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," as amended, 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.
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.
AUTHORITY
The Middletown Borough Authority, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF INDUSTRIAL USER
An "authorized representative of an industrial user" may
be:
(1)
A corporate officer or manager, as follows:
(a)
A responsible corporate officer of the level of president, vice
president, secretary or treasurer of the corporation in charge of
a principal business function or any other person who performs similar
policy-making or decisionmaking functions for the corporation; or
(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, 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 proprietorship, respectively;
(3)
A duly authorized representative of the individual designated
above if the authorization is made, in writing, by the individual
described in Subsection A(1)(a) above; or the authorization specifies
either an individual or a position having responsibility for the overall
operation of the facilities from which the indirect discharge originates,
such as the position of plant manager, operator of a well or well
field superintendent, or a position of equivalent responsibility,
or having overall responsibility for environmental matters for the
company; and the written authorization is submitted to the Control
Authority.
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD)
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory conditions, five days
at 20° C., expressed in terms of weight and concentration (mg/l).
BOROUGH
The Borough of Middletown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.
BUILDING DRAIN
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system
which receives the discharge from soil, waste and other drainage pipes
inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer,
beginning five feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
BUILDING SEWER
A sewer conveying wastewater from the premises of a user
to the POTW.
CONTROL AUTHORITY
Refers to the approval authority, as defined hereinabove;
or the Borough if the Borough has an approved pretreatment program
under the provisions of 40 CFR 403.11.
COOLING WATER
The water discharged from any use, such as air conditioning,
cooling or refrigeration, or to which the only pollutant added is
heat.
DIRECT DISCHARGE
The discharge of treated or untreated wastewater directly
to the waters of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
EDU
Equivalent domestic unit with the following wastewater characteristics:
Characteristic
|
Amount
|
---|
Flow
|
250 gpd
|
Ammonia Nitrogen, as N
|
25 mg/l
|
BOD
|
250 mg/l
|
Phosphorus, as P
|
10 mg/l
|
Total Suspended Solids
|
250 mg/l
|
TKN, as N
|
40 mg/l
|
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA)
The United States Environmental Protection Agency or, where
appropriate, the term may also be used as a designation for the Administrator
or other duly authorized official of said agency.
GRAB SAMPLE
A sample which is taken from a waste stream on a one-time
basis, with no regard to the flow in the waste stream and without
consideration of time.
HOLDING TANK WASTE
Any waste from holding tanks, such as vessels, chemical toilets,
campers, trailers, septic tanks and vacuum-pump tank trucks.
INDIRECT DISCHARGE
The discharge or the introduction of nondomestic pollutants
from any source regulated under Section 307(b) or (c) of the Act (33
U.S.C. § 1317), into the POTW, including holding tank waste
discharged into the system.
INDUSTRIAL PRETREATMENT PROGRAM
A program administered by a POTW that meets the criteria
established in 40 CFR 403.8 and 40 CFR 403.9 and which has been approved
by a regional administrator or state director in accordance with 40
CFR 403.11.
INDUSTRIAL USER
A source of indirect discharge which does not constitute
a discharge of pollutants under regulations issued pursuant to Section
402 of the Act (33 U.S.C. § 1342).
INDUSTRIAL WASTE
Any solid, liquid or gaseous substance or form of energy
rejected or escaping from any industrial, manufacturing, trade or
business process or from the development, recovery or processing of
natural resources, as distinct from sanitary sewage.
INTERFERENCE
A discharge which, alone or in conjunction with a discharge
or discharges from other sources, causes the inhibition or disruption
of the POTW treatment processes or operations or its sludge processes,
use or disposal, which contributes to a violation of any requirement
of the Authority's NPDES permit (including an increase in the magnitude
or duration of a violation). The term includes prevention of sewage
sludge use or disposal by the POTW in accordance with Section 405
of the Act, (33 U.S.C. § 1345) or any criteria, guidelines
or regulations developed pursuant to the Solids Waste Disposal Act
(SWDA), including Title II, more commonly referred to as the "Resource
Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)"; the Clean Air Act; the Toxic
Substances Control Act; the Marine Protection, Research and Sanctuaries
Act or more stringent state criteria, including those contained
in any state sludge management plan prepared pursuant to Title IV
(Subtitle D) of SWDA applicable to the method of disposal or use employed
by the POTW.
