Tennessee Code 68-221-1110 – Permit conditions for discharges
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 68-221-1110
- Municipality: means any incorporated city or town, county, metropolitan or consolidated government, or special district of this state empowered to provide storm water facilities. See Tennessee Code 68-221-1102
- Storm water: means storm water runoff, snow melt runoff, surface runoff, street wash waters related to street cleaning or maintenance, infiltration (other than infiltration contaminated by seepage from sanitary sewers or by other discharges) and drainage. See Tennessee Code 68-221-1102
- Storm water facilities: means the drainage structures, conduits, combined sewers, sewers, and all device appurtenances by means of which storm water is collected, transported, pumped, treated or disposed of. See Tennessee Code 68-221-1102
To the extent practicable, municipalities shall provide permit conditions for storm water discharges associated with industrial activities that are consistent with any permits issued pursuant to the National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES), unless the discharge contains hazardous substances in excess of reporting quantities, or the facility and the municipality are not in compliance with applicable provisions of the NPDES permits issued to them for storm water, or the discharge materially affects the municipal storm water facilities through either the quantity of wastewater or its contamination.