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Interstate waters definition

Interstate waters means all surface waters of the state that cross or form a part of the border between states.
Interstate waters means all surface waters of the state which cross or form

Examples of Interstate waters in a sentence

  • Interstate waters include all rivers, streams, and lakes which flow across or form part of a state boundary.

  • The 2015 Rule defined “waters of the United States” to include: • Traditional navigable waters (TNWs) ((a)(1));3 • Interstate waters including interstate wetlands ((a)(2)); • Territorial seas ((a)(3)); • Impoundments of jurisdictional waters ((a)(4)); • Tributaries of the above waters ((a)(5)); • Adjacent waters of the aforementioned waters ((a)(6)); • Similarly situated regional waters found to have a significant nexus ((a)(7)); and • Certain waters with a case-specific significant nexus ((a)(8)).

  • Interstate waters would continue to be ‘‘waters of the United States’’ even if they are not navigable for purposes of Federal regulation under (a)(1) and do not connect to such waters.

  • Interstate waters that are navigable-in-fact and are part of a highway of commerce will still be jurisdictional under the proposed rule as TNWs. Interstate waters can also qualify as jurisdictional if they qualify for one of the other jurisdictional categories, such as tributaries or lakes and ponds.

  • Interstate waters have been a distinct regulatory category of jurisdictional waters since at least 1977, and the Rule merely retains that status.

  • Interstate waters are not included as their own category of waters in ORM2 under pre-2015 practice, so the agencies have no existing data for that category of waters under this baseline.

  • Interstate waters raise additional issues less relevant to other foundational waters, such as the interstate status of waters crossing tribal boundaries and geographic limits on waters considered interstate.

  • Interstate waters within the Delaware River Basin and some species of fish found in these waters are contaminated with toxic pollutants other than PCBs, including, for example, dioxin, DDT and mercury.

  • Interstate waters and their tributaries, including adjacent wetlands .

  • In general, the following waters are considered to be WOTUS under the CWA: • Traditional navigable waters; • Interstate waters; • Wetlands adjacent to either traditional navigable waters or interstate waters; • Non-navigable tributaries to traditional navigable waters that are relatively permanent, meaning they contain water at least seasonally; and • Wetlands that directly abut relatively permanent waters.

Related to Interstate waters

  • State waters means all water, on the surface and under the ground, wholly or partially within or bordering the Commonwealth or within its jurisdiction, including wetlands.

  • Interstate highway means a highway route on the interstate system as defined in and designated pursuant to Title 23 of the United States Code, prior to the effective date of this act.

  • Interstate system means that portion of the national system of interstate and defense highways, located within this state, as officially designated, or as may hereafter be designated, by the commissioner, and approved by the secretary of transportation of the United States, pursuant to title 23 of the United States Code;

  • Interstate means a telecommunications service that originates in one United States state or a United States territory or possession and terminates in a different United States state or a United States territory or possession.

  • Interstate vehicle means a commercial vehicle operated in more than one state, province, territory, or possession of the United States or foreign country.

  • Interstate commerce means any commerce moving between any place in a state and any place in another state or between places in the same state through another state;

  • Interstate placement means the arrangement for the care of a child in an adoptive home, foster care placement or in the home of the child's parent or with a relative or nonagency guardian, into or out of the Commonwealth, by a child-placing agency or court when the full legal right of the child's parent or nonagency guardian to plan for the child has been voluntarily terminated or limited or severed by the action of any court.

  • Interstate commission means the Interstate Commission for Juveniles created by Article III of this compact.

  • Fresh water means water, such as tap water, that has not been previously used in a process operation or, if the water has been recycled from a process operation, it has been treated and meets the effluent guidelines for chromium wastewater.

  • Navigable waters ’ means the waters of the United States, including the territorial sea;

  • Coastal waters means those waters of Long Island Sound and its harbors, embayments, tidal rivers, streams and creeks which contain a salinity concentration of at least five hundred parts per million under low flow conditions.

  • inland waters means the navigable waters of the United States shoreward of the navigational demarcation lines dividing the high seas from harbors, rivers, and other inland waters of the United States and the waters of the Great Lakes on the United States side of the International Boundary;

  • Virginia Stormwater Management Program or “VSMP” means a program approved by the State Board after September 13, 2011, that has been established by a locality to manage the quality and quantity of runoff resulting from land-disturbing activities and shall include such items as local ordinances, rules, permit requirements, annual standards and specifications, policies and guidelines, technical materials, and requirements for plan review, inspection, enforcement, where authorized in this article, and evaluation consistent with the requirements of this article and associated regulations.

  • Youth center means any public or private facility that is primarily used to host recreational or social activities for minors, including, but not limited to, private youth membership organizations or clubs, social service teenage club facilities, video arcades, or similar amusement park facilities.

  • Through highway means every street or highway as provided in section 4511.65 of the Revised Code.

  • Solar energy system means a system of components that produces heat or electricity, or both, from

  • State Water Control Law means Chapter 3.1 (§ 62.1-44.2 et seq.) of Title 62.1 of the Code of Virginia.

  • River means a flowing body of water or a portion or tributary of a flowing body of water, including streams, creeks, or impoundments and small lakes thereon.

  • South Caucasus/Central and South Asian (SC/CASA) state means Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, or Uzbekistan.

  • State Water Board means the State Water Resources Control Board.

  • boycott energy companies has the meaning used in Section 809.001 of the Texas Government Code, as amended. The Professional understands “affiliate” to mean an entity that controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with the Professional and exists to make a profit.

  • Fire Department means an organized fire department as that term is defined in section 1 of the fire prevention code, 1941 PA 207, MCL 29.1.

  • Stormwater management planning area means the geographic area for which a stormwater management planning agency is authorized to prepare stormwater management plans, or a specific portion of that area identified in a stormwater management plan prepared by that agency.

  • Public highway means a public highway, road, street, avenue, alley, or thoroughfare of any kind, or a bridge, tunnel, or subway used by the public.

  • Wildland means an area where development is generally limited to roads, railroads, power lines, and widely scattered structures. Such land is not cultivated (i.e., the soil is disturbed less frequently than once in 10 years), is not fallow, and is not in the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Conservation Reserve Program. The land may be neglected altogether or managed for such purposes as wood or forage production, wildlife, recreation, wetlands, or protective plant cover.

  • mean high water springs or “MHWS” means the highest level which spring tides reach on average over a period of time;