Definitions. Unless the context specifically indicates
otherwise, the following terms and phrases as used in this chapter shall have
the meanings hereinafter designated:
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.
APPLICANT
The user applying for permission to connect to the water and/or sewer
system.
AUTHORITY
The Lower Bucks County Joint Municipal Authority (LBCJMA), Bucks
County, Pennsylvania.
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF INDUSTRIAL USER
(1)
A responsible corporate officer of the level of president, vice president,
secretary or treasurer of the corporation in charge of a principal business
function, or any other person who performs similar policy or decisionmaking
functions for the corporation.
(2)
The manager of one or more manufacturing, production or operation facilities
employing more than 250 persons or having gross annual sales or expenditures
exceeding $25,000,000, if authority to sign documents has been assigned or
delegated to the manager in accordance with corporate procedures.
(3)
A general partner or proprietor if the industrial user is a partnership
or proprietorship, respectively.
(4)
A duly authorized representative of the individual designated above
if:
(a)
The authorization is made in writing by the individual described above.
(b)
The authorization specifies either an individual or a position having
responsibility for the overall operation of the facilities from which the
indirect discharge originates, such as the position of plant manager or a
position of equivalent responsibility, or having overall responsibility for
environmental matters for the company.
(c)
The written authorization is submitted to the control authority.
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD)
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic
matter under standard laboratory conditions, five days at 20º C., expressed
in terms of weight and concentration, milligrams per liter (mg/l).
BOARD
The appointed officials acting as the governing body of the Authority.
BUILDING DRAIN
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 building sewer, beginning five
feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
BUILDING SEWER
A sewer conveying wastewater from the premises of a user to the POTW.
CONSISTENT REMOVAL
The reduction in the amount of a pollutant or alteration of the nature
of the pollutant by the wastewater treatment system to a less toxic or harmless
state in the effluent which is achieved by the system in 95% of the samples
taken when measured according to the procedures set forth in 40 CFR § 403.7(c)(2).
COOLING WATER
The water discharged from any use, such as air conditioning, cooling
or refrigeration, or to which the only pollutant added is heat.
CUSTOMER
The party contracting for water and/or sewer service to a property
as herein classified:
(1)
A building under one roof owned by one party and used for one business
or dwelling unit.
(2)
A combination of buildings owned by one party in one common enclosure
and used for one business or dwelling unit.
(3)
The one side of a double house, having a solid vertical partition wall
and used as one dwelling unit.
(4)
A building owned by one party having a number of apartments or offices
and using in common one hall and one or more means of entrance.
(5)
An industrial, commercial or manufacturing establishment.
(6)
Each dwelling unit, in addition to the first dwelling unit, in a building
under one roof, owned by one party, shall be treated and regarded as a separate
customer and shall be subject to the rate schedule applicable thereby.
DIRECT DISCHARGE
The discharge of treated or untreated wastewater directly to the
waters of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
EXISTING SOURCE
Any source of discharge, the construction or operation of which commenced
prior to the publication by EPA of proposed categorical pretreatment standards,
which will be applicable to such source if the standard is thereafter promulgated
in accordance with § 307 of the Act.
FEDERAL CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARD (CATEGORICAL STANDARD)
Any regulations containing pollutant discharge limitations promulgated
by the EPA in accordance with § 307(b) and (c) of the Act (33 U.S.C.
§ 1317), which apply to a specific category of users and which appear
in 40 CFR, Chapter I, Subchapter N, § 405-71.
GRAB SAMPLE
A sample which is taken from a wastestream on a one-time basis, with
no regard to the flow in the wastestream and without consideration of time.
HOLDING TANK WASTE
Any waste from holding tanks, such as vessels, chemical toilets,
campers, trailers, septic tanks, and vacuum pump tank trucks, etc.
INDIRECT DISCHARGE
The discharge or the introduction of nondomestic pollutants from
any source regulated under § 307(b) or (c) of the Act (33 U.S.C.
§ 1317), into the POTW.
INDUSTRIAL PRETREATMENT PROGRAM
A program administered by a POTW that meets the criteria established
in 40 CFR §§ 403.8 and 403.9, and which has been approved by
a regional administrator or state director in accordance with 40 CFR § 403.11.
INDUSTRIAL USER
A source of indirect discharge which does not constitute a discharge
of pollutants under regulations issued pursuant to § 402 of the
Act (33 U.S.C. §1342).
INDUSTRIAL WASTE
Any solid, liquid or gaseous substance or form of energy rejected
or escaping from any industrial, manufacturing, trade or business process
or from the development, recovery or processing of natural resources, as distinct
from sanitary sewage.
INSTANTANEOUS MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE DISCHARGE LIMIT
The maximum concentration of a pollutant allowed to be discharged
at any time, determined from the analysis of any discrete or composite sample
collected, independent of the industrial flow rate and the duration of the
sampling event.
INTERFERENCE
A discharge which, alone or in conjunction with a discharge or discharges
from other sources, both causes the inhibition or disruption of the POTW treatment
processes or operations or its sludge processes, use or disposal, which contributes
to a violation of any requirement of the Authority's NPDES 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
§ 405 of the Act (33 U.S.C. § 1345), or any criteria,
guidelines or regulations developed pursuant to the Solid Waste Disposal Act
(SWDA) including Title II, more commonly referred to as the "Resource Conservation
and Recovery Act" (RCRA), the Clean Air Act, the Toxic Substances Control
Act, the Marine Protection Research and Sanctuaries Act or more stringent
state criteria, including those contained in any state sludge management plan
prepared pursuant to Title IV (Subtitle D) of SWDA applicable to the method
of disposal or use employed by the POTW.
