No qualitative requirements.
No quantitative requirements.
| Req ID | Category | Name | Context | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #D001 | State board | 'State board' means the State Water Resources Control Board. | high | |
| #D002 | Regional board | 'Regional board' means any California regional water quality control board for a region as specified in Section 13200. | high | |
| #D003 | Waste | 'Waste' includes sewage and any and all other waste substances, liquid, solid, gaseous, or radioactive, associated with human habitation, or of human or animal origin, or from any producing, manufacturing, or processing operation, including waste placed within containers of whatever nature prior to, and for purposes of, disposal. | high | |
| #D004 | Waters of the state | 'Waters of the state' means any surface water or groundwater, including saline waters, within the boundaries of the state. | high | |
| #D005 | Beneficial uses | 'Beneficial uses' of the waters of the state that may be protected against quality degradation include, but are not limited to, domestic, municipal, agricultural and industrial supply; power generation; recreation; aesthetic enjoyment; navigation; and preservation and enhancement of fish, wildlife, and other aquatic resources or preserves. | high | |
| #D006 | Quality of the water | 'Quality of the water' refers to chemical, physical, biological, bacteriological, radiological, and other properties and characteristics of water which affect its use. | high | |
| #D007 | Water quality objectives | 'Water quality objectives' means the limits or levels of water quality constituents or characteristics which are established for the reasonable protection of beneficial uses of water or the prevention of nuisance within a specific area. | high | |
| #D008 | Water quality control | 'Water quality control' means the regulation of any activity or factor which may affect the quality of the waters of the state and includes the prevention and correction of water pollution and nuisance. | high | |
| #D009 | Contamination | 'Contamination' means an impairment of the quality of the waters of the state by waste to a degree which creates a hazard to the public health through poisoning or through the spread of disease. 'Contamination' includes any equivalent effect resulting from the disposal of waste, whether or not waters of the state are affected. | high | |
| #D010 | Pollution | 'Pollution' means an alteration of the quality of the waters of the state by waste to a degree which unreasonably affects either of the following: (A) The waters for beneficial uses. (B) Facilities which serve these beneficial uses. | high | |
| #D011 | Nuisance | 'Nuisance' means anything which meets all of the following requirements: (1) Is injurious to health, or is indecent or offensive to the senses, or an obstruction to the free use of property, so as to interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property. (2) Affects at the same time an entire community or neighborhood, or any considerable number of persons, although the extent of the annoyance or damage inflicted upon individuals may be unequal. (3) Occurs during, or as a result of, the treatment or disposal of wastes. | high | |
| #D012 | Recycled water | 'Recycled water' means water which, as a result of treatment of waste, is suitable for a direct beneficial use or a controlled use that would not otherwise occur and is therefor considered a valuable resource. | high | |
| #D013 | Hazardous substance | 'Hazardous substance' means either of the following: (A) For discharge to surface waters, any substance determined to be a hazardous substance pursuant to Section 311(b)(2) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. Sec. 1251 et seq.). (B) For discharge to groundwater, any substance listed as a hazardous waste or hazardous material pursuant to Section 25140 of the Health and Safety Code, without regard to whether the substance is intended to be used, reused, or discarded, except that 'hazardous substance' does not include any substance excluded from Section 311(b)(2) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act because it is within the scope of Section 311(a)(1) of that act. | high | |
| #D014 | Mining waste | 'Mining waste' means all solid, semisolid, and liquid waste materials from the extraction, beneficiation, and processing of ores and minerals. Mining waste includes, but is not limited to, soil, waste rock, and overburden, as defined in Section 2732 of the Public Resources Code, and tailings, slag, and other processed waste materials, including cementitious materials that are managed at the cement manufacturing facility where the materials were generated. | high | |
| #D015 | Injection well | As used in this division, 'injection well' means any bored, drilled, or driven shaft, dug pit, or hole in the ground into which waste or fluid is discharged, and any associated subsurface appurtenances, and the depth of which is greater than the circumference of the shaft, pit, or hole. | high | |
