- academic year
means an academic year or its equivalent, as determined by the Administrator.
- act of God
means an act occasioned by an unanticipated grave natural disaster;
- administrative cost
means the cost of salaries and fringe benefits incurred in administering a grant under this section.
- Agency
means the Environmental Protection Agency;
- alternative planning criteria
means criteria submitted under section 155.1065 or 155.5067 of title 33, Code of Federal Regulations (as in effect on December 23, 2022), for vessel response plans.
- alternative water source project
means a project designed to provide municipal, industrial, and agricultural water supplies in an environmentally sustainable manner by conserving, managing, reclaiming, or reusing water, wastewater, or stormwater or by treating wastewater or stormwater for groundwater recharge, potable reuse, or other purposes.
- aquatic nuisance species
means a nonindigenous species that threatens—
- Area Committee
means an Area Committee established under subsection (j);
- Area Contingency Plan
means an Area Contingency Plan prepared under subsection (j);
- area of concern
means a geographic area located within the Great Lakes, in which beneficial uses are impaired and which has been officially designated as such under Annex 2 of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement;
- ballast water
means any water, suspended matter, and other materials taken onboard a vessel—
- ballast water discharge standard
means—
- ballast water exchange
means the replacement of water in a ballast water tank using 1 of the following methods:
- ballast water management system
means any marine pollution control device (including all ballast water treatment equipment, ballast tanks, pipes, pumps, and all associated control and monitoring equipment) that processes ballast water—
- barrel
means 42 United States gallons at 60 degrees Fahrenheit;
- Basin
means the Lake Pontchartrain Basin, a 10,000 square mile watershed encompassing 16 parishes in the State of Louisiana and 4 counties in the State of Mississippi.
- best available science
means science that—
- best available technology economically achievable
means—
- best conventional pollutant control technology
means—
- best management practice
means a schedule of activities, prohibitions of practices, maintenance procedures, and other management practices to prevent or reduce the pollution of—
- best practicable control technology currently available
means—
- biological monitoring
shall mean the determination of the effects on aquatic life, including accumulation of pollutants in tissue, in receiving waters due to the discharge of pollutants (A) by techniques and procedures, including sampling of organisms representative of appropriate levels of the food chain appropriate to the volume and the physical, chemical, and biological characteristics of the effluent, and (B) at appropriate frequencies and locations.
- Captain of the Port Zone
means a Captain of the Port Zone established by the Secretary pursuant to sections 92, 93, and 633 1 of title 14.
- center
means a center of excellence for stormwater control infrastructure established under subsection (b)(1).
- Chairperson
means the Chairperson of the Council;
- Chesapeake Bay Agreement
means the formal, voluntary agreements executed to achieve the goal of restoring and protecting the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem and the living resources of the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem and signed by the Chesapeake Executive Council.
- Chesapeake Bay ecosystem
means the ecosystem of the Chesapeake Bay and its watershed.
- Chesapeake Bay Program
means the program directed by the Chesapeake Executive Council in accordance with the Chesapeake Bay Agreement.
- Chesapeake Executive Council
means the signatories to the Chesapeake Bay Agreement.
- citizen
means a person or persons having an interest which is or may be adversely affected.
- coal remining operation
means a coal mining operation which begins after February 4, 1987 at a site on which coal mining was conducted before August 3, 1977.
- Coast Guard District Response Group
means a Coast Guard District Response Group established under subsection (j);
- Coastal Nonpoint Pollution Control Program
means the State of Washington’s Coastal Nonpoint Pollution Control Program approved under section 1455b of title 16.
- coastal political subdivision
means any local political jurisdiction that is immediately below the State level of government, including a county, parish, or borough, with a coastline that is contiguous with any portion of the United States Gulf of Mexico;
- coastal recreation waters
means—
- coastal zones
includes land within the coastal zones that is held in trust by, or the use of which is by law subject solely to the discretion of, the Federal Government or officers or agents of the Federal Government)) 1 that border the Gulf of Mexico;
- Columbia River Basin
means the entire United States portion of the Columbia River watershed.
