5 Colo. Code Regs. § 1002-52.2

Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 11, June 10, 2024

Section 5 CCR 1002-52.2 - DEFINITIONS

Section 11.3 of the Colorado Primary Drinking Water Regulations 5 CCR 1002-11, contains additional definitions that apply to this rule.

(1) "Beneficial Use" - The use of water treatment plant residuals to act as a soil conditioner or low grade fertilizer for the promotion of vegetative growth on land or to be used in commercial construction or industrial applications, and that meet the requirements of the state Biosolids Regulations.

(2) "Consolidation and Regionalization Project" - A proposed new construction or expansion of a drinking water supply system that will eliminate one or more existing water supply or treatment works. A letter of intent or a resolution adopted by the project participants must be provided to the Water Quality Control Division (Division) to guarantee the facilities will consolidate.

(3) "Governmental Agencies" - Departments, divisions, or other units of state government, special districts, water conservation districts, metropolitan water districts, conservancy districts, irrigation districts, municipal corporations, counties, cities and other political subdivisions, the United States or any agency thereof, and any agency, commission, or authority established pursuant to an interstate compact or agreement.

(4) "Health Hazard" - A situation where the Division has identified a waterborne disease outbreak primary maximum contaminant level (MCL) violation, violation of the Surface Water Treatment Rule (SWTR), a treatment technique violation, or significant deficiencies from an approved sanitary survey as defined in the Colorado Primary Drinking Water Regulations. Funding for projects that address an existing or potential health hazard must result in compliance with existing standards and regulations.

(5) "Pollution" - The man made, man induced, or natural alteration of the physical, chemical, biological, and radiological integrity of water.

(6) "Private Nonprofit Entity" - A private nonprofit corporation with perpetual duration and in good standing, which is formed and operated in Colorado pursuant to the requirements of the Colorado Revised Nonprofit Corporation Act, and which files federal and state tax returns as a nonprofit corporation.

(7) "Project Eligibility List" - The list of projects eligible for financial assistance from the Authority through the Drinking Water Revolving Fund (DWRF), as adopted and modified in accordance with Section 37 95 107.8(4), C.R.S.

(8) "Projected Loan List" - The list of projects that has been partially scored in accordance with the criteria described in the Intended Use Plan. This list represents those projects that are reasonably anticipated to receive a binding commitment for a loan in the DWRF program. Projects may be moved from the Project Eligibility List to the Projected Loan List at any time during the year.

(9) "Public Water System" (PWS) - A system for the provision to the public of piped water for human consumption through pipes or other constructed conveyances, if such system has at least fifteen service connections or regularly serves at least twenty-five individuals daily at least 60 days per year. Such term includes:

(a) Any collection, treatment, storage, and distribution facilities under control of the supplier of such system and used primarily in connection with such system; and

(b) Any collection or pretreatment storage facilities not under such control, which are used primarily in connection with such system.

(10) "Source Water Protection" - Structural or nonstructural source water protection activities done in addition to area delineation and contaminant assessment.

(11) "Sustainability Projects" - Projects and/or planning methodologies that promote sustainable drinking water systems through effective utility management and capacity development to improve the technical, financial, and managerial capacities of public water systems, as well as those that promote the conservation of natural resources, alternative approaches such as natural or "green" systems, innovative approaches and technologies, and the full life-cycle costs on infrastructure investments.

(12) "Treatment Facilities" - Any devices or systems used in the collection, storage, treatment, transmission, diversion, or distribution of water intended for drinking water purposes.

(13) "Water Conservation" - Any structural or nonstructural water conservation measure that achieves a reduction in water consumption for a PWS or a publicly owned treatment works. Structural measures shall include installation of interior low-flow plumbing fixtures that are distributed and/or installed by a governmental agency or private nonprofit entity or that are funded in whole or in part by the governmental agency or private nonprofit entity and water meters that are funded and owned by the governmental agency or private nonprofit entity. Nonstructural measures shall include but are not necessarily limited to: incentives for previously installed low-flow fixtures, leak detection or infiltration/inflow programs, public awareness, public education, and incentive water service charges.

(14) "Water Treatment Plant Residuals" - The accumulated solids, sludge, backwash water, and brine resulting from treatment of water for domestic use.

(15) "Waterborne Disease Outbreak" - The significant occurrence of acute infectious illness, epidemiologically associated with the ingestion of water from a public water system which is deficient in treatment, as determined by the appropriate local or State agency.

5 CCR 1002-52.2

38 CR 17, September 10, 2015, effective 9/30/2015