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 Oklahoma Statutes (Last Updated: September 18, 2014)
 Title 27A. ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES

  § 27A-2-6-202. Definitions.  

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  • For purposes of the Oklahoma Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Act:

    1.  "Discharge" includes but is not limited to a discharge of a pollutant or pollutants, and means any addition of any pollutant to waters of the state from any point source regulated by the Department of Environmental Quality;

    2.  "Effluent limitation" means any established restriction on quantities, rates, and concentrations of chemical, physical, biological, and other constituents which are discharged from point sources into waters of the state, including schedules of compliance;

    3.  "Organization" means a legal entity, other than a government, established or organized for any purpose, and such term includes a corporation, company, association, firm, partnership, joint stock company, foundation, institution, trust, society, union, or any other association of persons;

    4.  "Point source" means any discernible, confined and discrete conveyance, including but not limited to any pipe, ditch, channel, tunnel, conduit, well, discrete fissure, container, rolling stock, or vessel or other floating craft, from which pollutants or wastes are or may be discharged.  The term "point source" does not include agricultural stormwater discharges and return flows from irrigated agriculture;

    5.  "Pretreatment" means the reduction of the amount of pollutants, or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties in wastewater prior to or in lieu of discharging or otherwise introducing into a treatment works;

    6.  "Schedule of compliance" means a schedule of remedial measures including but not limited to an enforceable sequence of actions or operations leading to compliance with an effluent limitation, other limitation, prohibition, or standard;

    7.  "Serious bodily injury" means bodily injury which involves a substantial risk of death, unconsciousness, extreme physical pain, protracted and obvious disfigurement, or protracted loss or impairment of the function of a bodily member, organ, or mental faculty; and

    8.  "Storm water" means rain water runoff, snow melt runoff, and surface runoff and drainage.

Added by Laws 1992, c. 398, § 14, eff. July 1, 1993.  Amended by Laws 1993, c. 145, § 63, eff. July 1, 1993.  Renumbered from § 1002 of this title by Laws 1993, c. 145, § 359, eff. July 1, 1993.