Okla. Stat. tit. 27A, § 27A-1-1-201

As used in the Oklahoma Environmental Quality Act:

1. “Clean Water Act” means the federal Water Pollution Control

Act, 33 U.S.C., Section 1251 et seq., as amended;

2. “Discharge” includes but is not limited to a discharge of a

pollutant, and means any addition of any pollutant to waters of the

state from any point source;

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3. “Environment” includes the air, land, wildlife, and waters

of the state;

4. “Federal Safe Drinking Water Act” means the federal law at

42 U.S.C., Section 300 et seq., as amended;

5. “Groundwater protection agencies” include the:

a. Oklahoma Water Resources Board,

b. Oklahoma Corporation Commission,

c. State Department of Agriculture,

d. Department of Environmental Quality,

e. Conservation Commission, and

f. Department of Mines;

6. “Nonpoint source” means the contamination of the environment

with a pollutant for which the specific point of origin may not be

well defined and includes but is not limited to agricultural storm

water runoff and return flows from irrigated agriculture;

7. “N.P.D.E.S.” or “National Pollutant Discharge Elimination

System” means the system for the issuance of permits under the

Federal Water Pollution Control Act, 33 U.S.C., Section 1251 et

seq., as amended;

8. “Point source” means any discernible, confined and discrete

conveyance or outlet including but not limited to any pipe, ditch,

channel, tunnel, conduit, well, discrete fissure container, rolling

stock or vessel or other floating craft from which pollutants are or

may be discharged into waters of the state. The term “point source”

shall not include agricultural storm water runoff and return flows

from irrigated agriculture;

9. “Pollutant” includes but is not limited to dredged spoil,

solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge,

munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive

materials, heat, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar

dirt and industrial, municipal, and agribusiness waste;

10. “Pollution” means the presence in the environment of any

substance, contaminant or pollutant, or any other alteration of the

physical, chemical or biological properties of the environment or

the release of any liquid, gaseous or solid substance into the

environment in quantities which are or will likely create a nuisance

or which render or will likely render the environment harmful or

detrimental or injurious to public health, safety or welfare, or to

domestic, commercial, industrial, agricultural, recreational, or

other legitimate beneficial uses, or to livestock, wild animals,

birds, fish or other aquatic life, or to property;

11. “Source” means any and all points of origin of any wastes,

pollutants or contaminants whether publicly or privately owned or

operated;

12. “State agencies with limited environmental

responsibilities” means:

a. the Department of Public Safety,

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b. the Department of Labor, and

c. the Department of Civil Emergency Management;

13. “State environmental agency” includes the:

a. Oklahoma Water Resources Board,

b. Oklahoma Corporation Commission,

c. State Department of Agriculture,

d. Oklahoma Conservation Commission,

e. Department of Wildlife Conservation,

f. Department of Mines, and

g. Department of Environmental Quality;

14. “Storm water” means rain water runoff, snow melt runoff,

and surface runoff and drainage;

15. “Total maximum daily load” means the sum of individual

wasteload allocations (W.L.A.) for point sources, safety, reserves,

and loads from nonpoint sources and natural backgrounds;

16. “Waste” means any liquid, gaseous or solid or semi-solid

substance, or thermal component, whether domestic, municipal,

commercial, agricultural or industrial in origin, which may pollute

or contaminate or tend to pollute or contaminate, any air, land or
individual

wasteload allocations (W.L.A.) for point sources, safety, reserves,

and loads from nonpoint sources and natural backgrounds;

16. “Waste” means any liquid, gaseous or solid or semi-solid

substance, or thermal component, whether domestic, municipal,

commercial, agricultural or industrial in origin, which may pollute

or contaminate or tend to pollute or contaminate, any air, land or

waters of the state;

17. “Wastewater” includes any substance, including sewage, that

contains any discharge from the bodies of human beings or animals,

or pollutants or contaminating chemicals or other contaminating

wastes from domestic, municipal, commercial, industrial,

agricultural, manufacturing or other forms of industry;

18. “Wastewater treatment” means any method, technique or

process used to remove pollutants from wastewater or sludge to the

extent that the wastewater or sludge may be reused, discharged into

waters of the state or otherwise disposed and includes, but is not

limited to, the utilization of mechanized works, surface

impoundments and lagoons, aeration, evaporation, best management

practices (BMPs), buffer strips, crop removal or trapping,

constructed wetlands, digesters or other devices or methods.

“Treatment” also means any method, technique or process used in the

purification of drinking water;

19. “Wastewater treatment system” means treatment works and all

related pipelines or conduits, pumping stations and force mains, and

all other appurtenances and devices used for collecting, treating,

conducting or discharging wastewater;

20. “Waters of the state” means all streams, lakes, ponds,

marshes, watercourses, waterways, wells, springs, irrigation

systems, drainage systems, storm sewers and all other bodies or

accumulations of water, surface and underground, natural or

artificial, public or private, which are contained within, flow

through, or border upon this state or any portion thereof, and shall

include under all circumstances the waters of the United States

which are contained within the boundaries of, flow through or border

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upon this state or any portion thereof. Provided, waste treatment

systems, including treatment ponds or lagoons designed to meet

federal and state requirements other than cooling ponds as defined

in the Clean Water Act or rules promulgated thereto and prior

converted cropland are not waters of the state; and

21. “Wellhead protection area” means the surface and subsurface

area surrounding a water well or wellfield supplying a public water

system that defines the extent of the area from which water is

supplied to such water well or wellfield.