[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 40, Volume 21]

[Revised as of July 1, 2006]

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.