Unless a provision 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 Riverview Sanitary Authority formed under and abiding
by all terms of the Pennsylvania Municipal Authorities Act of 1945
as amended and prevailing.
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE USER
(a)
If the user is a corporation:
[1]
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; or
[2]
The manager of one or more manufacturing, production, or operating
facilities, provided the manager is authorized to make management
decisions which govern the operation of the regulated facility including
having the explicit or implicit duty of making major capital investment
recommendations, and initiate and direct other comprehensive measures
to assure long-term environmental compliance with environmental laws
and regulations; can ensure that the necessary systems are established
or actions taken to gather complete and accurate information for permit
requirements; and where authority to sign documents has been assigned
or delegated to the manager in accordance with corporate procedures.
(b)
If the user is a partnership or sole proprietorship: a general
partner or proprietor, respectively.
(c)
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.
(d)
The individuals described in Subsections
(a) through
(c), 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 Riverview Sanitary Authority.
BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES or BMPs
Schedules of activities, prohibitions of practices, maintenance
procedures, and other management practices. BMPs also include treatment
requirements, operating procedures, and practices to control plant
site runoff, spillage or leaks, sludge or waste disposal, or drainage
from raw materials storage.
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 EPA in accordance with Sections 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.
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 commence 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 Section
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.
INDIRECT DISCHARGE or DISCHARGE
The introduction of pollutants into the POTW from any nondomestic
source, such as an industrial or commercial facility, regulated under
Section 307(b), (c), or (d) of the Act.
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 the RSA 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:
Section 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;
and the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act.
MEDICAL WASTE
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
(a)
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 Section 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:
[1]
The building, structure, facility, or installation is constructed
at a site at which no other source is located; or
[2]
The building, structure, facility, or installation totally replaces
the process or production equipment that causes the discharge of pollutants
at an existing source; or
[3]
The production of wastewater generating processes of the building,
structure, facility, or installation is 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.
(b)
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
(a)[2] or
[3] above but otherwise alters, replaces, or adds to existing process or production equipment.
(c)
Construction of a new source as defined under this subsection
has commenced if the owner or operator has:
[1]
Begun, or caused to begin, as part of a continuous on-site construction
program;
[a]
Any placement, assembly, or installation of facilities or equipment;
or
[b]
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; or
[2]
Entered into a binding contractual obligation for the purchase
of facilities or equipment which is 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 violation
of any requirements of RSA NPDES permit, including an increase in
the magnitude or duration of a violation.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, copartnership, firm, 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 government entities.
pH
A measure of the acidity or alkalinity of a solution, expressed
in standard units.
POLLUTANT
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).
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 "treatment works" as defined by Section 212 of the Act
(33 U.S.C. § 1292) which is owned by RSA. 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.
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, dishwashing
operations, etc.).
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER
(a)
A user subject to categorical pretreatment standards; or
(b)
A user that:
[1]
Discharges an average of 25,000 gpd or more of process wastewater
to the POTW (excluding sanitary, noncontact cooling, and boiler blowdown
wastewater);
[2]
Contributes a process waste stream which makes up 5% or more
of the average dry weather hydraulic or organic capacity of the POTW
treatment plant; or
[3]
Is designated as such by RSA on the basis that it has a reasonable
potential for adversely affecting the POTW's operation or for
violating any pretreatment standard or requirement.
(c)
Upon finding that a user meeting the criteria in Subsection
(b) has no reasonable potential for adversely affecting the POTW's operation or for violating any pretreatment standard or requirement, RSA 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 of a nonroutine episodic nature or a flow-rate
or concentration which has reasonable potential to cause interference,
pass through, or other violation of the POTW's ordinances, local
limits or permit conditions.
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
Any individual, group, company or corporation authorized
to discharge wastewater into the RSA POTW.
WASTEWATER
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.