Virginia Administrative Code › Title 9 - ENVIRONMENT › Agency 25 - STATE WATER CONTROL BOARD › Chapter 194 - Virginia Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (VPDES) General Permit Regulation for Vehicle Wash Facilities and Laundry Facilities › Section 9VAC25-194-10 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 40, No. 24, July 15, 2024
The words and terms used in this chapter shall have the
				  meanings defined in the State Water Control Law and 9VAC25-31 (VPDES Permit
				  Regulation) unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, except that for the
				  purposes of this chapter:
"Board" means the State Water Control Board. When used
				  outside the context of the promulgation of regulations, including regulations
				  to establish general permits, "board" means the Department of Environmental
				  Quality.
"Construction equipment" means trenchers, backhoes, boring
				  equipment, bulldozers, loaders, dump trucks, and any other piece of earth
				  moving equipment.
"Department" or "DEQ" means the Department of Environmental
				  Quality.
"Laundry" means any self-service facility where the washing
				  of clothes is conducted as designated by SIC 7215. It does not include
				  facilities that engage in dry cleaning.
"Maintenance equipment" means street sweepers and catch basin
				  cleaner trucks.
"Total maximum daily load" or "TMDL" means a calculation of
				  the maximum amount of a pollutant that a waterbody can receive and still meet
				  water quality standards and an allocation of that amount to the pollutant's
				  sources. A TMDL includes wasteload allocations (WLAs) for point source
				  discharges, and load allocations (LAs) for nonpoint sources or natural
				  background or both, and must include a margin of safety (MOS) and account for
				  seasonal variations.
"Vehicle maintenance" means vehicle and equipment
				  rehabilitation, mechanical repairs, painting, fueling, and lubrication.
"Vehicle wash" means any fixed or mobile facility where the
				  manual, automatic, or self-service exterior washing of vehicles is conducted
				  and includes the following:
1.
				Vehicles that convey passengers or goods on streets or highways as designated
				by Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Code 7542 such as automobiles,
				trucks, motor homes, buses, motorcycles, ambulances, fire trucks, and tractor
				trailers;
2. Incidental floor
				cleaning wash waters associated with facilities that wash vehicles where the
				floor wash water also passes through the vehicle wash treatment
				system;
3. Golf course equipment
				and lawn maintenance equipment;
4.
				Maintenance and construction equipment; and
5. Recreational boats less than 8.6' beam and
				25' in length towed by a vehicle.
"Vehicle wash" does not mean engine cleaning or degreasing;
				  the cleaning of floors in vehicle maintenance areas, cleaning of the interior
				  of tanks or trailers carrying bulk or raw material, cleaning of equipment used
				  in the paving industry, cleaning of chemical spreading equipment, or cleaning
				  of tanker trucks, garbage trucks, livestock trailers, trains, boats larger than
				  8.6' beam and 25' in length, or aircraft; or the use of acid caustic metal
				  brighteners or steam heated water.
Statutory Authority: § 62.1-44.15 of the Code of
					 Virginia; § 402 of the Clean Water Act; 40 CFR Parts 122, 123, and
					 124.