5 Colo. Code Regs. § 1002-74.2
Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 11, June 10, 2024
Section 5 CCR 1002-74.2 - DEFINITIONS1. "Association" means the Bear Creek Watershed Association formed by intergovernmental agreement and by-laws, and consisting of general purpose governments, Title 32 Districts outside incorporated areas, and permitted industry, corporations, proprietorships, and agencies or other appropriate entities within the Bear Creek Watershed.2. "Bear Creek Watershed" includes Bear Creek and all tributaries, Turkey Creek and all tributaries, and Bear Creek Reservoir in Jefferson County. The Bear Creek Watershed extends into Clear Creek and Park Counties, Colorado. The watershed area is delineated in Figure 1 attached to this regulation. 3. "Best Management Practices (BMPs)" means best methods, measures, prohibitions or practices, schedule of activities, operation and maintenance procedures, and other management practices to prevent or reduce the introduction of pollutants into state waters. Best Management Practices include, but are not limited to, structural and nonstructural controls or policies. Such practices can be applied before, during, and after pollution-producing activities to reduce or eliminate the introduction of pollutants into receiving waters. 4. "Commission" means the Colorado Water Quality Control Commission created by section 25-8-201 of the Colorado Water Quality Control Act.5. "Districts" means all special districts in the Bear Creek Watershed who provide water and/or wastewater service, and operate a treatment facility.6. "Division" means the Water Quality Control Division of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, with specific powers and duties defined in the Colorado Water Quality Control Act. 7. "Effluent Limitation" means any restriction or prohibition established pursuant to this regulation, the Water Quality Control Act, or the federal Clean Water Act on quantities, rates, and concentrations of chemical, physical, biological, and other constituents which are discharged from point sources into state waters, including but not limited to standards of performance for new sources, toxic effluent standards, and schedules of compliance. 8. "Individual Sewage Disposal or Onsite System" means an absorption system or a system or facility for treating, neutralizing, stabilizing, or disposing of sewage which is not a part of or connected to a wastewater treatment works, with a designed treatment capacity of less than 2,000 gallons per day. For purposes of this regulation, onsite systems in the Bear Creek Watershed are classified as nonpoint sources.9. "Land Application" is any discharge applied to the land for land disposal or land treatment and does not include a discharge to surface waters even if such waters are subsequently diverted and applied to the land.10. "Land disposal" is any discharge of pollutant containing waters being applied to land for which no further treatment is intended.11. "Land treatment" is any discharge of pollutant containing waters being applied to land for the purpose of treatment.12. "Management Plan" means the Bear Creek Watershed Association Management Plan developed by the Association, local governments, citizens, state agencies, federal agencies, and the Denver Regional Council of Governments in a cooperative effort to assess and improve water quality in Bear Creek Watershed.13. "Nonpoint Source" means for the purpose of this regulation diffuse sources of pollution that are not regulated as a point source and normally are associated with impacts from agriculture, silviculture, urban runoff, construction activities, inactive or abandoned mines, and individual sewage disposal systems.14. "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, concentrated animal feeding operation, vessel or other floating craft from which pollutants are or may be discharged. "Point Source" includes conveyances of regulated stormwater. "Point Source" does not include irrigation return flows.15. "Reserve Pool" consists of wasteload allocation total phosphorus pounds available to wastewater treatment facilities that may be awarded by the Division to those facilities in Bear Creek Watershed pursuant to section 74.3.16. "Stormwater" means stormwater runoff, snowmelt runoff, and surface runoff and drainage.17. "Trading Program" means the program managed by the Association and Division for phosphorus trading in the Bear Creek Watershed.18. "Wasteload Allocation" means the portion of receiving water's assimilative capacity that is allocated to a specific point source(s) of pollution.19. "Wastewater Treatment Facility" means a system or facility for treating, neutralizing, stabilizing, or disposing of domestic wastewater, which system or facility has a designed capacity to receive more than two thousand gallons per day of domestic wastewater. T he term "Wastewater Treatment Facility" also includes appurtenances to such system or facility, such as outfall sewers and pumping stations, and equipment related to such appurtenances.