Wisconsin Administrative Code › Department of Natural Resources › NR 100-199 - Environmental Protection - General › Chapter NR 101 - Reports and fees for wastewater discharges › Section NR 101.03 - Definitions

Current through June 24, 2024
The following definitions are applicable to terms used in
				  this chapter:
(1) "Cooling water"
				means any water which is used primarily for cooling of raw materials, products,
				or equipment.
(2) "Facility" means
				a publicly owned treatment works, or an operating plant or establishment
				carrying on any manufacturing activity, trade, or business on a common site,
				including similar such plants under common ownership or control located on
				contiguous properties. Plants or establishments under common ownership or
				control located on separate sites shall be considered separate and individual
				facilities.
(2m) "5-year rolling
				average" means the average of data from the current year plus the previous 4
				years of data available since the beginning of calendar year 2000. Where 5
				years of data is not available, the 5-year rolling average means the average of
				data from the current year plus any available data from the previous 4 years
				since the beginning of calendar year 2000.
(3) "Land disposal system" means an
				absorption or seepage pond, a ridge and furrow, a spray irrigation, a spray
				runoff, a subsurface field absorption, a surface spreading, or other
				installation on a land area used for the disposal of effluent by absorption or
				percolation into the ground.
(4)
				"Limit of detection" has the meaning specified in s.
				NR
				149.03(41).
(5) "Limit of quantitation" has the meaning
				specified in s.
				NR
				149.03(42).
(6) "Major permittee" or "minor permittee"
				means any WPDES permit holder thus classified by the U.S. environmental
				protection agency in conjunction with the department under
				40
				CFR 122.2.
(7) "Municipality" means, as defined in s.
				299.01(8),
				Stats., any city, town, village, county, county utility district, town sanitary
				district, public inland lake protection and rehabilitation district or
				metropolitan sewage district.
(8)
				"Person" means an individual, partnership, corporation, association,
				municipality, state agency, or interstate agency owning or operating a facility
				discharging wastewater to a surface water, to a land disposal system, or to a
				publicly owned treatment works.
(9)
				"Process waste water" means any water, except cooling water, which comes into
				direct contact with or results from the production or use of any raw material,
				service item, intermediate product, finished product, byproduct, or waste
				product, and may contain in solution or suspension various components of such
				raw materials, items or products.
(10) "Publicly owned treatment works" means a
				sewage treatment plant owned by a municipality and the sewerage system
				tributary thereto.
(11) "Sanitary
				waste water" means waste water associated with personal hygiene, food
				preparation, or cleaning but does not include waste water from commercial or
				bulk production of goods or services such as, but not limited to, laundromats,
				commercial laundries, carwashes, food production, or other manufacturing
				activities.
(12) "Surface water"
				means those portions of Lake Michigan and Lake Superior within the boundaries
				of Wisconsin, all lakes, bays, rivers, streams, springs, ponds, impounding
				reservoirs, marshes, water courses, drainage systems and other surface water,
				natural or artificial, public or private within the state or under its
				jurisdiction, except those waters which are entirely confined and completely
				retained upon the property of a facility.
(13) "Wastewater" means any process waste
				water, cooling water, sanitary waste water, or other wastes whose discharge
				requires a WPDES permit, discharged to a surface water including such discharge
				through a storm sewer, to a land disposal system, or to a publicly owned waste
				treatment works.
(14) "WPDES
				permit" means a Wisconsin pollutant discharge elimination system permit issued
				by the department pursuant to ch. 283, Stats.