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Underground Injection Control (UIC): The program under the Safe Drinking Water Act that regulates the use of wells to pump fluids into the ground.

 


Underground Injection Control (UIC)
Underground Injection Wells
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Underground bodies of water defined in the Underground Injection Control program as aquifers that are potential sources of drinking water though not being used as such, and thus exempted from regulations barring underground injection activities.

area of review In the underground injection control (UIC) program, the area surrounding an injection well that is reviewed during the permitting process to determine if flow between aquifers will be induced by the injection operation.

FURS- Federal Underground Injection Control Reporting System
FVMP- Federal Visibility Monitoring Program
FWCA- Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act
FWPCA- Federal Water Pollution and Control Act (aka CWA).

See also: Environment, Water, Table, Waste, Commercial

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