Section 72-0601. Definitions  


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  • When used in this title:
        1.  "Facility"  means any establishment for which a general permit has
      been issued pursuant to subdivision  six  of  section  70-0117  of  this
      chapter or any industrial, municipal or private/commercial/institutional
      (P/C/I)  establishment,  or  any  vessel  for which a permit is required
      under titles seven and eight of article seventeen of this chapter.
        2. "Industrial facility" means any manufacturing operation  including,
      but  not limited to animal feeding operations, aquatic animal production
      facilities,  mining  and  silvicultural  operations,  and  solid   waste
      management facilities.
        3.  "Municipal  facility"  means  a  publicly  owned  treatment works,
      including raw discharges and combined sewer  overflows,  or  a  publicly
      owned drinking water treatment plant.
        4.  "P/C/I"  means  a  private/commercial/institutional facility which
      primarily discharges sewage.
        5. "Power plant" means any facility which generates electricity  using
      a  steam turbine and generator, which may be fired by coal, oil, natural
      gas, nuclear energy, or other fuel source.
        6. "State pollutant discharge elimination system  program"  or  "SPDES
      program" means those activities of the department as specified in titles
      seven  and  eight  of  article  seventeen  of  this  chapter  related to
      discharges into the waters of the  state  and  any  related  enforcement
      activities.