§ 46-12-1 Definitions. – As used in this chapter the following terms shall, where the context permits,be construed as follows:
(1) "Boat" means any vessel or water craft whether moved byoars, paddles, sails, or other power mechanism, inboard or outboard, or anyother vessel or structure floating upon the water whether or not capable ofself locomotion, including house boats, barges, and similar floating objects.
(2) "Clean Water Act" refers to the federal law enacted under33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq., and all amendments thereto.
(3) "Director" means the director of the department ofenvironmental management or any subordinate or subordinates to whom thedirector has delegated the powers and duties vested in him or her by thischapter.
(ii) Wherever reference is made in this chapter to any orderof the director and the order shall have been modified by the court, the orderreferred to shall be taken to be the order of the director as so modified.
(4) "Discharge" means the addition of any pollutant to thewaters from any point source.
(5) "Effluent limitation" means any restriction orprohibitions, established in accord with the provisions of this chapter orunder the federal Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq., onquantities, rates, and concentrations of chemical, physical, biological,radiological, and other constituents which are discharged into the waters.
(6) "Fecal coliform bacteria" means organisms within theintestines of warm blooded animals that indicate the presence of fecalmaterial, and the potential presence of organisms capable of causing disease inhumans.
(7) "Groundwaters" includes all underground waters ofwhatever nature.
(8) "Marine Sanitation Device-Type I" means a marine toiletwhich, under prescribed test conditions, will produce an effluent that will notexceed a fecal coliform bacteria count of one thousand (1,000) parts per onehundred (100) milliliters and have no visible solids.
(9) "Marine Sanitation Device-Type II" means a marine toiletwhich, under prescribed test conditions will produce an effluent that does notexceed a fecal coliform bacteria count of two hundred (200) parts per onehundred (100) milliliters, and have suspended solids not greater than onehundred and fifty (150) milligrams per liter.
(10) "Marine Sanitation Device-Type III" means a marinetoilet which is designed to prevent the discharge from the boat of any treatedor untreated sewage, or any waste derived from sewage.
(11) "Marine toilet" means any toilet on or within any boatas that term is defined herein.
(12) "No discharge zone" means an environmentally sensitivearea of the waters of the state which has been declared by the department ofenvironmental management pursuant to the Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. § 1251et seq., to be an area in which any discharge of sewage is prohibited.
(13) "Person" includes an individual, trust, firm, jointstock company, corporation (including a quasi government corporation)partnership, association, syndicate, municipality, municipal or state agency,fire district, club, nonprofit agency, or any subdivision, commission,department, bureau, agency, or department of state or federal government(including any quasi government corporation) or of any interstate body.
(14) "Point source" means any discernible, confined, anddiscrete conveyance, including, but not limited to, any pipe, ditch, channel,tunnel, conduit, well, discrete fissure, container, rolling stock, concentratedanimal feeding operation, or vessel or other floating craft from whichpollutants are or may be discharged. This term does not include return flowsfrom irrigated agriculture.
(15) "Pollutant" means any material or effluent which mayalter the chemical, physical, biological, or radiological characteristicsand/or integrity of water, including, but not limited to, dredged spoil, solidwaste, incinerator residue, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemicalwastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discardedequipment, cellar dirt or industrial, municipal, agricultural, or other wastepetroleum or petroleum products, including but not limited to oil.
(16) "Polluting" means the causing of pollution.
(17) "Pollution" means the man made or man induced alterationof the chemical, physical, biological, and radiological integrity of water.
(18) "Publicly owned treatment works" means any facility forthe treatment of pollutants owned by the state or any political subdivisionthereof, municipality, or other public entity, including any quasi governmentcorporation.
(19) "Release" means any spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring,emitting, emptying, injecting, escaping, leaching, dumping, or disposing of anypollutant into a surface water or wetland, or onto or below the land surface.
(20) "Schedule of compliance" means a schedule of remedialmeasures including an enforceable sequence of actions, or operations, leadingto compliance with an effluent limitation or any other limitation, prohibition,or standard.
(21) "Sewage" means fecal material and human waste, or wastesfrom toilets and other receptacles intended to receive or retain body waste,and any wastes, including wastes from human households, commercialestablishments, and industries, and storm water runoff, that are discharged toor otherwise enter a publicly owned treatment works.
(22) "Underground storage tank" means any one or combinationof tanks (including underground pipes connected thereto) which is used tocontain an accumulation of petroleum product or hazardous materials, and thevolume of which (including the volume of the underground pipes connectedthereto) is ten percent (10%) or more beneath the surface of the ground.
(23) "Waters" includes all surface waters including allwaters of the territorial sea, tidewaters, all inland waters of any river,stream, brook, pond, or lake, and wetlands, as well as all groundwaters.
(24) "Eutrophication" means a reduction of dissolved oxygenfrom excessive plant growth, chiefly algae, typically as an effect of increasednutrient loadings, to levels that impair the viability of other aquatic life.
(25) "Nutrient" means organic materials and chemicals,including especially nitrogen and phosphorous and their compounds, that arebiologically reactive and necessary for life.
