New York Codes, Rules and Regulations
Title 6 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION
Chapter X - DIVISION OF WATER RESOURCES
Subchapter B - CLASSES AND STANDARDS OF QUALITY AND PURITY ASSIGNED TO FRESH SURFACE AND TIDAL SALT WATERS
Article 1 - ALLEGHENY RIVER DRAINAGE BASIN SERIES
Part 802 - ALLEGHENY RIVER DRAINAGE BASIN
Section 802.2 - Definitions and conditions

(a) Item number as appearing in table I is a consecutively assigned number for each of the specifically designated portions of the streams.

(b) Waters index number as appearing in table I shall mean that number which has been applied to any specifically designated waters which appear on the maps set forth in section 802.6, infra.

(c) Name as appearing in table I shall mean the name by which the specifically designated waters are generally known and which name appears on the reference maps. In cases of specifically designated waters which have no name, the named tributary to which the unnamed waters are tributary is indicated so far as possible.

(d) Description as appearing in table I shall mean a brief indication as to location of the specifically designated waters so that by reference to reference maps such waters may be located without specific reference to their waters index numbers. Entries under column headed "Description" also include designations of sections of a stream to which a particular assignment of a class and standards shall apply.

(e) Map Ref. No.

The numbers appearing in table I under this heading designate the following maps which have been reproduced completely or in part in section 802.6, infra.

(f) Class as appearing in table I, as the letters AA, B or C opposite each specifically designated waters, means class AA, B or C, as the case may be, as set forth in Part 701, supra.

(g) Standards as appearing in table I, as the letters AA, B or C opposite each specifically designated waters, shall mean the standards of quality and purity estab lished for class AA, B or C, as the case may be, as set forth in Part 701, supra. The sumbol (T) after any class designation shall mean that the designated waters are trout waters and that the dissolved oxygen specification for trout waters shall apply thereto. The symbol (TS) after any class designation shall mean that the designated waters are suitable for trout spawning and that the dissolved oxygen specification for trout spawning waters shall apply hereto.

(h) Tributary or tributaries. Tributary shall mean any stream, lake, pond or other body or surface water which flows into any other stream, lake, pond or other body of surface water. In the table under column headed "Waters Index Number" where no tributaries are mentioned, the specifically designated waters shall include only the stream, pond or other body of water designated by such waters index number; where tributaries are mentioned after the waters index number, the specifically designated waters shall include the stream, pond or other body of water designated by such waters index number and all tributaries and subtributaries thereof which are shown on the reference maps, unless exceptions are expressly stated.

(i) All streams or other bodies of water which appear as lines, to indicate natural waters, on the reference maps herein, and which are not specifically designated in table I, shall be assigned the same classes and standards of quality and purity as the specifically designated waters to which they are directly tributary.

(j) All streams or other bodies of water which are not shown on the reference maps herein shall be assigned to class D, as set forth in Part 701, supra, except that any continuous flowing natural stream which is not shown on the reference maps shall have the same classification and assigned standards as the waters to which it is directly tributary.

(k) The Allegheny River drainage basin shall be deemed to include the following areas: all land and water areas, the natural surface water drainage from which is directly or indirectly tributary to Allegheny River, within the boundaries of New York State, except Conewango Creek, French Creeks and Brokenstraw Creeks, and Olean Creek.

(l) The term trout as used in this Part means any fish in the following genera: Coregonus, Oncorhyncus, Prosopium, Salmo, Salvelinus and Thymallus.