Unless the contents specifically indicate otherwise,
the meanings of words, terms and phrases used in this chapter shall be as
follows:
ACT or THE ACT
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the "Clean
Water Act" as amended.
APPROVAL AUTHORITY
The Director in an NPDES-state with an approved state pretreatment
program or the appropriate regional administrator of the USEPA in a non-NPDES
state or NPDES-state without a USEPA-approved state pretreatment program.
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF INDUSTRIAL USER
(1)
For signatory requirements, an authorized representative may be:
(a)
A responsible corporate officer. A responsible corporate officer means
a 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 operating facilities employing
more than 250 persons or having annual gross sales or expenditures exceeding
$25 million (in second quarter 1980 dollars), if authority to sign documents
has been assigned or delegated to the manager in accordance with corporate
procedures.
(b)
A general partner or proprietor, if the industrial user submitting required
papers is a partnership or sole proprietorship respectively.
(c)
A duly authorized representative of individuals noted in Subsections
(1)(a) and
(b), if: the authorization is made in writing by the individual described in Subsection
(1)(a) or
(b) of this section, the authorization specifies either an individual or a position having responsibility for the overall operation of the facility from which the superintendent, or a position of equivalent responsibility, or having equal responsibility for environmental matters for the company, and the written authorization is submitted to the control authority.
(2)
If an authorization under Subsection
(1)(c) of this section is no longer accurate because a different individual or position has responsibility for the overall operation of the facility, or overall responsibility for environmental matters for the company, a new authorization satisfying the requirements of Subsection
(1)(c) of this section must be submitted to the control authority prior to or together with any reports to be signed by an authorized representative.
B.O.D. (denoting "biochemical oxygen demand")
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic
matter under standard laboratory procedures for five days at 20° C., expressed
in parts per million by weight or milligrams per liter (mg/l).
BUILDING DRAIN
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of the 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, and shall mean and include
a house sewer or a private sewer.
BUILDING SEWER
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer or to an
existing extension from a public sewer when available.
COOLING WATER
The water discharge from any system of condensation, air conditioning,
cooling refrigeration, or other, but which shall be free from odor and oil.
It shall contain no polluting substances which would produce B.O.D. or suspended
solids each in excess of 10 parts per million by weight.
DISCHARGE PERMIT
A permit issued by the Superintendent of Public Works to an industry
authorizing the discharge of industrial wastes into the public sewer system.
Copies shall be kept on file in the offices of the Village of Endicott.
DRAINAGE WATER
Stormwater, surface water, or groundwater, which is or has been conveyed
from its original source.
ENGINEER
A licensed New York State professional engineer employed by or hired
as a consultant by the Village of Endicott.
GARBAGE
Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food
and from the handling, storage, and sale of produce.
INDIRECT DISCHARGE
The discharge or the introduction of nondomestic pollutants from
any source regulated under Section 307 (b), (c), or (d) of the Act into the
wastewater treatment facility, including holding tank waste (leachate, septic
tank waste, etc.) discharged into the system.
INDUSTRIAL WASTE
Any liquid, gaseous, solid, or other waste substance or a combination
of thereof resulting from any process of industry, manufacturing, trade, or
business or from the development or recovery of any natural resources, whether
pretreated or not.
INTERFERENCE
A discharge which, alone or in conjunction with a discharge or discharges
from other sources, both:
(1)
Inhibits or disrupts the POTW, its treatment processes or operations,
or its sludge processes, use or disposal; and
(2)
Therefore is a cause of a violation of any requirement of the POTW's
SPDES permit (including an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation)
or of the prevention of sewage sludge use or disposal by the POTW in accordance
with the following statutory provisions and regulations or permits issued
thereunder (or more stringent state or local regulations):
(a)
Section 405 of the Clean Water Act;
(d)
Toxic Substances Control Act; and
(e)
Marine Protection, Research and Sanctuaries Act.
LABORATORY DETERMINATION
The measurements, tests and analyses of the characteristics of waters
and wastes in accordance with the methods specified in 40 CFR 136, or equivalent
methods approved by USEPA.
LEACHATE
Any solid waste in the form of a liquid, including any suspended
components in the liquid, which results from contact with or passage through
solid waste.
