Wisconsin Administrative Code › Department of Natural Resources › NR 200-299 - Environmental Protection - Wisconsin Pollutant Discharge Elimination System › Chapter NR 200 - Application For Discharge Permits And Water Quality Standards Variances › Subchapter I - Purpose, Definitions and General Provisions › Section NR 200.02 - Definitions

Current through June 24, 2024
For the purpose of this chapter the following definitions
					 are applicable:
(1) "Business days"
				  means each day except Saturday; Sunday; January 1; the third Monday in January,
				  which shall be the day of celebration for January 15; the last Monday in May,
				  which shall be the day of celebration for May 30; July 4; the first Monday in
				  September; the 4th Thursday in November; December 24; December 25; December 31;
				  and the day following if January 1, July 4 or December 25 falls on
				  Sunday.
(2) "Cooling water" means
				  water which has been used primarily for cooling but which may be contaminated
				  with process waste or airborne material. Examples are the discharge from
				  barometric condensers or the blowdown from cooling towers.
(3) "Department" means the department of
				  natural resources.
(4) "Discharge
				  of pollutant" or "discharge of pollutants" means any addition of any pollutant
				  to the waters of this state from any point source, including the land
				  application of sludge.
(5) "Limit of
				  detection" means the lowest concentration level that can be determined to be
				  statistically different from a blank.
(6) "Limit of quantitation" means the level
				  above which quantitative results may be obtained with a specified degree of
				  confidence.
Note:
The limit of quantitation is established
					 as defined under s.
					 NR
					 149.48(3).
Note: Pursuant to s.
					 299.11(4)
					 (c), Stats., sub. (6) (Note) is shown as
					 amended eff. 6-29-21 by CR 17-046. Prior to 6-29-21 it reads:
Note: The limit of quantitation is 
					 10/3 or 3.333
					 times the limit of detection.
(7) "Major municipal discharge" means a point
				  source discharge with an average daily volume equal to or greater than one
				  million gallons per day of either municipal wastewater from a publicly owned
				  treatment works or of domestic wastewater from a privately owned treatment
				  works.
(8) "Minor municipal
				  discharge" means a point source discharge with an average daily volume less
				  than one million gallons per day of either municipal wastewater from a publicly
				  owned treatment works or domestic wastewater from a privately owned treatment
				  works.
(9) "Municipality" means any
				  city, town, village, county, county utility district, town sanitary district,
				  town utility district, school district or metropolitan sewage district or any
				  other public entity created pursuant to law and having authority to collect,
				  treat or dispose of sewage, industrial wastes or other wastes.
(10) "Noncontact cooling water" means water
				  used for cooling which does not come into contact with any raw material,
				  intermediate or finished product, or waste and has been used in heat
				  exchangers, air or refrigeration compressors, or other cooling means where
				  contamination with process waste is not normally expected.
(11) "Permit" means a permit for the
				  discharge of pollutants issued by this department.
(12) "Person" means an individual, owner or
				  operator, corporation, partnership, association, municipality, interstate
				  agency, state agency, or federal agency.
(13) "Point source" means any discernible,
				  confined and discrete conveyance, including but not limited to any pipe,
				  outfall, ditch, channel, tunnel, conduit, well, discrete fissure, container,
				  rolling stock, concentrated animal feeding operation or vessel or other
				  floating craft from which pollutants may be discharged either into the waters
				  of this state or into a publicly owned treatment works, except for a conveyance
				  that conveys only storm water.
(14)
				  "Pollutant" means any dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage,
				  garbage, refuse, oil, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological
				  materials, radioactive substance, heat, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock,
				  sand, cellar dirt and industrial, municipal and agricultural waste discharged
				  into water.
(15) "Primary industry"
				  means an industrial facility or activity that is encompassed by one of the
				  industrial categories listed in 40 CFR 122, Appendix A.
(16) "Results" includes measurements,
				  determinations and information obtained or derived from tests.
(17) "Secondary industry" means an industrial
				  facility or activity that is not classified as a primary industry.
(18) "Surface waters" means waters of the
				  state except wells and other groundwater. Cooling lakes, farm ponds and
				  facilities constructed for the treatment of wastewaters are also excluded from
				  this definition.
(19) "Treatment
				  works" means any devices and systems used in the storage, treatment, recycling,
				  and reclamation of municipal sewage, sewage sludge or industrial waste of a
				  liquid nature or necessary to recycle or reuse water at the most economical
				  cost over the estimated life of the work, including intercepting sewers,
				  outfall sewers, sewage collection systems, cooling towers and ponds, pumping,
				  power and other equipment, and their appurtenances; extensions, improvements,
				  remodeling, additions, and alterations thereof; elements essential to provide a
				  reliable recycled supply such as standby treatment units and clear well
				  facilities; and any works, including site acquisition of the land that will be
				  an integral part of the treatment process or is used for ultimate disposal of
				  residues resulting from such treatment. Additionally, "treatment work" means
				  any other method or system for preventing, abating, reducing, storing,
				  treating, separating or disposing of municipal waste, including storm water
				  runoff, or industrial waste, including waste in combined storm water and
				  sanitary sewer systems.
(20)
				  "Waters of the state" means those portions of Lake Michigan and Lake Superior
				  within the boundaries of Wisconsin, all lakes, bays, rivers, streams, springs,
				  ponds, wells, impounding reservoirs, marshes, water courses, drainage systems
				  and other surface or groundwater, natural or artificial, public or private
				  within the state or under its jurisdiction, except those waters which are
				  entirely confined and retained completely upon the property of a
				  person.