[Ord. 486, 3/21/2002, § 1.1]
1.
This Part sets forth uniform requirements for users of the publicly
owned treatment works for the City of McKeesport and enables the Municipal
Authority of the City of McKeesport to comply with all applicable
state and federal laws, including the Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. § 1251
et seq.) and the General Pretreatment Regulations (40 C.F.R., Part
403). The objectives of this Part are:
A.
To prevent the introduction of pollutants into the publicly owned
treatment works that will interfere with its operation.
B.
To prevent the introduction of pollutants into the publicly owned
treatment works that will pass through the publicly owned treatment
works inadequately treated, into receiving waters, or otherwise be
incompatible with the publicly owned treatment works.
C.
To protect both publicly owned treatment works personnel who may
be affected by wastewater and sludge in the course of their employment
and the general public.
D.
To promote reuse and recycling of industrial wastewater and sludge
from the publicly owned treatment works.
E.
To provide for fees for the equitable distribution of the cost of
operation, maintenance, and improvement of the publicly owned treatment
works.
F.
To enable the Municipal Authority of the City of McKeesport to comply
with its National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit conditions,
sludge use and disposal requirements, and any other federal or state
laws to which the publicly owned treatment works is subject.
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This Part shall apply to all users of the publicly owned treatment
works. This Part authorizes the issuance of wastewater discharge permits;
provides for monitoring, compliance, and enforcement activities; establishes
administrative review procedures; requires user reporting; and provides
for the setting of fees for the equitable distribution of costs resulting
from the program established herein.
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[Ord. 486, 3/21/2002, § 1.2]
Except as otherwise provided herein, the Municipal Authority
of the City of Mckeesport shall administer, implement, and enforce
the provisions of this Part. Any powers granted to or duties imposed
upon the Municipal Authority of the City of McKeesport may be delegated
by the Authority to other Authority personnel.
[Ord. 486, 3/21/2002, § 1.3]
The following abbreviations, when used in this Part, shall have
the designated meanings:
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BOD
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biochemical oxygen demand
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CFR
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Code of Federal Regulations
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COD
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chemical oxygen demand
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EPA
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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gpd
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gallons per day
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mg/l
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milligrams per liter
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MACM
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Municipal Authority of the City of McKeesport
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NPDES
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National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
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POTW
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publicly owned treatment works
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RCRA
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Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
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SIC
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Standard Industrial Classification
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TSS
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total suspended solids
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U.S.C.
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United States Code
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[Ord. 486, 3/21/2002, § 1.4]
Unless a provision explicitly states otherwise, the following
terms and phrases, as used in this Part, shall have the meanings hereinafter
designated.
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the
Clean Water Act, as amended, 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.
The Regional Administrator of EPA, Region III, is designated
as the approval authority.
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 decision making functions
for the corporation.
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 (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 Municipal Authority of the City of McKeesport.
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).
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 C.F.R., Chapter I, Subchapter N, Parts
405-471.
The City of McKeesport or the City Council of McKeesport
or MACM.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency or, where appropriate,
the Regional Water Management 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 § 307
of the Act.
A sample which is taken from a wastestream without regard
to the flow in the wastestream and over a period of time not to exceed
15 minutes.
The introduction of pollutants into the POTW from any nondomestic
source regulated under § 307(b), (c), or (d) of the Act.
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.
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 the MACM 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.
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.
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:
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 (1)(b) or (c) above but otherwise alters, replaces, or adds to existing process or production equipment.
Construction of a new source as defined under this paragraph
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 paragraph.
Water used for cooling which does not come into direct contact
with any raw material, intermediate product, waste product, or finished
product.
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 violation
of any requirement of MACM 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.
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 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.
Any substantive 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.
Absolute prohibitions against the discharge of certain substances; these prohibitions appear in § 18-305 of this Part.
A "treatment works" as defined by § 212 of the
Act (33 U.S.C. § 1292) which is owned by McKeesport or MACM.
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 a treatment plant.
Any sewage from holding tanks such as vessels, chemical toilets,
campers, trailers, and septic tanks.
Human excrement and gray water (household showers, dishwashing
operations, etc.).
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 wastestream 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 MACM on the basis that it has a reasonable
potential for adversely affecting the POTW's operation or for violating
any pretreatment standard or requirement.
Upon 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, MACM 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.
Any discharge of a non-routine episodic nature or a flow-rate or concentration which would cause a violation of the prohibited standards in § 18-305 of this Part.
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.
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.