- commercial vessel
means a vessel operating between—
- commercial vessels
means those vessels used in the business of transporting property for compensation or hire, or in transporting property in the business of the owner, lessee, or operator of the vessel;
- Comprehensive Plan
means the comprehensive plan developed by the Council pursuant to subsection (t);
- construction
means any one or more of the following: preliminary planning to determine the feasibility of treatment works, engineering, architectural, legal, fiscal, or economic investigations or studies, surveys, designs, plans, working drawings, specifications, procedures, field testing of innovative or alternative waste water treatment processes and techniques meeting guidelines promulgated under section 1314(d)(3) of this title, or other necessary actions, erection, building, acquisition, alteration, remodeling, improvement, or extension of treatment works, or the inspection or supervision of any of the foregoing items.
- contiguous zone
means the entire zone established or to be established by the United States under article 24 of the Convention on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone;
- Council
means the Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council established pursuant to subsection (t);
- critical water supply needs
means existing or reasonably anticipated future water supply needs that cannot be met by existing water supplies, as identified in a comprehensive statewide or regional water supply plan or assessment projected over a planning period of at least 20 years.
- Deepwater Horizon oil spill
means the blowout and explosion of the mobile offshore drilling unit Deepwater Horizon that occurred on April 20, 2010, and resulting hydrocarbon releases into the environment;
- Director
means the Director of the Program Office.
- discharge
includes, but is not limited to, any spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying or dumping, but excludes (A) discharges in compliance with a permit under section 1342 of this title, (B) discharges resulting from circumstances identified and reviewed and made a part of the public record with respect to a permit issued or modified under section 1342 of this title, and subject to a condition in such permit,,1 (C) continuous or anticipated intermittent discharges from a point source, identified in a permit or permit application under section 1342 of this title, which are caused by events occurring within the scope of relevant operating or treatment systems, and (D) discharges incidental to mechanical removal authorized by the President under subsection (c) of this section;
- effluent limitation
means any restriction established by a State or the Administrator on quantities, rates, and concentrations of chemical, physical, biological, and other constituents which are discharged from point sources into navigable waters, the waters of the contiguous zone, or the ocean, including schedules of compliance.
- effluent standard or limitation under this chapter
means (1) effective July 1, 1973, an unlawful act under subsection (a) of section 1311 of this title;
- eligible entity
means—
- eligible individual
means a member of a low-income or moderate-income household, the members of which have a combined income (for the most recent 12-month period for which information is available) equal to not more than 50 percent of the median nonmetropolitan household income for the State or territory in which the household is located, according to the most recent decennial census.
- eligible institution
means an institution of higher education, a research institution, or a nonprofit organization—
- eligible treatment works
means those treatment works in each State which meet the requirements of section 1281(g)(5) of this title and which can be fully funded from funds available for such purpose in such State.
- empty ballast tank
means a tank that—
- estuarine zones
means an environmental system consisting of an estuary and those transitional areas which are consistently influenced or affected by water from an estuary such as, but not limited to, salt marshes, coastal and intertidal areas, bays, harbors, lagoons, inshore waters, and channels, and the term “estuary” means all or part of the mouth of a river or stream or other body of water having unimpaired natural connection with open sea and within which the sea water is measurably diluted with fresh water derived from land drainage.
- estuary
means all or part of the mouth of a river or stream or other body of water having unimpaired natural connection with open sea and within which the sea water is measurably diluted with fresh water derived from land drainage.
- Estuary Partnership
means the San Francisco Estuary Partnership, designated as the management conference for the San Francisco Bay under section 1330 of this title.
- Estuary Plan
includes any amendments to the plan.
- existing vessel
includes every description of watercraft or other artificial contrivance used, or capable of being used, as a means of transportation on the navigable waters, the construction of which is initiated before promulgation of standards and regulations under this section;
- Federal Action Plan
means the plan developed under subsection (c)(3)(B).
- Federal Indian reservation
means all land within the limits of any Indian reservation under the jurisdiction of the United States Government, notwithstanding the issuance of any patent, and including rights-of-way running through the reservation;
- Federal On-Scene Coordinator
means a Federal On-Scene Coordinator designated in the National Contingency Plan;
- financially distressed community
means a community that meets affordability criteria established by the State in which the community is located, if such criteria are developed after public review and comment.
- floatable material
includes—
- graywater
means galley, bath, and shower water;
- Great Lakes
means Lake Ontario, Lake Erie, Lake Huron (including Lake St.
