Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 49 > Chapter 2 > Article 2.1 - Total Maximum Daily Loads

• Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Administrator: means the administrator of the United States environmental protection agency. See Arizona Laws 49-201
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Best management practices: means those methods, measures or practices to prevent or reduce discharges and includes structural and nonstructural controls and operation and maintenance procedures. See Arizona Laws 49-201
• Clean water act: means the federal water pollution control act amendments of 1972 (P. See Arizona Laws 49-201
• Department: means the department of environmental quality. See Arizona Laws 49-201
• Director: means the director of environmental quality or the director's designee. See Arizona Laws 49-201
• Effluent-dependent water: means a surface water or portion of a surface water that consists of a point source discharge without which the surface water would be ephemeral. See Arizona Laws 49-201
• Ephemeral water: means a surface water or portion of surface water that flows or pools only in direct response to precipitation. See Arizona Laws 49-201
• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Impaired water: means a protected surface water for which credible scientific data exists that satisfies the requirements of section 49-232, and that, in the case of WOTUS, demonstrates that the water should be identified pursuant to 33 United States Code § 1313(d) and the regulations implementing that statute. See Arizona Laws 49-231
• including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Permit: means a written authorization issued by the director or prescribed by this chapter or in a rule adopted under this chapter stating the conditions and restrictions governing a discharge or governing the construction, operation or modification of a facility. See Arizona Laws 49-201
• Person: means an individual, employee, officer, managing body, trust, firm, joint stock company, consortium, public or private corporation, including a government corporation, partnership, association or state, a political subdivision of this state, a commission, the United States government or any federal facility, interstate body or other entity. See Arizona Laws 49-201
• Point source: means any discernible, confined and discrete conveyance, including any pipe, ditch, channel, tunnel, conduit, well, discrete fissure, container, rolling stock, concentrated animal feeding operation or vessel or other floating craft from which pollutants are or may be discharged to WOTUS or protected surface water. See Arizona Laws 49-201
• Pollutant: means fluids, contaminants, toxic wastes, toxic pollutants, dredged spoil, solid waste, substances and chemicals, pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers and other agricultural chemicals, incinerator residue, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, petroleum products, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt and mining, industrial, municipal and agricultural wastes or any other liquid, solid, gaseous or hazardous substances. See Arizona Laws 49-201
• Process: means a citation, writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Protected surface waters: means waters of the state listed on the protected surface waters list under section 49-221, subsection G and all WOTUS. See Arizona Laws 49-201
• Standards: means water quality standards, pretreatment standards and toxicity standards established pursuant to this chapter. See Arizona Laws 49-201
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Surface water quality standard: means a standard adopted for a protected surface water pursuant to section 49-221 and, in the case of WOTUS, pursuant to section 49-222. See Arizona Laws 49-231
• TMDL implementation plan: means a written strategy to implement a total maximum daily load that is developed for an impaired water. See Arizona Laws 49-231
• Total maximum daily load: means an estimation of the total amount of a pollutant from all sources that may be added to a water while still allowing the water to achieve and maintain applicable surface water quality standards. See Arizona Laws 49-231
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• WOTUS: means waters of the state that are also navigable waters as defined by section 502(7) of the clean water act. See Arizona Laws 49-201