a. “Commissioner” means the Commissioner of the Department of Environmental Protection or his designated representative;

b. “Department” means the Department of Environmental Protection;

c. “Licensed operator” means a licensee approved by the department holding any local title, designation, or job description who is on the premises of a system a significant amount of time, although not necessarily full-time, and who is actively involved in and responsible for the operation, maintenance, and effectiveness of the system and who holds a valid license equal or superior to that required for the system;

d. “Licensee” means a person who possesses a valid license issued by the department pursuant to this act;

e. “Industrial wastewater treatment system” means any treatment works regulated by the department pursuant to the “Water Pollution Control Act,” P.L.1977, c. 74 (C. 58:10A-1 et seq.);

f. “Operating requirements” means any and all provisions of permits or approvals, administrative orders, directives, or rules and regulations which the department may issue or adopt to insure the safe and efficient operations of systems, consistent with its statutory authority;

g. “Public wastewater collection system” means any collection system regulated by the department pursuant to the “Water Pollution Control Act,” P.L. 1977, c. 74 (C. 58:10A-1 et seq.), and which system consists of structures which, operating alone or with other structures, result in the collection and conveyance or transmission of wastewater from private, commercial, institutional or industrial sources, to public wastewater treatment systems for subsequent treatment;

h. “Public wastewater treatment system” means any structure or structures by means of which domestic, or combined domestic and industrial liquid wastes or sewage are subjected to any process in order to remove or so alter constituents as to render the wastes less offensive or dangerous to the public health, safety, welfare, comfort, property or environment of any of the inhabitants of the State before the discharge of the resulting effluent either directly or indirectly into any of the waters of the State, and which is regulated by the department pursuant to the “Water Pollution Control Act,” P.L. 1977, c. 74 (C. 58:10A-1 et seq.);

i. “Public water supply system” means a system comprising structures which operating alone or with other structures results in the derivation, conveyance or transmission or distribution of potable water for human consumption and domestic purposes;

j. “Public water treatment system” means any structure or structures by means of which prior to discharge into a public water supply system is subjected to the addition or abstraction of a substance or substances in order to enhance the safety, palatability, public health or aesthetic qualities, or reduce the corrosive or hazardous properties of the water used for potable or domestic purposes;

k. “System” means any industrial wastewater treatment system, public wastewater collection system, public wastewater treatment system, public water supply system or public water treatment system defined in this act; and

l. “Waters of the State” means the ocean and its estuaries, all springs, groundwater, streams or bodies of surface waters, whether natural or artificial, within the boundaries of this State or subject to its jurisdiction.

L.1983, c. 230, s. 2, eff. June 29, 1983.