MONITORING AND ENFORCEMENT GROUP
A staff of technicians headed by the Superintendent of Public Works,
who are responsible for administering the industrial/commercial self-monitoring
program, determining compliance with pretreatment standards and establishing
applicable charges and surcharges to industrial and commercial users.
NATIONAL CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARD
Any regulation containing specific pollutant discharge limits promulgated
by the USEPA in accordance with Section 307(b) and (c) of the Clean Water
Act, which applies to specific categories of industries as determined by the
industries' Standard Industrial Classification Code.
NATIONAL PRETREATMENT STANDARD OR PRETREATMENT STANDARD
Any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits applicable to
industrial users, including categorical pretreatment standards and the local
limits and prohibited discharge standards developed to implement the general
and specific prohibitions found in 40 CFR 403.5.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other body of
surface or ground water.
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 a proposed pretreatment standard under Section 307
(c) of the Clean Water Act, which will be applicable to such source if such
standards are thereafter promulgated, in accordance with that section, provided
that any of the criteria identified below are met:
(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 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.
NPDES PERMIT
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit issued pursuant
to Section 402 of the Act.
NPDES STATE
A state which has a USEPA-approved NPDES permit program.
NYSDEC
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
NORMAL SEWAGE
Sewage shall be regarded as normal for the Village if analyses show,
by weight, a daily average of not more that 400 parts per million of suspended
solids, not more than 300 parts per million of B.O.D., not more than 50 parts
per million of ether soluble matter (grease or oil) each per million gallons
of daily flow, no prohibited discharges, and no other constituents in excess
of the limits stipulated in this chapter.
OTHER WASTES
Prohibited discharges such as garbage, refuse, decayed wood, sawdust,
shavings, bark, sand, lime, cinders, ashes, offal, tar, and all other discarded
matter which is not sewage or industrial waste.
OWNER
The owner of record of the freehold of the premises or lessor estate
therein, a mortgagee or vendee in possession, assignee of rents, receiver,
executor, trustee, lessee, or other person, firm, or corporation in control
of a building.
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 SPDES permit (including an increase in the magnitude or
duration of a violation).
pH
The logarithm (base ten) of the reciprocal of the concentration of
hydrogen ions expressed in moles per liter of solution. It is used to indicate
the concentrations of free acid and free alkali.
PLUMBING CODE
The provisions of the New York State Uniform Fire Prevention and
Building Code applicable to plumbing.
POLLUTANTS
Any substance, which may not normally be present in natural water
or a substance which may be potentially toxic or otherwise objectionable.
This particularly includes, but is not limited to any dredged spoil, solid
waste, incinerator residue, sewage and 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.
POTW
The publicly owned treatment works, as defined by Section 212 of
the Act, which includes the public sewer, pumping station and sewage treatment
plant.
PRETREATMENT
The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination of pollutants,
or the alteration of the nature of pollutants in the wastewater to render
them less toxic prior to, or in lieu of; discharging or otherwise introducing
such pollutants into the POTW. The reduction or alteration of pollutants can
be obtained by physical, chemical or biological processes, 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.
PRIVATE SEWER
A building sewer and connection or other sewer not controlled by
a municipality or other public authority.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
The garbage that has been shredded to such a degree that all particles
will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally.prevailing in public
sewers, with no particle greater than 1/2 inch in any dimension.
PUBLIC SEWER
A sanitary sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have
equal rights and which is controlled by public authority under this chapter.
SANITARY or DOMESTIC SEWAGE
Sewage discharging from the sanitary conveniences of dwellings, including
apartment houses and hotels, office buildings, factories, or institutions,
and free from storm and surface waters and industrial wastes.
SEPTAGE
All liquids and solids in and removed from septic tanks, holding
tanks, cesspools, or approved types of chemical toilets, including but not
limited to those serving private residences, commercial establishments, institutions,
and industries. Also sludge from small sewage treatment plants.
SANITARY SEWER
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage and to which storm, surface
and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
SEWER FUND
The Endicott Joint Waste Pollution Control bank account maintained
by the Village of Endicott for the benefit of all parties in the sewer service
area.
