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.
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF SIGNIFICANT USER
An authorized representative of a significant user may be:
1) a principal executive officer of at least the level of vice president,
if the significant user is a corporation; 2) a general partner or
proprietor if the significant user is a partnership or proprietorship,
respectively; 3) a duly authorized representative of the individual
designated above, if such representative is responsible for the overall
operation of the facilities from which the indirect discharge originates,
or any government entity within the Township. The signature must conform
to requirements set forth in 40 CFR 403.12(1).
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD)
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedures, five days
at 20° Celsius, expressed in terms of weight and concentration
[milligrams per liter (mg/l)].
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 (1.5 meters) 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 superintendent if the Township 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:
(2)
Ammonia - Nitrogen: 25 mg/l as N.
(5)
Suggested solids: 250 mg/l.
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA)
The U.S. 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.
IMPROVED PROPERTY
Any property within this Township upon which there is erected
a structure intended for continuous or periodic habitation, occupancy
or use by human beings or animals and from which structure wastewater
shall be or may be discharged.
INDIRECT DISCHARGE
The discharge or the introduction of pollutants into the
POTW, including holding tank waste discharged into the system and
any source regulated under Section 307(b), (c), or (d) of the Act
and at 40 CFR 403.3(g).
INTERFERENCE
The inhibition or disruption of the POTW treatment processes
or operations which contributes to a violation of any requirement
of the Municipal Authority's NPDES permit. The term includes the prevention
of sewage sludge use, sludge processes 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), the Clean Air Act, the Toxic
Substances Control Act, or more stringent state criteria, including
those contained in any state sludge management plan prepared pursuant
to Title IV of SWDA applicable to the method of disposal or use employed
by the POTW.
NEW SOURCE
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(e) of the Act, which standards 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 are substantially
independent of an existing source at the same site. In determining
whether these generating processes are substantially independent of
an existing source at the same site, 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; or
(4)
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 Subsections
(1) and
(2) above, but otherwise alters, replaces, or adds to the existing process or production equipment; or
(5)
Construction of a new source as defined under
this paragraph has commenced if the owner or operator has begun or
caused to begin as a part of a continuous on-site construction program
(i) any placement assembly, or installation of facilities or equipment;
or (ii) 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 (iii) 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.
OWNER
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole
or partial, of any improved property.
PASS THROUGH
A discharge which exits the POTW into waters of the United
States in quantities which, alone or in conjunction with a discharge
or discharges from other sources, are a cause of a violation or 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,
corporation, association, joint stock company, trust, estate, governmental
entity, the United States and its agents, 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 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 or biological processes, or
process changes by other means, except as prohibited by 40 CFR Section
403.6(d).
PRETREATMENT STANDARDS
Any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment
other than a national pretreatment standard imposed on a significant
user.
PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS (POTW)
The treatment works as defined by Section 212 of the Act
(33 U.S.C. § 1292) which is owned in this instance by the
Municipal Authority. This definition includes any sewers that convey
wastewater to the POTW treatment plant, but does not include pipes,
sewers, or other conveyances not connected to a facility providing
treatment. 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 Municipal
Authority, users of the Municipal Authority's POTW.
SERVICE AREA
Route 940 Service Area of the Township of Kidder identified
more specifically on the plan attached to this article and incorporated into this agreement between the Township
of Kidder and White Haven Municipal Authority.
SEWER
Any pipe or conduct constituting a part of the POTW used
or usable for sewage collection services.
SIGNIFICANT USER
(1)
Any discharge subject to National Categorical
Pretreatment Standards;
(2)
Any other industrial user that discharges an
average of 25,000 gallons per day or more of process wastewater (excluding
sanitary, noncontact, and boiler blowdown wastewaters) to the POTW
or that contributes a process wastestream which makes up 5% or more
of the average dry weather hydraulic or organic capacity of the POTW
treatment plant; or
(3)
Any other industrial user that is designated
as such by the control authority on the basis that the industrial
user has a potential for adversely affecting the POTW's operation
or for violating any pretreatment standard or requirement.
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.
SUPERINTENDENT
The person designated by the Township of Kidder who is in
charge of certain duties and responsibilities by this article, Manager
of the White Haven Municipal Authority or its successors, or his/her
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.
TOWNSHIP
The Township of Kidder, Carbon County, Pennsylvania.
TOXIC POLLUTANT
Any pollutant or combination of pollutants listed as toxic
in regulations promulgated by the Administrator of the EPA under the
provisions of CWA 307(a) 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 POTW.
WATER 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.