A. 
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
ACCEPTED ENGINEERING PRACTICE
The generally approved method by which wastewater facilities shall be designed.
ASHTO
The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials.
ASTM
The American Society for Testing and Materials, 1916 Race Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103.
AUTHORITY
The Pen Argyl Municipal Authority (PAMA), a municipal authority of the commonwealth.
AUTHORITY SERVICE AREA
The Borough of Pen Argyl and other contiguous areas for which the Authority provides sewer service in accordance with the intermunicipal agreements between the Authority and the municipalities.
AWWA
The American Water Works Association, 6666 West Quincy Avenue, Denver, Colorado 80235.
BOD (biochemical oxygen demand)
The quantity of oxygen, expressed in parts per million (ppm) by weight, utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure for five days at 20° C. The standard laboratory procedure shall be that found in the latest edition of Standard Methods. "BOD" is also denoted as "CBOD."
BOROUGH
The Borough of Pen Argyl, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, a municipal corporation of the commonwealth, acting by and through its Council or, in appropriate cases, acting by and through its authorized representatives.
BOROUGH REPRESENTATIVE
A person who serves as an agent for the Borough.
BUILDING DRAIN
The part of the building drainage system within the foundation walls of the building.
BUILDING SEWER
That part of the building drainage system that extends from the end of the building drain to the public or private lateral, an individual sewage disposal system or other point of disposal.
CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION
The certificate the Borough representative will issue to the applicant upon completion of construction, testing, inspection and certification of the work by the Borough representative and payment of all appropriate fees and costs.
CHLORINE DEMAND
The quantity of chlorine absorbed in water, sewage or other liquids, allowing a residual of 0.01 ppm by weight after 15 minutes of contact.
CISPI
The Cast Iron Soil Pipe Institute.
COLLECTION SEWER
Any pipe or conduit constituting a part of the public or a private sewer system used or usable for sewage collection purposes.
COMMONWEALTH
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
CONNECTION UNIT
Each individual building or house, whether constructed as a detached unit or as one of a pair or row, which is designed or adaptable to separate ownership for use as a family dwelling unit or for commercial or industrial purposes. A school, factory, apartment house, office building or other multiple-unit structure whose individual apartments or units are connected to a common internal sewerage system and are not commonly subject to separate ownership shall be considered as a connection unit.
DOMESTIC SEWAGE
An aqueous based substance that contains the waste products or excrement or other discharge from the bodies of human beings and any noxious or deleterious substance being harmful to inimical to the public health or to animal or to aquatic life, or to the use of water for domestic water supply or for recreation, or which constitutes pollution under the Clean Streams Law,[1] related to a single-family dwelling or similar use.
ENGINEER
A person licensed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to perform engineering services.
(1) 
BOROUGH SEWER COMMITTEE ENGINEERThe individual engineer or firm employed by the Borough or acting for the Borough's Sewer Committee and/or Authority.
(2) 
ENGINEERA licensed individual who may be other than the Borough Sewer Committee Engineer.
EQUIVALENT DWELLING UNIT (EDU)
An approved structure or portion of an approved structure that serves as the residence for a single family. For other than a family residence, an EDU shall be that portion of an approved structure deemed to produce a sewage flow equal to 250 gallons per day, or fraction thereof.
GARBAGE
Refuse or solid wastes resulting from preparation, cooking and dispensing of food and from handling, storage and sale of food products and produce.
G.P.D. (gpd)
Gallons per day.
HAZARDOUS CHEMICAL (HC)
Refer to "hazardous substance."
HAZARDOUS MATERIAL
A material that, because of its quantity, concentration, physical, chemical or infectious characteristics, may:
(1) 
Cause, or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious, irreversible or incapacitating reversible illness; or
(2) 
Pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or the environment when improperly treated, stored, transported, disposed of or otherwise managed; or
(3) 
Any material that adversely affects any of the Borough STP microorganisms or equipment.
HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE (HS)
Any chemical or mixture defined as hazardous. For the purpose of this chapter any hazardous material is a hazardous substance.
HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE LIST (HSL)
A list of hazardous substances. The Boroughs HSL shall contain any substance, including but not limited to the substances found in the latest compilation or issue of any one of the following lists:
(1) 
EPA list of toxic pollutants and hazardous substances prepared pursuant to Sections 307 and 311 of the Federal Clean Water Act of 1977 (33 U.S.C. §§ 1317, 1321).
