[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 40, Volume 28]
[Revised as of July 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 40CFR501.2]

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                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT
 
         CHAPTER I--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED)
 
PART 501_STATE SLUDGE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM REGULATIONS--Table of Contents
 
        Subpart A_Purpose, Scope and General Program Requirements
 
Sec. 501.2  Definitions.

    Administrator means the Administrator of the United States 
Environmental Protection Agency, or an authorized representative.
    Approved State program means a State program which has received EPA 
approval under this part.
    Class I sludge management facility means any POTW identified under 
40 CFR 403.8(a) as being required to have an approved pretreatment 
program (including such POTWs located in a State that has elected to 
assume local program responsibilities pursuant to 40 CFR 403.10(e)) and 
any other treatment works treating domestic sewage classified as a Class 
I sludge management facility by the Regional Administrator in 
conjunction with the State Program Director because of the potential for 
its sludge use or disposal practices to adversely affect public health 
or the environment.
    CWA means the Clean Water Act (formerly referred to as the Federal 
Water Pollution Control Act or Federal Water Pollution Control Act 
Amendments of 1972), Pub. L. 92-500, as amended by Pub. L. 95-217, Pub. 
L. 95-576, Pub. L.

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96-483, Pub. L. 97-117, and Pub. L. 100-4, 33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.
    Federal Indian reservation means all land within the limits of any 
Indian reservation under the jurisdiction of the United States 
Government, notwithstanding the issuance of any patent, and including 
rights-of-way running through the reservation.
    Indian Tribe means any Indian Tribe, band, group, or community 
recognized by the Secretary of the Interior and exercising governmental 
authority over a Federal Indian reservation.
    Municipality means a city, town, borough, county, parish, district, 
association, or other public body (including an intermunicipal agency of 
two or more of the foregoing entities) created under State law (or an 
Indian tribe or an authorized Indian tribal organization), or a 
designated and approved management agency under section 208 of the Clean 
Water Act. This definition includes a special district created under 
State law such as a water district, sewer district, sanitary district, 
utility district, drainage district, or similar entity, or an integrated 
waste management facility as defined in section 201(e) of the CWA, as 
amended, that has as one of its principal responsibilities the 
treatment, transport, or disposal of sewage sludge.
    Permit means an authorization, license, or equivalent control 
document issued by EPA or an ``approved State program'' to implement the 
requirements of this part.
    Person is an individual, association, partnership, corporation, 
municipality, State or Federal Agency, or an agent or employee thereof.
    POTW means a publicly owned treatment works.
    Publicly owned treatment works means a treatment works treating 
domestic sewage that is owned by a municipality or State.
    Septage means the liquid and solid material pumped from a septic 
tank, cesspool, or similar domestic sewage treatment system, or a 
holding tank, when the system is cleaned or maintained.
    Sewage sludge means any solid, semi-solid, or liquid residue removed 
during the treatment of municipal waste water or domestic sewage. Sewage 
sludge includes, but is not limited to, solids removed during primary, 
secondary or advanced waste water treatment, scum, septage, portable 
toilet pumpings, Type III Marine Sanitation device pumpings (33 CFR part 
159), and sewage sludge products. Sewage sludge does not include grit, 
screenings, or ash generated during the incineration of sewage sludge.
    Standards for sewage sludge use or disposal means the regulations 
promulgated at 40 CFR part 503 pursuant to section 405(d) of the CWA 
which govern minimum requirements for sludge quality, management 
practices, and monitoring and reporting applicable to the generation or 
treatment of sewage sludge from a treatment works treating domestic 
sewage or use or disposal of that sewage sludge by any person.
    State means a State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of 
Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Trust 
Territory of the Pacific Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern 
Mariana Islands, and an Indian Tribe as defined in these regulations 
which meets the requirements of Sec. 501.22.
    State Program Director or Director means the chief executive officer 
of the State sewage sludge management agency.
    State sewage sludge management agency means the agency designated by 
the Governor as having the lead responsibility for managing or 
coordinating the approved State program under this part.
    Toxic pollutant means any pollutant listed as toxic under section 
307(a)(1) or any pollutant identified in regulations implementing 
section 405(d) of the CWA.
    Treatment works treating domestic sewage means a POTW or any other 
sewage sludge or wastewater treatment devices or systems, regardless of 
ownership (including Federal facilities), used in the storage, 
treatment, recycling, and reclamation of municipal or domestic sewage, 
including land dedicated for the disposal of sewage sludge. This 
definition does not include septic tanks or similar devices. For 
purposes of this definition, ``domestic sewage'' includes waste and 
waste water from humans or household operations that are

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discharged to or otherwise enter a treatment works.
    TWTDS means treatment works treating domestic sewage.

[54 FR 18786, May 2, 1989, as amended at 58 FR 67983, Dec. 22, 1993; 63 
FR 45124, Aug. 24, 1998]