<html> <head> <title>Rule 74:54:01:02 Toxic pollutant defined.</title> <META NAME="Keywords" Content="Administrative Rules 74:54:01:02"> <META NAME="Description" Content="Administrative Rules 74:54:01:02 Toxic pollutant defined."> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Office HTML Filter 2.0"> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> <meta name=Originator content="Microsoft Word 10"> <style> <!-- --> </style> </head> <body lang=EN-US> <div> <p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <b>74:54:01:02.&nbsp;&nbsp;Toxic pollutant defined.</b> A toxic pollutant is a water contaminant or combination of water contaminants in a concentration or concentrations which, upon exposure, ingestion, inhalation, or assimilation either directly from the environment or indirectly by ingestion through food chains, will unreasonably threaten or injure human health or the health of animals or plants. As used in this section, injuries to health include death, histopathologic change, depression of immune system, clinical symptoms of disease, behavioral abnormalities, genetic mutation, physiological malfunctions, and physical deformations in such organisms or their offspring. In order to be considered a toxic pollutant a contaminant must be one or a combination of the potential toxic pollutants shown by scientific information currently available to the public to have potential for causing one or more of the effects listed in this section.</font></p> <p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p> <p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <b>Source:</b> 18 SDR 128, effective February 11, 1992; transferred from §&nbsp;74:03:15:01.01, July 1, 1996.</font></p> <p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <b>General Authority:</b> SDCL <A HREF="/statutes/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&Statute=34A-2-11">34A-2-11.</A></font></p> <p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <b>Law Implemented:</b> SDCL <A HREF="/statutes/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&Statute=34A-2-10">34A-2-10</A>, <A HREF="/statutes/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&Statute=34A-2-11">34A-2-11.</A></font></p> <p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p> </div> </body> </html>