- Great Lakes Commission
means the Great Lakes Commission established by article IV A of the Great Lakes Compact 2 to which Congress granted consent in the Act of July 24, 1968 (Public Law 90–419;
- Great Lakes restoration activities
means any Federal or State activity primarily or entirely within the Great Lakes watershed that seeks to improve the overall health of the Great Lakes ecosystem.
- Great Lakes State
means any of the States of—
- Great Lakes States
means the States of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin;
- Great Lakes System
means all the streams, rivers, lakes, and other bodies of water within the drainage basin of the Great Lakes;
- Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement
means the bilateral agreement, between the United States and Canada which was signed in 1978 and amended by the Protocol of 1987;
- green infrastructure
means the range of measures that use plant or soil systems, permeable pavement or other permeable surfaces or substrates, stormwater harvest and reuse, or landscaping to store, infiltrate, or evapotranspirate stormwater and reduce flows to sewer systems or to surface waters.
- Gulf Coast region
means—
- Gulf Coast State
means any of the States of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas;
- hazardous substance
means any substance designated pursuant to subsection (b)(2) of this section;
- houseboat
means a vessel which, for a period of time determined by the State in which the vessel is located, is used primarily as a residence and is not used primarily as a means of transportation.
- Indian tribe
means any Indian tribe, band, group, or community recognized by the Secretary of the Interior and exercising governmental authority over a Federal Indian reservation.
- industrial user
means those industries identified in the Standard Industrial Classification Manual, Bureau of the Budget, 1967, as amended and supplemented, under the category of “Division D—Manufacturing” and such other classes of significant waste producers as, by regulation, the Administrator deems appropriate.
- Initiative Action Plan
means the comprehensive, multiyear action plan for the restoration of the Great Lakes, first developed pursuant to the Joint Explanatory Statement of the Conference Report accompanying the Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010 (Public Law 111–88).
- inland oil barge
means a non-self-propelled vessel carrying oil in bulk as cargo and certificated to operate only in the inland waters of the United States, while operating in such waters;
- inland waters of the United States
means those waters of the United States lying inside the baseline from which the territorial sea is measured and those waters outside such baseline which are a part of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway;
- institution of higher education
means an educational institution described in the first sentence of section 1001 of title 20 (other than an institution of any agency of the United States) which is accredited by a nationally recognized accrediting agency or association approved by the Administrator for this purpose.
- integrated plan
means a plan developed in accordance with the Integrated Municipal Stormwater and Wastewater Planning Approach Framework, issued by the Environmental Protection Agency and dated June 5, 2012.
- internal waters
has the meaning given the term in section 2.24 of title 33, Code of Federal Regulations (or a successor regulation).
- International Joint Commission
means the International Joint Commission established by the Treaty relating to the boundary waters and questions arising along the boundary between the United States and Canada, signed at Washington January 11, 1909, and entered into force May 5, 1910 (36 Stat. 2448;
- interstate agency
means an agency of two or more States established by or pursuant to an agreement or compact approved by the Congress, or any other agency of two or more States, having substantial powers or duties pertaining to the control of pollution as determined and approved by the Administrator.
- iron and steel products
means the following products made primarily of iron or steel: lined or unlined pipes and fittings, manhole covers and other municipal castings, hydrants, tanks, flanges, pipe clamps and restraints, valves, structural steel, reinforced precast concrete, construction materials.
- Lake Champlain drainage basin
means all or part of Clinton, Franklin, Hamilton, Warren, Essex, and Washington counties in the State of New York and all or part of Franklin, Grand Isle, Chittenden, Addison, Rutland, Bennington, Lamoille, Orange, Washington, Orleans, and Caledonia counties in Vermont, that contain all of the streams, rivers, lakes, and other bodies of water, including wetlands, that drain into Lake Champlain.
- Lakewide Management Plan
means a written document which embodies a systematic and comprehensive ecosystem approach to restoring and protecting the beneficial uses of the open waters of each of the Great Lakes, in accordance with article VI and Annex 2 of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement;
- Lower Columbia River Estuary
means the mainstem Columbia River from the Bonneville Dam to the Pacific Ocean and tidally influenced portions of tributaries to the Columbia River in that region.
- manufacturer
means any person engaged in the manufacturing, assembling, or importation of marine sanitation devices, marine pollution control device equipment, or vessels subject to standards and regulations promulgated under this section;
- marine casualty
means a marine casualty that is required to be reported pursuant to paragraph (3), (4), or (5) of section 6101 2 of title 46.