| #D016 | Person | 'Person' includes any city, county, district, the state, and the United States, to the extent authorized by federal law. | high | |
| #D017 | Water quality control plan | 'Water quality control plan' consists of a designation or establishment for the waters within a specified area of all of the following: (1) Beneficial uses to be protected. (2) Water quality objectives. (3) A program of implementation needed for achieving water quality objectives. | high | |
| #D018 | Citizen or domiciliary | 'Citizen or domiciliary' of the state includes a foreign corporation having substantial business contacts in the state or which is subject to service of process in this state. | high | |
| #D019 | Master recycling permit | 'Master recycling permit' means a permit issued to a supplier or a distributor, or both, of recycled water, that includes waste discharge requirements prescribed pursuant to Section 13263 and water recycling requirements prescribed pursuant to Section 13523.1. | high | |
| #D020 | navigable waters | The terms 'navigable waters,' 'administrator,' 'pollutants,' 'biological monitoring,' 'discharge' and 'point sources' as used in this chapter shall have the same meaning as in the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto. | high | |
| #D021 | administrator | The terms 'navigable waters,' 'administrator,' 'pollutants,' 'biological monitoring,' 'discharge' and 'point sources' as used in this chapter shall have the same meaning as in the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto. | high | |
| #D022 | pollutants | The terms 'navigable waters,' 'administrator,' 'pollutants,' 'biological monitoring,' 'discharge' and 'point sources' as used in this chapter shall have the same meaning as in the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto. | high | |
| #D023 | biological monitoring | The terms 'navigable waters,' 'administrator,' 'pollutants,' 'biological monitoring,' 'discharge' and 'point sources' as used in this chapter shall have the same meaning as in the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto. | high | |
| #D024 | discharge | The terms 'navigable waters,' 'administrator,' 'pollutants,' 'biological monitoring,' 'discharge' and 'point sources' as used in this chapter shall have the same meaning as in the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto. | high | |
| #D025 | point sources | The terms 'navigable waters,' 'administrator,' 'pollutants,' 'biological monitoring,' 'discharge' and 'point sources' as used in this chapter shall have the same meaning as in the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto. | high | |
| #D026 | waste discharge requirements | The term 'waste discharge requirements' as referred to in this division is the equivalent of the term 'permits' as used in the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended. | high | |
| #D027 | Person | 'Person' means any person, firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, corporation, limited liability company, or company. | high | |
| #D028 | Board | 'Board,' unless otherwise specified, means the State Water Resources Control Board. | high | |
| #D029 | Department | 'Department,' unless otherwise specified, means the Department of Water Resources. | high | |
| #D030 | Section | 'Section' means a section of this code unless some other statute is specifically mentioned. | high | |
| #D031 | Subdivision | 'Subdivision' means a subdivision of the section in which that term occurs unless some other section is expressly mentioned. | high | |
| #D032 | spouse | 'Spouse' includes 'registered domestic partner,' as required by Section 297.5 of the Family Code. | high | |
| #D033 | County | 'County' includes city and county. | high | |
| #D034 | Oath | 'Oath' includes affirmation. | high | |
| #D035 | State | 'State' means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. In the latter case, it includes the District of Columbia and the territories. | high | |
| #D036 | United States | 'United States' means the United States of America, and in relation to any particular matter includes the officers, agents, employees, agencies, or instrumentalities authorized to act in relation thereto. | high | |
| #D037 | Director | 'Director,' unless otherwise specified, means the Director of Water Resources. | high | |
| #D038 | standard miner's inch | The standard miner's inch of water is equivalent to one and one-half cubic feet of water per minute, measured through any aperture or orifice. | high | |
| #D039 | cementitious material | For the purposes of this subdivision, 'cementitious material' means cement, cement kiln dust, clinker, and clinker dust. | high | |
| #D040 | Designated waste | 'Designated waste' means either of the following: (a) Hazardous waste that has been granted a variance from hazardous waste management requirements pursuant to Section 25143 of the Health and Safety Code. (b) Nonhazardous waste that consists of, or contains, pollutants that, under ambient environmental conditions at a waste management unit, could be released in concentrations exceeding applicable water quality objectives or that could reasonably be expected to affect beneficial uses of the waters of the state as contained in the appropriate state water quality control plan. | high | |
