For use in this chapter the following terms are defined:
1. “Alteration or Construction”. All private sewage disposal systems constructed or altered after the effective date of these rules shall comply with these requirements. Alteration includes any changes that effect the treatment or disposal of the waste. Repair of existing components that does not change the treatment or disposal would be exempt. However, the discharge restrictions in 44.02 (1) would always apply.
2. “County Sanitarian” means the Marion County Environmental Health Program Manager, located in the Marion County Public Health Department, Environmental Health Program Office.
3. “Department” means the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.
4. “Dwelling” means a place for human habitation.
5. “Health Hazard” means any condition, structure, or object, which can or has the potential to cause injury or sickness to human or animal life, or cause damage to the environment.
6. “NPDES” means National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System.
7. “Public Sewer” means a wastewater treatment and disposal facility owned and operated by a corporate public entity such as a city or sanitary sewer district.
8. “Reconstruction” means the action of reconstructing; i.e., the act of constructing again; re-establishing; reassembling.
9. “Repair” means the change or the reconstruction or the renewal of any part of an existing system. Media component replacements to packaged treatment units or treatment unit parts under maintenance contract by certified maintenance providers are exempt.
10. “Soil scientist” means an individual who practices investigating and evaluating the interactions between water, soil minerals, plants and other living organisms that are used to prepare soil scientists’ reports for subsurface ground absorption systems, including infiltration galleries; land application of residuals such as sludge, septage, and other wastes; spray irrigation of wastewater; soil remediation at conventional rates; land application of agricultural products; processing residues, bioremediation, and volatilization; soil erodibility and sedimentation; and identification of hydric soil and redoximorphic features.
All terms used herein which are defined in Chapter 69 of the Iowa Administrative Code 567 shall be defined the same for these regulations.