---
kind: "section"
citation: "40 C.F.R. § 140.1"
title: "40"
number: "140.1"
heading: "Definitions."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/40/140.1"
---

# §140.1. Definitions.


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

- (a) Sewage means human body wastes and the wastes from toilets and other receptacles intended to receive or retain body wastes;
- (b) **Discharge—** includes, but is not limited to, any spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, or dumping;
- (c) **Marine sanitation device—** 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;
- (d) **Vessel—** 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;
- (e) **New vessel—** refers to any vessel on which construction was initiated on or after January 30, 1975;
- (f) **Existing vessel—** refers to any vessel on which construction was initiated before January 30, 1975;
- (g) **Fecal coliform bacteria—** 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.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 33 U.S.C. 1322, as amended.

### Source

Source: 41 FR 4453, Jan. 29, 1976, unless otherwise noted.