| #D041 | Drought scenario | 'Drought scenario' means either of the following: (1) Circumstances for which the Governor has issued a proclamation of a state of emergency, pursuant to Section 8625 of the Government Code, based on drought conditions. (2)(A) Circumstances for which the state board determines, consistent with subparagraph (B), that drought conditions necessitate urgent and immediate action to ensure availability of safe drinking water, to protect public health and safety, or, after consultation with the Department of Fish and Wildlife, to avoid serious and irreparable harm to fish or wildlife. | high | |
| #D042 | Implementing agency | 'Implementing agency' means any of the following: (1) The Natural Resources Agency. (2) The California Environmental Protection Agency. (3) The Department of Food and Agriculture. (4) The California Health and Human Services Agency. (5) Boards, departments, and offices within the agencies specified in paragraphs (1) to (4), inclusive. (6) The Office of Emergency Services. | high | |
| #D043 | Adequate sewer service | 'Adequate sewer service' means a sanitary sewer service provided by a sewer service provider that is not an inadequate sewer service, as defined in subdivision (j). | high | |
| #D044 | Administrator | 'Administrator' means a person whom the state board has determined is competent and willing to perform the administrative, technical, operational, legal, or managerial services required for purposes of this chapter, pursuant to criteria set forth in the handbook described in subdivision (i) of Section 13289.5. | high | |
| #D045 | Designated sewer system | 'Designated sewer system' means a sewer service provider that serves a disadvantaged community that is either an inadequate sewer service or a sewer system that has a demonstrated failure to maintain technical, managerial, or financial capacity to prevent waste, fraud, and abuse. | high | |
| #D046 | Enclosed bays | 'Enclosed bays' means indentations along the coast which enclose an area of oceanic water within distinct headlands or harbor works. 'Enclosed bays' include all bays where the narrowest distance between the headlands or outermost harbor works is less than 75 percent of the greatest dimension of the enclosed portion of the bay. | high | |
| #D047 | Estuaries | 'Estuaries' means waters, including coastal lagoons, located at the mouths of streams which serve as mixing zones for fresh and ocean waters. | high | |
| #D048 | Health risk assessment | 'Health risk assessment' means an analysis which evaluates and quantifies the potential human exposure to a pollutant that bioaccumulates or may bioaccumulate in edible fish, shellfish, or wildlife. | high | |
| #D049 | Sediment quality objective | 'Sediment quality objective' means that level of a constituent in sediment which is established with an adequate margin of safety, for the reasonable protection of the beneficial uses of water or the prevention of nuisances. | high | |
| #D050 | Toxic hot spots | 'Toxic hot spots' means locations in enclosed bays, estuaries, or any adjacent waters in the 'contiguous zone' or the 'ocean,' as defined in Section 502 of the Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. Sec. 1362), the pollution or contamination of which affects the interests of the state, and where hazardous substances have accumulated in the water or sediment to levels which (1) may pose a substantial present or potential hazard to aquatic life, wildlife, fisheries, or human health, or (2) may adversely affect the beneficial uses of the bay, estuary, or ocean waters as defined in water quality control plans, or (3) exceeds adopted water quality or sediment quality objectives. | high | |
| #D051 | Abandoned mine waste | 'Abandoned mine waste' means the residual of soil, rock, mineral, liquid, vegetation, equipment, machines, tools, or other materials or property on, or discharging from, abandoned mined lands, directly resulting from, or displaced by, surface mining operations. | high | |
| #D052 | Acid rock drainage | 'Acid rock drainage' means acid waste discharge that results from the oxidation of metal sulfide in minerals associated with mined lands. | high | |
| #D053 | Administration fund | 'Administration fund' means the State Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund Administration Fund. | high | |
| #D054 | Direct potable reuse | 'Direct potable reuse' means the planned introduction of recycled water either directly into a public water system, as defined in Section 116275 of the Health and Safety Code, or into a raw water supply immediately upstream of a water treatment plant. | high | |
