Pennsylvania Code › Title 25 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › Part I - Department of Environmental Protection › Subpart C - Protection of Natural Resources › Article II - Water Resources › Chapter 103 - FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE › Subchapter A - CLEAN WATER STATE REVOLVING FUND PROJECTS PRIORITY LIST RATINGS › CLEAN WATER STATE REVOLVING FUND › Section 103.1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this
							 subchapter, have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
							 otherwise:
Alternative processes and
							 techniques
-Proven methods which provide for the reclaiming and reuse
							 of water, productively recycle wastewater constituents or otherwise eliminate
							 the discharge of pollutants, or recover energy.
CWSRF-Clean Water State Revolving
							 Fund
-A fund administered by the Pennsylvania Infrastructure Investment
							 Authority (PENNVEST) that provides low-interest loan funds to borrowers for the
							 construction of facilities.
EPA
-The United States Environmental
							 Protection Agency.
Effluent limitation segment
-A
							 section, segment or zone of a stream where water quality standards are met or
							 will be achieved if discharges are treated to meet the secondary treatment
							 requirements specified elsewhere in this title or in the Federal Act or the
							 regulations promulgated thereunder.
Facilities
-Any device or system for
							 the storage, treatment, recycling and reclamation of municipal sewage, domestic
							 sewage or liquid industrial wastes or necessary to recycle or reuse water at
							 the most economical cost over the useful life of the works. The term includes
							 intercepting sewers, outfall sewers, sewage collection systems, individual
							 systems, pumping, power and other equipment and their appurtenances;
							 extensions, improvements, remodeling, additions and alterations thereof;
							 elements essential to provide a reliable recycled supply such as standby
							 treatment units and clear well facilities; and any works, including site
							 acquisition of the land that will be an integral part of the treatment process
							 or is used for ultimate disposal of residues resulting from the treatment,
							 including land for composting sludge and temporary storage of the compost and
							 land used for the storage of treated wastewater in land treatment systems
							 before land application; or another method or system for preventing, abating,
							 reducing, storing, treating, separating or disposing of municipal waste or
							 industrial waste, including waste in combined stormwater and sanitary sewer
							 systems.
Federal Act
-The Federal Water
							 Pollution Control Act (33
							 U.S.C.A. §§
														1251-1387).
Federal fiscal year
-October 1
							 through September 30.
Inadequately treated sewage
-Sewage
							 receiving less than secondary treatment as defined elsewhere in this title or
							 in the Federal Act or the Federal regulations promulgated thereunder.
Innovative processes and
							 techniques
-Developed methods which have not been fully proven under
							 the circumstances of their contemplated use and which represent a significant
							 advancement over the state of the art in terms of meeting the national goals of
							 cost reduction, increased energy conservation or recovery, greater recycling
							 and conservation of water resources (including preventing the mixing of
							 pollutants with water), reclamation or reuse of effluents and resources
							 (including increased productivity of arid lands), improved efficiency or
							 reliability, or both, the beneficial use of sludges or effluent constituents,
							 better management of toxic materials or increased environmental
							 benefits.
Intended use plan
-A plan identifying
							 the intended uses of the moneys in the Clean Water State Revolving Fund and
							 describing how those uses support the goals of the fund.
Municipality
-A city, incorporated
							 town, township, borough, county, municipal authority or other public body
							 created under State law having jurisdiction over the disposal of sewage,
							 industrial wastes or other wastes or a designated and approved management
							 agency under 33 U.S.C.A.
							 §
														1288.
NPDES
-The National system for the
							 issuance of permits under section 402 of the Federal Act including, any State
							 or interstate program which has been approved by the EPA, in whole or in part,
							 under section 402 of the Federal Act (33 U.S.C.A. §
														1342).
Project equivalent population
-The
							 initial population equivalent which would be served by a project implemented
							 for the rated area at the time that the area is rated.
Project priority list
-The list of
							 identified public sewerage project needs in this Commonwealth established under
							 this subchapter.
Sewage facilities plan
-A plan
							 developed under the Pennsylvania Sewage Facilities Act (35 P. S.
							 §§
														750.1-750.20) for the provision
							 of adequate sewage facilities, adopted by municipal officials and approved by
							 the Department.
Small municipality
-A municipality
							 having a population of 3,500 or less based on the most recent United States
							 Bureau of Census figures.
Water quality segment
-A section,
							 segment or zone of a stream where water quality standards are not met or
							 achieved even if waste discharges are treated to meet the minimum treatment
							 requirements specified elsewhere in this title or the Federal Act or the
							 Federal regulations promulgated thereunder.
Water quality standards
-The
							 combination of water uses to be protected and water quality criteria necessary
							 to protect those uses, as specified in Chapter 93 (relating to water quality
							 standards).
The provisions of this §
															103.1 amended under The Clean
								Streams Law (35 P. S. §§
																691.1-691.1001); and section 16(2) of the
								Land and Water Conservation and Reclamation Act (32 P. S. §
																5116(2)); and The
								Administrative Code of 1929 (71 P. S. §
																510-20).
This section cited in 25 Pa. Code §
															103.11 (relating to small
								municipality projects).