A.
ACT or THE ACT
ADMINISTRATOR
APPROVAL AUTHORITY
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND or BOD
BOARD or BOARD OF TRUSTEES
BUILDING DRAIN
BUILDING SEWER
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY or EPA
GARBAGE
GRAB SAMPLE
INTERFERENCE
NATIONAL CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARD or PRETREATMENT STANDARD
NATURAL OUTLET
NYSDEC
PERSON
pH
POLLUTANT
POLLUTION
POTW TREATMENT PLANT
PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENTS
PRETREATMENT or TREATMENT
PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS (POTW)
PUBLIC SEWER
SANITARY SEWER
SEWAGE
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER or SIU
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION (SIC)
STATE
STATE POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM OR SPDES PERMIT
SUPERINTENDENT
TOXIC POLLUTANT
USER
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise,
the meanings of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the
Clean Water Act, as amended, 33 U.S.C. § 12351, et seq.
The regional administrator of the United States Environmental
Protection Agency, Region II.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency or the
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation in the event
that it is delegated approval authority responsibility.
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure, five days at
20º C.(68º F.), expressed in milligrams per liter (mg/l)
as determined by the procedures described in Standard Methods.
The Board of Trustees of the Village of Lawrence.
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system
which receives the discharge from soil, waste and other drainage pipes
inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the house connection
or building sewer which begins five feet outside the inner face of
the building wall.
A sewer conveying wastewater from the premises of a user
to the POTW.
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.
Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation,
cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and
sales of produce.
A sample which is taken from the waste stream on a one-time
basis with no regard to the flow in the waste stream and without consideration
of time.
The inhibition or disruption of the POTW treatment processes
or operations which is a cause of or significantly contributes to
a violation of any requirement of the Village's SPDES permit, including
an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation. The term
includes prevention of sewage sludge use or disposal by the POTW in
accordance with Section 405 of the Act (33 U.S.C. § 1345)
or any criteria, guidelines or regulations developed pursuant to the
Solid Waste Disposal Act (SWDA), the Clean Air Act, the Toxic Substances
Control Act, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) or
more stringent state criteria (including those contained in any state
sludge management plan prepared pursuant to Title IV or the SWDA)
applicable to the method of disposal or use employed by the POTW.
Any regulation containing pollutant limits promulgated by
the EPA in accordance with Section 307(b) and (c) of the Act (33 U.S.C.
§ 1347) which applies to a specific category of industrial
users.
Any outlet, including storm sewers, into a watercourse, pond,
ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water.
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
or duly authorized official of said Department.
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.
Logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the concentration
of hydrogen ions expressed in grams per liter of solution.
Any chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials,
heat, solid material or dissolved material discharged into water.
The man-made or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical,
biological and radiological integrity of water.
That portion of the POTW designed to provide treatment to
wastewater.
Any substance or procedural requirements related to pretreatment,
other than a national pretreatment standard on an industrial user.
The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination
of pollutants, or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties
in wastewater to a less harmful state prior to or in lieu of discharging
or otherwise introducing such pollutants into a publicly owned treatment
works (POTW) as defined in Section 2.2.37. The reduction or alteration
can be obtained by physical, chemical or biological processes or process
changes by other means, except as prohibited by 40 CFR 403.6(d).
A treatment works as defined by Section 212 of the Act (33
U.S.C. § 1292), which is owned in this instance by the Village.
This definition includes any sewers that convey wastewater to the
POTW treatment plant, but does not include pipes, sewers or other
conveyances not connected to a facility providing treatment. For the
purpose of this chapter, "POTW" shall also include any sewers that
convey wastewater to the POTW from persons who are, by contract or
agreement with the Village, users of the Village's "POTW."
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal
rights and which is controlled by a governmental agency.
A sewer that carries liquid and water-carried wastes from
residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions,
together with minor quantities of ground- , storm- and surface water
that are not admitted intentionally.
The usual water-carried wastes from toilets, water closets,
urinals, bathtubs, shower baths, wash basins, laundry tubs, kitchen
sinks and similar plumbing fixtures installed in a building, and shall
not include any other liquid or solid matter whatsoever.
Any industrial user of the Village's wastewater disposal
system who:
Is subject to promulgated categorical pretreatment
standards;
Is found having substantial impact either singly
or in combination with other contributing industries, on the operation
of the treatment works;
Is a manufacturing industry using, on an annual
basis, more than 10,000 pounds or 1,000 gallons of raw material containing
priority pollutions/substances of concern and discharging a measurable
amount of those pollutants to the sewer system from the process using
these pollutants; or
Discharges more than 5% of the waste flow or
load carried by the sewage treatment plant receiving the waste.
A classification pursuant to the Standard Industrial Classification
Manual issued by the Executive Office of the President, Office of
Management and Budget, 1972.
The State of New York.
A permit issued pursuant to Section 402 of the Act (33 U.S.C.
§ 1342).
The person designated by the Village to supervise the operation
of the publicly owned treatment works and who is charged with certain
duties and responsibilities by this chapter, or his duly authorized
representative.
Any pollutant or combination of pollutants listed as toxic
in regulations promulgated by the Administrator of the Environmental
Protection Agency under the provision of Section 307(a) of the Clean
Water Act.
Any person who contributes, causes or permits the contribution
of wastewater into the Village's POTW.
B.
Word usage. "Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
