.
(19) "Water delivery system" means any open
				  or closed conveyance system used to move water for potable or non-potable
				  purposes from its point of origin to a point of use, including: municipal water
				  systems; residential, commercial, industrial, and commercial plumbing systems;
				  irrigation systems; water using equipment; and flexible hoses.
Authority
					 G.S.
					 143-354(a)(8); S.L.
					 2002-167;
Eff. March 19, 2007;
Readopted Eff. January
					 1, 2022.