Pennsylvania Code › Title 25 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › Part I - Department of Environmental Protection › Subpart C - Protection of Natural Resources › Article II - Water Resources › Chapter 110 - WATER RESOURCES PLANNING › Subchapter A - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 110.1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
The following words and phrases, when used in this
						  chapter, have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
						  otherwise:
Act
-27 Pa.C.S. Chapter 31 (relating
						  to water resources planning).
Average rate
-Total quantity in gallons
						  of water withdrawn or used during a period of time divided by the number of
						  days in the period.
Basin
-As defined in section 3102 of
						  the act (relating to definitions).
Calculate
or
calculation
-Mathematical computations, or the act of
						  computing, for the purposes of water use registration or reporting, or both,
						  usually based on pump intake rate and duration of pumping or similar factors.
Compact basin commission
-An interstate
						  commission having jurisdiction with respect to the planning, development or
						  regulation of water resources within a basin in this Commonwealth, created by
						  interstate compact or Federal-interstate compact.
Confidential information
-
(i) As defined in section 3102 of the
						act.
(ii) The term also includes
						confidential security information, as defined in the Public Utility
						Confidential Security Information Disclosure Protection Act, which has been
						designated by a public utility in accordance with that act.
Consumptive use
-As defined in section
						  3102 of the act.
Critical area resource plan
-As defined
						  in section 3102 of the act.
Critical water planning area
-As
						  defined in section 3102 of the act.
Deep well injection
-As defined in
						  section 3102 of the act.
Groundwater
-As defined in section
						  3102 of the act.
Hydropower facility
-A facility that
						  produces electricity by the action of water, not including steam, passing
						  through a turbine.
Nonconsumptive use
-As defined in
						  section 3102 of the act.
Nonwithdrawal use
-As defined in
						  section 3102 of the act.
Person
-As defined in section 3102 of
						  the act.
Public Utility Confidential Security
						  Information Disclosure Protection Act
-36 P. S §§
						  2141.1-2141.6.
Public water supply agency
-As defined
						  in section 3102 of the act.
Source
-
(i) The point of withdrawal.
(ii) The term includes point of
						interconnection through which water is obtained.
Statewide Committee
-The Statewide
						  Water Resources Committee established under section 3114(a) of the act
						  (relating to Statewide Water Resources Committee).
Surface water
-As defined in section
						  3102 of the act.
System
-Two or more points of
						  withdrawal that are adjacent or geographically proximate to each other,
						  operated concurrently or sequentially for use in a common operation.
Use
-The term may include withdrawal
						  use, nonwithdrawal use, consumptive use or nonconsumptive use, or a combination
						  of any of these.
Water conservation project or
						  practice
-
(i) As defined in
						section 3102 of the act, as "water conservation practices and
						measures.''
(ii) The term includes
						those projects and practices identified in section 3112(a)(11) of the act
						(relating to plan contents).
Water resource
-As defined in section
						  3102 of the act.
Watershed
-As defined in section 3102
						  of the act.
Withdrawal
-As defined in section 3102
						  of the act.
Withdrawal use
-As defined in section
						  3102 of the act.