Rhode Island Code of Regulations › Title 250 - Department of Environmental Management › Chapter 150 - Water Resources › Subchapter 20 - Financial Assistance › Part 2 - Rules and Regulations for the Priority Determination System for Federal and State Assistance to Local Governmental Units for Construction of Water Pollution Abatement Projects (250-RICR-150-20-2) › Section 250-RICR-150-20-2.4 - Definitions

Current through June 14, 2024
A. For the purposes of these Regulations, the
				  following terms shall have the following meanings:
1. "Bank" or "RIIB" means the Rhode Island
				  Infrastructure Bank established by R.I. Gen. Laws §
											46-12.2-1 et seq.
2. "Areawide Waste Treatment Management Plan"
				  or "208 Plan" means the plan prepared by the State pursuant to Section 208 of
				  the Clean Water Act.
3. "Chief
				  Executive Officer" means the mayor in any city, the president of the town
				  council in any town, or the executive director of any authority or commission
				  unless some other officer or body is designated to perform the functions of a
				  chief executive officer under the provisions of a local charter or other
				  law.
4. "Clean Water Act" or "CWA"
				  means the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, codified at
				  33 U.S.C Sec.
				  1251 et seq., as amended.
5. "Community Comprehensive Plan" or "CCP"
				  means a plan prepared pursuant to the Rhode Island Comprehensive Planning and
				  Land Use Regulation Act, R.I. Gen. Laws §
											45-22.2-1 et seq.
6. "Comprehensive Conservation and Management
				  Plan" or "CCMP" means a plan prepared pursuant to the requirements of Section
				  320 of the Clean Water Act.
7.
				  "Construction" means any one or more of the following: Preliminary planning to
				  determine the feasibility of treatment works, engineering, scientific,
				  architectural, legal, fiscal, or economic investigations or studies, surveys,
				  designs, plans, working drawings, specifications, procedures, or other
				  necessary actions, erection, building, acquisition, alteration, rehabilitation,
				  improvement, or extension of treatment works, or the administration,
				  inspection, or supervision of any of the foregoing items.
8. "Combined Sewer" means a sewer which
				  serves as a sanitary sewer and a storm sewer.
9. "Combined Sewer Overflow" or "(CSO)" means
				  flow from a combined sewer in excess of the interceptor or regulator capacity
				  that is discharged into a receiving water without going to a WWTF. A CSO occurs
				  prior to reaching a WWTF and is distinguished from bypasses which are
				  intentional diversions of waste streams from any portion of a WWTF.
10. "Costs" means any or all costs relating
				  to the planning, designing, acquiring, constructing and carrying out and
				  placing in operation a water pollution abatement project including, but not
				  limited to, the following: planning, design, acquisition, construction,
				  expansion, improvement and rehabilitation of facilities; acquisition of real or
				  personal property; demolitions and relocations; labor, materials, machinery and
				  equipment; services of architects, engineers, scientists, environmental and
				  financial experts and other consultants; feasibility studies; rate/cost
				  recovery/user charge studies; borings, survey, and other preliminary
				  engineering costs; plans and specifications; administrative costs; legal costs;
				  all costs related to project financing; and any and all other expenses
				  necessary or incidental to the financing and construction of a water pollution
				  abatement project.
11. "Department"
				  or "DEM" means the Department of Environmental Management of the State of Rhode
				  Island.
12. "Director" means the
				  Director of the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management or his/her
				  designee.
13. "Fiscal Year" means
				  the State of Rhode Island fiscal year: 1 July to 30 June.
14. "Growth Center" means a designated area,
				  consistent with the state-approved local Community Comprehensive Plan, where
				  compact, mixed-use development is accommodated without depleting a community's
				  natural, historic and cultural resources.
15. "Infiltration/Inflow" or "(I/I)" means
				  the total flow from both infiltration and inflow without distinguishing the
				  source.
16. "Landfill" means any
				  site where the disposal of wastes and/or sludge occurs or has occurred by
				  placing them in or on the land, compacting, and covering with a layer of
				  soil.
17. "Local Governmental Unit"
				  means any city, town, district, commission, agency, authority, board or other
				  political subdivision or instrumentality of the state or of any political
				  subdivision thereof responsible for the ownership or operation of a water
				  pollution abatement project(s), including the Narragansett Bay Water Quality
				  Management District Commission.
