Definitions

PURPOSE: This rule sets out definitions used in the rules of the State Environmental Improvement and Energy Resources Authority. (1) Except where the context indicates otherwise, terms as used in these rules have the meaning ascribed to them in this rule or the Act. (2) Act means sections 260.005 to 260.125, inclusive, RSMo and Appendix B(1) thereto. (3) Air pollution means the presence in the ambient air of one (1) or more air contaminants in quantities, of characteristics and a duration which directly and proximately cause or contribute to injury to human, plant, or animal life or health or to property or which unreasonably interferes with the enjoyment of life or use of property. (4) Application fee means the fee payable upon filing of an application. (5) Authorized representative means, with respect to a corporation, that person designated to act on its behalf by written certificate of authority furnished to the authority containing the specimen signature of the person and signed on behalf of the corporation by its president or any vice president and attested to by its secretary or an assistant secretary. (6) Loans means loans made by the authority pursuant to the provisions of the Act. (7) Pollution control facility means any facility, including land, disposal areas, incinerators, buildings, fixtures, machinery, and equipment financed, acquired, or constructed or to be financed, acquired, or constructed by the authority for the purpose of preventing or reducing pollution or providing for the disposal of solid waste or sewage. (8) Solid waste or sewage disposal area means any area used for the disposal of solid waste or sewage from more than one (1) residential premises or one (1) or more commercial, industrial, manufacturing, recreational, or governmental operations. (9) Solid waste or sewage processing facility means incinerator, compost plant, transfer station, or any facility where solid wastes or sewage are salvaged. (10) Water pollution means contamination or other alteration of the physical, chemical, or biological properties, of any waters of the state, including change in temperature, taste, color, turbidity, or odor of the waters or the discharge of any liquid, gaseous, solid, radioactive, or other substance into any waters of the state as will or is reasonably certain to create a nuisance or render the waters harmful, detrimental, or injurious to public health, safety, or welfare or to domestic, industrial, agricultural, recreational, or other legitimate beneficial uses or to wild animals, birds, fish, or other aquatic life. AUTHORITY: section 260.035.1(23), RSMo 2016.* Original rule filed Sept. 3, 1986, effective Nov. 28, 1986. Amended: Filed Oct. 5, 2018, effective April 30, 2019. *Original authority: 260.035, RSMo 1972, amended 1980, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1995.