312 IAC 6.2-1-2 - Definitions
Authority: IC 14-10-2-4; IC 14-25
Affected: IC 14-8-2; IC 14-9-3; IC 14-25
Sec. 2.
The definitions in IC 14-8-2, Section 1.2 of IC 14-25-15-1, 312 IAC 1, and the following definitions apply throughout this article:
(1) "Baseline volume" refers to the amount of
water approved through a status determination under IC
14-25-15-12
(or approved through a modification to a status determination or another
previous department order) with respect to any of the following categories:
(A) A total water withdrawal capability
registered under IC
14-25-7-15(c)(3).
(B) A consumptive use attributable to a
facility.
(C) A facility that
diverts water outside the basin.
(2) "Baseline volume abandonment" means the
voluntary and affirmative termination of a facility's baseline volume as
defined in this article, but shall not include the nonuse of a facility's
baseline volume unless the facility is considered discontinued by the
department.
(3) "Basin" or "Great
Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin" means the watershed of the Great Lakes and the
St. Lawrence River upstream from Trois-Rivières, Québec, within
the jurisdiction of the parties to the compact.
(4) "Basin of Indiana" means the portion of
the basin located in the state of Indiana.
(5) "Best management practices" or "BMPs"
means methods or techniques found to be the most effective and practical means
in achieving an objective (such as preventing or minimizing water losses) while
making the optimum use of available resources.
(6) "Compact" means the Great Lakes-St.
Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact described in IC
14-25-15-1.
(7) "Deputy director" refers to the deputy
director for the bureau of water and resource regulation established by IC
14-9-3.
(8) "Discontinued
significant water withdrawal facility" means a facility that is registered or
permitted under this article and IC
14-25-7-15
and meets the following conditions:
(A) The
water withdrawal equipment of the facility has been removed, or is not
maintained in a good state of repair, for a continuous period of more than five
(5) years.
(B) The facility owner
has not provided notification to the department of the intent for future use of
the facility.
(9)
"Division" means the division of water of the department.
(10) "Facility" means a significant water
withdrawal facility as defined at IC
14-25-7-15.
(11) "Q90" means the amount of flow in a
stream that was equaled or exceeded by the annual daily mean stream flow ninety
percent (90%) of the time.
(12)
"Resolution 5" refers to "Resolution #5--Adoption of Basin-Wide Conservation
and Efficiency Objectives", which was adopted by the council on December 8,
2008.
(13) "Salmonid stream" refers
to each of the following:
(A) Trail Creek and
its tributaries downstream to Lake Michigan.
(B) The Galena River and its tributaries in
LaPorte County.
(C) East Branch of
the Little Calumet River and its tributaries downstream to Lake Michigan via
Burns Ditch.
(D) The St. Joseph
River and its tributaries in St. Joseph County from the Twin Branch Dam in
Mishawaka downstream to the Indiana/Michigan state line.
(E) Salt Creek above its confluence with the
Little Calumet River.
(F) Kintzele
Ditch (Black Ditch) from Beverly Drive downstream to Lake Michigan.
(G) The Indiana portion of the open waters of
Lake Michigan.
(H) Those waters
designated by the Indiana department of natural resources for put-and-take
trout fishing.
(14)
"Water use audit" means a systematic framework for accurately measuring water
use and water loss in a given system.
(15) "Water withdrawal facility" refers to a
system or process that:
(A) is a diversion;
or
(B) in the aggregate from all
sources and by all methods, has the capability of withdrawing more than one
hundred thousand (100,000) gallons of ground water, surface water, or ground
and surface water combined, in one (1) day.
Notes
This version of section effective September 1, 2014. See also preceding version of section, effective until September 1, 2014.
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