Words, terms and phrases. The following words, terms
and phrases when used in this article shall have the meaning ascribed to them
in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
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.
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF AN INDUSTRIAL USER
An authorized representative of an industrial user may be a responsible
corporate officer, if the industrial user is a corporation. For the purpose
of this Article, a corporate officer means:
(1)
A President, Secretary, Treasurer or Vice President of the corporation
in charge of a principal business function, or any other person who performs
similar policy or decisionmaking functions for the corporation; or
(2)
The manager of one (1) or more of manufacturing, production or operation
facilities employing more than two hundred fifty (250) persons or having gross
annual sales or expenditures exceeding twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000.)
[in second quarter 1980 dollars], if the authority to sign documents has been
assigned or delegated to the manager in accordance with corporate procedures.
(3)
By a general partner or proprietor if the industrial user is a partnership
or sole proprietorship, respectively.
(4)
The principal executive officer or director having responsibility for
the overall operation of the discharging facility if the industrial user is
a federal, state or local government entity, or their agents, or a charitable
organization or other such unincorporated entity.
(5)
By a duly authorized representative of the individual described in Subsections
(a), (b) or (c) of this definition:
(a)
The authorization is made, in writing, by the individual in Subsection
(1),
(2) or
(3).
(b)
The authorization specifies either an individual or a position having
responsibility for the overall operation of the facility from which the discharge
originates, such as the position of plant manager, operator of a well or a
wellfield superintendent or a position of equivalent responsibility or having
overall responsibility for environmental matters for the company.
(c)
The written authorization is submitted is submitted to the control authority.
(6)
If an authorization under Subsection D of this definition is no longer accurate because a different individual or position has responsibility for the overall operation of the facility, or overall responsibility for environmental matters of the company, a new authorization satisfying the requirements of Subsection
(5) of this definition must be submitted to the control authority prior to or together with any reports to be signed by an authorized representative.
BOD (BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND)
The quantity of oxygen, expressed in milligram per liter (mg/l),
utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory
procedure in five (5) days at twenty degrees Centigrade (20° C.).
BUILDING SEWER
That part of the main building or house drain or sewer line inside
the walls of the building and extending through the wall to a point five (5)
feet from the roadway right-of-way and connecting to the service line.
BYPASS
The intentional diversion of waste streams from any portion of an
industrial user's treatment facility.
CITY
The City of Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, or its duly
authorized representatives or agents.
COLOR
Color of an industrial waste is the color of the light transmitted
by the waste solution after removing the suspended material, including the
pseudo-colloidal particles.
COMPOSITE SAMPLE
A sample that is collected over time, formed either by continuous
sampling or by mixing discrete samples. The sample may be composited either
as a time composite sample: composed of discrete sample aliquots collected
in one (1) container at constant time intervals providing representative samples
irrespective of stream flow; or as a flow proportional composite sample: collected
either as a constant sample volume at time intervals proportional to stream
flow or collected by increasing the volume of each aliquot as the flow increases
while maintaining a constant time interval between the aliquots.
CONTROL AUTHORITY
The City of Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania or its duly
authorized agents.
COOLING WATER
(1)
UNCONTAMINATEDWater used for cooling purposes only, which has no direct contact with any raw material, intermediate or final product and which does not contain a level of contaminants detectably higher than that of the intake water.
(2)
CONTAMINATEDWater used for cooling purposes only, which may become contaminated either through the use of water treatment chemicals used for corrosion inhibitors or biocides or by direct contact with process materials and/or wastewater.
DIRECT DISCHARGE
The discharge of treated or untreated wastewater directly to the
waters of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY OR 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.
GARBAGE
Solid waste resulting from the domestic and commercial 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 without consideration of time.
GROUNDWATER
That water which is contained in or passing through the ground.
HOLDING TANK WASTE
Any waste from holding tanks such as vessels, chemical toilets, campers,
trailers, septic tanks and vacuum-pump tank trucks.
INDIRECT DISCHARGE
The discharge or the introduction of nondomestic pollutants from
any source regulated under Section 307(b) or (c) of the Act (33 U.S.C. § 1317)
into the sewer system (including holding tank waste discharged into the system).
INDUSTRIAL USER
A source of nondomestic waste. Any nondomestic source discharging
pollutants to a publicly owned treatment works (POTW).
INDUSTRIAL WASTE
Solid, liquid or gaseous substances, waterborne waste or form of
energy discharged or escaping in the course of any industrial, manufacturing,
commercial, trade, business or research process or in the course of development,
recovering or processing of natural resources, but not sanitary sewage.
INTERFERENCE
A discharge which, alone or in conjunction with a discharge or discharges
from other sources, both inhibits or disrupts the POTW treatment processes
or operations or its sludge process, use or disposal; and therefore, causes
a violation of any of the POTW's National Pollutant Discharge Elimination
System (NPDES) permit or prevents sewage sludge use or disposal in compliance
with specified applicable federal statues, regulations or permits issued thereunder
(or more stringent state or local regulations): Section 405 of the Act (33
U.S.C. § 1345), Solid Waste Disposal Act (SWDA), the Clean Air Act,
the Toxic Substances Control Act or more stringent state criteria (including
those contained in any state sludge management plan prepared pursuant to Subtitle
D of the SWDA) applicable to the method of disposal or use employed by the
control authority.
LOCAL LIMITS
Restrictions on concentration, mass or other characteristics of a
wastewater discharge developed by the control authority and imposed on the
industrial users in order to prevent interference, pass-through or harm to
the POTW, human health and safety or animal or plant life.
