Definitions. Unless a provisions explicitly states 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," as amended, 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.
AUTHORITY
The Washington-East Washington Joint Authority, an authority
created under the Municipal Authorities Act of 1945, which has authority over indirect discharges to and discharges
from its publicly owned treatment works.
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE USER
(1)
If the user is a corporation:
(a)
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 decision-making 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)
If the user is a partnership or sole proprietorship, general
partner or proprietor, respectively.
(3)
If the user is a federal, state or local government 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.
(4)
The individuals described in subsections
(1) through
(3) above may designate another authorized representative if the authorization 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 the Authority.
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND or BOD
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedures for five days
at 20˚ C., usually expressed as a concentration (e.g., mg/l).
CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARD or CATEGORICAL 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 apply to a specific category of
users and which appear in 40 CFR, Chapter I, subchapter N, Parts 405-471.
CITY
City of Washington, Pennsylvania, or the City Council of
Washington, Pennsylvania.
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY or EPA
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency or, where appropriate,
the Regional Water Management Division Director or other duly authorized
official of said agency.
EXISTING SOURCE
Any source of discharge, the construction or operation of
which commenced prior to the publication by the EPA of proposed categorical
pretreatment standards which will be applicable to such source if
the standard is thereafter promulgated in accordance with § 307
of the Act.
GRAB SAMPLE
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.
INDUSTRIAL USER
An establishment which discharges or introduces industrial
waste into a publicly owned treatment works.
INSTANTANEOUS MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE DISCHARGE LIMIT
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 flow rate and the
duration of the sampling event.
INTERFERENCE
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, and therefore is a cause of a violation of the Authority's
NPDES permit or of the prevention of 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: § 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.
MANAGER
The person designated by the Authority to supervise the operation
of the POTW and who is charged with certain duties and responsibilities
by this article, or a duly authorized representative.
MEDICAL WASTES
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.
NEW SOURCE
(1)
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, provided that:
(a)
The building, structure, facility or installation is constructed
at a site at which no other source is located.
(b)
The building, structure, facility or installation totally replaces
the process or production equipment that causes the discharge of pollutants
at an existing source.
(c)
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.
(2)
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 D(1)(b) or (c) above, but otherwise
alters, replaces or adds to existing process or production equipment.
(3)
Construction of a new source as defined under this subsection
has commenced if the owner or operator has:
(a)
Begun or caused to begin, as part of a continuous on-site construction
program:
[1]
Any replacement, assembly or installation of facilities or equipment;
or
[2]
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.
(b)
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.
NONCONTACT COOLING WATER
Water used for cooling which does not come into direct contact
with any raw material, intermediate product, waste product or finished
product.
PASS-THROUGH
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 violation
of any requirement of the Authority'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. This definition includes all federal, state and local
governmental entities.
pH
A measure of the acidity or alkalinity of a solution expressed
in standard units.
POLLUTANT
Dredged soil, 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).
PRETREATMENT
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.
PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENTS
Any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment
imposed on a user other than a pretreatment standard.
PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS or POTW
A publicly owned treatment works as defined by § 212
of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (62 Stat. 1155, 33 U.S.C.
§ 1251 et seq.) which is owned by a state, municipality
or authority, as defined by § 502(4) of the Federal Water
Pollution Control Act. The term includes devices and systems used
in the storage, treatment, recycling and reclamation of municipal
sewage or industrial wastes of liquid nature. It also includes all
sewers, pipes and other conveyances that convey wastewater to the
POTW plant. The term also means:
(1)
A municipality, as defined in § 502(4) of the Federal
Water Pollution Control Act, which has jurisdiction over indirect
discharges to and discharges from this type of treatment works.
(2)
An authority created under the Act of May 2, 1945 (P.L. 382,
No. 164), known as the "Municipalities Authority Act of 1945," which
has jurisdiction over indirect discharges to and discharges from this
type of treatment works.
SEPTIC TANK WASTE
Any sewage from holding tanks such as vessels, chemical toilets,
campers, trailers and septic tanks.
SEWAGE
Human excrement and gray water (household showers, dish-washing
operations, etc.).
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER
(1)
A user subject to categorical pretreatment standards.
(2)
A user that:
(a)
Discharges an average of 25,000 gallons per day or more of process
wastewaster to the POTW (excluding sanitary, noncontact cooling and
boiler blowdown wastewater).
(b)
Contributes a process waste stream which makes up to 5% or more
of the average dry weather hydraulic or organic capacity of the POTW
treatment plant.
(c)
Is designated as such by the Authority on the basis that it
has a reasonable potential for adversely affecting the POTW's
operation or for violating any pretreatment standard or requirement.
(3)
Upon a finding that a user meeting the criteria in subsection
(2) has no reasonable potential for adversely affecting the POTW's operation or for violating any pretreatment standard or requirement, the Authority may at any time, on its own initiative or in response to a petition received from a user and in accordance with procedures in 40 CFR 403.8(f)(6), determine that such user should not be considered a significant industrial user.
SLUG LOAD or SLUG
Any discharge at a flow rate or concentration which could cause a violation of the prohibited discharge standards in §
271-17A of this article.
STORMWATER
Any flow occurring during or following any form of natural
precipitation and resulting from such precipitation, including snowmelt.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
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.
USER
A source of indirect discharge.
WASTEWATER
Liquid and water-carried industrial waste and sewage from
residential dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial and manufacturing
facilities and institutions, whether treated or untreated, which are
contributed to the POTW.