Rhode Island Code of Regulations › Title 250 - Department of Environmental Management › Chapter 150 - Water Resources › Subchapter 20 - Financial Assistance › Part 7 - Rules and Regulations for RI Clean Vessel Act Pumpout Grant Program › Section 250-RICR-150-20-7.2 - Definitions

Current through June 14, 2024
A. Whenever used in these Regulations, the
				  following terms shall have the following meanings:
1. "Department" means the Rhode Island
				  Department of Environmental Management (DEM);
2. "Director" means the Director of the
				  Department of Environmental Management or his/her subordinates to whom the
				  Director has delegated the powers and duties vested in the Director by these
				  Regulations. The terms Department and Director may be used interchangeably
				  unless clearly indicated otherwise by the context of the sentence in which it
				  appears;
3. "Dump station" means an
				  upland or floating facility specifically designed to receive wastes from
				  portable toilets carried on recreational vessels, and does not include restroom
				  facilities;
4. "Marina" means a
				  berthing, mooring, or boat service facility, whether publicly or privately
				  held;
5. "Non-transient" or
				  "parking lot harbor" means a harbor that is home port to many boats kept on
				  swing moorings or in marine docks. Most of the time, most of the boats are
				  unoccupied and unused;
6. "Office"
				  means the Office of Water Resources of the Department of Environmental
				  Management;
7. "Portable toilet"
				  means toilets that are not installed toilets. They are designed to be removed
				  from a vessel and their contents emptied into shoreside receptacles;
8. "Project" means any expenditure described
				  in §§
											7.3(A) through
				  (D) of this Part inclusive for which
				  financial assistance is provided pursuant to these Regulations;
9. "Pumpout station" means a stationary
				  (fixed base) facility that pumps or receives human body wastes out of Type III
				  marine sanitation devices installed onboard recreational vessels, provided that
				  certain mobile pumpout vessels may be employed to convey waste from moored
				  vessels to the stationary facility;
10. "Recreational vessel" means a vessel:
a. Manufactured for operation, or operated,
				  primarily for pleasure; or,
b.
				  Leased, rented, or chartered to another for the latter's pleasure;
11. "Transient harbor" means a
				  "destination" harbor where boaters go during the day trips or berth
				  overnight;
12. "Type III marine
				  sanitation device (holding tank)" means any equipment for installation onboard
				  a recreational vessel which is specifically designed to receive and retain
				  human body wastes;
13. "Responsible
				  party" means any person, partnership, corporation, or other legal entity which
				  is the recipient of financial assistance pursuant to these Regulations or any
				  person, partnership, corporation or other legal entity which is an owner,
				  devisee and/or transferee of a Project, during the project period as defined in
				  §§
											7.9(A) through
				  (J) of this Part inclusive of these
				  Regulations.