MANHOLE
A structure leading from the surface of the ground to a sewer, permitting
access to the sewer.
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.
This term includes prohibitive discharge limits established pursuant to 40
CFR 403.5.
NEW SOURCE
Any building, structure, facility or installation for 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 standards will be applicable to such source if they 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.
OPERATOR
Any person having charge, care, management or control of a tank truck(s)
or treatment system(s) used in the removal, transportation, disposal or treatment
of sewage and/or industrial wastes.
OWNER
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole or partial,
of an improved property.
PASS-THROUGH
A discharge of pollutant which cannot be treated adequately by the
POTW, and therefore exits into the waters of the state 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 POTW's NPDES permit
(including an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation).
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 of the reciprocal of the concentration of hydrogen
ions, expressed in gram equivalent per liter of solution and indicating the
degrees of acidity or alkalinity of a substance. It shall be determined by
one (1) of the accepted methods described in 40 CFR 136.
POLLUTION
The man-made or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical,
biological and radiological integrity of water.
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 and industrial, municipal and agricultural
waste discharged into water.
PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENT
Any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment,
other than a national pretreatment standard, imposed on an industrial user.
PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS (POTW)
A treatment works as defined by Section 212 of the Act, (33 U.S.C.
§ 1292) which is owned in this instance by the Sewer Authority of
the City of Scranton, Pennsylvania. 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 purposes of this Article, "POTW" shall also include any sewers that
convey wastewaters to the POTW from persons who are, by contract or agreement
with the control authority, users of the POTW.
PRETREATMENT OR TREATMENT
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 the sewer system. The reduction or alteration can be
obtained by physical, chemical or biological processes or process changes
and other means, except if prohibited by 40 CFR 403.6(d).
QUALIFIED ANALYST
Any person who has demonstrated competency in wastewater analysis
by having analyzed satisfactorily a minimum of three (3) reference wastewater
samples as supplied upon request by the control authority or by submission
of their generally recognized documentation of competency.
SANITARY SEWAGE
The normal water-carried household and toilet waste from any improved
property, excluding, however, the effluent from septic tanks or cesspools,
rain-, storm- and groundwater, as well as roof or surface water, drainage
or percolating or seeping waters, or accumulation thereof, whether underground
or in cellars or basements.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer which carries sewage and/or authorized industrial wastes
and to which storm, surface and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for carrying sanitary sewage, or authorized industrial
waste alone or combined with stormwater.
SEWER AUTHORITY
The Sewer Authority of the City of Scranton, Pennsylvania, a Pennsylvania
municipal authority.
SEWER SYSTEM
Publicly Owned Treatment Works (POTW) as defined herein. For the
purposes of this Article, "sewer system" shall also include any sewers that
convey wastewater to the sewer system from persons who are, by contract or
agreement with the control authority, users of the sewer system.
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER
(1)
All users subject to the National Categorical Pretreatment Standards
under 40 CFR Chapter I, Subchapter N; and
(2)
All users not subject to the National Categorical Pretreatment Standards
that:
(a)
Discharges twenty-five thousand (25,000) gallons per day or more of
process wastewater ("process wastewater" excludes sanitary, cooling water
and boiler blowdown wastewaters).
(b)
Contributes a process waste stream which makes up five percent (5%)
or more of the average dry weather hydraulic or organic (BOD, TSS, etc.) capacity
of the treatment plant.
(c)
Has a reasonable potential, in the opinion of the control or approval
authority, to adversely affect the POTW by interference, pass-through of pollutants,
sludge contamination or endangerment of POTW workers.
SIGNIFICANT NONCOMPLIANCE
An industrial user is in "significant noncompliance" if its violation
meets one (1) or more of the specific criteria listed in Section 6.2 of this
Article. If the control authority determines that an industrial user is in
Significant Noncompliance (SNC), that user will be included on the annual
publication list.
SLUG LOAD
Any discharge of a nonroutine, episodic nature or at a flow rate
or concentration which would cause a violation of the prohibited discharge
standards.
STATE
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
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.
STORMWATER
Any flow occurring during or following any form of natural precipitation
and resulting thereof.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
Solids that either float on the surface of or are in suspension in
water, sewage or other liquids and which are removable by laboratory filtering.
TOXIC SUBSTANCES
Any substance or combination of substances that:
(1)
Is listed as toxic in regulations promulgated by the Administrator of
the Environmental Protection Agency under the provisions of CWA 307(a) or
other Acts; or
(2)
Is present in sufficient quantity, either singly or by interaction with
other wastes, to injure or interfere with any sewage treatment process, to
constitute a hazard to humans or animals, to create a public nuisance or to
create any hazard in the sewer system or in the receiving waters of the sewage
treatment plant.
UPSET
An exceptional incident in which there is unintentional and temporary
noncompliance of permit effluent limitations because of factors beyond reasonable
control of the permittee, excluding such factors as operational error, improperly
designed or inadequate treatment facilities or improper operation and maintenance
or lack thereof.
USER
Any person who contributes, causes or permits the contribution of
wastewater into the sewer system.
WASTEWATER
The liquid and water-carried industrial or domestic wastes from dwellings,
commercial buildings, industrial facilities and institutions, whether treated
or untreated, which is contributed into or permitted to enter the sewer system.
WATER-COOLED EQUIPMENT
Any equipment using water as a cooling medium for purposes other
than air conditioning or refrigeration.
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 ground, natural or artificial,
public or private, which are contained within, flow through or border upon
the state or any portion thereof.