MAY
Permissive by the Authority.
MEDICAL WASTE
Isolation wastes, infectious agents, human blood and blood products,
pathological wastes, sharps, body parts, contaminated bedding, surgical wastes,
potentially contaminated laboratory wastes and dialysis wastes.
NEW SOURCE
(1)
Any building, structure, facility or installation from which there is
or may be a discharge of pollutants, the construction of which is commenced
after the publication of proposed pretreatment standards under § 307(c)
of the Act which will be applicable to such source, if such standards are
thereafter promulgated in accordance with that section, provided that the
building, structure, facility or installation is constructed at a site which
no other source is located.
(2)
The building, structure, facility or installation totally replaces the
process or production equipment that causes the discharge of pollutants at
an existing source.
(3)
The production or wastewater-generating processes of the building, structure,
facility or installation are substantially independent of an existing source
at the same site.
(4)
Construction on a site at which an existing source is located results
in modification rather than a new source if the construction does not create
a new building, structure, facility or installation.
NONCONTACT COOLING WATER
The water used for cooling which does not come into direct contact
with any raw material, intermediate product, waste product or finished product.
PASS THROUGH
A discharge which exits the POTW into waters of the United States
in quantities or concentrations which, alone or in conjunction with a discharge
or discharges from other sources, 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).
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, copartnership, firm, company, association,
joint-stock company, trust, estate, governmental entity, 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 context.
pH
The logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the concentration of
hydrogen ions expressed in grams per liter of solution and indicates the degree
of acidity or alkalinity of a substance.
POLLUTANT
Any dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage, garbage,
sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive
materials, heat, wrecked or discharged equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt
and industrial, municipal and agricultural waste discharged into water.
POLLUTION
The man-made or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical,
biological and radiological integrity of water.
PRETREATMENT or TREATMENT
The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination of pollutants
or the alteration of the nature 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 POTW.
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).
PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENTS
Any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment,
other than a Federal Categorical Pretreatment Standard, imposed on an industrial
user.
PRETREATMENT STANDARDS
Prohibited discharge standards, Federal Categorical Pretreatment
Standards and local limits.
PROHIBITED DISCHARGES
Absolute prohibitions against the discharge of certain substances. These prohibitions appear in Article
III of this chapter and the Authority's resolution.
PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS (POTW)
A treatment works defined by § 212 of the Act (33 U.S.C.
§ 1292) which is owned, in this instance, by the Authority. This
definition includes any devices and systems used in the storage, treatment,
recycling and reclamation of municipal sewage or industrial wastes of a liquid
nature. It also includes pipes, sewers and other conveyances only if they
convey wastewater to a POTW treatment plant. For the purposes of this chapter,
"POTW" shall also include any sewer that conveys wastewater to the POTW from
users outside the Authority's sewer service areas, who are, by contract or
agreement with the Authority, users of the Authority's POTW. The term also
means the municipality as defined in § 502(4) of the Act, which
has jurisdiction over the indirect discharges to and discharges from such
a treatment works.
SANITARY SEWAGE
The wastewater from residential households and toilet facilities
from institutions, commercial and industrial establishments.
SEPTIC TANK WASTE
Any waste from campers, trailers, septic tanks and vacuum pump tank
trucks, etc.
SHALL
Mandatory by the Authority.
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER (SIU)
Any nonresidential user of the Authority's POTW who:
(1)
Is subject to Federal Categorical Pretreatment Standards.
(2)
Discharges an average of 25,000 gallons per day or more of process wastewater
to the POTW (excluding sanitary, noncontact cooling and boiler blowdown wastewater).
(3)
Contributes a process wastestream which makes up 5% or more of the average
dry weather or organic capacity of the Authority's POTW treatment plant.
(4)
Has in its wastes toxic pollutants as defined pursuant to § 307
of the Act or Pennsylvania statutes and rules.
(5)
Is designated as such by the Authority, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental
Protection (DEP) or the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on the basis
that it has a reasonable potential for adversely affecting the POTW's operation
or for violating a pretreatment standard or requirement.
SLUG
Any discharge of water, sewage or waste exceeding a concentration
or flow greater than five times that of the average two-hour discharge from
the user, which is discharged continuously for a period longer than 15 minutes.
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 1987.
STATE
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
STORMWATER
Any flow occurring during or following any form of natural precipitation
and resulting therefrom.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
The total suspended matter that floats on the surface or is suspended
in water, wastewater or other liquids, and which is removable by laboratory
filtering.
TOXIC POLLUTANT
Any pollutant or combination of pollutants listed as toxic in regulations
promulgated by EPA under provision of the Clean Water Act, § 307(a)
or other acts.
US ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
The US 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.
WASTEWATER/WASTESTREAM
The liquid and water-carried industrial 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 is contributed into or permitted to enter the
Authority's POTW.
WATERS OF THE STATE
All streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, watercourses, waterways, wells,
springs, reservoirs, aquifers, irrigation systems, drainage systems and all
other bodies or accumulation 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.
WATER SYSTEM
All facilities for the collection, treatment and distribution of
water.