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<section article="gen" article_name="Environment" number="9-301" title_number="9" title_name="Water, Ice, and Sanitary Facilities" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Water Pollution Control">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Board” means the Water Science Advisory Board.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“CAFO” means a concentrated animal feeding operation, as defined in Department regulations.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“Discharge permit” means a permit issued by the Department for the discharge of any pollutant or combination of pollutants into the waters of this State.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>“Drinking water treatment facility” means a facility that is used to treat water in a public water system.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>“Person” includes the federal government, this State, any county, municipal corporation, or other political subdivision of this State, or any of their units.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>“Public water system” has the meaning stated in § 9–401 of this title.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>“Reclaimed water” means sewage that:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Has been treated to a high quality suitable for various reuses; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Has a concentration of less than:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>3 fecal coliform colonies per 100 milliliters;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>10 milligrams per liter of 5–day biological oxygen demand; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>10 milligrams per liter of total suspended solids.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="i">
    <text>“Reservoir augmentation” means the planned placement of reclaimed water into a surface water reservoir used as a source for a drinking water treatment facility.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="j">
    <text>“Reservoir augmentation permit” means a permit issued by the Department for reservoir augmentation.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="k">
    <text>“Sewage” means any human or animal excretion, domestic waste, or industrial waste.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="l">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Sewerage system” means:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The channels used or intended to be used to collect and dispose of sewage; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Any structure and appurtenance used or intended to be used to collect or prepare sewage for discharge into the waters of this State.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Sewerage system” includes any sewer of any size.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>“Sewerage system” does not include the plumbing system inside any building served by the sewerage system.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
