W. Va. Code R. § 61-22B-2

Current through Register Vol. XLI, No. 50, December 13, 2024

Section 61-22B-2 - Definitions

2.1. "Best Management Practices" means activities, procedures and practices to prevent or remedy the introduction of fertilizer or manure residues into groundwater to the extent technically feasible and economically practical. Best Management Practices are designed to maintain the health and long-term productivity of the soil, water and related plant and animal resources and to minimize the threat of soil, waste and nutrient contamination to the waters of the state.

2.2. "Commissioner" means the commissioner of agriculture of the state of West Virginia or his or her duly authorized agent.

2.3. "Fertigation" means the application of fertilizers or manures by an irrigation system.

2.4. "Fertilizer" means any substance containing one or more recognized plant nutrients which is used for its plant nutrient content and which is designed for use or claimed to have value in promoting plant growth. The term fertilizer does not include agricultural liming materials, wood ashes, gypsum, unmanipulated animal or vegetable manures and other products exempted by regulation of the commissioner.

2.5. "Manure" means any substance composed of excreta of animals, other than man, and may include bedding or other materials normally associated with the substance as well as water associated with or added to the substance.

2.6. "Non-point source" means a diffuse source of substances that have the potential to impair the beneficial uses of groundwater resulting from activities over a relatively large area, the effects of which must normally be addressed or controlled by a management or conservation practice.

2.7. "Point source" means a source of substances that have the potential to impair the beneficial uses of groundwater resulting from an activity over a small area and generally is limited to mixing, loading and storage sites or feedlots. A source is not considered a point source until a discharge of substances occurs.

2.8. "Twenty-five (25) year twenty-four (24) hour rainfall event" means the maximum 24-hour precipitation event with a probable recurrence interval of once in twenty-five (25) years, as defined by the National Weather Service, U.S. Department of Commerce, in Technical Paper Number 40, "Rainfall Frequency Atlas of the United States", May 1961, and subsequent amendments, or equivalent regional or state rainfall probability information developed therefrom.

W. Va. Code R. § 61-22B-2