The following words, terms and phrases will hereinafter have
the meanings set forth in this section, unless the context clearly
requires a different meaning. Reference to gender shall be construed
to include both the masculine and feminine.
ACT or THE ACT
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the
Clean Water Act, as amended, 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.
AUTHORITY
The Blair Township Water and Sewer Authority, a municipal
authority created and existing under the laws of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania, the Authority Board thereof, its employees, agents
and officials.
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE (OF INDUSTRIAL USER)
An authorized representative of an industrial user may be:
A.
If the industrial user is a corporation:
(1)
A principal executive officer of at least the level of president,
secretary, treasurer, or vice president in charge of a principal business
function, or any other person who performs similar policy- or decision-making
functions for the corporation; or
(2)
A manager of one or more manufacturing, production, or operating
facilities, provided, the manager is authorized to make management
decisions which govern the operation of the regulated facility, including
having the explicit or implicit duty of making major capital investment
recommendations, and initiate and direct other comprehensive measures
to assure long-term environmental compliance with environmental laws
and regulations; can ensure that the necessary systems are established
or actions taken to gather complete and accurate information for control
mechanism requirements; and where authority to sign documents has
been assigned or delegated to the manager in accordance with corporate
procedures;
B.
If the industrial user is a partnership or proprietorship, a
general partner or proprietor, respectively;
C.
If the industrial user is a government entity, charitable organization
or other such unincorporated entity, a principal executive officer
or director having responsibility for the overall operation of the
discharging facility or a ranking elected official;
D.
A duly authorized representative of the individual designated above in Subsection
A,
B or
C of this definition if such representative, by name or position, is identified in writing submitted to the Pretreatment Coordinator; and
(1)
Is responsible for the overall operation of the facilities from
which the discharge originates; or
(2)
Has overall responsibility for environmental matters for the
company.
BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES
Schedules of activities, prohibitions of practices, maintenance
procedures, and other management practices to implement the prohibitions
listed in 40 CFR 403.5(a)(1) and (b). BMPs also include treatment
requirements, operating procedures, and practices to control plant
site runoff, spillage or leaks, sludge or waste disposal, or drainage
from raw materials storage.
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD)
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure, five days at
20° C. (64° F.) expressed in terms of weight and concentration
[milligrams per liter (mg/l)].
BUILDING SEWER
A sanitary sewer conveying wastewater from the premises of
a user to the sewer system.
BYPASS
The diversion of wastewater from any portion of an industrial
user's pretreatment facility.
CATEGORICAL INDUSTRIAL USER
An industrial user subject to categorical standards under
Title 40, Chapter I, Subchapter N of the Code of Federal Regulations.
CHAIN OF CUSTODY
A record of sample collection indicating the place, date
and time of collection and the person collecting the sample. It also
includes a record of each person involved in possession of the sample,
including the laboratory person who takes final possession of the
sample for the purpose of analysis.
CLEAN STREAMS LAW
The Act of June 22, 1937, P.L. 1987, as amended, 35 P.S.
§ 691.1 et seq.
COLOR
Color of light transmitted through a waste after removal
of all suspended matter, including pseudo-colloidal particles, and
measured in platinum-cobalt units.
COMBINED SEWER
A sewer constructed to convey both sanitary sewage and stormwater.
COMBINED WASTE FORMULA
A procedure for calculating discharge concentrations of constituents
of industrial waste, as defined in 40 CFR 403.6(e).
COMPLIANCE
Adherence to conditions or requirements of this article or
the Industrial Pretreatment Program, any written directions or schedule
issued by the Township, or any wastewater discharge permit or other
permit issued under the provisions of this article.
COMPOSITE SAMPLE
A sample composed of individual subsamples taken at regular
intervals over a specified period of time. Subsamples may be proportioned
by time interval or size according to flow (flow-proportional composite
sample), or be of equal size and taken at equal time intervals (equal-time
composite sample). A composite grab sample is composed of individual
grab samples collected and preserved individually and combined for
analysis only at the time of analysis.
