§ 7500 - Purpose and definitions
§ 7500. Purpose and definitions TITLE 10Conservation and DevelopmentPART VLand Use and DevelopmentCHAPTER 165. GENERAL PERMIT AUTHORITY
§ 7500. Purpose and definitions
(a) This chapter is intended to provide for the protection of human health and the environment while allowing the secretary to utilize general permits as appropriate to streamline permitting processes and gain administrative efficiencies.
(b) When used in this chapter:
(1) "Agency" means the agency of natural resources.
(2) "Commissioner" means the commissioner of the department or the commissioner's duly authorized representative.
(3) "Department" means the department of environmental conservation.
(4) "General permit" means a permit that applies to a class or category of discharges, emissions, disposal, facilities, or activities within a common geographic area, including the entire state or a region of the state. For a class or category to be eligible to be placed under a general permit under this chapter, the class or category must meet each of the following:
(A) The discharges, emissions, disposal, facilities, or activities must share the same or substantially similar qualities.
(B) Those qualities must be such that the requirements of statute and rule applicable to the discharges, emissions, disposal, facilities, or activities can be met and human health and the environment protected by imposition of the same or substantially similar permit conditions on the class or category.
(5) "Individual permit" means a permit that authorizes a specific discharge, emission, disposal, facility, or activity that contains terms and conditions that are specific to the discharge, emission, disposal, facility, or activity.
(6) "Secretary" means the secretary of the agency or the secretary's duly authorized representative. (Added 2009, No. 54, § 90, eff. June 1, 2009.)