As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have meanings
set forth below:
BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES (BMPs)
Includes schedules of activities, prohibitions of practices,
general good housekeeping practices, pollution prevention and educational
practices, maintenance procedures, and other management practices
to prevent or reduce the discharge of pollutants directly or indirectly
to stormwater, receiving waters, or stormwater conveyance systems.
BMPs also include treatment practices, operating procedures, and practices
to control site runoff, spillage or leaks, sludge or water disposal,
or drainage from raw materials storage.
CLEAN WATER ACT
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. § 1251
et seq.), and any subsequent amendments thereto.
CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITY
An activity requiring authorization under the SPDES permit
for stormwater discharges from construction activity, GP-02-01, as
amended or revised. These activities include construction projects
resulting in land disturbance of one acre or more. Such activities
include but are not limited to clearing and grubbing, grading, excavating,
and demolition.
DEC
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
EPA
The United States Environmental Protection Agency.
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
Includes any material, including any substance, waste, or
combination thereof, which because of its quantity, concentration,
or physical, chemical, or infectious characteristics may cause, or
significantly contribute to, a substantial present or potential hazard
to human health, safety, property, or the environment when improperly
treated, stored, transported, disposed of, or otherwise managed.
ILLICIT CONNECTIONS
Includes any drain or conveyance, whether on the surface
or subsurface, which allows an illegal discharge to enter the MS4,
including but not limited to:
(1)
Any conveyances which allow any nonstormwater discharge, including
treated or untreated sewage, process wastewater, and wash water to
enter the MS4 and any connections to the storm drain system from indoor
drains and sinks, regardless of whether said drain or connection had
been previously allowed, permitted, or approved by an authorized enforcement
agency; or
(2)
Any drain or conveyance connected from a commercial or industrial
land use to the MS4 which has not been documented in plans, maps,
or equivalent records and approved by an authorized enforcement agency.
ILLICIT DISCHARGE
Includes any direct or indirect nonstormwater discharge to
the MS4, except as exempted in this chapter.
INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY
An activity requiring a SPDES permit for discharges from
industrial activities except construction, GP-98-03, as amended or
revised.
MS4
The municipal separate storm sewer system.
MUNICIPAL SEPARATE STORM SEWER SYSTEM
A conveyance or system of conveyances (including roads with
drainage systems, municipal streets, catch basins, curbs, gutters,
ditches, man-made channels, or storm drains):
(1)
Owned or operated by the Incorporated Village of Old Brookville;
(2)
Designed or used for collecting or conveying stormwater;
(3)
Which is not a combined sewer; and
(4)
Which is not part of a publicly owned treatment works (POTW)
as defined at 40 CFR 122.2.
NYCRR
The New York Code, Rules and Regulations
PERSON
Any individual, association, organization, partnership, firm,
corporation or other entity recognized by law and acting as either
the owner or as the owner's agent.
POLLUTANT
Includes dredged spoil, filter backwash, solid waste, incinerator
residue, treated or untreated sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions,
chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat,
wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand and industrial, municipal,
agricultural waste and ballast discharged into water; which may cause
or might reasonably be expected to cause pollution of the waters of
the state in contravention of pertinent standards promulgated by the
federal government, the state, the Village, or any other municipality,
a department thereof, having legal jurisdiction to impose such standards.
PREMISES
Includes any building, lot, parcel of land, or portion of
land, whether improved or unimproved, including adjacent sidewalks
and parking strips.
SMO
The Stormwater Management Officer (see definition of "Stormwater
Management Officer").
SPECIAL CONDITIONS
(1)
Discharge compliance with water quality standards. A condition
that applies when the Village has been notified that the discharge
of stormwater authorized under its MS4 permit may have caused or has
the reasonable potential to cause or contribute to the violation of
an applicable water quality standard. Under this condition, the Village
must take all necessary actions to ensure future discharges do not
cause or contribute to a violation of water quality standards.
(2)
303(d) listed waters. A condition in the Village's MS4
permit that applies when the MS4 discharges to a 303(d) listed water.
Under this condition, the stormwater management program must ensure
no increase of the listed pollutant of concern to the 303(d) listed
water.
(3)
Total maximum daily load (TMDL) strategy. A condition in the
Village's MS4 permit where a TMDL including requirements for
control of stormwater discharges has been approved by EPA for a water
body or watershed into which the MS4 discharges. If the discharge
from the MS4 did not meet the TMDL stormwater allocations prior to
September 10, 2003, the Village was required to modify its stormwater
management program to ensure that reduction of the pollutant of concern
specified in the TMDL is achieved.
(4)
A condition in the Village's MS4 permit that applies if
a TMDL is approved in the future by EPA for any water body or watershed
into which an MS4 discharges. Under such condition, the Village must
review the applicable TMDL to see if it includes requirements for
control of stormwater discharges. If an MS4 is not meeting the TMDL
stormwater allocations, the Village must, within six months of the
TMDL's approval, modify its stormwater management program to
ensure that reduction of the pollutant of concern specified in the
TMDL is achieved.
SPDES
The state pollutant discharge elimination system.
STATE
The State of New York.
STORMWATER
Includes rainwater, surface runoff, snowmelt and drainage.
303(d) LIST
A list of all surface waters in the state for which beneficial
uses of the water (drinking, recreation, aquatic habitat, and industrial
use) are impaired by pollutants, prepared periodically by the DEC
as required by Section 303(d) of the Clean Water Act. 303(d) listed
waters are estuaries, lakes and streams that fall short of state surface
water quality standards and are not expected to improve within the
next two years.
TMDL
The total maximum daily load. (See definition of "total maximum
daily load.")
TOTAL MAXIMUM DAILY LOAD
The maximum amount of a pollutant to be allowed to be released
into a water body so as not to impair uses of the water allocated
among the sources of that pollutant.
WASTEWATER
Water that is not stormwater, is contaminated with pollutants,
and is or will be discarded.