DAILY MAXIMUM
The highest value obtained for samples collected in any calendar
day or equivalent consecutive twenty-four-hour period. When used in
a limit, the daily maximum is the highest value allowed in any composite
sample, or the maximum value allowed as an average of one or more
grab samples taken during a calendar day or equivalent consecutive
twenty-four-hour period. The daily maximum may also be expressed as
the maximum mass allowed to be discharged during any one calendar
day or equivalent consecutive twenty-four-hour period.
DISCHARGE
The conveyance of any water or wastewater into the sewer
system, including the delivery of water or wastewater by truck.
DOMESTIC WASTES
Normal household wastes from kitchens, water closets, lavatories
and laundries, or any waste from a similar source and possessing the
same characteristics.
ENFORCEMENT RESPONSE PLAN
A plan developed pursuant to 40 CFR 403.8(f)(5) providing
for the enforcement of the Industrial Pretreatment Program.
EPA
The United States Environmental Protection Agency, or where
appropriate the term may also be used as a designation for the Administrator
or other duly authorized official of said agency.
EXISTING SOURCE
Any source of discharge, the construction or operation of
which commenced prior to the publication by the EPA of proposed categorical
standards, which categorical standards will be applicable to such
source if the categorical standard is thereafter promulgated in accordance
with Section 307 of the Act.
GARBAGE
Solid or semisolid wastes resulting from preparation, cooking,
and dispensing of food, and from handling, storage and sale of produce.
GRAB SAMPLE
A sample which is taken from a waste stream on a one-time
basis with no regard to the flow in the waste stream and within a
period of 15 minutes or less.
GROUNDWATER
Water which is contained in or passing through the ground.
HAZARDOUS WASTE
Substances that are classified as listed or characteristic
hazardous waste under the provisions of 40 CFR Part 261.
HOLDING TANK WASTE
The liquid and/or solid material from a septic tank, cesspool
or similar domestic waste treatment or containment system, or waste
from holding tanks, such as those found in vessels, chemical toilets,
campers, or house trailers.
INDUSTRIAL PRETREATMENT PROGRAM
The sum of the provisions of this article, amendments thereto,
and any activities authorized or allowed by this article as regards
the regulation and control of industrial users to the extent required
by the federal minimum pretreatment regulations set forth in 40 CFR
Part 403.
INDUSTRIAL WASTE
Any solid, liquid or gaseous substance, or form of energy,
which is produced as a result, whether directly or indirectly, of
any industrial, manufacturing, trade or business process or activity,
or in the course of developing, recovering or processing of natural
resources, and which is discharged into the sewer system; but not
non-contact cooling water or sanitary sewage. Any wastewater which
contains industrial waste and which is discharged from an industrial,
manufacturing, trade or business premises is considered industrial
waste for the purposes of this article.
INFECTIOUS WASTE
Any substance which is discharged, and which consists of
or is contaminated by pathogens or other etiologic agents, and which
has not been sterilized, neutralized, or otherwise rendered harmless.
Infectious waste includes, but is not limited to: contaminated blood,
blood products or other bodily fluids (excepting excreta discharged
by normal bodily functions); wastes, including excreta, from patient
isolation areas; laboratory samples or test materials; animal wastes
and bedding; body parts; pathology and autopsy wastes; and glassware,
hypodermic needles, surgical instruments and other sharps.
INTERFERENCE
The condition in which a discharge, alone or in conjunction
with discharges from other sources:
A.
Inhibits or disrupts the processes or operations of the sewage
treatment plant or the sewage collection system, or the processing,
use or disposal of sludge; or
B.
Is a cause of a violation of any requirement of the Authority's
NPDES permit (including an increase in the magnitude or duration of
a violation) or of the prevention of sewage sludge use or disposal
in compliance with the following statutory provisions and regulations
or permits issued thereunder (or more stringent state or local regulations):
Section 405 of the Clean Water Act; the Solid Waste Disposal Act (SWDA)
[including Title II, more commonly referred to as the "Resource Conservation
and Recovery Act" (RCRA), and including state regulations contained
in any state sludge management plan prepared pursuant to Subtitle
D of the SWDA]; the Clean Air Act; the Toxic Substances Control Act;
and the Marine Protection, Research and Sanctuaries Act; or which results in or increases the severity of a violation
of other state or national environmental statutes, rules or regulations.
