[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 32, Volume 4]
[Revised as of July 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 32CFR650.53]

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                       TITLE 32--NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
              CHAPTER V--DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY (CONTINUED)
 
PART 650--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND ENHANCEMENT (AR 200-1)--Table of Contents
 
                  Subpart C--Water Resources Management
 
Sec. 650.53  Explanation of terms.

    (a) National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES). The 
system for issuing and conditioning permits under a schedule of 
compliance and denying permits for the discharge of pollutants from 
point sources into the navigable waters, which is administered by the 
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency pursuant to 
sections 402 and 405 of Pub. L. 92-500. The following additional terms 
have the following meanings with respect to the NPDES program and the 
FWPCA:
    (1) Pollutant. Solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage, garbage, 
sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials, 
radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, 
cellar dirt, and industrial, municipal, and agricultural waste discharge 
into water. It does not mean ``sewage from vessels.''
    (2) Point source. Any discernible, confined and discrete conveyance, 
including but not limited to any pipe, ditch, channel, tunnel, conduit, 
well, discrete fissure, container, rolling stock, concentrated animal 
feeding operation, or vessel or other floating craft, from which 
pollutants are or may be discharged.
    (3) Discharge of a pollutant. Any addition of any pollutant to 
navigable waters from any point source.
    (4) Permit. Any permit or equivalent document or requirement issued 
by the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate the disposal of 
pollutants.
    (5) Schedule of compliance. A schedule of remedial measures 
including sequence of actions or operations leading to compliance with 
an effluent limitation, other limitation, prohibition, or standard.
    (6) Navigable waters. All navigable waters of the United States (33 
CFR part 329); tributaries of navigable waters of the United States; 
interstate waters; intrastate lakes, rivers, and streams which are 
utilized by interstate travelers for recreational or other purposes; 
intrastate lakes, rivers, and streams from which fish or shellfish are 
taken and sold in interstate commerce; and intrastate lakes, rivers, and 
streams which are utilized for industrial purposes by industries in 
interstate commerce.
    (b) Treatment works. Any facility, method or system for the storage, 
treatment, recycling, or reclamation of municipal sewage or industrial 
wastes of a liquid nature, including waste in combined storm water and 
sanitary sewer systems.
    (c) Material into ocean waters. Matter of any kind or description, 
but not limited to solid waste, incinerator residue,

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garbage, sewage, sewage sludge, munitions, radiological, chemical, and 
biological warfare agents, radioactive materials, chemicals, biological 
and laboratory waste, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, 
excavation debris, and industrial, municipal, agricultural, and other 
waste. It does not mean oil of any kind or in any form, including, but 
not limited to, petroleum, fuel oil, sludge, oil refuse, and oil mixed 
with wastes other than dredge material and does not mean sewage from 
vessels including human body wastes and wastes from toilets and other 
receptacles intended to receive or retain body wastes.
    (d) Ocean waters. Those waters of the open seas lying seaward of the 
baseline from which the territorial sea is measured, as provided for in 
the Convention on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone (15 UST 
1606; TIAS 5639).
    (e) Dredged material. Any material excavated or dredged from 
navigable waters.
    (f) Fill material. Any material deposited or discharged into 
navigable waters which may result in creating fastlands or other planned 
elevations of lands beneath navigable waters of the United States.
    (g) Marine sanitation devices. The following definitions apply to 
Marine Sanitation Devices:
    (1) Marine sanitation device (MSD). Any equipment for installation 
in a vessel which is designated to receive, retain, treat or discharge 
sewage, and any process to treat sewage. Four types of marine sanitation 
devices are defined:
    (i) Type I. A ``flow-through'' MSD certified by a DOD Component or 
the US Coast Guard as being capable of producing an effluent with a 
fecal coliform bacterial count of not more than 1,000 per 100 
milliliters and no visible floating solids.
    (ii) Type II. A ``flow-through'' MSD certified by a DOD Component or 
the US Coast Guard as being capable of producing an effluent with a 
fecal coliform baterial count of not more than 200 per 100 milliliters 
and total suspended solids of not more than 150 milligrams per liter.
    (iii) Type III-A. A ``nonflow-through'' MSD which is designed to 
treat and hold the treated sewage. This type would include reduced-flush 
devices which ultimately evaporate or incinerate the sewage to a sterile 
sludge or ash.
    (iv) Type III-B. A collection, holding, and transfer (CHT) system, 
consisting of: Drain piping, holding tanks, pumps, valves, connectors, 
and other equipment used to collect and hold shipboard sewage waste for 
subsequent transfer to a shore sewage system, sewage barge, or for 
overboard discharge in unrestricted waters. Also known as Type III-B 
MSD.
    (2) Flow-through device. Any marine sanitation device (Type I or 
Type II) which discharges treated sewage waste overboard.
    (3) Nonflow-through device. Any marine sanitation device (Type III) 
which collects, holds and/or treats sewage or holds the untreated or 
treated sewage onboard for disposal in legal areas or for transfer to 
proper shore facilities. This type includes those devices which collect, 
evaporate or incinerate the sewage to a sterile sludge or ash, as well 
as collection and holding systems.
    (4) Vessel. Every ship or watercraft or other artificial contrivance 
used, or capable of being used, as a means of transportation on the 
navigable waters of the United States.
    (5) Vessels owned and/or operated by the US Army. Those vessels 
owned by or bareboat chartered to the US Army.
    (6) New vessel. Any vessel on which first construction was initiated 
on or after April 1, 1976.
    (7) Existing vessel. Any vessel on which first construction was 
initiated prior to April 1, 1976.
    (8) Sewage. Human body wastes and wastes from toilets or other 
receptacles intended to receive human body wastes.
    (9) Discharge. Includes, but is not limited to, any spillings, 
leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, or dumping.
    (10) Fresh water lakes, reservoirs, and impoundments. Fresh water 
bodies whose inlets or outlets prevent the ingress or egress of vessels 
subject to this regulation; rivers not capable of interstate navigation 
by vessels subject to this regulation.

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