Oregon Statutes 468B.138 – Definitions for ORS 468B.138 to 468B.144
As used in ORS § 468B.138 to 468B.144:
Terms Used In Oregon Statutes 468B.138
- City: includes any incorporated village or town. See Oregon Statutes 174.100
(1) ‘Legacy’ means a pollutant, the use of which has been banned or restricted for several years, that remains at detectable levels in sediment and tissue samples.
(2) ‘Municipality’ means a city or special district that operates and maintains a sewage treatment facility.
(3) ‘Permittee’ means a municipality in possession of a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit or water pollution control facility permit issued by the Department of Environmental Quality pursuant to ORS § 468B.050 for a sewage treatment facility that has a dry weather design flow capacity of one million gallons per day or more.
(4) ‘Persistent pollutant’ means a substance that is toxic and either persists in the environment or accumulates in the tissues of humans, fish, wildlife or plants. [2007 c.696 § 2]