For the purpose of this Part 4, certain terms and words used
herein are defined as follows:
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the
Clean Water Act, as amended, 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.
Until the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection
establishes an EPA approved pretreatment program, the EPA Administrator
for Pennsylvania will serve as the approval authority.
The White Township Municipal Authority, a body corporate
and politic organized and existing under the laws of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania.
If the user is a corporation:
The president, secretary, treasurer or a 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
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 (in second quarter 1980
dollars), if authority to sign documents has been assigned or delegated
to the manager in accordance with corporate procedures.
If the user is a partnership or sole proprietorship: a general
partner or proprietor, respectively.
If the user is a federal, state or local governmental facility:
a director or highest official appointed or designated to oversee
the operation and performance of the activities of the government
facility or their designee.
The individuals described in Subsections A through C above may designate another authorized representative if the authorizations is in writing, the authorization specifies the individual or position responsible for the overall operation of the facility from which the discharge originates or having overall responsibility for environmental matters for the company, and the written authorization is submitted to Borough of Indiana.
Schedules of activities, prohibitions of practices, maintenance
procedures, and other management practices to implement the prohibitions
listed in § 235-79A(1) and (2). BMPs 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.
The first day of January through the last day of March; the
first day of April through the last day of June; the first day of
July through the last day of September; and the first day of October
through the last day of December.
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedures for five days
at 20 centigrade, usually expressed as a concentration (e.g., mg/l).
The municipal governmental entity known as the "Borough of
Indiana" and located at 80 North Eighth Street, Indiana, Pennsylvania
15701.
Any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated by 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 1, Subchapter N, Parts 405 through 471.
Sewer lines which connect service lines with interceptor
lines, and which are generally located in streets, highways, public
ways, or private rights-of-way, and which are used to serve the general
public.
The provision of sewage service to premises where the customer
is engaged in trade and/or commerce.
The date upon which a bill or notice is mailed, as evidenced
by the United States Post Office cancellation mark.
The provision of sewage service for household residential
purposes.
The amount of sewage estimated to be generated from one typical
residential unit.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency or, where appropriate,
the Regional Water Protection Division Director, or other duly authorized
official of said agency.
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 Section
307 of the Act.
A fixed periodic charge for unmeasured service.
The provision of sewage services for premises in unmeasured
quantities.
A sample which is taken from a waste stream without regard
to the flow in the waste stream and over a period of time not to exceed
15 minutes.
The introduction of pollutants into the POTW from any nondomestic
source regulated under Section 307(b), (c) or (d) of the Act.
The provision of sewage service to premises for use in manufacturing
or processing activities.
The White Township Sewage Enforcement Officer (or his designee),
the White Township Building Code Official, or other qualified representative
appointed by the Township to carry out sewer inspection and regulatory
services.
The maximum concentration of a pollutant allowed to be discharged
at any time, determined from the analysis of any discrete or composited
sample collected, independent of the industrial flowrate and the duration
of the sampling event.
Lines receiving sewage from collector lines, and which lead
to points of treatment or discharge, and which are used to serve the
general public.
A discharge, which alone or in conjunction with a discharge
or discharges from other sources, inhibits or disrupts the POTW, its
treatment processes or operations or its sludge processes, use or
disposal; or is a cause of a violation of the Borough's NPDES
permit, prevents sewage sludge use or disposal in compliance with
any of the following statutory/regulatory provisions or permits issued
thereunder, or any more stringent state or local regulations: Section
405 of the Act; the Solid Waste Disposal Act, including Title II commonly
referred to as the "Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)";
any state regulations contained in any state sludge management plan
prepared pursuant to Subtitle D of the Solid Waste Disposal Act; the
Clean Air Act; the Toxic Substances Control Act; and the Marine Protection,
Research and Sanctuaries Act.
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.
The provision of sewage service to a municipal subdivision
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or agency thereof or to other
similar public bodies. This classification includes educational institutions.
Any building, structure, facility or installation from which
there is (or may be) a discharge of pollutants, the construction of
which commenced after the publication of proposed pretreatment standards
under Section 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 at which no other source is located.
The building, structure, facility or installation totally replaces
the process or production equipment that causes the discharge of pollutants
at an existing source.
The production or wastewater generating processes of the building,
structure, facility or installation are substantially independent
of an existing source at the same site. In determining whether these
are substantially independent, factors such as the extent to which
the new facility is integrated with the existing plant, and the extent
to which the new facility is engaged in the same general type of activity
as the existing source, should be considered.
Construction on a site at which an existing source is located results in a modification rather than a new source if the construction does not create a new building, structure, facility or installation meeting the criteria of Subsection A(2) or (3) above but otherwise alters, replaces or adds to existing process or production equipment.
Construction of a new source as defined under this definition
has commenced if the owner or operator has:
Begun, or caused to begin, as part of a continuous on-site construction
program:
Any placement, assembly or installation of facilities or equipment.
Significant site preparation work, including clearing, excavation
or removal of existing buildings, structures or facilities which is
necessary for the placement, assembly or installation of new source
facilities or equipment.
Entered into a binding contractual obligation for the purchase
of facilities or equipment which are intended to be used in its operation
within a reasonable time. Options to purchase or contracts which can
be terminated or modified without substantial loss, and contracts
for feasibility, engineering and design studies do not constitute
a contractual obligation under this subsection.
Water used for cooling which does not come into direct contact
with any raw material, intermediate product, waste product or finished
product.
