§ 140.1 Definitions.

For the purpose of these standards the following definitions shall apply:

Sewage(a) means human body wastes and the wastes from toilets and other receptacles intended to receive or retain body wastes;

Discharge(b) includes, but is not limited to, any spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, or dumping;

Marine sanitation device(c) includes any equipment for installation onboard a vessel and which is designed to receive, retain, treat, or discharge sewage and any process to treat such sewage;

Vessel(d) includes every description of watercraft or other artificial contrivance used, or capable of being used, as a means of transportation on waters of the United States;

New vessel(e) refers to any vessel on which construction was initiated on or after January 30, 1975;

Existing vessel(f) refers to any vessel on which construction was initiated before January 30, 1975;

Fecal coliform bacteria(g) are those organisms associated with the intestines of warm-blooded animals that are commonly used to indicate the presence of fecal material and the potential presence of organisms capable of causing human disease.