LOCAL LIMITS
Numerical limitations on the concentration, mass or other
characteristics of wastes or pollutants discharged, or likely to be
discharged, by industrial users, and which are developed by the Township.
MANHOLE
A structure allowing access from the surface of the ground
to a sewer.
MG/L
Milligrams per liter; a measure of concentration of waterborne
substances.
MONTHLY AVERAGE
The arithmetic mean of all daily determinations of concentration
made during a calendar month.
NATIONAL CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARD
Any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated
by the EPA in accordance with Section 307(b) and (c) of the Act (33
U.S.C. § 1317) which applies to a specific category of industrial
users. National categorical pretreatment standards are enumerated
in Title 40, Chapter I, Subchapter N, Part 405 et seq., of the Code
of Federal Regulations.
NEW SOURCE
Any building, structure, facility, or other source from which
there is or may be a discharge of pollutants, the construction of
which commenced after the publication of proposed categorical standards
under Section 307(c) of the Act, which will be applicable to such source if such categorical
standards are thereafter promulgated in accordance with that section.
Determination of the applicability of new source standards shall be
made as provided in the Act and 40 CFR 403.3.
NON-CONTACT COOLING WATER
The water from any use, such as air conditioning, machine
cooling or refrigeration, which does not come into contact with any
raw material, product, by-product or waste, and to which the only
pollutant added is heat.
NONSIGNIFICANT CATEGORICAL INDUSTRIAL USER (NSCIU)
The Township may determine that an industrial user subject
to categorical pretreatment standards under 40 CFR 403.6 and Title
40, Chapter I, Subchapter N of the Code of Federal Regulations is
an NSCIU rather than a SIU on a finding that the IU never discharges
more than 100 gallons per day (gpd) of total categorical wastewater
(excluding sanitary, non-contact cooling and boiler blowdown wastewater,
unless specifically included in the pretreatment standard) and the
following conditions are met:
A.
The IU, prior to the Township's findings, has consistently
complied with all applicable categorical pretreatment standards and
requirements or has no process discharge of categorical waste into
the Township's sewer system.
(1)
The IU must submit annually a certification statement required
in 40 CFR 403.12(q), together with any additional information necessary
to support the certification statement.
(2)
The IU never discharges any untreated concentrated wastewater.
NORMAL PRODUCTION DAY
For the purposes of sampling wastewater, a normal production
day is that period of time during a calendar day during which wastewater
is discharged and production, cleanup, and other activities that normally
produce wastewater or industrial waste are occurring. If a sample
is specified to be collected during a normal production day, it should
not include aliquots taken during low wastewater flow periods that
are not representative of normal activities, or during times when
wastewater is not being discharged.
NPDES PERMIT
A permit issued pursuant to Section 402 of the Act (33 U.S.C.
§ 1342).
OPERATOR
Any person having charge, care, control or management of
a pretreatment facility for industrial wastes or of a truck or trucks
used in the removal, transport or disposal of wastewater or industrial
wastes.
OWNER
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole
or partial, of an improved property or facility.
PASS-THROUGH
Discharge of pollutants which exits the POTW to the waters
of the state and, either alone or in conjunction with other discharges,
causes a violation of the Authority's NPDES permit or an increase
in the magnitude or duration of any such violation; or the concentration
of pollutants in the sludge so that the end use of the sludge causes
or contributes to pollution, harm to the environment, or a violation
of any state or national sludge disposal regulation, guideline or
standard.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, copartnership, firm, company,
corporation, association, joint-stock company, trust, estate, governmental
entity or any other legal entity, or their legal representatives,
agents or assigns. The masculine gender shall include the feminine,
the singular shall include the plural where indicated by the context.
pH
The logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the concentration
of hydrogen ions expressed in moles per liter of solution.
POLLUTANT
Any substance, including, but not limited to, dredged spoil,
solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge,
munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials,
heat, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt, medical
wastes, backwash from water filtration and industrial, municipal,
and agricultural waste; or having certain characteristics, such as
biochemical oxygen demand, color, pH or toxicity which, when discharged
into the environment, causes, contributes to, or increases pollution.
