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For the purposes of this chapter, the following shall mean:

“Commercial/industrial customers” includes, but is not limited to, manufacturing, food processing, restaurant, sales, service, and farm operations.

“Discretionary water use” means water use which is not required for business operations or for general health and safety of the user or the public; usually pertains to outside water use during warmer periods of the year (lawn/flower watering, car washing, washing driveways/sidewalks, etc.).

“Governmental customers” means governmental entities, including, but not limited to: water-related and other city facility operations in the case of the city; water related facility operations in the case of the PUD; gaming and other fund-raising operations in the case of the Tribes; schools, parks, administrative operations in the case of other governmental agencies.

“Irrigation use” means the application of water to promote botanical development, whether at a residence or a commercial business.

“Public service announcement (PSA)” means a media advertisement intended to inform the public in general, whether through television, newspaper, or radio mediums.

“Wholesale customer” means a customer who resells water for commercial/industrial or residential use.

“CFS” means cubic feet per second (a flow rate).

“Residential customer” means single-family or multifamily domestic water users.

“PUD” means the Public Utility District No. 1 of Skagit County.

“Instream flow” means the stream flow level established by the Department of Ecology by rule, to be the flow needed to protect and preserve instream resources and values, such as fish, wildlife, and recreation.

“Skagit River Flow Management Committee (SRFMC)” means a committee comprised of the signatories of the 1996 Memorandum of Agreement Regarding Utilization of Skagit River Basin Water Resources for Instream and Out of Stream Purposes. (Ord. 2797 § 1, 2009)