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Okla. Stat. tit. 27A, § 27A-2-6-202: Definitions

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  2. Title 27A

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.

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