§ 49-255 Definitions
§ 49-255.01 Arizona pollutant discharge elimination system program; rules and standards; affirmative defense; fees; general permit
§ 49-255.02 Pretreatment program; rules and standards
§ 49-255.03 Sewage sludge program; rules and requirements
§ 49-255.04 Special provisions for discharges to non-WOTUS protected surface waters
§ 49-255.05 Best management practices for activities within non-WOTUS

Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 49 > Chapter 2 > Article 3.1 - Arizona Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Program

  • Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • 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.
  • AZPDES: means the Arizona pollutant discharge elimination system program as adopted under section 402(b) of the clean water act for WOTUS and under Section 49-255. See Arizona Laws 49-255
  • 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
  • Discharge: means the direct or indirect addition of any pollutant to the waters of the state from a facility. See Arizona Laws 49-201
  • Discharge limitation: means any restriction, prohibition, limitation or criteria established by the director, through a rule, permit or order, on quantities, rates, concentrations, combinations, toxicity and characteristics of pollutants. See Arizona Laws 49-201
  • Environment: means WOTUS, any other surface waters, groundwater, drinking water supply, land surface or subsurface strata or ambient air, within or bordering on this state. See Arizona Laws 49-201
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Facility: means any land, building, installation, structure, equipment, device, conveyance, area, source, activity or practice from which there is, or with reasonable probability may be, a discharge. See Arizona Laws 49-201
  • including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Indirect discharge: means either of the following:

    (a) The introduction of pollutants into a publicly owned treatment works from any nondomestic source that is regulated under section 307(b), (c) or (d) of the clean water act. See Arizona Laws 49-255

  • Industrial user: means a source of indirect discharge. See Arizona Laws 49-255
  • Minor: means a person under eighteen years of age. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Ordinary high watermark: means the line on the shore of an intermittent or perennial protected surface water established by the fluctuations of water and indicated by physical characteristics such as a clear, natural line impressed on the bank, shelving, changes in the character of soil, destruction of terrestrial vegetation, the presence of litter and debris or other appropriate means that consider the characteristics of the channel, floodplain and riparian area. See Arizona Laws 49-201
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • 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
  • Publicly owned treatment works: means a treatment works owned by this state or a municipality of this state as defined in section 502(4) of the clean water act or that discharges to a protected surface water. See Arizona Laws 49-255
  • Recharge project: means a facility necessary or convenient to obtain, divert, withdraw, transport, exchange, deliver, treat or store water to infiltrate or reintroduce that water into the ground. 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
  • Toxic pollutant: means a substance that will cause significant adverse reactions if ingested in drinking water. See Arizona Laws 49-201
  • Treatment works: means any devices and systems that are used in the storage, treatment, recycling and reclamation of municipal sewage or industrial wastes of a liquid nature, the elements essential to providing a reliable recycled supply such as standby treatment units and clear well facilities, and any works that will be an integral part of the treatment process or that are used for residues resulting from that treatment. See Arizona Laws 49-255
  • United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Well: means a bored, drilled or driven shaft, pit or hole whose depth is greater than its largest surface dimension. See Arizona Laws 49-201
  • 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
  • Writing: includes printing. See Arizona Laws 1-215