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the State in which the well is located, ajid if such 

 State determines that such injection or disposal will 

 not result in the degradation of ground or surface 

 water resources. 



(7) The term "navigable waters" means the 

 waters of the United States, including the territorial 

 seas. 



(8) The term "territorial seas" means the belt of 

 the seas measured from the line of ordinary low 

 water along that portion of the coast which is in 

 direct contact with the open sea and the line marking 

 the seaward limit of inland waters, and extending 

 seaward a distance of three miles. 



(9) The term "contiguous zone" means the entire 

 zone established or to be established by the United 

 States under article 24 of the Convention of the 

 Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone. 



(10) The term "ocean" means any portion of the 

 high seas beyond the contiguous zone. 



(11) The term "effluent limitation" means any re- 

 striction established by a State or the Administrator 

 on quantities, rates, and concentrations of chemical, 

 physical, biological, and other constituents which 

 are discharged from point sources into navigable 

 waters, the waters of the contiguous zone, or the 

 ocean, including schedules of compliance. 



(12) The term "discharge of a pollutant". and the 

 term "discharge of pollutants" each means (A) any 

 addition of any pollutant to navigable waters from 

 any point source, <B) any addition of any pollutant 

 to the waters of the contiguous zone or the ocean 

 from any point source other than a vessel or other 

 floating craft. 



(13) The term "toxic pollutant" means those 

 pollutants, or combinations of pollutants, including 

 disease-causing agents, which after discharge and 

 upon exposure, ingestion, inhalation or assimilation 

 into any organism, either directly from the environ- 

 ment or indirectly by ingestion through food chains, 

 will, on the basis of information available to the 

 Administrator, cause death, disease, behavioral ab- 

 normalities, cancer, genetic mutations, physiological 

 malfunctions (including malfunctions in reproduc- 

 tion) or physical deformations, in such organisms or 

 their offspring. 



(14) The term "point source" means any discern- 

 ible, confined and discrete conveyance, including but 

 not limited to any pipe, ditch, charmel, tunnel, con- 

 duit, well, discrete fissure, container, rolling stock, 

 concentrated animal feeding operation, or vessel or 

 other floating craft, from which pollutants are or 

 may be discharged. 



(15) The term "biological monitoring" shaU mean 

 the determination of the effects on aquatic life, in- 

 cluding accumulation of pollutants in tissue, in re- 

 ceiving waters due to the discharge of pollutants 

 (A) by techniques and procedures, including sam- 

 pling of organisms representative of appropriate 

 levels of the food chain appropriate to the volume 

 and the physical, chemical, and biological charac- 

 teristics of the effluent, and (B) at appropriate fre- 

 quencies and locations. 



(16) The term "discharge" when used without 

 qualification includes a discharge of a pollutant, and 

 a discharge of pollutants. 



(17) The term "schedule of compliance" means a 



schedule of remedial measures including an enforce- 

 able sequence of actions or operations leading to 

 compliance with an effluent limitation, other limita- 

 tion, prohibition, or standard. 



(18) The term "industrial user" means those in- 

 dustries identifled in the Standard Industrial Clas- 

 sification Manual, Bureau of the Budget, 1967, as 

 amended and supplemented, under the category of 

 "Division D — Manufacturing" and such other classes 

 of significant waste producers as, by regulation, the 

 Administrator deems aproprlate. 



(19) The term "pollution" means the man-made 

 or man-Induced alteration of the chemical, phys- 

 ical, biological, and radiological integrity of water. 

 (Jime 30, 1948, ch. 758, title V, § 502, as added Oct. 

 18, 1972, Pub. L. 92-500, I 2, 86 Stat. 886.) 



§ 1363. Water Pollution Control Advisory Board. 



(a)(1) There is hereby established in the Envi- 

 ronmental Protection Agency a Water Pollution Con- 

 trol Advisory Board, composed of the Administrator 

 or his designee, who shall be Chairman, and nine 

 members appointed by the President, none of whom 

 shall be Federal officers or employees. The appointed 

 members, having due regard for the purposes of this 

 chapter, shall be selected from among representa- 

 tives of various State, interstate, and local govern- 

 mental agencies, of public or private interests 

 contributing to, affected by, or concerned with pol- 

 lution, and of other public and private agencies, 

 organizations, or groups demonstrating an active 

 interest in the field of pollution prevention and 

 control, as well as other individuals who are expert 

 in this field. 



(2) (A) Each member appointed by the President 

 shall hold office for a term of three years, except that 

 (i) any member appointed to fill a vacancy occurring 

 prior to the expiration of the term for which his 

 predecessor was appointed shall be appointed for the 

 remainder of such term, and (ii) the terms of office 

 of the members first taking office after June 30, 1956. 

 shall expire as follows: three at the end of one year 

 after such date, three at the end of two years after 

 such date, and three at the end of three years after 

 such date, as designated by the President at the time 

 of appointment, and (iii) the term of any member 

 under the preceding provisions shall be extended 

 until the date on which his successor's appointment 

 is effective. None of the members appointed by the 

 President shall be eligible for reappointment within 

 one year after the end of his preceding term. 



(B) The members of the Board who are not offi- 

 cers or employees of the United States, while attend- 

 ing conferences or meetings of the Board or while 

 serving at the request of the Administrator, shall be 

 entitled to receive compensation at a rate to be flxed 

 by the Administrator, but not exceeding $100 per 

 diem, including travel-time, and while away from 

 their homes or regular places of business they may 

 be allowed travel expenses, including per diem in 

 lieu of subsistence, as authorized by law for persons 

 in the Government service employed intermittently, 

 (b) The Board shall advise, consult with, and make 

 recommendations to the Administrator on matters of 

 policy relating to the activities and functions of the 

 Administrator under this chapter. 