(2) 
EPA list of hazardous air pollutants prepared pursuant of Section 112 of the Federal Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. § 7412).
(3) 
EPA list of restricted use pesticides found at 40 CFR 162.30 (relating to optional procedures for classification of pesticide uses by regulation).
(4) 
EPA Carcinogen Assessment Group's List of Carcinogens.
(5) 
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) list of toxic and hazardous substances found in 29 CFR 1910, Subpart Z (relating to toxic and hazardous substances).
(6) 
International Agency for Research on Cancer sublist, entitled "Substances found to have at least sufficient evidence of carcinogenicity in animals."
(7) 
National Toxicology Program's list of substances published in its latest Annual Report on Carcinogens.
(8) 
National Fire Protection Association list found in Hazardous Chemicals Data (NFPA 49).
(9) 
National Fire Protection Association list found in Fire Hazard Properties of Flammable Liquids, Gases, Volatile Solids (NFPA 325M), but only those substances found on sublists for health items. Categories 2, 3 and 4; sublists for reactivity items categories 3 and 4; sublists for flammability, categories 3 and 4.
(10) 
American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists' list found in Threshold Limit Value for Chemical Substances and Physical Agents in the Workplace.
(11) 
National Cancer Institute sublist, entitled, "Carcinogens bioassay with at least evidence suggestive of carcinogenic effect," but including only those substances which satisfy criteria of the National Toxicology Program indicating significant carcinogenic effect.
HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE, SPECIAL
A hazardous substance so designated by the Federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) because its particular toxicity, tumorigenicity, mutagenicity, reproductive toxicity, flammability, explosiveness, corrosivity or reactivity poses a special hazard to health and safety. Any material that adversely affects any of the Borough's facilities.
HAZARDOUS WASTE (HW)
A product or chemical designated as a "HW" by the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) regulations of the EPA. Although the regulatory definition of a "HW" is very complicated, generally speaking a material becomes a waste at the point at which it can no longer be used for its originally intended purpose, or as a direct substitute (without reprocessing). To determine if a waste is a hazardous waste, EPA used both lists and definitions. The four hazards identified by definition are called "characteristics," and include ignitability, corrosivity, reactivity, and toxicity
IMPROVED PROPERTY
Any property within the Authority's service area upon which there is erected a structure intended for continuous or periodic habitation, occupancy or use by human beings or animals, and from which structure sewage and/or industrial wastes shall be or may be discharged.
INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any improved property located in the Authority's service area used or intended for use, wholly or in part, for the manufacturing, processing, cleaning, laundering or assembling of any product, commodity or article, or any other improved property located in the Authority's service area from which wastes, in addition to or other than sewage, shall be discharged.
INDUSTRIAL WASTE
All substances not classified as domestic sewage by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PaDEP).
LATERAL
That part of the public or private sewer system extending from a collection sewer to the property line. If no such lateral shall be provided, then "lateral" shall mean that portion of, or place in, a sewer which is provided for connection of any building sewer.
OWNER
Any person or persons vested with legal ownership of any real estate.
PaDEP
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.
PennDOT
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, company, association, society, trust, corporation or other group or entity.
pH
The logarithm (Base 10) of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions, expressed in grams per liter of solution, which indicates the degree of acidity or alkalinity of a substance.
PLUMBING INSPECTOR (PI)
The Borough-designated representative delegated to make inspections and enforce the provisions of the Pen Argyl Borough Sewage Procedures Manual.
POLLUTION
Contamination of any waters of the commonwealth, which will create or is likely to create a nuisance or to render such waters harmful, detrimental or injurious to public health, safety or welfare.
PPM (parts per million)
A weight-to-weight ratio; the parts-per-million value multiplied by the factor 8.345 shall be equivalent to pounds per million gallons of water.
PRETREATMENT PROGRAM
The treatment required for nondomestic wastes to make them allowable for discharge into the public sewer system.
PRIVATE SEWER SYSTEM
All the facilities for collecting, pumping or conveyance of sanitary sewage and/or industrial wastes situated either on private or public property, streets or rights-of-way, which are constructed to the standards of a public sewer system but are not the property of the Authority or the municipality in the service area.
PRIVATE STREET
A street, accessway, or right-of-way that is not ordained by the municipality in the service area.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
Garbage that has been shredded to such a degree that all its particles will be carried freely under normal sewer flow conditions, with no particle greater than 1/2 inch in any dimension.