18.
				  "Materials" means product(s) employed in or by-products generated by
				  industrial, commercial, and/or agricultural processes.
19. "Materials Storage Area" means any pile,
				  impoundment, compound, facility or other area where materials are contained,
				  held or otherwise stored in such a manner which causes, contributes to, or
				  contaminates runoff.
20. "Nonpoint
				  Source Management Plan" or "NPS" means a plan prepared pursuant to the
				  requirements of Section 319 of the Clean Water Act.
21. "Onsite Wastewater Treatment System" or
				  "(OWTS)" means any system of piping, tanks, disposal areas, alternative toilets
				  or other facilities designed to function as a unit to convey, store, treat
				  and/or dispose of sanitary sewage by means other than discharge into a public
				  sewage collection system.
22.
				  "Person" means an individual, trust, firm, joint-stock company, corporation
				  (including a quasi-governmental corporation), partnership, association,
				  syndicate, fire district, club, non-profit agency commission, or of any
				  interstate body and any agent or employee thereof.
23. "Pollution" means the man-made or
				  man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical, biological, thermal, and
				  radiological integrity of water.
24. "Project" or "Water Pollution Abatement
				  Project" means any project that contributes to the prevention, removal,
				  curtailment, or mitigation of pollution of the surface waters or groundwater of
				  the state, or the restoration of the quality of said waters, and conforms with
				  any applicable planning document which has been approved and/or adopted. This
				  definition shall be construed to include the planning, design, construction or
				  any other distinct stage or phase of a project, as well as efforts to educate
				  or raise the awareness of the general public towards pollution or a
				  project.
25. "Project Priority
				  List" or "PPL" means an annual ranked listing based on relative priority
				  ratings of all water pollution abatement projects in all categories for which
				  federal or state assistance is requested from DEM's assistance
				  programs.
26. "Raw Sewage
				  Discharge" means any discharge to a receiving water of untreated sanitary
				  sewage.
27. "Runoff" means water
				  that drains from an area as surface flow.
28. "Sanitary Sewer" means a sewer which
				  conveys wastewater from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants,
				  and institutions.
29. "State Guide
				  Plan" or "SGP" means goals, policies, or plan elements for the physical,
				  economic, and social development of the state, adopted by the State Planning
				  Council in accordance with R.I. Gen. Laws §
											42-11-10.
30. "Storm Sewer" means a sewer intended to
				  convey only storm waters, surface runoff, street wash waters, and
				  drainage.
31. "Total Maximum Daily
				  Load" or "TMDL" means the amount of a pollutant that may be discharged into a
				  waterbody and still maintain water quality standards. The TMDL is the sum of
				  the individual wasteload allocations for point sources and the load allocations
				  for nonpoint sources and natural background taking into account a margin of
				  safety.
32. "Underground Storage
				  Tank" means any one or a combination of tanks (including underground pipes
				  connected thereto) which is used to contain an accumulation of petroleum
				  product or hazardous materials, and the volume of which (including the volume
				  of the underground pipes connected thereto) is ten percent (10%) or more
				  beneath the surface of the ground.
33. "Wastewater Facilities Plan" or "WWFP"
				  means a plan prepared pursuant to the requirements of Section 201 of the
				  federal Clean Water Act which is a detailed 20-year wastewater treatment,
				  conveyance, and disposal plan, including an assessment of the environmental
				  impacts of the plan, and which also contains information to meet the statutory
				  and regulatory requirements of the DEM for systems to prevent pollution and the
				  consistency requirements of the Comprehensive Planning and Land Use Regulation
				  Act (R.I. Gen. Laws §45-22.2).
34. "Wastewater Treatment Facility (WWTF)"
				  means any equipment, devices, and systems for preventing, abating, reducing,
				  storing, conveying, treating, separating, recycling, reclaiming, or disposing
				  of sanitary or combined sewage.
35.
				  "Watershed Action Plan" means a document that identifies watershed goals and
				  management objectives along with specific action items that are needed. The
				  plan is developed in consultation with all key stakeholders within the
				  watershed including, but not limited to, federal, state and local governmental
				  agencies, non-governmental organizations and the private sector.