SEWER SYSTEM, SEWAGE WORKS, or SEWERAGE SYSTEM
All sewer pipes and other appurtenants which are used or useful in
whole or part in connection with the collection, treatment or disposal of
sewage, industrial waste, and other wastes and which are owned, operated or
maintained by the Village of Endicott individually or jointly with the Town
of Union, Broome County, New York, including sewage pumping stations and sewage
treatment and disposal works.
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage
as owned by the Village of Endicott.
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER
(1)
All industrial users subject to categorical pretreatment standards under 40 CFR 403.6 and 40 CFR Chapter
1, Subchapter N; and
(2)
Any other industrial user that 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); contributes a process waste
stream which makes up to 5% or more of the average dry weather hydraulic or
organic capacity of the POTW treatment plant; or is designated as such by
the control authority as defined in 40 CFR 402.12(a) on the basis that the
industrial user has a reasonable potential for adversely affecting the POTW's
operation or for violating any pretreatment standard or requirements in accordance
with 40 CFR 403.8(f)(6).
SIGNIFICANT NONCOMPLIANCE (SNC)
A violation, which meets one or more of the following criteria:
(1)
Violations of wastewater discharge limits:
(a)
Chronic violations. Sixty-six percent or more of the measurements exceed
the same daily maximum limit or the same average limit in a six-month period
(any magnitude of exceedance).
(b)
Technical review criteria (TRC) violation. Thirty-three percent or more
of the measurements exceed the same daily maximum limit or the same average
limit by more than the TRC in a six-month period.
(c)
Any other violation(s) of effluent limit (average or daily maximum)
that the control authority believes has caused, alone or in combination with
other discharges, interference or pass-through or endangered the health of
the sewage treatment personnel or the public.
(d)
Any discharge of a pollutant that has caused imminent endangerment to
human health/welfare or to the environment and has resulted in a POTW's
exercise of its emergency authority to halt or prevent such a discharge.
(2)
Violations of compliance schedule milestones contained in a local control
mechanism or enforcement order for starting construction, completing construction,
and attaining final compliance by 90 days or more after the scheduled date.
(3)
Failure to provide reports for compliance schedules, self-monitoring
data or categorical standards (baseline monitoring reports, ninety-day compliance
reports, and periodic reports) within 30 days from the due date.
(4)
Failure to accurately report noncompliance.
(5)
Any other violation or group of violations that the Village considers
to be significant.
SLUG DISCHARGE
A wastewater discharge which has a flow rate or which contains a
regulated pollutant concentration or mass quantities of pollutants that exceed,
for more than 15 minutes, five times the average daily flow, pollutant concentration
or pollutant loading during normal operation.
SPECIAL PERMIT
A conditional permit issued by the Superintendent of Public Works
to an industry or other establishment authorizing the discharge of unpolluted
waters or other prohibited wastes into the public sewer system. Copies shall
be kept on file in the offices of the Village of Endicott.
SPDES PERMIT
A State Pollution Discharge Elimination System permit issued by the
New York Department of Environmental Conservation to an industry or POTW authorizing
the discharge of wastewaters therefrom into the waters of the State of New
York.
STORM SEWER or STORM DRAIN
A pipe or conduit, which carries storm and surface water and drainage,
but excluding sewage and industrial wastes. It may, however, carry cooling
water or unpolluted waters.
STORMWATER
Any flow occurring during or following any form of natural precipitation
and resulting therefrom.
SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC WORKS
The Superintendent of Public Works of the Village responsible for
the operation and maintenance of the sewage treatment plant under the provisions
of the Environmental Conservation Law and the SPDES permit issued to the Village
thereunder.
SURFACE WATER
Any water produced naturally or otherwise which is on the ground
surface.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
Those solids that either float on the surface of or in suspension
of water, sewage or other liquids and which are removable by laboratory filtration.
USEPA
The United States Environmental Protection Agency.
USER
Any person, who contributes, causes or permits the contribution of
wastewater into the Village's POTW.
VILLAGE
The Village of Endicott, in the county of Broome, State of New York.
WASTEWATER
The liquid and water-carried industrial or domestic wastes from dwellings,
commercial buildings, industrial facilities and institutions, together with
any groundwater, surface water, stormwater or drainage that may be present,
whether treated or untreated, which is contributed into or permitted to enter
the POTW.
WATERCOURSE
A channel in which a natural flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.