The following words, terms and phrases will hereinafter
have the meanings set forth in this section, unless the context clearly
requires 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.
APPROVAL AUTHORITY
The Administrator or the Regional Administrator of Region
III of the EPA.
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF INDUSTRIAL USER
An authorized representative of an industrial user may be:
(1)
A principal executive officer of at least the
level of vice president, if the industrial user is a corporation.
(2)
A general partner or proprietor if the industrial
user is a partnership or proprietorship, respectively.
(3)
A principal executive officer or director having
responsibility for the overall operation of the discharging facility
if the industrial user is a governmental entity, charitable organization
or other such unincorporated entity.
(4)
A duly authorized representative of the individual
designated above if such representative is responsible for the overall
operation of the facilities from which the discharge originates.
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD)
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure, five days at
20° C., expressed in terms of weight and concentration [milligrams
per liter (mg/l)].
BOROUGH
The Borough of Danville, Montour County, Pennsylvania, a
municipal corporation existing under the laws of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania.
BUILDING SEWER
A sewer conveying wastewater from the premises of a user
to the sewer system.
BYPASS
The intentional diversion of wastewater from any portion
of an industrial user's pretreatment facility through which the wastewater
normally passes.
CHAIN OF CUSTODY
A record of sample collection indicating the place and time
of collection and the person collecting the sample. It shall also
include a record of each person involved in possession of the sample,
including the laboratory person who takes final possession of the
sample for the purpose of analysis.
CLEAN STREAMS LAW
The Act of June 22, 1937, P.L. 1987, as amended and reenacted
by the Act of October 10, 1980, P.L. 894, 35 P.S. §§ 691.1
to 691.702.
COLOR
Color of light transmitted through a waste after removal
of all suspended matter, including pseudo-colloidal particles, and
measured in platinum-cobalt units.
COMBINED WASTE FORMULA
A procedure for calculating discharge concentrations of constituents
of industrial waste, as defined in 40 CFR § 403.6(e).
COMPLIANCE
Adherence to conditions or requirements of this article or
the industrial pretreatment program, any written directions issued
by the Borough or any wastewater discharge permit or other permit
issued under the provisions of this article.
COMPOSITE SAMPLE
A sample composed of individual subsamples taken at regular
intervals over a specified period of time. Subsamples may be proportioned
by time interval or size according to flow (flow-proportioned composite
sample), or be of equal size and taken at equal time intervals (equal-time
composite sample).
COOLING WATER
The water from any use such as air conditioning, cooling
or refrigeration, or to which the only pollutant added is heat.
DISCHARGE
The conveyance of any water or wastewater into the sewer
system.
DOMESTIC WASTES
Normal household wastes from kitchens, water closets, lavatories
and laundries, or any waste from a similar source and possessing the
same characteristics.
ENFORCEMENT RESPONSE PLAN
A plan and guide developed pursuant to 40 CFR 403.8(f)(5)
providing for the enforcement of the industrial pretreatment program.
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
The animal or vegetable waste resulting from the handling,
preparation, cooking and consumption of food.
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
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.
INDUSTRIAL PRETREATMENT PROGRAM
The sum of the provisions of this article, amendments thereto
and any activities authorized by this article as regards the regulation
and control of industrial users.
INDUSTRIAL USER
Any person who discharges industrial waste into the sewer
system.
INDUSTRIAL WASTE
Any solid, liquid or gaseous substance, or form of energy,
which is produced as a result, whether directly or indirectly, of
any industrial, manufacturing, trade or business process or activity,
or in the course of developing, recovering or processing of natural
resources; but not sanitary sewage.
INTERFERENCE
A discharge which, alone or in conjunction with discharges
from other sources:
(1)
Inhibits or disrupts the processes or operations
of the sewage treatment plant or the sewage collection system, or
sludge processes, use or disposal; or
(2)
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) or of the prevention of sewage sludge
use or disposal in compliance with the following statutory provisions
and regulations or permits issued thereunder (or more stringent state
or local regulations): Article 405 of the Clean Water Act, the Solid
Waste Disposal Act (SWDA) [including Title II, more commonly referred
to as the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), and including
state regulations contained in any state sludge management plan prepared
pursuant to Subtitle D of the SWDA], the Clean Air Act, the Toxic
Substances Control Act and the Marine Protection, Research and Sanctuaries
Act; or which results in or increases the severity of a violation
of other state or national environmental statutes, rules or regulations.
