(a) “Ballast Water Capacity” means the total volumetric capacity of any tanks, spaces, or compartments on a vessel used for carrying, loading or discharging ballast water, including any multi-use tank, space or compartment designed to allow carriage of ballast water.

(b) “Ballast Water Sample” means a unit of ballast water that may be collected for compliance assessment or research purposes.

(c) “Ballast Water Treatment System,” also referred to as a “Ballast Water Management System,” means any system that processes ballast water to remove, kill, or render nonviable organisms in ballast water prior to discharge or to avoid the uptake or discharge of organisms.

(d) “Colony Forming Unit” means a measure of viable bacteria in a sample.

(e) “Commission” means the California State Lands Commission.

(f) “Detailed Analysis” means a direct measurement of the organism's concentration in a representative sample to assess compliance with the discharge standards.

(g) “Functionality Monitoring” means monitoring of the applicable operational performance parameters to verify that the ballast water treatment system is operating according to the manufacturers' specifications.

(h) “Indicative Analysis” means a rapid preliminary assessment of the organism concentration in a representative sample of the ballast water volume of interest using biological, chemical, or physical parameters.

(i) “mL” means milliliter.

(j) “Public Water System” is defined the same as in Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations, section 141.2 (7-1-20 Edition), which is hereby incorporated by reference.

(k) “Sampling Port” means the equipment installed in the ballast water piping through which representative samples of the ballast water being discharged are extracted.

(l) “System Design Limitations” or “SDLs” are the physical or operational parameters important to the proper operation of the ballast water treatment system and designed to achieve the discharge performance standards (for example, minimum and maximum flow rates, time between ballast uptake and discharge, water quality limitations, operating environmental conditions, filter pressure, or ultraviolet transmittance).

(m) “Vessel” has the same meaning as in Section 71200, Public Resources Code, subdivision (r).