1. (a) “7Q10” means “7Q10” as defined in RSA 485-A:2, XXIV, as reprinted in appendix B.
2. (b) “Administratively complete” means that the application contains all items and information required by the applicable provisions in Env-Wq 301.
3. (c) “Biochemical oxygen demand (BOD)” means a measurement of the amount of oxygen used by the decomposition of organic material in a wastewater sample over a 5-day period.
4. (d) “Bypass” means bypass as defined in RSA 485-A:2, XVII, as reprinted in appendix B.
5. (e) “Department” means “department” as defined in RSA 485-A:2, III, as reprinted in appendix B.
6. (f) “Discharge” means the addition, introduction, leaking, spilling, or emitting of a pollutant to surface waters of the state, whether done intentionally, unintentionally, negligently, or otherwise.
7. (g) “Effluent limitations” means any restriction(s) imposed by the department, pursuant to RSA 485-A, or by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), pursuant to 40 CFR Parts 122 or 125, on quantities, discharge rates, characteristics, or concentrations of pollutants that are discharged to surface waters of the state.
8. (h) “Existing uses” means those uses actually attained in the water body on or after November 28, 1975, whether or not they are included in Env-Wq 1700. The term does not include assimilation or transport of pollutants.
9. (i) “Harmonic mean flow” means the number of daily stream flow measurements divided by the sum of the reciprocals of the daily stream flows.
10. (j) “Industrial waste” means “industrial waste” as defined in RSA 485-A: 2, VI, as reprinted in appendix B.
11. (k) “Municipality” means a city or town.
12. (l) “Operator in responsible charge” means the operator who oversees the daily operation of the wastewater treatment facility and is ultimately accountable for decisions involving all plant operational duties, including maintenance of process equipment, laboratory work, equipment operation, administration, process control, record keeping, and reporting, necessary for the wastewater treatment plant to comply with applicable federal and state requirements.
13. (m) “Other waste” means “other waste” as defined in RSA 485-A:2, VIII, as reprinted in appendix B.
14. (n) “Person” means “person” as defined in RSA 485-A:2, IX, as reprinted in appendix B.
15. (o) “pH” means a measure of the hydrogen ion concentration in a solution, expressed as the logarithm to the base 10, of the reciprocal of the hydrogen ion concentration in gram moles per liter.
16. (p) “Point source” means a discernible, confined, and discrete conveyance from which pollutants are or might be discharged. The term includes but is not limited to a pipe, ditch, channel, tunnel, conduit, well, discrete fissure, container, rolling stock, concentrated animal feeding operation, or vessel or other floating craft. The term does not include return flows from irrigated agriculture.
17. (q) “Pollutant” means any dredged material, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage, filter backwash, garbage, sewage sludge, septage, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials, genetically engineered or altered materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, soil, or any other industrial, commercial, municipal, or agricultural waste or any other substance in concentrations or amounts that, when in contact with surface waters, could create a nuisance or render such waters harmful, detrimental, or injurious to public health, safety, or welfare, to plant, animal, or aquatic life, or to other designated or existing uses.
18. (r) “Receiving water” means the surface waters into which pollutants are or may be discharged.
19. (s) “Sewage” means sewage as defined in RSA 485-A:2, X, as reprinted in appendix B.
20. (t) “Surface waters” means “surface waters of the state” as defined in RSA 485-A:2, XIV as reprinted in appendix B, wetlands that are subject to regulation under RSA 482-A, and “waters of the United States” as defined in 40 CFR §122.2 that are within the jurisdiction of the state. The term does not include non-tidal drainage ditches that were designed, built, and used to convey wastewater or stormwater. The term also does not include constructed wetlands, cooling ponds, lagoons, and other treatment systems designed and built solely as wastewater or stormwater treatment systems, provided such facilities were not initially constructed in surface waters of the state or were not constructed to serve other mitigation purposes.
21. (u) “Tidal waters” means those portions of the Atlantic Ocean within the jurisdiction of the state, and other surface waters subject to the rise and fall of the tide.
22. (v) “Upset” means “upset” as defined in RSA 485-A:2, XVIII, as reprinted in appendix B.
23. (w) “Wastewater facilities” means “wastewater facilities” as defined in RSA 485-A:2, XIX, as reprinted in appendix B.
24. (x) “Wastewater treatment plant” means “wastewater treatment plant” as defined in RSA 485-A:2, XVI-a, as reprinted in appendix B.
25. (y) “Wetland” means “wetlands” as defined by RSA 482-A:2, X, as reprinted in appendix B.

Source. (See Revision Note at part heading for Env-Wq 301) #10348, eff 5-22-13; ss by #13613, eff 5-22-23