As used in the New Mexico Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Act: A. "commission" means the water quality control commission; B. "confidential business information" means business information that a person claims as confidential at the time of submission and that, if made public, would divulge trade secrets or falls under other laws that give or may give a business the right to preserve the confidentiality of business information and to limit its use or disclosure by others in order that the business may obtain or retain business advantages it derives from its rights in the information; C. "department" means the department of environment; D. "discharge" means the addition of a pollutant or combination of pollutants to waters of the United States from a point source, including surface r
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As used in the New Mexico Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Act: A. "commission" means the water quality control commission; B. "confidential business information" means business information that a person claims as confidential at the time of submission and that, if made public, would divulge trade secrets or falls under other laws that give or may give a business the right to preserve the confidentiality of business information and to limit its use or disclosure by others in order that the business may obtain or retain business advantages it derives from its rights in the information; C. "department" means the department of environment; D. "discharge" means the addition of a pollutant or combination of pollutants to waters of the United States from a point source, including surface runoff collected or channeled by human effort, discharges through pipes, sewers or other conveyances owned by the state, a municipality or another person that do not lead to a treatment works and discharges through pipes, sewers or other conveyances leading into privately owned treatment works. "Discharge" does not include an addition of pollutants by an indirect discharger; E. "federal act" means the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and its subsequent amendments and successor provisions; F. "national pollutant discharge elimination system" means the program for issuing, modifying, revoking and reissuing, terminating, monitoring and enforcing permits and imposing and enforcing pretreatment requirements pursuant to Sections 307, 318, 402 and 405 of the federal act; G. "permit" means an authorization issued by the department in accordance with program requirements and includes an individual or general permit; H. "person" means an individual, an association, a partnership, a corporation, a municipality, a state or federal agency or an agent, officer or employee thereof; I. "point source" means a discernible, confined and discrete conveyance, including a pipe, ditch, channel, tunnel, conduit, well, discrete fissure, container, rolling stock, concentrated animal feeding operation, landfill leachate collection system or vessel or other floating craft from which pollutants are or may be discharged, but does not include a discharge composed entirely of return flows from irrigated agriculture or agricultural storm water runoff; J. "pollutant" means: (1) dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, filter backwash, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials (except those regulated pursuant to the federal Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended), heat, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt and industrial, municipal and agricultural waste discharged into water; but (2) "pollutant" does not include: (a) sewage from vessels; (b) water, gas or other material that is injected into a well to facilitate production of oil or gas; and (c) water derived in association with oil or gas production and disposed of in a well, if: 1) the well is used either to facilitate production or for disposal purposes and is approved by authority of the state in which the well is located; and 2) the state determines that the injection or disposal will not result in the degradation of ground or surface water resources; K. "program" means the program authorized by the New Mexico Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Act and approved by the United States environmental protection agency; L. "regional administrator" means the regional administrator of region six of the United States environmental protection agency; and M. "waters of the United States" means those waters regulated pursuant to the national pollutant discharge elimination system program and defined in federal regulations.