Washington Administrative Code › Title 173 - Ecology, Department of (See also Titles 197, 317, 372, and 508) › Chapter 173-220 - National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit program › Section 173-220-030 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall
				be applicable:
(1) "Administrator"
			 means the administrator of the United States Environmental Protection
			 Agency.
(2) "Combined waste
			 treatment facility" means any publicly owned waste treatment facility in which
			 the maximum monthly average influent from any one industrial category, or
			 categories producing similar wastes, constitutes over eighty-five percent of
			 the design load for biochemical oxygen demand or suspended solids. Each single
			 industrial category must contribute a minimum of ten percent of the applicable
			 load.
(3) "Department" means
			 department of ecology.
(4)
			 "Director" means the director of the department of ecology or his/her
			 authorized representative.
(5)
			 "Discharge of pollutant" and the term "discharge of pollutants" each means (a)
			 any addition of any pollutant or combination of pollutants to surface waters of
			 the state from any point source, (b) any addition of any pollutant or
			 combination of pollutants to the waters of the contiguous zone or the ocean
			 from any point source, other than a vessel or other floating craft which is
			 being used as a means of transportation.
(6) "Discharger" means owner or operator of
			 any facility or activity subject to regulation under the NPDES
			 program.
(7) "Domestic wastewater"
			 means water carrying human wastes, including kitchen, bath, and laundry wastes
			 from residences, buildings, industrial establishments or other places, together
			 with such groundwater infiltration or surface waters as may be
			 present.
(8) "Domestic wastewater
			 facility" means all structures, equipment, or processes required to collect,
			 carry away, treat, reclaim or dispose of domestic wastewater together with such
			 industrial waste as may be present. This term applies only to facilities
			 discharging to surface water.
(9)
			 "Effluent limitation" means any restriction established by the state or
			 administrator on quantities, rates, and concentrations of chemical, physical,
			 biological, and other constituents which are discharged from point sources into
			 surface waters of the state.
(10)
			 "FWPCA" means the Federal Water Pollution Control Act as amended,  33 U.S.C. 1251  et seq.
(11) "General permit"
			 means a permit which covers multiple dischargers of a point source category
			 within a designated geographical area, in lieu of individual permits being
			 issued to each discharger.
(12)
			 "Individual permit" means a permit for a single point source or a single
			 facility.
(13) "Major discharger"
			 means any discharger classified as such by the administrator in conjunction
			 with the director and published in the annual state-EPA agreement.
(14) "Minor discharger" means any discharger
			 not designated as major or covered under a general permit.
(15) "NPDES" means the National Pollutant
			 Discharge Elimination System.
(16)
			 "Permit" means an authorization, license, or equivalent control document issued
			 by the director to implement this chapter.
(17) "Person" includes any political
			 subdivision, local, state, or federal government agency, municipality,
			 industry, public or private corporation, partnership, association, firm,
			 individual, or any other entity whatsoever.
(18) "Point source" means any discernible,
			 confined and discrete conveyance, including but not limited to any pipe, ditch,
			 channel, tunnel, conduit, well, discrete fissure, container, rolling stock,
			 concentrated animal feeding operation, or vessel or other floating craft, from
			 which pollutants are or may be discharged. This term does not include return
			 flows from irrigated agriculture.
(19) "Pollutant" means dredged spoil, solid
			 waste, incinerator residue, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical
			 wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discarded
			 equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt and industrial, municipal and agricultural
			 waste discharged into water. This term does not include sewage from vessels
			 within the meaning of section 312 of the FWPCA nor does it include dredged or
			 fill material discharged in accordance with a permit issued under section 404
			 of the FWPCA.
(20) "Regional
			 administrator" means the regional administrator of Region X of the
			 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) or his/her authorized
			 representative.
(21) "Surface
			 waters of the state" means all waters defined as "waters of the United States"
			 in 40 C.F.R.
			 122.2 that are within the boundaries of the
			 state of Washington. This includes lakes, rivers, ponds, streams, inland
			 waters, wetlands, ocean, bays, estuaries, sounds, and inlets.
(22) "Water quality standards" means the
			 state of Washington's water quality standards for surface waters of the state,
			 which are codified in chapter 173-201 WAC.
Statutory Authority:
				  Chapter
				  90.48 RCW. 93-10-099
				  (Order 92-55), § 173-220-030, filed 5/5/93, effective 5/19/93. Statutory
				  Authority:
				  RCW
				     90.54.020 and
				  chapter
				  90.48 RCW. 88-22-059
				  (Order 88-9), § 173-220-030, filed 11/1/88. Statutory Authority:
				  Chapter
				  90.48 RCW. 84-11-024
				  (Order DE 84-19), § 173-220-030, filed 5/11/84. Statutory Authority:
				  RCW
				     90.48.035 and
				  90.48.260. 82-24-078 (Order DE
				  82-39), § 173-220-030, filed 12/1/82; Order DE 74-1, § 173-220-030,
				  filed 2/15/74.