2005 Idaho Code - 39-3625 — DEFINITIONS

                                  TITLE  39
                              HEALTH AND SAFETY
                                  CHAPTER 36
                                WATER QUALITY
    39-3625.  DEFINITIONS. (1) "Sewage treatment works" means any facility for
the purpose of collecting, treating, neutralizing or stabilizing sewage or
industrial wastes of a liquid nature, including treatment by disposal plants,
the necessary intercepting, outfall and outlet sewers, pumping stations
integral to such plants or sewers, equipment and furnishings thereof and their
appurtenances.
    (2)  "Community water system" means a public drinking water system that
serves at least fifteen (15) service connections used by year-round residents
or serves at least twenty-five (25) year-round residents.
    (3)  "Nonprofit noncommunity water system" means a public drinking water
system that is not a community water system and is governed by section 501 of
the Internal Revenue Code and includes, but is not limited to: state agencies,
municipalities and nonprofit organizations such as churches and schools.
    (4)  "Construction" means the erection, building, acquisition, alteration,
reconstruction, improvement or extension of sewage treatment works or best
management practices, preliminary planning to determine the economic and
engineering feasibility of sewage treatment works, community public water
systems, nonprofit noncommunity public water systems or best management
practices, the engineering, architectural, legal, fiscal and economic
investigations, reports and studies, surveys, designs, plans, working
drawings, specifications, procedures, and other action necessary in the
construction of sewage treatment works, community public water systems,
nonprofit noncommunity public water systems or best management practices, and
the inspection and supervision of the construction of sewage treatment works,
community public water systems, nonprofit noncommunity public water systems or
best management practices.
    (5)  "Eligible construction project" means a project for construction of
sewage treatment works, community public water systems, nonprofit noncommunity
public water systems or for a project for the application of best management
practices as set forth in the approved state water quality plan, in related
project areas:
    (a)  For which approval of the Idaho board of environmental quality  is
    required under section 39-118, Idaho Code;
    (b)  Which is, in the judgment of the Idaho board of environmental
    quality, eligible for water pollution abatement assistance or for
    provision of safe drinking water, whether or not federal funds are then
    available therefor;
    (c)  Which conforms with applicable rules of the Idaho board of
    environmental quality;
    (d)  Which is, in the judgment of the Idaho board of environmental
    quality, necessary for the accomplishment of the state's policy of water
    purity as stated in section 39-3601, Idaho Code; and
    (e)  Which is needed, in the judgment of the Idaho board of environmental
    quality, to correct existing water pollution problems or public health
    hazards and to provide reasonable reserve capacity to prevent future water
    pollution problems or public health hazards or to provide for safe
    drinking water.
    (6)  "Municipality" means any county, city, special service district,
nonprofit corporation or other governmental entity having authority to dispose
of sewage, industrial wastes, or other wastes, or to provide for safe drinking
water, any Indian tribe or authorized Indian tribal organization, or any
combination of two (2) or more of the foregoing acting jointly, in connection
with an eligible project.
    (7)  "Board" means the Idaho board of environmental quality.
    (8)  "Department" means the Idaho department of environmental quality.
    (9)  "Director" means the director of the Idaho department of
environmental quality.
    (10) "Nondomestic wastewater" means wastewater whose source of
contamination is not principally human excreta.
    (11) "Best management practice" means practices, techniques or measures
identified  in the state water quality plan which are determined to be the
most effective, practicable means of preventing or reducing pollutants
generated from nonpoint sources to a level compatible with water quality
goals.
    (12) "Nonpoint source pollution" means water pollution that comes from
many varied, nonspecific and diffused sources and can be categorized by the
general land disturbing activity that causes the pollution.
    (13) "Training program" means any course of training established to
provide sewage treatment plant operating personnel and public drinking water
system personnel with increased knowledge to improve their ability to operate
and maintain sewage treatment works and public drinking water systems.