Conn. Agencies Regs. § 22a-39-2

Current through May 9, 2024

Section 22a-39-2 - Definitions

Definitions, as used in these regulations:

1. "The Act" means Sections 22a-36 to 45 inclusive of the General Statutes, as amended;

2. "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the Department of Environmental Protection;

3. "Department" means the Department of Environmental Protection;

4. "Deposit" includes, but shall not be limited to fill, grade, dump, place, discharge or emit;

5. "Discharge" means the emission of any water, substance or material into waters of the State of Connecticut whether or not such substance causes pollution;

6. "License" means the whole or any part of a permit, certificate of approval or similar form of permission which may be required of any person by the provisions of these regulations or the Act;

7. "Local Inland Wetlands Agency" means the agency empowered by municipal ordinance to implement and administer the Act and having jurisdiction over the inland wetlands and water courses of such municipality;

8. "Material" means any substance, solid or liquid, organic or inorganic, including but not limited to soil, sediment, aggregate, land, gravel, clay, bog, mud, debris, sand, refuse, or waste;

9. "Person" means any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company, organization or legal entity of any kind, including municipal corporations, government agencies or subdivisions thereof;

10. "Pollution" means any harmful thermal effect or the contamination or rendering unclean or impure of any wetlands or water courses of the State of Connecticut by reason of any waste or other materials discharged or deposited therein by any public or private sewer, or otherwise, so as directly or indirectly to come in contact with any wetlands or water courses;

11. "Regulated activity" means any operation within or use of a wetland or water course as listed in Section 4.2 of these regulations;

12. "Regulated Area" means any wetland or water course as defined in these regulations;

13. "Remove" includes, but shall not be limited to drain, excavate, mine, dig, dredge, suck, bulldoze, dragline, or blast;

14. "Rendering unclean or impure" means any alteration of the physical, chemical or biological properties of any wetlands or water courses of the State of Connecticut, including but not limited to change in color, odor, turbidity or taste;

15. "Significant impact or major effect" means:

a. Any activity involving a deposition of material which will or may have a substantial adverse effect on the regulated area or on another part of the inland wetland or water course system or

b. Any activity involving a removal of material which will or may have a substantial adverse effect on the regulated area or on another part of the inland wetland or water course system or

c. Any activity which substantially changes the natural channel or may inhibit the natural dynamics of a water course system or

d. Any activity which substantially diminishes the natural capacity of an inland wetland or water course to support desirable biological life, prevent flooding, supply water, assimilate waste, facilitate drainage, and/or provide recreation and open space;

16. "Soil Scientist" means an individual duly qualified in accordance with standards set by the United States Civil Service Commission;

17. "Waste" means sewage or any substance, liquid, gaseous, solid or radioactive, which may pollute or tend to pollute any wetlands or water courses of the State of Connecticut;

18. "Water Courses" means rivers, streams, brooks, waterways, lakes, ponds, marshes, swamps, bogs, and all other bodies of water, natural or artificial, public or private, which are contained within, flow through or border upon the State of Connecticut or any portion thereof, not regulated pursuant to Sections 22-7h to 22-7o inclusive of the General Statutes, as amended;

19. "Wetlands" means land, including submerged land, not regulated pursuant to Sections 22-7h to 22-7o inclusive of the General Statutes, as amended, which consists of any of the soil types designated as poorly drained, very poorly drained, alluvial, and flood plain by the National Cooperative Soil Survey (as may be amended from time to time) of the U.S. Soil Conservation Service.

Conn. Agencies Regs. § 22a-39-2

Effective February 25, 1974