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General Information terms and Definitions: "Permit Board" means the Permit Board of the Department of Environmental Quality established pursuant to Miss. Code Ann. § 49-17-28. "Treatment works" means any plant or other works, used for the purpose of treating, stabilizing, or holding wastes. "Waste" means sewage, industrial wastes, oil field wastes, and all other liquid, gaseous, solid, radioactive, or other substances which may pollute or tend to pollute any waters of the State. "Water Quality Management Plans" for the purpose of these regulations, Water Quality Management Plans are those plans developed pursuant to Section 208 of the Federal Clean Water Act. "Water Quality Standards" the criteria and requirements set forth in State of Mississippi Water Quality Criteria for Intrastate, Interstate, and Coastal Waters. Water quality standards are standards composed of designated present and future most beneficial uses (classification of waters), the numerical and narrative criteria applied to the specific water uses or classification, and the Mississippi antidegradation policy. "Water quality based effluent limitation (WQBEL)" means an effluent limitation, which may be more stringent than a technology based effluent limitation, determined as necessary by the Department to ensure that water quality standards in a receiving body of water will not be violated. "Water quality criteria" are elements of State water quality standards, expressed as constituent concentrations, levels, or narrative statements, representing a quality of water that supports the present and future most beneficial uses. "Waters of the State" means all waters within the jurisdiction of this State, including all streams, lakes, ponds, wetlands, impounding reservoirs, marshes, watercourses, waterways, wells, springs, irrigation systems, drainage systems, and all other bodies or accumulations of water, surface and underground, natural or artificial, situated wholly or partly within or bordering upon the State, and such coastal waters as are within the jurisdiction of the State, except lakes, ponds, or other surface waters which are wholly landlocked and privately owned, and which are not regulated under the Federal Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C.1251, et seq..) Rule 1.1.2 Permit Applications. A. Permits: Applications, Filing Procedures and Requirements (1) All applications for permits shall be on forms prescribed by the Commission and/or the Permit Board. In addition to those forms, the Department may require an applicant to provide a summary of its compliance history and/or present evidence of its financial capability and responsibility. (2) A person discharging waste from more than one location shall file a separate application for each discharge location. A single application may be filed for multiple outfalls discharging from a single location, provided the discharge from each outfall is described separately in the application. (3) The application shall be prepared in accordance with the requirements set forth in 40 CFR 122.21-.37, 122.44, 124.3(a) and (d) as of the date the permit application is deemed complete, which are incorporated herein and adopted by reference, and in accordance with these regulations. |