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• County: Statewide
• Basin: Statewide
• Title: Regulation Number 61 Colorado Discharge Permit System Regulations
• Date: 4/30/1999
• Prepared For: State of Colorado
• Prepared By: Water Quality Control Commission
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Educational/Technical/Reference Information

(12) "CO-PERMITTEE" means a permittee to a permit that is only responsible for permit
conditions relating to the discharge for which it is operator.

(13) "COMPLIANCE WELL" means a well which is placed at a point of compliance. The
results of analyses of samples from compliance wells shall be used to establish compliance with
permit limitations established for protection of state waters.

(14) "CONTAMINATION" means, for purposes of section 61.13 of this regulation, the addition
of pollutants to soil or ground water that results in the impairment of water quality classifications
or exceedance of water quality standards for any waters of the state, or a reasonable potential
for any such impairment or exceedance -

(15) "CONTINUOUS DISCHARGE" means a "discharge" which occurs without interruption
throughout the operating hours of the facility, except for infrequent shutdowns for maintenance,
process changes, or other similar activities.

(16) "DESIGN CAPACITY" means the rated capacity (capability of a plant to meet existing
effluent limitations). This rated capacity shall be given in millions of gallons per day and organic
loading in pounds per day.

(17) "DETECTION WELL" means a monitoring well which is installed between a point of
compliance and the point of discharge.

(18) "DISCHARGE" means the discharge of pollutants as defined in section 25-8-103(3)
C.R.S., and also includes land application.

(19) "DIVISION" means the Water Quality Control Division ofthe Department of Public Health
and Environment.

(20) "DRAFT PERMIT' means a document prepared under these regulations indicating the
Division's decision to issue or deny, modify, revoke and reissue, terminate, or reissue a permit
and includes the "Division's preliminary analysis." A notice of intent to terminate a permit, and a
notice of intent to deny a permit, are types of draft permits. A denial of a request for
modification, revocation and reissuance, or termination is not a draft permit.

(21) "EFFLUENT LIMITATION" means any restriction or prohibition established under this
article or Federal law on quantities, rates, and concentrations of chemical, physical, biological,
and other constituents which are discharged from point sources into state waters, including, but
not limited to, standards of performance for new sources, toxic effluent standards and
schedules of compliance.

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(22) "EPA" means the United States Environmental Protection Agency.

(23) "EXISTING HOUSED COMMERCIAL SWiNE FEEDING OPERATION" means a housed
commercial swine feeding operation for which physical construction was commenced prior to
March 30, 1999.

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