South Carolina Code of Regulations › Chapter 61 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL › Subchapter 61-9 - Water Pollution Control Permits › Subchapter 61-9.503 - STANDARDS FOR THE USE OR DISPOSAL OF SEWAGE SLUDGE › Part A - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 61-9.503.A.9 - General definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 6, June 28, 2024
All terms not defined herein have the meaning given them in
					 R.61-9.122, R.61-9.124, R.61-9.129,
					 R.61-9.133, R.61-9.403, or R.61-9.505.
(a) "Apply sewage sludge or sewage sludge
				  applied to the land" means land application of sewage sludge.
(b) "Base flood" is a flood that has a one
				  percent chance of occurring in any given year (i.e., a flood with a magnitude
				  equalled once in 100 years).
(c)
				  "Class I sludge management facility" is any publicly owned treatment works
				  (POTW), as defined in
				  40
				  CFR 501.2, required to have an approved
				  pretreatment program under R.61-9.403.8(a)(a)(including
				  any POTW located in a State that has elected to assume local program
				  responsibilities pursuant to R.61-9.403.10(e)(e)) and any treatment works
				  treating domestic sewage, as defined in R.61-9.122.2, classified as a
				  Class I sludge management facility by the EPA Regional Administrator, or, in
				  the case of approved State programs, the Regional Administrator in conjunction
				  with the Department, because of the potential for its sewage sludge use or
				  disposal practice to affect public health and the environment
				  adversely.
(d) "Cover crop" is a
				  small grain crop, such as oats, wheat, or barley; grasses; or other crop grown
				  for agronomic use.
(e) "CWA" see
				  R.61-9.122.2(b)(b)Definitions.
(f)
				  "Domestic septage" is either liquid or solid material removed from a septic
				  tank, cesspool, portable toilet, Type III marine sanitation device, or similar
				  treatment works that receives only domestic sewage. Domestic septage does not
				  include liquid or solid material removed from a septic tank, cesspool, or
				  similar treatment works that receives either commercial wastewater or
				  industrial wastewater and does not include grease removed from a grease trap at
				  a restaurant.
(g) "Domestic sewage"
				  is waste and wastewater from humans, or household operations that is discharged
				  to or otherwise enters a treatment works.
(h) "Dry weight basis" means calculated on
				  the basis of having been dried at 105 degrees Celsius until reaching a constant
				  mass (i.e., essentially 100 percent solids content).
(i) "EPA" means the United States
				  Environmental Protection Agency.
(j) "Feed crops" are crops produced primarily
				  for consumption by animals.
(k)
				  "Fiber crops" are crops such as flax and cotton.
(l) "Food crops" are crops consumed by
				  humans. These include, but are not limited to, fruits, vegetables, and
				  tobacco.
(m) "Ground water" is
				  water below the land surface in the saturated zone.
(n) "Industrial wastewater" is wastewater
				  generated in a commercial or industrial process. See R.61-9.504 for additional
				  definitions.
(o) "Municipality" see
				  R.61-9.122.2(b)Definitions. The definition includes under section503 of this
				  regulation a special district created under State law, such as a water
				  district, sewer district, sanitary district, utility district, drainage
				  district, or similar entity, or an integrated waste management facility as
				  defined in section201(e)(e) of the CWA, as amended, that has as one of its
				  principal responsibilities the treatment, transport, use, or disposal of sewage
				  sludge.
(p) "Permitting authority"
				  means the Department.
(q) "Person"
				  see definition in R.61-9.122.2(b)Definitions.
(r) "Person who prepares sewage sludge" is
				  either the person who generates sewage sludge during the treatment of domestic
				  sewage in a treatment works or the person who derives a material from sewage
				  sludge.
(s) "Place sewage sludge or
				  sewage sludge placed" means disposal of sewage sludge on a surface disposal
				  site.
(t) "Pollutant" is an organic
				  substance, an inorganic substance, a combination of organic and inorganic
				  substances, or a pathogenic organism that, after discharge and upon exposure,
				  ingestion, inhalation, or assimilation into an organism either directly from
				  the environment or indirectly by ingestion through the food chain, could, on
				  the basis of information available to the Department, cause death, disease,
				  behavioral abnormalities, cancer, genetic mutations, physiological malfunctions
				  (including malfunction in reproduction), or physical deformations in either
				  organisms or offspring of the organisms.
(u) "Pollutant limit" is a numerical value
				  that describes the amount of a pollutant allowed per unit amount of sewage
				  sludge (e. g., milligrams per kilogram of total solids); the amount of a
				  pollutant that can be applied to a unit area of land (e. g., kilograms per
				  hectare); or the volume of a material that can be applied to a unit area of
				  land (e.g., gallons per acre).
(v)
				  "Runoff" is rainwater, leachate, or other liquid that drains overland on any
				  part of a land surface and runs off of the land surface.
(w) "Sewage sludge" is solid, semi-solid, or
				  liquid residue generated during the treatment of municipal wastewater or
				  domestic sewage in a treatment works. Sewage sludge includes, but is not
				  limited to, domestic septage; scum or solids removed in primary, secondary, or
				  advanced wastewater treatment processes; and a material derived from sewage
				  sludge. Sewage sludge does not include ash generated during the firing of
				  sewage sludge in a sewage sludge incinerator or grit and screenings generated
				  during preliminary treatment of domestic or industrial sewage in a treatment
				  works. See R.61-9.504 for Industrial
				  sludge definition.
(x) "State"
				  means the State of South Carolina.
(y) "Store or storage of sewage sludge" is
				  the placement of sewage sludge on land on which the sewage sludge remains for
				  two years or less. This does not include the placement of sewage sludge on land
				  for treatment.
(z) "Treat or
				  treatment of sewage sludge" is the preparation of sewage sludge for final use
				  or disposal. This includes, but is not limited to, thickening, stabilization,
				  and dewatering of sewage sludge. This does not include storage of sewage
				  sludge.
(aa) "Treatment works" is
				  either a Federally owned, publicly owned, or privately owned device or system
				  used to treat (including recycle and reclaim) either domestic sewage or a
				  combination of domestic sewage and industrial waste of a liquid
				  nature.
(bb) "Wetlands" see
				  R.61-9.122.2(b)Definitions.
(cc)
				  [Reserved]
(dd) "Person who applies
				  sewage sludge" may be the generator, preparer, or a land applier.