| #D055 | Indirect potable reuse for groundwater recharge | 'Indirect potable reuse for groundwater recharge' means the planned use of recycled water for replenishment of a groundwater basin or an aquifer that has been designated as a source of water supply for a public water system, as defined in Section 116275 of the Health and Safety Code. | high | |
| #D056 | Reservoir water augmentation | 'Reservoir water augmentation' means the planned placement of recycled water into a raw surface water reservoir used as a source of domestic drinking water supply for a public water system, as defined in Section 116275 of the Health and Safety Code, or into a constructed system conveying water to such a reservoir. | high | |
| #D057 | batch | As used in this section, 'batch' means an increment of advanced purified treatment water that has completed the treatment process, is separate from incoming water, and is not receiving any additional source water. | high | |
| #D058 | Customer | 'Customer' means a person or entity that purchases water from a retail water supplier. | high | |
| #D059 | Recycled water producer | 'Recycled water producer' means any local public entity that produces recycled water. | high | |
| #D060 | proceeding | As used in this chapter, 'proceeding' means any inquiry, investigation, hearing, ascertainment, or other proceeding ordered or undertaken by the board pursuant to this code. | high | |
| #D061 | evidence | As used in this chapter, 'evidence' means any paper, book, map, account, or document. | high | |
| #D062 | storm water and dry weather runoff capture practices | For purposes of this section, 'storm water and dry weather runoff capture practices' means practices to control water pollutants, pollutant loads, and water runoff volume exiting a site to the maximum extent feasible by minimizing impervious surface area and controlling runoff from impervious surfaces through infiltration, evapotranspiration, bioretention, treatment, and rainfall harvest. | high | |
| #D063 | Low-income | 'Low-income' means a household with income that is equal to or no greater than 200 percent of the federal poverty guideline level. For one-person households, program eligibility shall be based on two-person household guideline levels. | high | |
| #D064 | Disadvantaged community | 'Disadvantaged community' means a community in which the median household income is less than 80 percent of the statewide annual median household income level. | high | |
| #D065 | Meaningful civic engagement | 'Meaningful civic engagement' includes, but is not limited to, all of the following: (A) Providing opportunities for people to participate in decisionmaking processes about activities that may affect their environment or health and to contribute to the state board's and regional boards' decisionmaking. (B) Seeking out and facilitating the involvement of people potentially affected by the decisions and taking into account community concerns. (C) Informing disadvantaged and tribal community members of opportunities to be appointed to advisory or decisionmaking bodies, thereby empowering those community members to become advisors or decisionmakers. | high | |
| #D066 | residential self-regenerating water softener | For purposes of this section, 'residential self-regenerating water softener' means residential water softening equipment or conditioning appliances that discharge brine into a community sewer system. | high | |
| #D067 | monitoring council | As used in this section, 'monitoring council' means the California Water Quality Monitoring Council established pursuant to this section. | high | |
| #D068 | Public domain | 'Public domain' means a format that may be duplicated, distributed, and used without payment of a royalty or license fee. | high | |
| #D069 | Report | 'Report' means any document or item that is required for submission in order for a person to comply with a regulation, directive, or order issued by the state board, a regional board, or a local agency pursuant to a program administered by the state board, including, but not limited to, any analysis of material by a laboratory that has accreditation or certification pursuant to Article 3 (commencing with Section 100825) of Chapter 4 of Part 1 of Division 101 of the Health and Safety Code. | high | |
| #D070 | Collection system owner or operator | 'Collection system owner or operator' means the public or private entity having legal authority over the operation and maintenance of, or capital improvements to, the sewer collection system. | high | |
| #D071 | GIS | 'GIS' means Geographic Information System. | high | |
| #D072 | small disadvantaged community | For the purposes of this section, 'small disadvantaged community' means a municipality with a population of 20,000 persons or less, or a reasonably isolated and divisible segment of a larger municipality encompassing 20,000 persons or less, with an annual median household income that is less than 80 percent of the statewide annual median household income. | high | |
| #D073 | Eligible applicant | 'Eligible applicant' means a county, community water system, local public agency, or nonprofit organization. | high | |