- marine pollution control device
means, except as provided in subsection (p), any equipment or management practice, for installation or use on board a vessel of the Armed Forces, that is—
- marine sanitation device
includes any equipment for installation on board a vessel which is designed to receive, retain, treat, or discharge sewage, and any process to treat such sewage;
- medical waste
means isolation wastes;
- Middle and Upper Columbia River Basin
means the region consisting of the United States portion of the Columbia River Basin above Bonneville Dam.
- municipality
means a city, town, borough, county, parish, district, association, or other public body created by or pursuant to State law and having jurisdiction over disposal of sewage, industrial wastes, or other wastes, or an Indian tribe or an authorized Indian tribal organization, or a designated and approved management agency under section 1288 of this title.
- National Contingency Plan
means the National Contingency Plan prepared and published under subsection (d);
- National Response Unit
means the National Response Unit established under subsection (j);
- natural hazard
means a hazard caused by natural forces, including extreme weather events, sea-level rise, and extreme drought conditions.
- navigable waters
means the waters of the United States, including the territorial seas.
- new source
means any source, the construction of which is commenced after the publication of proposed regulations prescribing a standard of performance under this section which will be applicable to such source, if such standard is thereafter promulgated in accordance with this section.
- new vessel
includes every description of watercraft or other artificial contrivance used, or capable of being used, as a means of transportation on the navigable waters, the construction of which is initiated after promulgation of standards and regulations under this section;
- nonindigenous species
means an organism of a species that enters an ecosystem beyond the historic range of the species.
- nonprofit organization
means a nonprofit organization that the Administrator determines, after consultation with the States regarding what small publicly owned treatment works in the State find to be most beneficial and effective, is qualified and experienced in providing on-site training and technical assistance to small publicly owned treatment works.
- nontank vessel
means a self-propelled vessel that—
- noxious liquid substance
has the same meaning when that term is used in the MARPOL Protocol described in section 1901(a)(3) 2 of this title.
- ocean
means any portion of the high seas beyond the contiguous zone.
- offshore facility
means any facility of any kind located in, on, or under, any of the navigable waters of the United States, any facility of any kind which is subject to the jurisdiction of the United States and is located in, on, or under any other waters, other than a vessel or a public vessel, and, for the purposes of applying subsections (b), (c), (e), and (o), any foreign offshore unit (as defined in section 1001 of the Oil Pollution Act 2) or any other facility located seaward of the exclusive economic zone;
- oil
means oil of any kind or in any form, including, but not limited to, petroleum, fuel oil, sludge, oil refuse, and oil mixed with wastes other than dredged spoil;
- oil and gas exploration, production, processing, or treatment operations or transmission facilities
means all field activities or operations associated with exploration, production, processing, or treatment operations, or transmission facilities, including activities necessary to prepare a site for drilling and for the movement and placement of drilling equipment, whether or not such field activities or operations may be considered to be construction activities.
- onshore facility
means any facility (including, but not limited to, motor vehicles and rolling stock) of any kind located in, on, or under, any land within the United States other than submerged land;
- organism
includes—
- organization
means a legal entity, other than a government, established or organized for any purpose, and such term includes a corporation, company, association, firm, partnership, joint stock company, foundation, institution, trust, society, union, or any other association of persons;
- otherwise subject to the jurisdiction of the United States
means subject to the jurisdiction of the United States by virtue of United States citizenship, United States vessel documentation or numbering, or as provided for by international agreement to which the United States is a party;
- owner or operator
means (A) in the case of a vessel, any person owning, operating, or chartering by demise, such vessel, and (B) in the case of an onshore facility, and an offshore facility, any person owning or operating such onshore facility or offshore facility, and (C) in the case of any abandoned offshore facility, the person who owned or operated such facility immediately prior to such abandonment;
- Pacific Region
includes the entire exclusive economic zone (as defined in section 2701 of this title) adjacent to each State described in clause (i)(I).
- Pacific Salmon Commission
means the Pacific Salmon Commission established by the United States and Canada under the Treaty concerning Pacific salmon, with annexes and memorandum of understanding, signed at Ottawa January 28, 1985, and entered into force March 18, 1985 (TIAS 11091;
- pathogen indicator
means a substance that indicates the potential for human infectious disease.
