{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-2-2-2a-2","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 2, § 2-2A-2","heading":"Definitions","body":"As used in the Oklahoma Agriculture Pollutant Discharge\n\nElimination System Act:\n\n1. “Administrative hearing”, “administrative permit hearing”,\n\n“enforcement hearing” and “administrative enforcement hearing” mean\n\na quasi-judicial individual proceeding, held by the Oklahoma\n\nDepartment of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry, when authorized by\n\nthe provisions of the Oklahoma Agricultural Code, and conducted\n\npursuant to:\n\na. the Administrative Procedures Act,\n\nb. the Oklahoma Agricultural Code, and\n\nc. rules promulgated thereunder;\n\n2. “Administrative Procedures Act” means the Oklahoma\n\nAdministrative Procedures Act;\n\n3. “Director” means the individual appointed by the\n\nCommissioner to perform the duties identified in Section 6 of this\n\nact;\n\n4. “Discharge” includes, but is not limited to, a discharge of\n\na pollutant or pollutants and means any addition of any pollutant to\n\nwaters of the state from any point or nonpoint source regulated by\n\nthe Department within its areas of environmental jurisdiction;\n\n5. “Disposal system” means pipelines or conduits, pumping\n\nstations and force mains, and all other devices, construction,\n\nappurtenances, and facilities used for collecting, conducting, or\n\ndisposing of wastewater and treatment systems;\n\n6. “Effluent limitation” means any established restriction\n\nimposed by the Department on quantities, rates, and concentrations\n\nof chemical, physical, biological, and other constituents that are\n\ndischarged from point sources into waters of the state and includes\n\nschedules of compliance;\n\n7. “Environment” includes the air, land, wildlife, and waters\n\nof the state;\n\n8. “Formal public meeting” means a formal public forum, held by\n\nthe Department when authorized by the provisions of the Oklahoma\n\nAgricultural Code, and conducted by a presiding officer pursuant to\n\nthe requirements of the Oklahoma Agricultural Code and rules\n\npromulgated thereunder, at which an opportunity is provided for the\n\npresentation of oral comments made and written views submitted\n\nwithin reasonable time limits as determined by the presiding\n\nofficer. Public meeting shall mean a “public hearing” when held\n\npursuant to requirements of the Code of Federal Regulations or the\n\nOklahoma Agriculture Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Act. A\n\npublic meeting shall not be a quasi-judicial proceeding;\n\n9. “Nonpoint source” means the contamination of the environment\n\nwith a pollutant for which the specific point of origin may not be\n\nwell-defined and includes, but is not limited to, agricultural storm\n\nwater runoff and return flows from irrigated agriculture;\n\n10. “Point source” means any discernible, confined, and\n\ndiscrete conveyance including, but not limited to, any pipe, ditch,\n\nchannel, tunnel, conduit, well, discrete fissure, container, rolling\n\nstock, or concentrated animal feeding operation, from which\n\npollutants or wastes are or may be discharged and which is within\n\nthe Department’s environmental jurisdiction. The term “point\n\nsource” shall not include agricultural storm water discharges and\n\nreturn flows from irrigated agriculture;\n\n11. “Pollutant” means dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator\n\nresidue, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes,\n\nbiological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or\n\ndiscarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt and industrial,\n\nmunicipal, and agricultural waste discharged into waters of the\n\nstate;\n\n12. “Pollution” means the presence or the release in the\n\nenvironment of any substance, contaminant or pollutant, any other\n\nalteration of the physical, chemical or biological properties of the\n\nenvironment, the release of any liquid, gaseous or solid substance\n\ninto the environment:\n\na. in quantities which are or will likely create a\n\nnuisance, or\n\nb. in quantities which render or will likely render the\n\nenvironment harmful, detrimental, or injurious to\nenvironment of any substance, contaminant or pollutant, any other\n\nalteration of the physical, chemical or biological properties of the\n\nenvironment, the release of any liquid, gaseous or solid substance\n\ninto the environment:\n\na. in quantities which are or will likely create a\n\nnuisance, or\n\nb. in quantities which render or will likely render the\n\nenvironment harmful, detrimental, or injurious to\n\npublic health, safety or welfare, or to domestic,\n\ncommercial, industrial, agricultural, recreational, or\n\nother legitimate beneficial uses, or to livestock,\n\nwild animals, birds, fish or other aquatic life, or to\n\nproperty;\n\n13. “Schedule of compliance” means a schedule of remedial\n\nmeasures including, but not limited to, an enforceable sequence of\n\nactions or operations leading to compliance with an effluent\n\nlimitation, other limitation, prohibition, or standard;\n\n14. “Serious bodily injury” means bodily injury which involves\n\na substantial risk of death, unconsciousness, extreme physical pain,\n\nprotracted and obvious disfigurement, or protracted loss or\n\nimpairment of the function of a bodily member, organ, or mental\n\nfaculty;\n\n15. “Storm water” means rainwater runoff, snow melt runoff, and\n\nsurface runoff and drainage;\n\n16. “Treatment works” means any facility within the\n\nDepartment’s jurisdictional areas of environmental responsibility,\n\nas specified in Section 1-3-101 of Title 27A of the Oklahoma\n\nStatutes used for the purpose of treating or stabilizing waste or\n\nwaste water that does not discharge directly to a publicly owned\n\ntreatment works; and\n\n17. “Waters of the state” means all streams, lakes, ponds,\n\nmarshes, watercourses, waterways, wells, springs, irrigation\n\nsystems, drainage systems, storm sewers and all other bodies or\n\naccumulations of water, surface and underground, natural or\n\nartificial, public or private, which are contained within, flow\n\nthrough or border upon this state or any portion thereof, and shall\n\ninclude under all circumstances the waters of the United States\n\nwhich are contained within the boundaries of, flow through or border\n\nupon this state or any portion thereof. Provided, waste treatment\n\nsystems, including treatment ponds and lagoons designed to meet\n\nfederal and state requirements other than cooling ponds as defined\n\nin the federal Clean Water Act or promulgated rules, are not waters\n\nof the state.","path":["OK Code","Title 2"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os2.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"f4bb618f2c82237b6d7f90a6523a8b229807b7d3bd9e254bea8ee990299704a4","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-2-2-2a-10","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-2-2-2a-21"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}