POLLUTANT NOT PRESENT
The Township may authorize an industrial user subject to
a categorical pretreatment standard to forego sampling of a pollutant
regulated by a categorical pretreatment standard if the industrial
user has demonstrated through sampling and other technical factors
that the pollutant is neither present nor expected to be present in
the discharge, or is present only at background levels from intake
water and without any increase in the pollutant due to activities
of the industrial user.
POLLUTION
The contamination of any waters of the state such as will
create or is likely to create a nuisance or to render such waters
harmful, detrimental or injurious to public health, safety or welfare,
or to domestic, municipal, commercial, industrial, agricultural, recreational,
or other legitimate beneficial uses, or to livestock, wild animals,
birds, fish or other aquatic life; or contamination of the air, soil,
or of the environment so as to produce or is likely to produce similar
deleterious effects.
POTW
A publicly owned treatment works as defined by Section 212
of the Act (33 U.S.C. § 1292). The term includes the sewage
collection system and the sewage treatment plant.
PRETREATMENT
The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination
of pollutants, or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties
in wastewater prior to or in lieu of discharging or otherwise introducing
such pollutants into a sewer system. The reduction or alteration can
be obtained by physical, chemical or biological processes, or by means
of other process changes, except as prohibited by 40 CFR 403.6(d).
PRETREATMENT COORDINATOR
Agent of the Township designated to administer the provisions
of the Industrial Pretreatment Program.
PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENTS
Any substantive or procedural requirement, other than a categorical
standard, imposed on an industrial user by Section 307(b) and (c)
of the Act, the state or the Industrial Pretreatment Program.
PRETREATMENT STANDARD
A national categorical pretreatment standard, prohibitive
discharge standard or a local limit created to implement a national
categorical pretreatment standard or prohibitive discharge standard.
PROHIBITIVE DISCHARGE STANDARD
Any regulation developed under Section 307(b) and (c) of the Act (33 U.S.C. § 1317), including prohibitive discharge limits under 40 CFR 403.5. Prohibitive discharge standards are included in the list of prohibited discharges in §
325-36A(3) of this article.
QUALIFIED ANALYST
Any person who has demonstrated competency in the analysis
of wastewater by submission of their generally recognized documentation
of competency to the Township, or who is normally employed in the
capacity of analyst by a professional analytical laboratory.
REFRIGERATION
Maintenance of temperature for storage, preservation of food,
or as a process of manufacturing.
SANITARY SEWAGE
The normal water-carried domestic wastes from any improved
property, but excluding: effluent from septic tanks or cesspools;
rain, snow or stormwater; groundwater; or other collected water from
roofs, drains or basements.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer designed and constructed primarily for carrying sanitary
sewage or industrial wastes, but not stormwater, surface waters or
groundwaters.
SEWAGE COLLECTION SYSTEM
All facilities of the Township and Authority, or any municipality
party to a service agreement with the Township, as of any particular
time, used or usable for collecting, transporting, pumping and disposing
of wastewater, which facilities are connected to and served by the
sewage treatment plant. The sewage collection system includes sanitary
sewers and combined sewers, but not storm sewers.
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT
That portion of the sewer system owned by the Authority and
operated by the Township which is designed to provide treatment of
wastewater and discharge of treated effluent to the environment.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for conveying wastewater or stormwater.
SEWER SYSTEM
The sewage collection system, sewage treatment plant, and
any sewers that convey wastewater to the sewage treatment plant. For
the purposes of this article, "sewer system" shall also include any
sewers that convey wastewater to the sewage treatment plant from persons
who are users of the sewer system.
SHALL
Denotes that the referenced action or requirement is mandatory.
May is permissive.
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER
Except as provided by 40 CFR 403.8(f)(6), an industrial user
who:
A.
Has a discharge flow of 25,000 gallons or more of industrial
waste (excluding any constituent sanitary sewage, non-contact cooling
water or boiler blowdown wastewater) per average workday;
B.
Discharges industrial waste which makes up 5% or more of the
average dry weather organic capacity of the sewage treatment plan;
C.
Is regulated by categorical standards; or
D.
Is determined by the Township to have the reasonable potential
of adversely affecting the operation of the POTW, causing interference
or pass-through, or of violating any pretreatment requirement.
SLUG OR SLUG LOAD
Any discharge of a nonroutine, episodic nature, including
but not limited to an accidental spill or a noncustomary batch discharge,
violating the specific prohibitions in 40 CFR 403.5(b).