PUBLIC SEWER SYSTEM
All facilities, as of any particular time, for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage and/or industrial wastes, situated in the Authority's service area and operated by the Borough.
PUBLIC STREET
A street, accessway or right-of-way that is ordained by the Borough or the municipality in the service area.
PVC
Polyvinyl chloride.
SANITARY SEWAGE
Normal water-carried household and toilet wastes from any improved property, including such ground, surface or stormwater as may be present.
SANITARY SEWER RATE
The fee imposed by the Borough for its sewer services.
SEWAGE
An aqueous based substance that contains the waste products or excrement or other discharge from the bodies of human beings or animals and noxious or deleterious substances being harmful or inimical to the public health, or to animal or aquatic life, or to the use of water for domestic water supply or for recreation, or which constitutes pollution under the Clean Streams Law.[2]
SEWAGE PLANNING MODULES
As defined by PaDEP.
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT (STP)
The plant and facilities owned by the Authority and operated by the Borough to treat sewage and to which the public sewer system is connected.
SEWER
Any pipe or conduit constituting a part of the sewer system, used or usable for sewage collection purposes and to which ground, surface and stormwater is not admitted intentionally.
SEWER CONSTRUCTION PERMIT
A permit issued by the Borough to undertake construction of or on a building sewer, lateral, private or public sewer system or any other facilities necessary to connect to an approved structure or portion of the Borough sewer system.
SEWER DEPARTMENT REPRESENTATIVE
A person employed by the Borough or acting for the Borough who enforces the provisions of the Pen Argyl Borough Sewage Procedures Manual.
SEWER SYSTEM
All facilities, as of any particular time, for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sanitary sewage and industrial wastes, situate in the sewered area and owned and/or operated by the Authority.
SLUG
Any discharge of water, sewage or industrial waste which, in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow, exceeds more than five times its hourly concentration or flow, for a duration greater than 15 minutes.
STANDARD METHODS
The examination and analytical procedures set forth in the most recent edition of "Standard Methods for the Examination of Water, Sewage, and Industrial Wastes," published jointly by the American Public Health Association, the American Water Works Association and the Water Pollution Control Federation.
STREET
Any street, road, lane, court, cul-de-sac, alley, public way or public square.
SURCHARGE
The extra charge that is levied on those persons whose wastes exceed the concentration values established as representative of normal domestic sewage.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
Solids that either float on the surface of, or are in suspension in, water, sewage or other liquids, and which are largely removable by laboratory filtering. The quantity of material removed from sewage in a laboratory test, as prescribed in Standard Methods for the Examination of Water, Sewage, and Industrial Wastes and referred to as "nonfilterable residue."
TAP-IN
The connection to the public sewer system and shall consist of all gravity pipes, pump stations, force mains, appurtenances and equipment, including the lateral, the building sewer, the building drain and any collection sewer or a private system, which is used to tap-in a property, lot, street (including land, alley, way or drive), a project, a development, a building, use or any part thereof, to the sewer system. All parts of a tap-in shall be designed, approved, constructed and inspected according to the appropriate provisions of the Pen Argyl Borough Sewage Procedures Manual. The number of tap-in fees shall be equal to the number of EDUs required for the property.
TAP-IN FEE
The fee charged prior to a property owner connecting his or her property to the sewer system. Tap-in fees shall also be payable in the event that any property or usage is modified so as to require any additional EDUs. The tap-in fee is composed of four parts: capacity, distribution or collection, special purpose, and new construction reimbursement. It may not exceed an amount based upon some or all of these four components, as follows:
(1) 
The capacity component is a fee based on the cost of treatment facilities. This may include facilities providing existing services and those to provide future service.
(2) 
The collection component includes fees based on the facilities such as mains and pumping stations.
(3) 
The special purpose component includes fees based on the cost of providing facilities such as pump stations, and industrial sewage treatment facilities. These facilities would provide service to a particular group of customers or serve a particular purpose and/or serve a specific area. There is no special purpose component in the Authority's tap-in fee at the current time.
(4) 
The new construction reimbursement component is an amount necessary to recapture the allowable portion of facilities to reimburse the property owner at whose expense the required facilities were constructed.
[1]
Editor's Note: See 35 P.S. § 691.1 et seq.
[2]
Editor's Note: See 35 P.S. § 691.1 et seq.
B. 
Word usage.
(1) 
"May" shall mean permissible in this chapter.
(2) 
"Shall," as used in this chapter, establishes a mandatory condition or requirement.