Washington Administrative Code › Title 173 - Ecology, Department of (See also Titles 197, 317, 372, and 508) › Chapter 173-255 - Limitations on use of Referendum 26 grant funds for water pollution abatement › Section 173-255-030 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
For the purpose of this chapter:
(1) "Department" means the Washington state
			 department of ecology.
(2)
			 "Agricultural pollution grants program" means the program of grants
			 administered by the department for the planning, design and construction of
			 publicly owned or operated agricultural pollution abatement
			 facilities.
(3) "Lake restoration
			 grants program" means the program of state grants administered by the
			 department for the planning, design and implementation of lake restoration
			 projects.
(4) "Marina pumpout
			 grants program" means the program of state grants administered by the
			 department for the design and construction of sewage pumpout facilities and
			 dump stations at publicly owned or operated marinas.
(5) "Municipal wastewater treatment works
			 construction grants program" (hereinafter referred to as the construction
			 grants program) means the federal/state matching program of grants under Title
			 II of Public Law 95-217 to municipal entities for the purpose of upgrading
			 their treatment works to meet the effluent requirements of state and federal
			 law.
(6) "Water supply residual
			 waste treatment works grants program" means the program of state grants
			 administered by the department for the design and construction of pollution
			 abatement facilities for publicly owned or operated water supply plants in
			 existence on February 3, 1976, that discharge residual wastes to the waters of
			 the state.
(7) "Individual systems"
			 means privately owned treatment works serving one or more principal residences
			 or small commercial establishments constructed prior to and inhabited on or
			 before December 27, 1977, to abate an existing water pollution or public health
			 problem.
(8) "Industrial cost
			 recovery program" means the program established under Title II section 204(b)
			 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments ( Public Law 92-217) to
			 recover the cost of municipal treatment systems attributed to industrial users,
			 when a municipal treatment system has been funded with federal funds under
			 Title II.
(9) Industrial user:
(a) Any nongovernmental user of publicly
			 owned treatment works which discharges more than twenty-five thousand gallons
			 per day of sanitary waste, or a volume of process waste or combined process and
			 sanitary waste, equivalent to twenty-five thousand gallons per day of sanitary
			 waste.
(b) Any nongovernmental user
			 of a publicly owned treatment works which discharges wastewater to the
			 treatment works which contains toxic pollutants or poisonous solids, liquids,
			 or gases in sufficient quantity either singly or by interaction with other
			 wastes, to injure or interfere with any sewage treatment process, constitute a
			 hazard to humans or animals, create a public nuisance, or create any hazard in
			 or have an adverse effect on the waters receiving any discharge from the
			 treatment works.
(c) All commercial
			 users of an individual system constructed with grant assistance under section
			 201(h) of the Clean Water Act of 1977 ( P.L. 95-217).