Section 840.104  Definitions

Unless otherwise specified, the definitions of the Environmental Protection Act (Act) [415 ILCS 5] apply to this Subpart. The following definitions also apply:

"Agency" means the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency.

"Aquifer" means saturated (with groundwater) soils and geologic materials which are sufficiently permeable to readily yield economically useful quantities of water to wells, springs, or streams under ordinary hydraulic gradients. [415 ILCS 55/3(b)]

"Ash Pond D" means the surface impoundment designated as Ash Pond D, located at the Hutsonville Power Station, 15142 East 1900 Avenue, Hutsonville, Crawford County, Illinois.

"Board" means the Illinois Pollution Control Board.

"Contaminant" means any solid, liquid or gaseous matter, any odor, or any form of energy, from whatever source. [415 ILCS 5/3.165]

"Hutsonville Power Station" or "Hutsonville site" means the electric generating station located at 15142 East 1900 Avenue, Hutsonville, Crawford County, Illinois.

"Lower zone of underlying aquifer" means the sands and gravels beneath the fine-grained surficial alluvium within the Wabash River bedrock valley.

"Off-site" means any property that is not part of the Hutsonville Power Station.

"On-site" means the same or geographically contiguous property constituting the Hutsonville Power Station.

"Operator" means the person responsible for the operation of Ash Pond D.

"Owner" means the person who owns Ash Pond D.

"Person" is any individual, partnership, co-partnership, firm, company, limited liability company, corporation, association, joint stock company, trust, estate, political subdivision, State agency, or any other legal entity, or their legal representative, agent or assigns. [415 ILCS 5/3.315]

"Professional engineer" means a person who has registered and obtained a seal pursuant to the Professional Engineering Practice Act of 1989 [225 ILCS 325].

"Professional geologist" means a person licensed under the laws of the State of Illinois to practice as a professional geologist. [415 ILCS 5/57.2]

"Site" means any location, place, tract of land and facilities, including but not limited to buildings, and improvements used for purposes subject to regulation or control by the Act or regulations thereunder. [415 ILCS 5/3.460]

"Statistically significant" means the application of a Mann-Kendall analysis performed at 95 percent confidence to determine whether consecutive groundwater sampling data showing greater or lesser concentrations of constituents is statistically significant.

"Upper zone of underlying aquifer" means surficial sands and sandstones overlying shale west of the Wabash River bedrock valley, and sand lenses within the surficial fine grained alluvium.