| #D074 | Interim relief | 'Interim relief' includes, but is not limited to, the provision of domestic water storage tanks, hauled water, and bottled water. | high | |
| #D075 | pollution prevention | For the purposes of this section, 'pollution prevention' means any action that causes a net reduction in the use or generation of a hazardous substance or other pollutant that is discharged into water and includes any of the following: (A) 'Input change,' which means a change in raw materials or feedstocks used in a production process or operation so as to reduce, avoid, or eliminate the generation of pollutants discharged in wastewater. (B) 'Operational improvement,' which means improved site management so as to reduce, avoid, or eliminate the generation of pollutants discharged in wastewater. (C) 'Production process change,' which means a change in a process, method, or technique that is used to produce a product or a desired result, including the return of materials or their components for reuse within the existing processes or operations, so as to reduce, avoid, or eliminate the generation of pollutants discharged in wastewater. (D) 'Product reformulation,' which means changes in design, composition, or specifications of end products, including product substitution, so as to reduce, avoid, or eliminate the generation of problem pollutants discharged in wastewater. | high | |
| #D076 | Ex parte communication | 'Ex parte communication' means an oral or written communication with one or more board members concerning matters, other than a matter of procedure or practice that is not in controversy, under the jurisdiction of a board, regarding a pending action of the board that satisfies both of the following: (A) The action does not identify specific persons as dischargers, but instead allows persons to enroll or file an authorization to discharge under the action. (B) The action is for adoption, modification, or rescission of one or more of the following: (i) Waste discharge requirements pursuant to Section 13263 or 13377. (ii) Conditions of water quality certification pursuant to Section 13160. (iii) Conditional waiver of waste discharge requirements pursuant to Section 13269. | high | |
| #D077 | Interested person | 'Interested person' means any of the following: (A) Any person who will be required to enroll or file authorization to discharge pursuant to the action at issue before the board or that person's agents or employees, including persons receiving consideration to represent that person. (B) Any person with a financial interest, as described in Article 1 (commencing with Section 87100) of Chapter 7 of Title 9 of the Government Code, in a matter at issue before a board, or that person's agents or employees, including persons receiving consideration to represent that person. (C) A representative acting on behalf of any formally organized civic, environmental, neighborhood, business, labor, trade, or similar association who intends to influence the decision of a board member on a matter before the board. | high | |
| #D078 | Affected residence | 'Affected residence' means a residence within a disadvantaged community that may be subject to provision of sewer service pursuant to this chapter. | high | |
| #D079 | Inadequate sewer service | 'Inadequate sewer service' means a sewer service provider that serves a disadvantaged community, has a demonstrated history of failures to meet regulatory standards for proper wastewater collection, treatment, and disposal, and may exhibit deficiencies, such as infrastructure failure, insufficient capacity, or ineffective treatment of wastewater. | high | |
| #D080 | Local agency | 'Local agency' means any of the following entities: (1) A city, county, or city and county. (2) A special district formed pursuant to general law or special act for the local performance of functions regarding onsite sewage treatment systems within limited boundaries. | high | |
| #D081 | Onsite sewage treatment systems | 'Onsite sewage treatment systems' includes individual disposal systems, community collection and disposal systems, and alternative collection and disposal systems that use subsurface disposal. | high | |
| #D082 | water replacement plan | A 'water replacement plan' means a plan pursuant to which the discharger will provide replacement water in accordance with a cleanup and abatement order. | high | |
| #D083 | preproduction plastic | For purposes of this chapter, 'preproduction plastic' includes plastic resin pellets and powdered coloring for plastics. | high | |
| #D084 | regulated municipalities and industries | As used in this section, 'regulated municipalities and industries' means the municipalities and industries required to obtain a storm water permit under Section 402(p) of the Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. Sec. 1342(p)) and implementing regulations. | high | |