SPCC PLAN
A spill prevention, control and countermeasure plan prepared
by an industrial user to minimize the likelihood and intensity of
a slug load or spill, or any changes affecting the potential for slug
discharges in volume or characteristics of discharges, and to expedite
control and cleanup activities should a slug load or spill occur.
SPILL
Any discharge of a nonroutine, episodic nature, including
but not limited to an accidental spill or a noncustomary batch discharge,
or the control or cleanup activities associated with such an occurrence;
an accidental spill may result from the spilling, overflowing, rupture,
or leakage of any storage, process or transfer container.
STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION (SIC)
A classification pursuant to the Standard Industrial Classification
Manual issued by the Executive Office of the President, Office of
Management and Budget, 1972.
STATE
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
STORM SEWER
A sewer designed and constructed primarily for the purpose
of carrying stormwater, but not sanitary sewage or industrial wastes.
Storm sewers are not part of the sewage collection system.
STORMWATER
Any flow of water occurring during or following any form
of natural precipitation and resulting therefrom.
SUPERINTENDENT
The superintendent of the sewage treatment plant or his duly
authorized representative.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
The total suspended matter that floats on the surface of,
or is suspended in, water, wastewater or other liquids, and which
is removable by laboratory filtering.
TOTAL SOLIDS
The sum of the dissolved and undissolved solid constituents
of water or wastewater.
TOTAL TOXIC ORGANICS
The sum of all quantifiable values of various organic pollutants
as determined by the Township or, for certain categorical industrial
users, as defined in the applicable categorical standard.
TOWNSHIP
The Township of Blair, Blair County, Pennsylvania, a municipal
corporation existing under the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
the Township Supervisors thereof, its employees, agents and officials.
The term Township is used as synonymous with the term POTW, publicly
owned treatment works, or control authority.
TOXIC ORGANIC MANAGEMENT PLAN
A plan submitted in lieu of testing for total toxic organics
in which an industrial user specifies methods of control to assure
that total toxic organics do not routinely enter the sewer system.
TOXIC POLLUTANTS
Any pollutant or combination of pollutants listed as toxic
in regulations promulgated by the Administrator of the EPA under the
provisions of Section 307(a) of the Act, or identified in sludge regulations
under Section 405(d) of the Act, which is applicable to the sewage treatment plant sludge.
UNAUTHORIZED DISCHARGE
Discharge of an unauthorized waste, or a discharge which
otherwise is not in compliance with the requirements of the Industrial
Pretreatment Program, this article, or other rules or regulations
of the Township.
UNAUTHORIZED WASTE
Any substance which is discharged into the sewage collection
system which is not in compliance with the provisions of the Industrial
Pretreatment Program, or which is discharged by a person in violation
of any of the provisions of this article.
USER
Any person who contributes, causes or permits the discharge
of wastewater into the sewer system.
WASTEWATER
Industrial wastes or domestic wastes from dwellings, commercial
buildings, industrial facilities, and institutions, together with
any groundwater, surface water, and stormwater that may be present,
whether treated or untreated, which enters the sewer system.
WASTEWATER DISCHARGE PERMIT (GENERAL)
As set forth in §
325-36C of this article with the following conditions:
A.
Involve the same or similar types of operations;
B.
Discharge the same types of wastes;
C.
Requires the same effluent limitations;
D.
Require the same or similar monitoring; and
E.
In the opinion of the Township, are more appropriately controlled
under a general wastewater discharge permit than under an individual
wastewater discharge permit.
WATERS OF THE STATE
All streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, watercourses, waterways,
wells, springs, reservoirs, aquifers, irrigation systems, drainage
systems and all other bodies or accumulations of water, surface or
underground, natural or artificial, public or private, which are contained
within, flow through, or border upon the state or any portion thereof.
In the event any provision, section, sentence, clause or part
of this article shall be held to be invalid, such invalidity shall
not affect or impair any remaining provision, section, sentence, clause
or part of this article, it being the intent of the Township that
such remainder shall be and shall remain in force and effect. Provision
of headings in this resolution are solely for convenience and shall
have no effect on the legal or technical interpretation of any provision
or requirement.