Statute Text
Definitions for ORS 454.010 to 454.040.
As used in ORS 454.010 to 454.040, unless the context
requires otherwise:
(1) 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, 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.
(2) Industrial
user means a recipient of treatment works services for any liquid, gaseous,
radioactive or solid waste substance or a combination thereof resulting from
any process of industry, manufacturing, trade or business or from the
development or recovery of any natural resources.
(3) Municipality
means any county, city, special service district or other governmental entity
having authority to dispose of or treat or collect sewage, industrial wastes or
other wastes, or any combination of two or more of the foregoing acting
jointly.
(4) Replacement
means those expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories,
or appurtenances during the useful life of the treatment works necessary to
maintain the capacity and performance for which such works are designed and
constructed.
(5)(a) Treatment
works means any devices and systems used in the storage, treatment, recycling,
and reclamation of municipal sewage or industrial wastes, of a liquid nature,
necessary to recycle or reuse water at the most economical cost over the
estimated life of the works, including intercepting sewers, outfall sewers,
sewage collection systems, pumping, power, and other equipment, and their
appurtenances; extensions, improvements, remodeling, additions, and alterations
thereof; elements essential to provide a reliable recycled supply such as
standby treatment units and clear well facilities; and any works, including
site acquisition of the land that will be an integral part of residues
resulting from such treatment.
(b) In addition
to the definition contained in paragraph (a) of this subsection, treatment
works means any other method or system for preventing, abating, reducing,
storing, treating, separating, or disposing of municipal waste, including storm
water runoff, or industrial waste, including waste in combined storm water and
sanitary sewer systems. [1973 c.101 §2]