Section 125.02. Definitions.

 

(1)  "Compliance maintenance planning" means planning for a project which the department determines is necessary to prevent a municipality from significantly exceeding an effluent limitation, as defined in s. 283.01 (6) , Stats.

(2)  "Department" means the department of natural resources.

(3)  "Industrial wastes" means the liquid wastes from manufacturing processes or food processing.

(4)  "Municipality" means a city, township, village, county, sanitary district, county utility district, metropolitan sewerage district or school district that is authorized by state statute to own, operate, maintain, finance and construct a publicly owned sewer system or sewage treatment plant.

(5)  "Small improvement project" means a project of less than $100,000 total cost which improves the sewage treatment capability of an existing sewage treatment plant. Small improvement project includes, but is not limited to, disinfection, phosphate removal, state required testing and monitoring equipment and other improvements to sewage treatment capabilities. Small improvement project does not include administration, operation, maintenance or replacement in kind of equipment or facilities.

(6)  "Start of construction" means the signing of all eligible project construction contracts by the contractors and the municipality or the first excavation if the work is done by force account.

History: Cr. Register, July, 1976, No. 247 , eff. 8-1-76; r. (3), renum. (1), (2) and (4) to be (2), (4) and (3), cr. (1), r. and recr. (5), Register, April, 1989, No. 400 , eff. 5-1-89; correction in (1) made under s. 13.93 (2m) (b) 7., Stats., Register, May, 2001, No. 545 .