| #D085 | supplemental environmental project | For the purposes of this section, a 'supplemental environmental project' means an environmentally beneficial project that a person agrees to undertake, with the approval of the regional board, that would not be undertaken in the absence of an enforcement action under this section. | high | |
| #D086 | serious violation | For the purposes of subdivision (h) of Section 13385, a 'serious violation' also means a failure to file a discharge monitoring report required pursuant to Section 13383 for each complete period of 30 days following the deadline for submitting the report, if the report is designed to ensure compliance with limitations contained in waste discharge requirements that contain effluent limitations. | high | |
| #D087 | effluent limitation | For the purposes of this section, paragraph (2) of subdivision (f) of Section 13385, and subdivisions (h), (i), and (j) of Section 13385 only, 'effluent limitation' means a numeric restriction or a numerically expressed narrative restriction, on the quantity, discharge rate, concentration, or toxicity units of a pollutant or pollutants that may be discharged from an authorized location. An effluent limitation may be final or interim, and may be expressed as a prohibition. An effluent limitation, for those purposes, does not include a receiving water limitation, a compliance schedule, or a best management practice. | high | |
| #D088 | Abandoned mined lands | 'Abandoned mined lands' has the same meaning as 'abandoned surface mined area,' as defined in clause (ii) of subparagraph (A) of paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) of Section 2796 of the Public Resources Code. | high | |
| #D089 | Oversight agency | 'Oversight agency' means either the state board or a regional board. If the remediating agency is a regional board, the state board shall be the oversight agency. If the remediating agency is the state board, the oversight agency shall be the Site Designation Committee established pursuant to Section 25261 of the Health and Safety Code. | high | |
| #D090 | Remediating agency | 'Remediating agency' or 'agency' means any public agency, or any private individual or entity acting under a cooperative agreement with a public agency, that prepares and submits a remediation plan in accordance with this chapter. | high | |
| #D091 | Remediation plan | 'Remediation plan' means a plan to improve the quality of the waters of the state that have been directly and adversely impacted by abandoned mine waste. | high | |
| #D092 | notice to comply | For purposes of this chapter, 'notice to comply' means a written method of alleging a minor violation that is in compliance with all of the following requirements: (a) The notice to comply is written in the course of conducting an inspection... (b) A copy of the notice to comply is presented to a person... (c) The notice to comply clearly states the nature of the alleged minor violation... (d) The notice to comply shall contain information specified in subdivision (h) of Section 13399.2 with regard to the possible reinspection of the facility. | high | |
| #D093 | NPDES permit | For the purposes of this chapter, 'NPDES permit' means a permit issued under the national pollutant discharge elimination system program in accordance with the Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C.A. Sec. 1251 et seq.). | high | |
| #D094 | Facilities | 'Facilities' means any of the following: (1) Facilities for the collection, treatment, or export of waste when necessary to prevent water pollution. (2) Facilities to recycle wastewater and to convey recycled water. (3) Facilities or devices to conserve water. (4) Any combination of the facilities described in paragraph (1), (2), or (3). | high | |
| #D095 | Agreement | 'Agreement' means any agreement or contract for financial assistance from the state board to an eligible recipient, including, but not limited to, a loan, grant, installment sale agreement, contract, or other form of agreement made for the purpose of providing financial assistance. | high | |
| #D096 | Recipient | 'Recipient' means any person or entity that receives any financial assistance from the state board, including, but not limited to, a recipient's contractors or consultants who performs work for a recipient. | high | |
| #D097 | recycling criteria | As used in this article 'recycling criteria' are the levels of constituents of recycled water, and means for assurance of reliability under the design concept which will result in recycled water safe from the standpoint of public health, for the uses to be made. | high | |
| #D098 | unauthorized discharge | For the purposes of this section, an unauthorized discharge means a discharge not authorized by waste discharge requirements pursuant to Article 4 of Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 13260), water reclamation requirements pursuant to Section 13523, a master reclamation permit pursuant to Section 13523.1, or any other provision of this division. | high | |
