(1) "Board" means the Board of the Department of Health and Environmental Control.
(2) "Department" means the Department of Health and Environmental Control.
(3) "Dewatering operations" means an operation that is withdrawing surface water for the purpose of draining an excavation or preventing or retarding flow into an excavation. Such an operation would include, but is not limited to, water and sewer line construction and excavating for a building foundation.
(4) "Diffuse surface water" means water on the surface of the earth not located in defined courses, streams, or water bodies.
(5) "Emergency withdrawal" means the withdrawal of water, for a period not exceeding thirty days, for the purpose of firefighting, hazardous substance waste spill response, or both, or other emergency withdrawal of water as determined by the department.
(6) "Existing surface water withdrawer" means a surface water withdrawer withdrawing surface water or a proposed surface water withdrawer with its intakes under construction before January 1, 2000.
(7) "New surface water withdrawer" means a person who becomes a surface water withdrawer after December 31, 1999.
(8) "Person" means an individual, firm, partnership, association, public or private institution, municipality, or political subdivision, governmental agency, public water system, or a private or public corporation organized under the laws of this State or any other state or county.
(9) "Public water system" means a water system as defined in Section 44-55-20 of the State Safe Drinking Water Act.
(10) "Surface water" means all water, which is open to the atmosphere and subject to surface runoff which includes lakes, streams, ponds, and reservoirs.
(11) "Surface water withdrawer" means a public water system withdrawing surface water in excess of three million gallons during any one month and any other person withdrawing surface water in excess of three million gallons during any one month from a single intake or multiple intakes under common ownership within a one-mile radius from any one existing or proposed intake.