New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 7 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Chapter 14D - DETERMINATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFIT OF THE REUSE OF FURTHER TREATED EFFLUENT IN INDUSTRIAL FACILITIES
Subchapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
Section 7:14D-1.2 - Definitions

When used in this chapter, the following words and terms have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.

"Applicant" means the person who purchases treatment equipment or conveyance equipment on behalf of an industrial facility and who submits an application to the Department for a determination of environmental benefit under this chapter.

"Conveyance equipment" means any equipment, including, but not limited to, pipes, pumps and/or other appurtenances, that is used exclusively to transport effluent to the facility in which the treatment equipment has been or is to be installed and any equipment that is used exclusively to transport further treated effluent to an industrial facility for reuse in an industrial process. This does not include any conveyance equipment used to transport wastewater.

"Department" means the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.

"DEB" means the determination of environmental benefit issued by the Department under this chapter.

"Effluent" means the liquid that results from treatment by either a domestic or an industrial wastewater treatment facility in accordance with a New Jersey Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NJPDES) permit issued under N.J.A.C. 7:14A.

"Further treated effluent" means effluent that is subjected to additional treatment for the purpose of reusing the effluent in an industrial process.

"Industrial facility" means a facility where an industrial process takes place.

"Industrial process" means any manufacturing process including, but not limited to, such processes as power generation, paper production and oil refining. An industrial process does not include recreational activities, such as dust control at athletic fields.

"Person" means an individual, corporation, partnership or owner or operator of an industrial facility or an agent or employee thereof. "Person" shall also mean a responsible official.

"Pollutant" means pollutant as that term is defined in the New Jersey Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NJPDES) rules at 7:14A-1.2.

"Responsible official" means one of the following:

1. For a corporation:

i. A president, secretary, treasurer or vice-president of the corporation, who is in charge of a principal business function;

ii. Any other person who performs similar policy or decision-making functions for the corporation; or

iii. A duly authorized representative of the person in 1i or 1ii above, if the representative is responsible for the overall operation of one or more manufacturing, production, or operating facilities applying for the determination of environmental benefit, and either:

(1) The facilities, for which the representative is responsible, employ more than 250 persons or have gross annual sales or expenditures exceeding $ 25 million (in second quarter 1980 dollars); or

(2) The delegation of authority to the representative is approved in writing in advance by the Department; or

2. For a partnership or sole proprietorship: a general partner or the proprietor, respectively.

"Treatment equipment" means any equipment that is used exclusively to treat effluent from a wastewater treatment facility, which effluent would otherwise have been legally discharged into waters of the State, for purposes of reuse in an industrial process.

"Wastewater" means untreated liquid waste from either a domestic or an industrial source. For purposes of this chapter, wastewater also includes the wastewater that results from the reuse of further treated effluent in an industrial process.

"Wastewater treatment facility" means a facility that treats wastewater to reduce the levels of pollutants contained in the wastewater.