| #D099 | advanced purified demonstration water | As used in this section, 'advanced purified demonstration water' means product water from an advanced water purification facility that satisfies both of the following requirements: (1) The product water is treated by means of all of the following treatment processes: (A) Microfiltration, ultrafiltration, or other filtration processes... (B) Reverse osmosis. (C) Advanced oxidation. (2) The product water meets or exceeds all federal and state drinking water standards and is produced in accordance with the advanced treatment criteria for purified water specified in Section 60320.201 of Title 22 of the California Code of Regulations. | high | |
| #D100 | houseboat | As used in this article, 'houseboat' means a watercraft or industrial or commercial structure on or in the waters of the state, floating or nonfloating, which is designed or fitted out as a place of habitation and is not principally used for transportation. 'Houseboat' includes platforms, and waterborne hotels and restaurants. | high | |
| #D101 | Dry weather runoff | 'Dry weather runoff' has the same meaning as defined in Section 10561.5. | high | |
| #D102 | Municipal wastewater agency | 'Municipal wastewater agency' means a local agency that chooses to exercise any authority granted under this chapter. | high | |
| #D103 | catastrophic fire | For purposes of this section, 'catastrophic fire' means a condition exists that will result in severe harm to life, property, and the environment if the use of recycled water as authorized pursuant to this section is not used, and all other methods to extinguish the fire have been exhausted. | high | |
| #D104 | Management plan | 'Management plan' or 'plan' means the management plan for agricultural subsurface drainage and related problems as described in the final report of the San Joaquin Valley Drainage Program, dated September 1990, described in subdivision (a) of Section 14901. | high | |
| #D105 | commercial shellfish growing area | For the purposes of this chapter, a commercial shellfish growing area is an area certified pursuant to Section 112170 of the Health and Safety Code in which shellfish are grown and harvested. | high | |
| #D106 | Environmental justice | 'Environmental justice' has the same meaning as defined in Section 30107.3 of the Public Resources Code. | high | |
| #D107 | Tribal community | 'Tribal community' means a community within a federally recognized California Native American tribe or nonfederally recognized Native American tribe on the contact list maintained by the Native American Heritage Commission for the purposes of Chapter 905 of the Statutes of 2004. | high | |
| #D108 | Affected resident | 'Affected resident' means a resident or a property owner of an affected residence. | high | |
| #D109 | Annexation | 'Annexation' has the same meaning as set forth in Section 56017 of the Government Code. | high | |
| #D110 | Inadequate onsite sewage treatment system | 'Inadequate onsite sewage treatment system' means an onsite sewage treatment system that has the reasonable potential to cause a violation of water quality objectives, to impair present or future beneficial uses of water, or to cause pollution, nuisance, or contamination of waters of the state. | high | |
| #D111 | Onsite sewage treatment system | 'Onsite sewage treatment system' means an onsite sewage treatment system, as defined in Section 13290, that is not operated by a local agency, as defined in Section 56054 of the Government Code, or a utility regulated by the Public Utilities Commission. | high | |
| #D112 | Federal Clean Water Act | 'Federal Clean Water Act' or 'federal act' means the Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. Sec. 1251 et seq.) and acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto. | high | |
| #D113 | Recycled water wholesaler | 'Recycled water wholesaler' means any local public entity that distributes recycled water to retail water suppliers and which has constructed, or is constructing, a recycled water distribution system. | high | |
| #D114 | Chief plant operator | 'Chief plant operator' means the person designated by the owner of the wastewater treatment plant as the person responsible for the overall operation of the wastewater treatment plant, including compliance with effluent limitations established in the wastewater treatment plant's waste discharge requirements. | high | |
| #D115 | Wastewater treatment plant | 'Wastewater treatment plant' means any of the following: (A) Any facility owned by a state, local, or federal agency and used in the treatment or reclamation of sewage or industrial wastes. (B) Any privately owned facility used in the treatment or reclamation of sewage or industrial wastes, and regulated by the Public Utilities Commission pursuant to Sections 216 and 230.6 of, and Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 701) of Part 1 of Division 1 of, the Public Utilities Code. (C) Any privately owned facility used primarily in the treatment or reclamation of sewage for which the state board or a regional board has issued waste discharge requirements. | high |