LOCAL LIMITS
Numerical limitations on the concentration, mass or other
characteristics of wastes or pollutants discharged, or likely to be
discharged, by industrial users, and which are developed by the Borough.
MANHOLE
A structure allowing access from the surface of the ground
to a sewer.
mg/l
Milligrams per liter; a measure of concentration of waterborne
substances.
MONTHLY AVERAGE
The arithmetic mean of all daily determinations of concentration
made during a calendar month.
NATIONAL CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARD
Any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated by the EPA in accordance with § 307(b) and (c) of the Act (33 U.S.C. § 1317) which applies to a specific category of industrial users. National Categorical Pretreatment Standards are enumerated in 40 CFR, Chapter
1, Subchapter N, Parts 405 through 471.
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 § 307(c) of the Act which will be applicable to such
source if such categorical standards 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.
NPDES PERMIT
A permit issued pursuant to Section 402 of the Act (33 U.S.C.
§ 1342).
OPERATOR
Any person having charge, care, control or management of
a pretreatment facility for industrial wastes or of truck or trucks
used in the removal, transport or disposal of sewage or industrial
wastes.
OWNER
Any person, agent, operator, firm or corporation having a
legal or equitable interest in the property; or recorded in the official
records of the state, county or municipality as holding title to the
property; or otherwise having control of the property, including the
guardian of the estate of any such person, and the executor or administrator
of the estate of such person if ordered to take possession of real
property by a court.
PASS-THROUGH
Discharge of pollutants to the waters of the state either
untreated or insufficiently treated so as to cause pollution or a
violation of the Borough's NPDES permit; or concentration of pollutants
in the sludge so that the end use of the sludge results in pollution,
harm to the environment or a violation of any state or federal sludge
disposal regulation, guideline or standard.
PERSON(S)
Any individual, partnership, company, association, society,
trust, corporation or other group or entity, whether an owner or lessee
of residences, commercial or institutional establishments.
pH
The logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the concentration
of hydrogen ions expressed in moles per liter of solution.
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 which, when discharged
into water, results in pollution or increases pollution.
POLLUTION
The contamination of any waters of the state such as will
create or is likely to create a nuisance or to render such waters
harmful, detrimental or injurious to public health, safety or welfare,
or to domestic, municipal, commercial, industrial, agricultural, recreational
or other legitimate beneficial uses, or to livestock, wild animals,
birds, fish or other aquatic life; or contamination of the air, soil
or of the environment so as to produce or is likely to produce similar
deleterious effects.
POTW
A publicly owned treatment works as defined by Section 212
of the Act (33 U.S.C. § 1292). The term includes the sewage
collection system and the sewage treatment plant.
PRETREATMENT
The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the alteration
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 sewer system. The
reduction or alteration can be obtained by physical, chemical or biological
processes, or by means of other process changes except as prohibited
by 40 CFR 403.6(d).
PRETREATMENT COORDINATOR
Agent of the Borough designated to administer the provisions
of the industrial pretreatment program.
PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENTS
Any substantive or procedural requirement, other than a categorical
standard, imposed on an industrial user by § 303(b) and
(c) of the Act, the state or the industrial pretreatment program.
PROCESS WASTEWATER
Any wastewater resulting from the direct contact of water
with any raw material, intermediate product, finish product, by-product
or waste during any manufacturing process, or water other than cooling
water which results from a manufacturing process.
QUALIFIED ANALYST
Any person who has demonstrated competency in the analysis
of wastewater by submission of their generally recognized documentation
of competency to the Borough.
REFRIGERATION
Maintenance of temperature for storage, preservation of food,
or as a process of manufacturing.
