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<br />C. ADDITIONAL DEFINITIOIJS <br />• Page 18 of 19 <br />Permit No: CO-0035653 <br />The term "point source" means any discernible, confined, and discrete <br />conveyance, including but not 1-invited to any pipe, channel, ditch, <br />tunnel, conduit, well, discrete fissure, or container from which <br />pollutants are or may be discharged into waters of the Stale. <br />2. The term "mine drainage" means any water drained, pumped or siphoned <br />from a coal mine. <br />3• The term "active mining area" means a place where work or other activity <br />related to the extraction, removal-,"or recovery of coal is being conducted, <br />except, with respect to surface mines, any area of land on or in which <br />grading has been completed to return the earth to desired contour and <br />reclamation work has begun. <br />4. The term "coal mine" means an active mining area, including all land and <br />property placed upon, under or above the surface of such land, used in or <br />resulting from the work of extracting coal-'from its natural deposits by <br />any means or method, including secondary recovery of coal from refuse or <br />other storage piles derived from the mining,-cleaning, or preparation <br />of coal. <br />5• The term "coal preparation plant" means a facility where coal is crushed, <br />screened, sized, cleaned, dried, or otherwise prepared and loaded for <br />transit to a consuming facility. <br />6. The term "coal preparation plant associated areas" means the coal <br />preparation plant yards, immediate access roads, slurry ponds, drainage <br />ponds, coal refuse piles, and coal storage piles and facilities. <br />7. The term "deactivated paint" means any location previously specified <br />as a permitted discharge point, where active mining and mining related <br />activities have ceased and where grading has been completed to return <br />the earth to desired contour and reclamation work has begun. Any location <br />having been identified and classified as a "deactivated point" in writing <br />shall not be subject to any NPDES permit requirements. <br />8. The term "discharge" means any addition of any pollutant or pollutants to <br />- waters of the State, from any point source. <br />1 <br />3/81 <br /> <br />