§ 46-12-1 Definitions. – As used in this chapter the following terms shall, where the context permits,be construed as follows:
(1) "Boat" means any vessel or water craft whether moved byoars, paddles, sails, or other power mechanism, inboard or outboard, or anyother vessel or structure floating upon the water whether or not capable ofself locomotion, including house boats, barges, and similar floating objects.
(2) "Clean Water Act" refers to the federal law enacted under33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq., and all amendments thereto.
(3) "Director" means the director of the department ofenvironmental management or any subordinate or subordinates to whom thedirector has delegated the powers and duties vested in him or her by thischapter.
(ii) Wherever reference is made in this chapter to any orderof the director and the order shall have been modified by the court, the orderreferred to shall be taken to be the order of the director as so modified.
(4) "Discharge" means the addition of any pollutant to thewaters from any point source.
(5) "Effluent limitation" means any restriction orprohibitions, established in accord with the provisions of this chapter orunder the federal Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq., onquantities, rates, and concentrations of chemical, physical, biological,radiological, and other constituents which are discharged into the waters.
(6) "Fecal coliform bacteria" means organisms within theintestines of warm blooded animals that indicate the presence of fecalmaterial, and the potential presence of organisms capable of causing disease inhumans.
(7) "Groundwaters" includes all underground waters ofwhatever nature.
(8) "Marine Sanitation Device-Type I" means a marine toiletwhich, under prescribed test conditions, will produce an effluent that will notexceed a fecal coliform bacteria count of one thousand (1,000) parts per onehundred (100) milliliters and have no visible solids.
(9) "Marine Sanitation Device-Type II" means a marine toiletwhich, under prescribed test conditions will produce an effluent that does notexceed a fecal coliform bacteria count of two hundred (200) parts per onehundred (100) milliliters, and have suspended solids not greater than onehundred and fifty (150) milligrams per liter.
(10) "Marine Sanitation Device-Type III" means a marinetoilet which is designed to prevent the discharge from the boat of any treatedor untreated sewage, or any waste derived from sewage.
(11) "Marine toilet" means any toilet on or within any boatas that term is defined herein.
(12) "No discharge zone" means an environmentally sensitivearea of the waters of the state which has been declared by the department ofenvironmental management pursuant to the Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. § 1251et seq., to be an area in which any discharge of sewage is prohibited.
(13) "Person" includes an individual, trust, firm, jointstock company, corporation (including a quasi government corporation)partnership, association, syndicate, municipality, municipal or state agency,fire district, club, nonprofit agency, or any subdivision, commission,department, bureau, agency, or department of state or federal government(including any quasi government corporation) or of any interstate body.
(14) "Point source" means any discernible, confined, anddiscrete conveyance, including, but not limited to, any pipe, ditch, channel,tunnel, conduit, well, discrete fissure, container, rolling stock, concentratedanimal feeding operation, or vessel or other floating craft from whichpollutants are or may be discharged. This term does not include return flowsfrom irrigated agriculture.
(15) "Pollutant" means any material or effluent which mayalter the chemical, physical, biological, or radiological characteristicsand/or integrity of water, including, but not limited to, dredged spoil, solidwaste, incinerator residue, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemicalwastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discardedequipment, cellar dirt or industrial, municipal, agricultural, or other wastepetroleum or petroleum products, including but not limited to oil.
(16) "Polluting" means the causing of pollution.
(17) "Pollution" means the man made or man induced alterationof the chemical, physical, biological, and radiological integrity of water.
(18) "Publicly owned treatment works" means any facility forthe treatment of pollutants owned by the state or any political subdivisionthereof, municipality, or other public entity, including any quasi governmentcorporation.
(19) "Release" means any spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring,emitting, emptying, injecting, escaping, leaching, dumping, or disposing of anypollutant into a surface water or wetland, or onto or below the land surface.
(20) "Schedule of compliance" means a schedule of remedialmeasures including an enforceable sequence of actions, or operations, leadingto compliance with an effluent limitation or any other limitation, prohibition,or standard.
(21) "Sewage" means fecal material and human waste, or wastesfrom toilets and other receptacles intended to receive or retain body waste,and any wastes, including wastes from human households, commercialestablishments, and industries, and storm water runoff, that are discharged toor otherwise enter a publicly owned treatment works.
(22) "Underground storage tank" means any one or combinationof tanks (including underground pipes connected thereto) which is used tocontain an accumulation of petroleum product or hazardous materials, and thevolume of which (including the volume of the underground pipes connectedthereto) is ten percent (10%) or more beneath the surface of the ground.
(23) "Waters" includes all surface waters including allwaters of the territorial sea, tidewaters, all inland waters of any river,stream, brook, pond, or lake, and wetlands, as well as all groundwaters.
(24) "Eutrophication" means a reduction of dissolved oxygenfrom excessive plant growth, chiefly algae, typically as an effect of increasednutrient loadings, to levels that impair the viability of other aquatic life.
(25) "Nutrient" means organic materials and chemicals,including especially nitrogen and phosphorous and their compounds, that arebiologically reactive and necessary for life.
