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Current through June,
				2024
Section 13.1
				Definitions
As used in these regulations the following terms shall have
				  the meanings indicated below unless a different meaning clearly appears from
				  the context:
(a) The term "Act" means
				Title 10, Chapter 47 of the Vermont Statutes Annotated, as amended.
(b) The term "Agency" means the Vermont
				Agency of Environmental Conservation.
(c) The term "Federal Act" means the Federal
				Water Pollution Control Act, as amended,
				33 U.S.C.
				1251 et seq.
(d) The term "Refuse Act" means section 13 of
				the River and Harbor Act of March 3, 1899.
(e) The term "EPA" means the U. S.
				Environmental Protection Agency.
(f) The term "Administrator" means the
				Administrator of EPA.
(g) The term
				"Regional Administrator" means the Regional Administrator of EPA, Region
				I.
(h) The term "National Pollutant
				Discharge Elimination System (NPDES)" means the national system for the
				issuance of permits under section
				402
				of the Federal Act and includes the Vermont program after it has been approved
				by the Administrator pursuant to section
				402
				of the Federal Act.
(i) The term
				"incompatible substance" means any waste being discharged into a publicly owned
				treatment works which interferes with, passes through without treatment, or is
				otherwise incompatible with such works or would have a substantial adverse
				effect on such works or on water quality.
(j) The term "well" shall include any
				openings in the ground used as a means of discharging pollutants into the
				ground except for a dry hole not exceeding seven feet in depth which is
				constructed as, and used solely for, the gravity disposal of domestic sanitary
				waste.
(k) The term "application"
				means either (i) the uniform national forms (including subsequent additions,
				revisions, or modifications duly promulgated by the Administrator pursuant to
				the Federal Act) for application for a permit, including a Refuse Act
				application, or (ii) the forms prescribed by the Secretary for use in applying
				for issuance or renewal of a permit.
(l) The term "reporting form" means the
				uniform national forms (including subsequent additions, revisions, or
				modifications duly promulgated by the Administrator pursuant to the Federal
				Act) for reporting data and information pursuant to monitoring and other
				conditions of permits.
(m) The term
				"permit" means any permit or equivalent document or requirements issued by the
				Administrator, or, where appropriate, by the Secretary after enactment of the
				Federal Act to regulate the discharge of pollutants pursuant to section
				402
				of the Federal Act, including a discharge permit and a temporary pollution
				permit.
(n) The term "NPDES form"
				means any issued NPDES and any uniform national form developed for use in the
				NPDES and prescribed in regulations promulgated by the Administrator, including
				the Refuse Act application, the NPDES application and the NPDES reporting forms
				or equivalent forms prescribed by the Secretary.
(o) The term "Refuse Act application" means
				the application for a permit under the Refuse Act.
(p) The term "Refuse Act permit" means any
				permit issued under the Refuse Act.
(q) The definitions of the following terms
				contained in section
				502 of
				the Federal Act shall be applicable to such terms as used in this part: (unless
				the context otherwise required) "interstate agency," "State," "municipality,"
				"pollutant," "point source," "biological monitoring," and "industrial use" and
				"pollution."
(r) The definitions of
				the following terms contained in section 1251 of the Act shall be applicable to
				such terms as used in these regulations: (unless the context otherwise
				required: "discharge," "person," "waste," "waters," "effluent limitation,"
				"schedule of compliance" and "Secretary."
(s) The term "treatment works" means any
				facility, method or system for the storage, treatment recycling, or reclamation
				of municipal sewage or industrial waste of a liquid nature, including waste in
				combined storm water and sanitary sewer systems.
(t) The term "national data bank" means a
				facility or system established or to be established by the Administrator for
				the purposes of assembling, organizing, and analyzing data pertaining to water
				quality and the discharge of pollutants.
(u) The term "applicable water quality
				standards" means all water quality standards to which a discharge is subject
				under the Federal Act or the Act and which have been (1) approved or permitted
				to remain in effect by the Administrator pursuant to section 303(a) or 303(e)
				of The Federal Act. or (2) promulgated by the Administrator pursuant to section
				303(b) or 303(c) of the Federal Act.
(v) The term "applicable effluent standards
				and limitations" means all Vermont and Federal effluent standards and
				limitations to which a discharge is subject under the Act and the Federal Act
				including, but not limited to, effluent limitations, standards of performance,
				toxic effluent standards and prohibitions, and pretreatment
				standards.
(w) The term "minor
				discharge" means any discharge which (1) has a total volume of less than 50,000
				gallons on every day of the year, (2) does not affect the waters of any other
				state, and (3) is not identified by the Secretary, the Regional Administrator
				or by the Administrator in regulations issued pursuant to section 307(a) of the
				Federal Act as a discharge which is not a minor discharge. If there is more
				than one discharge from a facility and the sum of the volumes of all discharges
				from the facility exceeds 50,000 gallons on any day of the year, then no
				discharge from the facility is a "minor discharge" as defined herein.
(x) The term "discharge permit" means a
				permit issued pursuant to section 1263 of the Act for a discharge which will
				not reduce the quality of the receiving waters below the classification
				established for them and which will not violate any state of federal laws or
				regulations.
(y) The term
				"temporary pollution permit" means a permit issued pursuant to section 1265 of
				the Act for a discharge which is not eligible for a discharge permit.