- Patrick Leahy Lake Champlain Basin Program
means the coordinated efforts among the Federal Government, State governments, and local governments to implement the Plan.
- person
includes an individual, firm, corporation, association, and a partnership;
- Plan
means the plan developed under subsection (e).
- point source
means any discernible, confined and discrete conveyance, including but not limited to any pipe, ditch, channel, tunnel, conduit, well, discrete fissure, container, rolling stock, concentrated animal feeding operation, or vessel or other floating craft, from which pollutants are or may be discharged.
- pollutant
means 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 agricultural waste discharged into water.
- pollution
means the man-made or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical, biological, and radiological integrity of water.
- port or place of destination
means a port or place to which a vessel is bound to anchor or moor.
- potentially responsible party
means an individual or entity that may be liable under any Federal or State authority that is being used or may be used to facilitate the cleanup and protection of the Great Lakes.
- pre-existing discharge
means any discharge at the time of permit application under this subsection.
- primary or equivalent treatment
means treatment by screening, sedimentation, and skimming adequate to remove at least 30 percent of the biological oxygen demanding material and of the suspended solids in the treatment works influent, and disinfection, where appropriate.
- Prince William Sound Captain of the Port Zone
means the area described in section 3.85–15(b) of title 33, Code of Federal Regulations (or successor regulations).
- program
means the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Restoration Program established under subsection (a).
- Program Office
means the Puget Sound Recovery National Program Office established by subsection (b).
- public vessel
means a vessel owned or bareboat-chartered and operated by the United States, or by a State or political subdivision thereof, or by a foreign nation, except when such vessel is engaged in commerce;
- Puget Sound Federal Leadership Task Force
means the Puget Sound Federal Leadership Task Force established under subsection (c).
- Puget Sound Federal Task Force
means the Puget Sound Federal Task Force established in 2016 under a memorandum of understanding among 9 Federal agencies.
- Puget Sound National Estuary Program Management Conference
means the management conference for the Puget Sound convened pursuant to section 1330 of this title.
- Puget Sound Partnership
means the State agency created under the laws of the State of Washington (section 90.71.210 of the Revised Code of Washington), or its successor agency that has been designated by the Administrator as the lead entity to support the Puget Sound National Estuary Program Management Conference.
- Puget Sound region
includes all watersheds that drain into the Puget Sound.
- Puget Sound Tribal Management Conference
means the 20 treaty Indian tribes of western Washington and the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission.
- qualified individual
has the meaning given the term “eligible individual” in section 1383(j) of this title.
- recreational vessel
means any vessel that is—
- Remedial Action Plan
means a written document which embodies a systematic and comprehensive ecosystem approach to restoring and protecting the beneficial uses of areas of concern, in accordance with article VI and Annex 2 of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement;
- remined area
means only that area of any coal remining operation on which coal mining was conducted before August 3, 1977.
- removal
refers to containment and removal of the oil or hazardous substances from the water and shorelines or the taking of such other actions as may be necessary to prevent, minimize, or mitigate damage to the public health or welfare, including, but not limited to, fish, shellfish, wildlife, and public and private property, shorelines, and beaches;
- removal costs
means—
- Research Office
means the Great Lakes Research Office established by subsection (d);
- responsible party
has the meaning given that term under section 1001 of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 [33 U.S.C. 2701].
- rural community
means a city, town, or unincorporated area that has a population of not more than 10,000 inhabitants.
- Salish Sea
means the network of coastal waterways on the west coast of North America that includes the Puget Sound, the Strait of Georgia, and the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
- Salmon Recovery Plans
means the recovery plans for salmon and steelhead species approved by the Secretary of the Interior under section 4(f) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 [16 U.S.C. 1533(f)] that are applicable to the Puget Sound region.
- saltwater flush
means—
- salvage equipment
means any equipment that is capable of being used to assist a vessel in potential or actual danger in order to prevent loss of life, damage or destruction of the vessel or its cargo, or release of its contents into the marine environment.
- San Francisco Bay Plan
means—
- sanitation services
shall mean water supply, sewage disposal, solid waste disposal and other services necessary to maintain generally accepted standards of personal hygiene and public health.
- schedule of compliance
means a schedule of remedial measures including an enforceable sequence of actions or operations leading to compliance with an effluent limitation, other limitation, prohibition, or standard.
- Secretary
means the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating.