§ 46-12-1 Definitions. – As used in this chapter the following terms shall, where the context permits,be construed as follows:
(1) "Boat" means any vessel or water craft whether moved byoars, paddles, sails, or other power mechanism, inboard or outboard, or anyother vessel or structure floating upon the water whether or not capable ofself locomotion, including house boats, barges, and similar floating objects.
(2) "Clean Water Act" refers to the federal law enacted under33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq., and all amendments thereto.
(3) "Director" means the director of the department ofenvironmental management or any subordinate or subordinates to whom thedirector has delegated the powers and duties vested in him or her by thischapter.
(ii) Wherever reference is made in this chapter to any orderof the director and the order shall have been modified by the court, the orderreferred to shall be taken to be the order of the director as so modified.
(4) "Discharge" means the addition of any pollutant to thewaters from any point source.
(5) "Effluent limitation" means any restriction orprohibitions, established in accord with the provisions of this chapter orunder the federal Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq., onquantities, rates, and concentrations of chemical, physical, biological,radiological, and other constituents which are discharged into the waters.
(6) "Fecal coliform bacteria" means organisms within theintestines of warm blooded animals that indicate the presence of fecalmaterial, and the potential presence of organisms capable of causing disease inhumans.
(7) "Groundwaters" includes all underground waters ofwhatever nature.
(8) "Marine Sanitation Device-Type I" means a marine toiletwhich, under prescribed test conditions, will produce an effluent that will notexceed a fecal coliform bacteria count of one thousand (1,000) parts per onehundred (100) milliliters and have no visible solids.
(9) "Marine Sanitation Device-Type II" means a marine toiletwhich, under prescribed test conditions will produce an effluent that does notexceed a fecal coliform bacteria count of two hundred (200) parts per onehundred (100) milliliters, and have suspended solids not greater than onehundred and fifty (150) milligrams per liter.
(10) "Marine Sanitation Device-Type III" means a marinetoilet which is designed to prevent the discharge from the boat of any treatedor untreated sewage, or any waste derived from sewage.
(11) "Marine toilet" means any toilet on or within any boatas that term is defined herein.
(12) "No discharge zone" means an environmentally sensitivearea of the waters of the state which has been declared by the department ofenvironmental management pursuant to the Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. § 1251et seq., to be an area in which any discharge of sewage is prohibited.
(13) "Person" includes an individual, trust, firm, jointstock company, corporation (including a quasi government corporation)partnership, association, syndicate, municipality, municipal or state agency,fire district, club, nonprofit agency, or any subdivision, commission,department, bureau, agency, or department of state or federal government(including any quasi government corporation) or of any interstate body.
(14) "Point source" means any discernible, confined, anddiscrete conveyance, including, but not limited to, any pipe, ditch, channel,tunnel, conduit, well, discrete fissure, container, rolling stock, concentratedanimal feeding operation, or vessel or other floating craft from whichpollutants are or may be discharged. This term does not include return flowsfrom irrigated agriculture.
(15) "Pollutant" means any material or effluent which mayalter the chemical, physical, biological, or radiological characteristicsand/or integrity of water, including, but not limited to, dredged spoil, solidwaste, incinerator residue, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemicalwastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discardedequipment, cellar dirt or industrial, municipal, agricultural, or other wastepetroleum or petroleum products, including but not limited to oil.
(16) "Polluting" means the causing of pollution.
(17) "Pollution" means the man made or man induced alterationof the chemical, physical, biological, and radiological integrity of water.
(18) "Publicly owned treatment works" means any facility forthe treatment of pollutants owned by the state or any political subdivisionthereof, municipality, or other public entity, including any quasi governmentcorporation.
(19) "Release" means any spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring,emitting, emptying, injecting, escaping, leaching, dumping, or disposing of anypollutant into a surface water or wetland, or onto or below the land surface.
(20) "Schedule of compliance" means a schedule of remedialmeasures including an enforceable sequence of actions, or operations, leadingto compliance with an effluent limitation or any other limitation, prohibition,or standard.
(21) "Sewage" means fecal material and human waste, or wastesfrom toilets and other receptacles intended to receive or retain body waste,and any wastes, including wastes from human households, commercialestablishments, and industries, and storm water runoff, that are discharged toor otherwise enter a publicly owned treatment works.
(22) "Underground storage tank" means any one or combinationof tanks (including underground pipes connected thereto) which is used tocontain an accumulation of petroleum product or hazardous materials, and thevolume of which (including the volume of the underground pipes connectedthereto) is ten percent (10%) or more beneath the surface of the ground.
(23) "Waters" includes all surface waters including allwaters of the territorial sea, tidewaters, all inland waters of any river,stream, brook, pond, or lake, and wetlands, as well as all groundwaters.
(24) "Eutrophication" means a reduction of dissolved oxygenfrom excessive plant growth, chiefly algae, typically as an effect of increasednutrient loadings, to levels that impair the viability of other aquatic life.
(25) "Nutrient" means organic materials and chemicals,including especially nitrogen and phosphorous and their compounds, that arebiologically reactive and necessary for life.
