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 Lower Bucks County Joint Municipal Authority of Bristol
Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF INDUSTRIAL USER
Includes: 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- or decision-making functions for the corporation,
or 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; or a general partner or proprietor if the
industrial user is a partnership or proprietorship, respectively;
or a duly authorized representative of the individual designated above
if the authorization is made in writing by the responsible corporate
officer described 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 a 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 for five days
at 20° C., expressed in terms of weight and concentration, milligrams
per liter (mg/l).
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 Authority if the Authority has an approved industrial 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.
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 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).
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 Solid 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 the building, structure, facility
or installation is constructed at a site at which no other source
is located, or that the building, structure, facility or installation
totally replaces the process or production equipment that causes the
discharge of pollutants at an existing source, or that 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 Authority'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, and the singular
shall include the plural where indicated by the context.
pH
The logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the concentration
of hydrogen ions expressed in grams per liter of solution.
POLLUTANT
Any dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage,
garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials,
radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discarded 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 an 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 or biological processes or process
changes or 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 national pretreatment standard imposed on an industrial
user.
PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS (POTW)
A treatment works as 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 Township
who are, by contract or agreement with the Township, 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.
SIGNIFICANT USER
Any nonresidential user of the Authority's POTW who is subject
to categorical standards, or has a discharge flow of 25,000 gallons
or more per average workday, or has a flow greater than 5% of the
flow in the Authority's POTW, or has in his wastes toxic pollutants
as defined pursuant to Section 307 of the Act or Pennsylvania statutes
and rules, or is found by the Authority, 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 users, on the wastewater treatment
system, the quality of sludge, the system's effluent quality or air
emissions generated by the system.
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
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
STORMWATER
Any flow occurring during or following any form of natural
precipitation and resulting therefrom.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
The total suspended matter that floats on the surface of
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 Administrator of the EPA under the
provision of CWA Section 307(a) or other Acts.
USER
Any person who contributes, causes or permits the contribution
of wastewater into the Authority's 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
(1)
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.