[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 40, Volume 18]
[Revised as of July 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 40CFR122.25]

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                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT
 
         CHAPTER I--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED)
 
PART 122--EPA ADMINISTERED PERMIT PROGRAMS: THE NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM--Table of Contents
 
  Subpart B--Permit Application and Special NPDES Program Requirements
 
Sec. 122.25  Aquaculture projects (applicable to State NPDES programs, see Sec. 123.25).

    (a) Permit requirement. Discharges into aquaculture projects, as 
defined in this section, are subject to the NPDES permit program through 
section 318 of CWA, and in accordance with 40 CFR part 125, subpart B.
    (b) Definitions. (1) Aquaculture project means a defined managed 
water area which uses discharges of pollutants into that designated area 
for the maintenance or production of harvestable freshwater, estuarine, 
or marine plants or animals.
    (2) Designated project area means the portions of the waters of the 
United States within which the permittee or permit applicant plans to 
confine the cultivated species, using a method or plan or operation 
(including, but not limited to, physical confinement) which, on the 
basis of reliable scientific evidence, is expected to ensure that 
specific individual organisms comprising an aquaculture crop will enjoy 
increased growth attributable to the discharge of pollutants, and be 
harvested within a defined geographic area.