208 Water Quality Management Plan (208 Plan) means a Statewide and regional plan developed pursuant to Section 208 of the Federal Clean Water Act.

208 Water Quality Management Plan Entity means the government organization responsible for certifying if projects are consistent with 208 Water Quality Management Plans.

7Q10 as defined in Regulation 61-68.

Actual Flow means a long term average of effluent flow as reported by Discharge Monitoring Reports.

Alternative Collection System means a system designed to collect wastewater from individual sources utilizing solids interceptor tank effluent systems (gravity or pressure), and grinder systems.  This definition includes vacuum sewer systems.  An exception is where a system such as a grinder pumping system, which serves one building or residence, meets the definition of a service connection (e.g., force main connecting to a gravity sewer).

Alternative Sewer Management Plan means a plan, approved by the Department, that allows entities to authorize individual connections to an alternative sewer collection system (using force main sewers) by an entity participating in the Delegated Review Program.

Auxiliary Power means provisions to provide backup electrical and/or mechanical power.

BOD means Biochemical Oxygen Demand.

COD means Chemical Oxygen Demand.

CWA means the Federal Clean Water Act (formerly referred to as the Federal Water Pollution Control Act or Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972) Pub. L. 92-500, and all amendments thereto, codified at 33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq., and any subsequent amendments.  Specific references to sections within the CWA shall be according to Pub. L. 92-500 section.

Collection System means a pipeline system designed to receive wastewater or treated effluent directly from individual sources.

Construction Permit means a State permit authorizing construction of wastewater facilities including, but not limited to, wastewater treatment systems, interceptors, and collection systems.

Delegated Review Program means a Department program by which the technical review for the construction of sewer systems is delegated to local entities.

Department means the South Carolina Department of Environmental Services.

Discharge Monitoring Report (DMR) means the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) uniform national form, including any subsequent additions, revisions, or modifications for the reporting of self monitoring results by permittees, and modified to substitute the State Agency name, logo, and other similar information, as appropriate, in place of EPA's.

EPA means the United States Environmental Protection Agency.

Effluent Disposal Permit means an NPDES or Land Application Permit.

Force Main Sewer means a pipeline carrying wastewater or treated effluent in which the flow in the pipeline is dependent on and driven by a pump station.

GPD means gallons per day.

GPM means gallons per minute.

General Construction Permit means a permit issued pursuant to Appendix B of this regulation.

General Permit means a State permit or National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit issued under Regulation 61-9.122.28 authorizing a category of discharges or activities under the Pollution Control Act (PCA) and CWA within a geographical area.

Gravity Sewer means a pipeline carrying wastewater or treated effluent which flows exclusively under the influence of gravity (i.e., no pump station).

Interceptor Sewer means a pipeline system designed to transport wastewater or treated effluent from one location to another.  Interceptor sewers can flow under pressure (i.e., force main) or by gravity.

Interceptor Tanks means tanks and other devices designed to remove solids from raw wastewater prior to discharging to an alternative collection system.

L.F. means linear feet.

Land Application Permit means a permit issued by the Department to a discharger for all land application disposal systems.

Main Sewer means the sanitary sewer system beginning at the point where two (2) or more individual service lines connect together, except as otherwise defined as a service connection and except as noted in R.61-67.300.A.4.

Major Sources of Waste means those wastes that may have or tend to have a potentially adverse effect on wastewater treatment facility design and operation and water quality (e.g., textile dyeing, finishing, metal plating, and slaughter house waste).  This includes waste identified as a Significant Industrial User under Regulation 61-9.403.2(n).

mg/l means milligrams per liter.

MGD means million gallons per day.

NPDES means National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System.

NPDES Permit means a permit issued by the Department to a discharger pursuant to regulations adopted by the Department's Board for all point source discharges into surface waters, and shall constitute a final determination of the Board.

Navigable Waters as defined in Regulation 19-450, Permits for Construction in Navigable Waters.  Navigability is determined by the Department.

Notice of Intent (NOI) means a form used by potential permittees to notify the Department, within a specified time that they intend to comply with the general permit, or that they do not desire to be covered by the general permit and desire an individual construction permit.

OSHA means the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

Permitted Flow means the value equivalent to the sum of flows as computed for the purpose of issuing construction permits for sewer lines or other connections to the systems.

PCA means the South Carolina Pollution Control Act, S.C. Code Ann. Section 48-1-10 et seq. (1987), and any subsequent amendments.

Pretreatment Facility means a facility which provides reduction of the amount of pollutants, elimination of pollutants or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties in wastewater prior to or in lieu of discharging or otherwise introducing such pollutants into a publicly owned treatment works (POTW) or other treatment system not owned by the facility.

Primary Source Water Protection Area means the surface-water flow system and drainage area upstream of an existing or proposed public water system intake, delineated by the Department as the in-stream twenty-four (24) hour time of travel distance for the ten (10) percent exceedance flow (i.e., primary source water protection area).

Private Entity means any private corporation, association, partnership, corporation, industry, copartnership, firm, trust, estate, any other legal entity whatsoever, or an agent or employee thereof.

Public Entity means organizations such as a city, town, county, municipality, or special purpose sewer district.

POTW means a publicly owned treatment works.

Pump and Haul means an operation whereby process wastewater as defined in Regulation 61-9.122.2 or domestic wastewater is collected and stored in Department approved facilities and then hauled by tanker truck or other vehicle to an off-site receiving facility such as a POTW.  Pump and haul in this context does not apply to management of spills.

Receiving Waters means waters of the State.

Service Connection means an individual gravity sewer line, or an individual pump station and force main, with domestic or industrial wastewater connecting to a gravity sewer system. Oil/Water Separators, pH Adjustment Systems, and other similar simple industrial wastewater treatment systems (as determined by the Department) will be considered a component of the service connection when a local pretreatment permit is not required. Piping associated with a service connection shall not require a construction permit if the following conditions are met:

a. Individual connections, at the time of connection, have design flow contribution no greater than five (5) percent of the existing wastewater treatment facility's design capacity or have no generated flows greater than fifty thousand (50,000) gallons per day;
b. Individual connections are to a gravity sewer main;
c. Individual connections only serving a single house, single mobile home, single building, or multiple-building complex under single ownership with no rental units (e.g., schools or industry);
d. Individual connections are not serving a shopping mall, multiple-building complex where there will be several owners or renters (e.g., apartment complex, condominium complex, mobile home park, campground, industrial park, or business park), or marina; and
e. Individual connections that do not have the reasonable ability to serve any additional projects and/or buildings in the future that are not part of a multiple-building complex under single ownership with no rental units (e.g., schools or industry).

Sewers means a gravity sewer line, vacuum sewers or a force main.

State means the State of South Carolina.

TOC means Total Organic Carbon.

USGS means the United States Geological Survey.

Vacuum Sewers means an alternative collection system designed to operate under the influence of a vacuum pumping station.

Wastewater Facilities means main sewers, wastewater collection systems, pump stations and force mains, wastewater treatment facilities and components.

Wastewater Treatment Facility means a system of structures, equipment and related appurtenances designed to treat, store, or manage wastewater.  Wastewater treatment facility shall include pretreatment facilities and wastewater recycling facilities, which are not part of an industrial manufacturing process.

Water Supply Intake Area means that portion of the primary source water protection area representing the twenty-four (24) hour time of travel distance for the ninety (90) percent exceedance flow.