NEW SOURCE
(1)
Any building, structure, facility or installation from which
there is or may be a discharge of pollutants, the construction of
which is 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:
(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; or
(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.
(2)
Construction on a site at which an existing source is located
results in modification rather than a "new source" if the construction
does not create a new building, structure, facility or installation.
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 a
violation of any requirement of the POTW's NPDES permit (including
an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation).
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, copartnership, firm, company'
association, joint-stock company, trust, estate, governmental entity,
any other legal entity or their legal representatives, agents or assigns.
The masculine gender shall include the feminine; the singular shall
include the plural where indicated by context.
pH
The logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the concentration
of hydrogen ions, expressed in grams per liter of solution, and indicates
the degree of acidity or alkalinity of a substance.
POLLUTANT
Any dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage,
garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials,
radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discharged equipment, rock,
sand, cellar dirt and industrial, municipal and agricultural waste
discharged into water.
POLLUTION
The man-made or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical,
biological and radiological integrity of water.
PRETREATMENT or TREATMENT
The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination
of pollutants or the alteration of the nature of pollutants or the
alteration of the nature of pollutant properties in wastewater to
a less harmful state prior to or in lieu of discharging or otherwise
introducing such pollutants into a POTW. The reduction or alteration
can be obtained by physical, chemical, biological processes or process
changes by other means, except as prohibited by 40 CFR 403.6(d).
PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENTS
Any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment,
other than a Federal Categorical Pretreatment Standard imposed on
an industrial user.
PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS (POTW)
A treatment works, defined by Section 212 of the Act (33
U.S.C. § 1292), which is owned, in this instance, by the
Authority. 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 pipes, sewers
and other conveyances only if they convey wastewater to a POTW treatment
plant. For the purposes of this article, "POTW" shall also include
any sewers that convey wastewaters to the POTW from persons outside
the Borough who are, by contract or agreement with the Borough or
Authority, users of the Authority's POTW. The term also means the
municipality as defined in Section 502(4) of the Act, which has jurisdiction over the indirect discharges to
and the discharges from such a treatment works.
SANITARY SEWAGE
The wastewater from residential households and toilet facilities
from institutions, commercial and industrial establishments.
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER
Any nonresidential user of the Authority's POTW who:
(1)
Is subject to Federal Categorical Pretreatment Standards;
(2)
Discharges an average of 25,000 gallons per day or more of process
wastewater to the POTW (excluding sanitary, noncontact cooling water
and boiler blowdown wastewater);
(3)
Contributes a process waste stream which makes up 5% or more
of the average dry weather or organic capacity of the Authority's
POTW treatment plant;
(4)
Has in his wastes toxic pollutants as defined pursuant to Section
307 of the Act or Pennsylvania statutes and rules; or
(5)
Is found by the Borough, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental
Resources (DER) or the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
to have a significant impact either singly or in combination with
other contributing significant industrial users on the wastewater
treatment system, the quality of sludge, the system's effluent quality
or air emissions generated by the system.
SLUG
Any discharge of water, sewage or waste exceeding a concentration
or flow greater than five times that of the average twenty-four-hour
discharge from the user, which is discharged continuously for a period
longer than 15 minutes.
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, 1987.
STATE
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
STORMWATER
Any flow occurring during or following any form of natural
precipitation and resulting therefrom.
SUPERINTENDENT
The person designated by the Borough of Middletown who is
charged with certain duties and responsibilities by this article,
or his duly authorized representative, deputy or agent.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
The total suspended matter that floats on the surface or
is suspended in water, wastewater or other liquids and which is removable
by laboratory filtering.
TOXIC POLLUTANT
Any pollutant or combination of pollutants listed as toxic
in regulations promulgated by the EPA under the provision of Section
307(a) of the Clean Water Act or other acts.
USER
Any person 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,
together with any groundwater, surface water and stormwater that may
be present, whether treated or untreated, which is contributed into
or permitted to enter the Authority's 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 accumulation 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.