As used in this part:

1. (1) “APC&EC” means the Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission or its successor, unless otherwise specified;

2. (2) “Class II fluids” is defined by the Oil and Gas Commission and means: “(A) Produced water and/or other fluids brought to the surface in connection with drilling, completion or fracture treatments, workover or recompletion and plugging of oil, natural gas, Class II or wells that are required to be permitted as water supply wells by the OGC; enhanced recovery operations; or natural gas storage operations, or

   1. (B) Produced water and/or other fluids from (A) above, which prior to re-injection have been used on site for purposes integrally associated with well drilling, completion or fracture treatments, workover or recompletions or plugging oil, natural gas, Class II or wells that are required to be permitted as water supply wells by the OGC; enhanced recovery operations; natural gas storage operations; or chemically treated or altered to the extent necessary to make them usable for purposes integrally related to well drilling, completion, workover or recompletions or plugging oil, natural gas, Class II or wells that are required to be permitted as water supply wells by the OGC; enhanced recovery operations; natural gas storage operations, or commingled with fluid wastes resulting from fluid treatments outlined above, provided the commingled fluid wastes do not constitute a hazardous waste under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, or (C) Waste fluids from gas plants (including filter backwash, precipitated sludge, iron sponge, hydrogen sulfide and scrubber liquid) which are an integral part of oil and gas production operations; and waste fluids from gas dehydration plants (including glycol-based compounds and filter backwash), unless the gas plant or gas dehydration plant wastes are classified as hazardous under the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act.”;
3. (3) “DEQ” or “Division” means the Division of Environmental Quality or its successor, unless otherwise specified;
4. (4) “Director” means the Director of the Division of Environmental Quality or the Director of the Division of Environmental Quality’s designee, unless otherwise specified;
5. (5) “OGC” means the Oil and Gas Commission or its successor;

6. (6) “Oil field waste” means salt water, other Class II fluids, crude oil, waste oil, oil sludge, oil water emulsion, or oil-bearing mixtures of any kind associated with:

   1. (A) An oil or gas well;
   2. (B) Oil or gas production facilities; or
   3. (C) Disposal systems;

7. (7) “Person” means any:

   1. (A) State agency;
   2. (B) Municipality;
   3. (C) Governmental subdivision of the state or the United States;
   4. (D) Public or private corporation;
   5. (E) Individual;
   6. (F) Partnership;
   7. (G) Association; or
   8. (H) Other entity;

8. (8) “Pollution” means contamination or other alteration of the physical, chemical, or biological properties of any waters of the state, or discharge of any liquid, gaseous, or solid substance in any waters of the state as will, or is likely to, render the waters harmful, detrimental, or injurious to:

   1. (A) Public health, safety, or welfare;
   2. (B) Domestic, commercial, industrial, agricultural, recreational, or other legitimate beneficial uses; or
   3. (C) Livestock, wild animals, birds, fish, or other aquatic life; and
9. (9) “Waters of the state” means all streams, lakes, marshes, ponds, watercourses, waterways, wells, springs, irrigation systems, drainage systems, and all other bodies or accumulations of water, surface and underground, natural or artificial, public or private, that are contained within, flow through, or border upon this state or any portion of the state.