Kan. Admin. Regs. § 28-16-56c

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 49, December 5, 2024

Section 28-16-56c - Sewage permit fees; definitions

For the purposes of K.A.R. 28-16-56d, the following terms shall be defined as specified in this regulation:

(a) "Animal unit," for the purpose of determining permit fees, has the meaning specified in K.S.A. 65-171d, and amendments thereto.

(b) "Animal unit capacity" means the maximum number of animal units that a confined feeding facility is designed to accommodate at any one time.

(c) "Commercial wastewater treatment facility" means a facility serving a commercial enterprise or group or a combination of commercial enterprises, for the purpose of treating primarily domestic sewage by physical, chemical, or biological means or by a combination of these methods. This term shall include any slaughterhouse with an average slaughter rate of 50 animals or less per week.

(d) "Confined feeding facility" has the meaning specified in K.S.A. 65-171d, and amendments thereto.

(e) "Cooling water discharge" means cooling water discharged from any system in which there is no contact with process pollutants and there is no measured chemical buildup.

(f) "Dewatering discharge" means a discharge resulting from the drainage or removal of water from a lagoon, quarry, pit, or any other holding device. This term shall not include any discharge in which there is a measured chemical buildup or to which chemicals have been added for any purpose.

(g) "Domestic sewage" means sewage originating primarily from kitchen, bathroom, and laundry sources, including waste from food preparation, dishwashing, garbage grinding, toilets, baths, showers, and sinks.

(h) "General permit" has the meaning specified in 40 CFR 122.2 and adopted by reference in K.A.R. 28-16-151.

(i) "Industrial wastewater treatment facility" means a facility treating primarily sewage or process-generated wastewater, other than domestic sewage, by physical, chemical, or biological means or by a combination of these methods.

This term shall not include any private truck-washing or trailer-washing facility for washing animal waste from not more than two trucks or trailers, or a combination of both, owned by the private truck-washing or trailerwashing facility.

(j) "Municipal wastewater treatment facility" means a facility serving a city, county, township, sewer district, or other local governmental unit, or a facility serving a state or federal agency, establishment, or institution, for the purpose of treating primarily domestic sewage by physical, chemical, or biological means or by a combination of these methods.

(k) "Point source" means any discernible, confined, and discrete conveyance from which pollutants are or can be discharged, including any pipe, ditch, channel, tunnel, conduit, well, discrete fissure, container, rolling stock, confined animal feeding facility, landfill leachate collection system, and any vessel or other floating craft. This term shall not include the return flows from irrigated agriculture or agricultural storm water runoff.

(l) "Pretreatment permit" means a permit that is issued to a source subject to pretreatment standards and that discharges to a municipal wastewater treatment facility not having an approved pretreatment program.

(m) "Private truck-washing facility for animal wastes" means a truck-washing facility for animal wastes that exists primarily for the purpose of washing animal wastes from trucks or trailers owned by the facility.

(n) "Sewage" has the meaning specified in K.S.A. 65-164, and amendments thereto.

(o) "Storm water discharge" means any discharge of storm water runoff from a point source. This term may include any of the following:

(1) Storm water runoff from a municipal, industrial, or commercial facility or from a construction site;

(2) a discharge from any conveyance or system of conveyances used for collecting and conveying storm water runoff; or

(3) a system of discharges from municipal storm sewers that are separate from sanitary sewers.

(p) "Treated cooling water discharge" means cooling water discharged from any system in which there is no contact with process pollutants and there is no measured chemical buildup other than chemicals added for biological or corrosion control, or from evaporative losses.

(q) "Truck-washing facility for animal wastes" means a truck-washing facility that exists primarily for the purpose of washing animal wastes from trucks or trailers.

Kan. Admin. Regs. § 28-16-56c

Authorized by and implementing K.S.A. 2003 Supp. 65-171d; effective Sept. 27, 1996; amended March 16, 2007.