SANITARY SEWAGE
The normal watered domestic wastes from any improved property,
but excluding effluent from septic tanks or cesspools; rain, snow
or stormwater; groundwater; or other collected water from roofs, drains
or basements.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer carrying only sanitary sewage or industrial wastes,
and to which storm, surface or ground waters are not intentionally
admitted.
SEWAGE CORRECTION SYSTEM
All facilities of the Borough or any municipality party to
a service agreement with the Borough, as of any particular time, used
or usable for collecting, transporting, pumping and disposing of wastewater,
which facilities are connected to and served by the sewage treatment
plant.
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT
That portion of the sewer system owned and operated by the
Borough, which is designed to provide treatment of wastewater and
discharge of treated effluent to the environment.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for conveying wastewater.
SEWER SYSTEM
The sewage collection system, sewage treatment plant and
any sewers that convey wastewater to the sewage treatment plant. For
the purposes of this article, "sewer system" shall also include any
sewers that convey wastewater to the sewage treatment plant from persons
who are, by contract or agreement with the Borough, users of the sewer
system.
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER
An industrial user who:
(1)
Has a discharge flow of 25,000 gallons or more
of process wastewater per average workday;
(2)
Discharges an organic load, in pounds of BOD
per average workday, of 5% or more of the average daily organic loading
of the sewage treatment plant;
(3)
Is regulated by categorical standards; or
(4)
Is determined by the Borough to have the potential
of adversely affecting the operation of the POTW, causing interference
or pass-through, or of violating any pretreatment requirement.
SLUG or SLUG LOAD
Any discharge of water, wastewater or industrial waste in
which the concentration of any constituent or the rate of flow exceeds,
for any period of time longer than 15 minutes, five times the average
concentration or flow rate from that source during a normal working
day.
SPCC PLAN
A spill prevention, control and countermeasure plan prepared
by an industrial user to minimize the likelihood and intensity of
a slug load or spill and to expedite control and cleanup activities
should a slug load or spill occur.
SPILL
Any discharge of pollutants resulting from the spilling,
overflowing, rupture or leakage of any storage, process or transfer
container, or the control or cleanup activities associated with such
an occurrence.
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.
STANDARD METHODS
The latest edition of Standard Methods for the Examination
of Water and Wastewater, published by the Water Pollution Control
Federation, the American Public Health Association and the American
Waterworks Association.
STATE
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
STORMWATER
Any flow occurring during or following any form of natural
precipitation and resulting therefrom.
SUPERINTENDENT
The person designated by the Borough to supervise the operation
of the sewage treatment plant and monitor flows in the sewage collection
system, or his duly authorized representative.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
The total suspended matter that floats on the surface of,
or is suspended in, water, wastewater or other liquids, and which
is removable by laboratory filtering.
TOTAL SOLIDS
The sum of the dissolved and undissolved solid constituents
of water or wastewater.
TOTAL TOXIC ORGANICS
The sum of all quantifiable values of various organic pollutants
as determined by the Borough or, for certain categorical industrial
users, as defined in the applicable categorical standard.
TOXIC ORGANIC MANAGEMENT PLAN
A plan submitted in lieu of testing for total toxic organics
in which an industrial user specifies methods of control to assure
that total toxic organics do not routinely enter the sewer system.
TOXIC POLLUTANTS
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 Act,
or other acts, or is present in sufficient quantity, either singly
or in combination with other wastewater, so as to present risk of
causing interference or pass-through, causing harm to humans, animals
or plants or creating a hazard to persons or property, either in the
sewage collection system, the sewage treatment plant or the environment
into which it is released.
UNAUTHORIZED DISCHARGE
Discharge of an unauthorized waste, or a discharge which
otherwise is not in compliance with the requirements of the industrial
pretreatment program or other rules or regulations of the Borough.
UNAUTHORIZED WASTE
Any substance which is discharged into the sewage collection
system which is not in compliance with the provisions of the industrial
pretreatment program, or which is discharged by a person in violation
of any of the provisions of this article.
USER
Any person who contributes, causes or permits the discharge
of wastewater into the sewer system.
WASTEWATER
Industrial wastes 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 enters the sewer system.
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
underground, natural or artificial, public or private, which are contained
within, flow through or border upon the state or any portion thereof.