Terms Used In Virginia Code > Title 62.1 > Chapter 3.1 > Article 1 - General Provisions.

• Beneficial use: means both instream and offstream uses. See Virginia Code 62.1-44.3
• Board: means the State Water Control Board. See Virginia Code 62.1-44.3
• Certificate: means any certificate or permit issued by the Department. See Virginia Code 62.1-44.3
• City: means an independent incorporated community which became a city as provided by law before noon on July 1, 1971, or which has within defined boundaries a population of 5,000 or more and which has become a city as provided by law. See Virginia Code 1-208
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Department: means the Department of Environmental Quality. See Virginia Code 62.1-44.3
• Director: means the Director of the Department of Environmental Quality. See Virginia Code 62.1-44.3
• Establishment: means any industrial establishment, mill, factory, tannery, paper or pulp mill, mine, coal mine, colliery, breaker or coal-processing operations, quarry, oil refinery, boat, vessel, and every other industry or plant or works the operation of which produces industrial wastes or other wastes or which may otherwise alter the physical, chemical or biological properties of any state waters. See Virginia Code 62.1-44.3
• in writing: include any representation of words, letters, symbols, numbers, or figures, whether (i) printed or inscribed on a tangible medium or (ii) stored in an electronic or other medium and retrievable in a perceivable form and whether an electronic signature authorized by Virginia Code 1-257
• Industrial wastes: means liquid or other wastes resulting from any process of industry, manufacture, trade, or business or from the development of any natural resources. See Virginia Code 62.1-44.3
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Land-disturbance approval: means an approval allowing a land-disturbing activity to commence issued by (i) a Virginia Erosion and Stormwater Management Program authority after the requirements of § Virginia Code 62.1-44.3
• Member: means a member of the Board. See Virginia Code 62.1-44.3
• Municipal separate storm sewer: means a conveyance or system of conveyances otherwise known as a municipal separate storm sewer system or "MS4" including roads with drainage systems, municipal streets, catch basins, curbs, gutters, ditches, man-made channels, or storm drains, that is:

  1. See Virginia Code 62.1-44.3

• Other wastes: means decayed wood, sawdust, shavings, bark, lime, garbage, refuse, ashes, offal, tar, oil, chemicals, and all other substances except industrial wastes and sewage which may cause pollution in any state waters. See Virginia Code 62.1-44.3
• Owner: means the Commonwealth or any of its political subdivisions, including but not limited to sanitation district commissions and authorities and any public or private institution, corporation, association, firm, or company organized or existing under the laws of this or any other state or country, or any officer or agency of the United States, or any person or group of persons acting individually or as a group that owns, operates, charters, rents, or otherwise exercises control over or is responsible for any actual or potential discharge of sewage, industrial wastes, or other wastes to state waters, or any facility or operation that has the capability to alter the physical, chemical, or biological properties of state waters in contravention of § Virginia Code 62.1-44.3
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Person: means an individual, corporation, partnership, association, governmental body, municipal corporation, or any other legal entity. See Virginia Code 62.1-44.3
• Policies: means policies established under subdivisions (3a) and (3b) of § Virginia Code 62.1-44.3
• Pollution: means such alteration of the physical, chemical, or biological properties of any state waters as will or is likely to create a nuisance or render such waters (a) harmful or detrimental or injurious to the public health, safety, or welfare or to the health of animals, fish, or aquatic life; (b) unsuitable with reasonable treatment for use as present or possible future sources of public water supply; or (c) unsuitable for recreational, commercial, industrial, agricultural, or other reasonable uses, provided that (i) an alteration of the physical, chemical, or biological property of state waters or a discharge or deposit of sewage, industrial wastes or other wastes to state waters by any owner which by itself is not sufficient to cause pollution but which, in combination with such alteration of or discharge or deposit to state waters by other owners, is sufficient to cause pollution; (ii) the discharge of untreated sewage by any owner into state waters; and (iii) contributing to the contravention of standards of water quality duly established by the Board, are "pollution" for the terms and purposes of this chapter. See Virginia Code 62.1-44.3
• Process: includes subpoenas, the summons and complaint in a civil action, and process in statutory actions. See Virginia Code 1-237
• Reclaimed water: means water resulting from the treatment of domestic, municipal, or industrial wastewater that is suitable for a direct beneficial or controlled use that would not otherwise occur. See Virginia Code 62.1-44.3
• Reclamation: means the treatment of domestic, municipal, or industrial wastewater or sewage to produce reclaimed water for a direct beneficial or controlled use that would not otherwise occur. See Virginia Code 62.1-44.3
• Regulation: means a regulation issued under subdivision (10) of § Virginia Code 62.1-44.3
• Reuse: means the use of reclaimed water for a direct beneficial use or a controlled use that is in accordance with the requirements of the Board. See Virginia Code 62.1-44.3
• Rule: means a rule adopted by the Board to regulate the procedure of the Board pursuant to subdivision (7) of § Virginia Code 62.1-44.3
• Ruling: means a ruling issued under subdivision (9) of § Virginia Code 62.1-44.3
• Sewage: means the water-carried human wastes from residences, buildings, industrial establishments or other places together with such industrial wastes and underground, surface, storm, or other water as may be present. See Virginia Code 62.1-44.3
• Special order: means a special order issued under subdivisions (8a), (8b), and (8c) of § Virginia Code 62.1-44.3
• Standards: means standards established under subdivisions (3a) and (3b) of § Virginia Code 62.1-44.3
• State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes any of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the United States Virgin Islands. See Virginia Code 1-245
• State waters: means all water, on the surface and under the ground, wholly or partially within or bordering the Commonwealth or within its jurisdiction, including wetlands. See Virginia Code 62.1-44.3
• this law: means the law contained in this chapter as now existing or hereafter amended. See Virginia Code 62.1-44.3
• Town: means any existing town or an incorporated community within one or more counties which became a town before noon, July 1, 1971, as provided by law or which has within defined boundaries a population of 1,000 or more and which has become a town as provided by law. See Virginia Code 1-254
• treatment works: means any device or system used in the storage, treatment, disposal, or reclamation of sewage or combinations of sewage and industrial wastes, including but not limited to pumping, power, and other equipment, and appurtenances, and any works, including land, that are or will be (i) an integral part of the treatment process or (ii) used for the ultimate disposal of residues or effluent resulting from such treatment. See Virginia Code 62.1-44.3
• United States: includes the 50 states, the District of Columbia the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands and the United States Virgin Islands. See Virginia Code 1-255
• Wetlands: means those areas that are inundated or saturated by surface or groundwater at a frequency and duration sufficient to support, and that under normal circumstances do support, a prevalence of vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions. See Virginia Code 62.1-44.3