[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 40, Volume 21]
[Revised as of July 1, 2005]
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

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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.