Definitions. Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise,
the following terms and phrases, as used in this article, shall have
the meanings hereinafter designated:
ACT or THE ACT
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the
"Clean Water Act," 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq., as amended.
APPROVAL AUTHORITY
The Director in an NPDES state with an approved state pretreatment
program and the Administrator of the EPA in a non-NPDES state or NPDES
state without an approved state pretreatment program.
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF INDUSTRIAL USER
An authorized representative of an industrial user may be:
(1)
A responsible corporate officer, if the user is a corporation.
"A responsible corporate officer" is:
(a)
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.
(b)
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.
(2)
A general partner or proprietor, if the industrial user is a
partnership or sole proprietorship, respectively.
(3)
A duly-authorized representative of the individual designated in subsection
(1) or
(2), if:
(a)
The authorization is made in writing by the individual described in subsection
(1) or
(2).
(b)
The authorization specifies either an individual or a position
having overall responsibility for the overall operation of the facility
from which the industrial 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.
MANAGER
The duly appointed Manager or, in his absence, the Assistant
Manager or, in their absence, the Controller of the Municipal Authority
of the Township of Robinson, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
NEW SOURCE
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 § 307(c) of the Act which will be applicable to such
source if such standards are thereafter promulgated in accordance
with that section.
PASS-THROUGH
A discharge which exits the POTW into waters of the commonwealth
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).
POTW
A treatment works, as defined by § 212 of the Act,
which is owned by a state or municipality [as defined by § 502(4)
of the Act]. 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 sewers,
pipes and other conveyances only if they convey wastewater to a POTW
treatment plant. The term also means the municipality, as defined
in § 502(4) of the Act, which has jurisdiction over the
indirect discharges to and the discharges from such a treatment works.
PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENTS
The term "pretreatment requirements" shall mean any substantive
or procedural requirement related to pretreatment imposed on an industrial
user other than a pretreatment standard.
SHALL
Is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER
Any user of the wastewater disposal system of the Municipal
Authority of the Township of Robinson who:
(1)
Has a discharge flow of 25,000 gallons or more per average workday.
(2)
Has a flow greater than 5% of the flow in the wastewater treatment
system of the Municipal Authority of the Township of Robinson.
(3)
Is subject to categorical pretreatment standards.
(4)
Is found by the Township of Robinson, the Municipal Authority
of the Township of Robinson, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental
Protection or the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to have
significant impact, either singly or in combination with other contributing
industries, on the wastewater treatment system, the quality of sludge,
the system's effluent quality, or air emissions generated by
the system.
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.
STATE
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 of
or is suspended in water, wastewater or other liquids and which is
removable by laboratory filtering.
TOXIC POLLUTANT
Any pollutants listed as toxic in regulations promulgated
by the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency under
the provision of CWA § 307(a) or other acts.
USER
Any person, organization, business, institution, governmental
entity or other who contributes, causes or permits the contribution
of wastewater into the POTW.
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 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 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.