- serious bodily injury
means bodily injury which involves a substantial risk of death, unconsciousness, extreme physical pain, protracted and obvious disfigurement, or protracted loss or impairment of the function of a bodily member, organ, or mental faculty.
- sewage
means human body wastes and the wastes from toilets and other receptacles intended to receive or retain body wastes except that, with respect to commercial vessels on the Great Lakes, such term shall include graywater;
- signatory jurisdiction
means a jurisdiction of a signatory to the Chesapeake Bay Agreement.
- site characterization
means a process for monitoring and evaluating the nature and extent of sediment contamination in accordance with the Environmental Protection Agency’s guidance for the assessment of contaminated sediment in an area of concern located wholly or partially within the United States;
- Small Vessel General Permit
means the permit that is the subject of the notice of final permit issuance entitled “Final National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Small Vessel General Permit for Discharges Incidental to the Normal Operation of Vessels Less Than 79 Feet” (79 Fed.
- small vessel or fishing vessel
means a vessel that is—
- source
means any building, structure, facility, or installation from which there is or may be the discharge of pollutants.
- standard of performance
means a standard for the control of the discharge of pollutants which reflects the greatest degree of effluent reduction which the Administrator determines to be achievable through application of the best available demonstrated control technology, processes, operating methods, or other alternatives, including, where practicable, a standard permitting no discharge of pollutants.
- State
means a State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.
- State Advisory Committee
means the advisory committee established by subsection (d).
- State water pollution control agency
means the State agency designated by the Governor having responsibility for enforcing State laws relating to the abatement of pollution.
- territorial seas
means the belt of the seas measured from the line of ordinary low water along that portion of the coast which is in direct contact with the open sea and the line marking the seaward limit of inland waters, and extending seaward a distance of three miles.
- the discharge of any pollutant into marine waters
refers to a discharge into deep waters of the territorial sea or the waters of the contiguous zone, or into saline estuarine waters where there is strong tidal movement and other hydrological and geological characteristics which the Administrator determines necessary to allow compliance with paragraph (2) of this subsection, and section 1251(a)(2) of this title.
- toxic pollutant
means those pollutants, or combinations of pollutants, including disease-causing agents, which after discharge and upon exposure, ingestion, inhalation or assimilation into any organism, either directly from the environment or indirectly by ingestion through food chains, will, on the basis of information available to the Administrator, cause death, disease, behavioral abnormalities, cancer, genetic mutations, physiological malfunctions (including malfunctions in reproduction) or physical deformations, in such organisms or their offspring.
- treatment works
has the meaning given the term in section 1292 of this title.
- Treaty Rights at Risk Initiative
means the report from the treaty Indian tribes of western Washington entitled “Treaty Rights At Risk: Ongoing Habitat Loss, the Decline of the Salmon Resource, and Recommendations for Change” and dated July 14, 2011, or its successor report that outlines issues and offers solutions for the protection of Tribal treaty rights, recovery of salmon habitat, and management of sustainable treaty and nontreaty salmon fisheries, including through Tribal salmon hatchery programs.
- Trust Fund
means the Gulf Coast Restoration Trust Fund established pursuant to section 1602 of the Resources and Ecosystems Sustainability, Tourist Opportunities, and Revived Economies of the Gulf Coast States Act of 2012.
- United States
means the States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands;
- value engineering review
means a specialized cost control technique which uses a systematic and creative approach to identify and to focus on unnecessarily high cost in a project in order to arrive at a cost saving without sacrificing the reliability or efficiency of the project.
- vessel
means every description of watercraft or other artificial contrivance used, or capable of being used, as a means of transportation on water other than a public vessel;
- Vessel General Permit
means the permit that is the subject of the notice of final permit issuance entitled “Final National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) General Permit for Discharges Incidental to the Normal Operation of a Vessel” (78 Fed.
- vessel of the Armed Forces
means—
- vessel response plan
means a plan required to be submitted by the owner or operator of a tank vessel or a nontank vessel under regulations issued by the President under paragraph (5).
- village
shall mean an incorporated or unincorporated community with a population of ten to six hundred people living within a two-mile radius.
- water quality standards
includes thermal water quality standards.
- Western Alaska Captain of the Port Zone
means the area described in section 3.85–15(a) of title 33, Code of Federal Regulations (as in effect on December 23, 2022).
- worst case discharge
means—