The person, firm, corporation or association having an interest
as owner, whether legal or equitable, sole or only partial, in any
premises which is or is about to be serviced by the sanitary sewers
of the Township, and the word "owners" means all so interested.
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 Borough's NPDES permit, including
an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation.
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. This definition includes all federal, state and
local governmental entities.
A measure of the acidity or alkalinity of a solution, expressed
in standard units (SU).
Dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, filter backwash,
sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, medical wastes, chemical
wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked
or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt, municipal, agricultural
and industrial wastes, and certain characteristics of wastewater (e.g.,
pH, temperature, TSS, turbidity, color, BOD, COD, toxicity, or odor).
The property or area, including the improvements thereon,
to which service is or will be provided through sewer lines of the
Township on which the property abuts and on which the improvements
front, and as used herein shall be taken to designate:
A building under one roof owned or leased by one customer and
occupied as one residence or one place of business.
A group or combination of buildings owned by one customer, in
one common enclosure, occupied by one family, or one organization,
corporation or firm, as a residence or place of business, or for manufacturing
or industrial purposes, or as a hotel, hospital, church parochial
school or similar institution except as otherwise noted herein.
The one side of a double house having a solid vertical partition
wall.
Each side or each part of a house or building occupied by one
family even though the closest and/or other fixtures be used in common.
Each apartment, office, suite of offices and/or place of business
located in a building or a group interconnected by a tunnel, passageway,
covered area way, patio or some similar means of structure.
A public building devoted entirely to public use, such as a
town hall, school house, fire engine house.
Each dwelling unit in a row of houses, a dwelling unit being
defined as a building or portion thereof with exclusive culinary and
sanitary facilities designed for occupancy and used by one person
or one family (household).
Each individual and separate place of business and/or occupancy
located in one building or group of buildings commonly designed as
shopping centers, supermarket areas and by such terms.
Each dwelling unit in a public housing development owned and
operated by the United States of America, a municipal subdivision
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, by a philanthropic foundation
or organization or some such similar body or organization, or operated
under private ownership.
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, introducing such pollutants
into the POTW. This reduction or alteration can be obtained by physical,
chemical or biological processes, by process changes, or by other
means, except by diluting the concentration of the pollutants unless
allowed by an applicable pretreatment standard.
No substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment
imposed on a user, other than a pretreatment standard.
Pretreatment standards shall mean prohibited discharge standards,
categorical pretreatment standards and local limits.
A "treatment works," as defined by Section 212 of the Act
(33 U.S.C. § 1292) which is owned or leased by the Borough,
the Township of White, or White Township Municipal Authority. This
definition includes any devices or systems used in the collection,
storage, treatment, recycling and reclamation of sewage or industrial
wastes of a liquid nature and any conveyances which convey wastewater
to Indiana Borough's wastewater treatment plant.
The system of sewers and/or sewer treatment plants owned
and/or operated by the Township of White.
Greater than 100 gallons of anaerobic sewage delivered from
a holding tank, privy or septic tank.
Any sewage from holding tanks, such as vessels, chemical
toilets, campers, trailers and septic tanks.
The Y-branch from the collector lines to the owner's
property line.
The sewer line and other facilities, to include all below
floor piping, within which sewage is conveyed from the premises to
the service line connection and which is privately owned and maintained
and which is also commonly referred to as the "house lateral line."
Human excrement and gray water (household showers, dishwashing
operations, etc.).
The entire body of effective rates, rentals, charges and
regulations, as published and made a part thereof.
A user subject to categorical pretreatment standards.
A user that:
Discharges an average of 25,000 gpd or more of process wastewater
to the POTW (excluding sanitary, noncontact cooling and boiler blowdown
wastewater).
Contributes a process waste stream which makes up 5% or more
of the average dry weather hydraulic or organic capacity of the POTW
treatment plant.
Is designated as such by the Borough on the basis that it has
a reasonable potential for adversely affecting the POTW's operation
or for violating any pretreatment standard or requirement.
The Pretreatment Coordinator may determine that an industrial
user subject to categorical pretreatment standards is a nonsignificant
categorical industrial user rather than a significant industrial user
on a finding that the industrial user never discharges more than 100
gallons per day (gpd) of total categorical wastewater (excluding sanitary,
noncontact cooling and boiler blowdown wastewater, unless specifically
included in the pretreatment standard) and the following conditions
are met:
The industrial user, prior to the Borough's finding, has
consistently complied with all applicable categorical pretreatment
standards and requirements;
The industrial user annually submits the certification statement
required in § 235-83N(2) [see 40 CFR 403.12(q)], together
with any additional information necessary to support the certification
statement; and
The industrial user never discharges any untreated concentrated
wastewater.
A classification pursuant to the Standard Industrial Classification
Manual issued by the United States Office of Management and Budget.
Any flow occurring during or following any form of natural
precipitation, and resulting from such precipitation, including snowmelt.
The total suspended matter that floats on the surface of
or is suspended in water, wastewater or other liquid, and which is
removable by laboratory filtering.
Anyone occupying the premises under lease, written or oral,
from a lessor and being served by the sanitary sewers of the Township.
The Township of White, a body corporate and politic organized
and existing under the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Extensions of sewage collection lines beyond existing facilities
and exclusive of service connections.
A source of indirect discharge.
Liquid and water-carried industrial wastes and sewage from
residential dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial and manufacturing
facilities, and institutions, whether treated or untreated, which
are contributed to the POTW.
That portion of the POTW which is designed to provide treatment
of municipal sewage and industrial waste.
