As used in this chapter, the following terms shall
have the meanings indicated:
BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES (BMPs)
Schedules of activities, prohibitions of practices, general
good housekeeping practices, pollution prevention and educational
practices, maintenance procedures, and other management practices
to prevent or reduce the discharge of pollutants directly or indirectly
to stormwater, receiving waters, or stormwater conveyance systems.
BMPs also include treatment practices, operating procedures, and practices
to control site runoff, spillage or leaks, sludge or water disposal,
or drainage from raw materials storage.
CLEAN WATER ACT
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. § 1251
et seq.), and any subsequent amendments thereto.
CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITY
An activity requiring authorization under the SPDES General
Permit for Construction Activities, Permit No. GP-02-01, as amended
or revised. These activities include construction projects resulting
in land disturbance of one acre or more. Such activities include but
are not limited to clearing and grubbing, grading, excavating, and
demolition.
DEC
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
EPA
United States Environmental Protection Agency.
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
Any material, including any substance, waste, or combination
thereof, which, because of its quantity, concentration, or physical,
chemical, or infectious characteristics, may cause or significantly
contribute to a substantial present or potential hazard to human health,
safety, property, or the environment when improperly treated, stored,
transported, disposed of, or otherwise managed.
ILLICIT CONNECTIONS
Any drain or conveyance, whether on the surface or subsurface,
which allows an illegal discharge to enter the MS4, including but
not limited to:
(1)
Any conveyances which allow any nonstormwater
discharge, including treated or untreated sewage, process wastewater,
and wash water, to enter the MS4 and any connections to the storm
drain system from indoor drains and sinks, regardless of whether said
drain or connection had been previously allowed, permitted, or approved
by an authorized enforcement agency; or
(2)
Any drain or conveyance connected from a commercial
or industrial land use to the MS4 which has not been documented in
plans, maps, or equivalent records and approved by an authorized enforcement
agency.
ILLICIT DISCHARGE
Any direct or indirect nonstormwater discharge to the MS4,
except as exempted in this chapter.
INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY
An activity requiring a SPDES permit for discharges from
industrial activities except construction, GP-98-03, as amended or
revised.
MUNICIPAL SEPARATE STORM SEWER SYSTEM (MS4)
A conveyance or system of conveyances (including roads with
drainage systems, municipal streets, catch basins, curbs, gutters,
ditches, man-made channels, or storm drains):
(1)
Owned or operated by the Village, Town of Hempstead
or County of Nassau;
(2)
Designed or used for collecting or conveying
stormwater;
(3)
Which is not a combined sewer; and
(4)
Which is not part of a publicly owned treatment
works (POTW), as defined at 40 CFR 122.2.
PERSON
Any individual, association, organization, partnership, firm,
corporation or other entity recognized by law and acting as either
the owner or as the owner's agent.
POLLUTANT
Dredged spoil, filter backwash, solid waste, incinerator
residue, treated or untreated sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions,
chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat,
wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, industrial, municipal,
or agricultural waste or ballast discharged into water, which may
cause or might reasonably be expected to cause pollution of the waters
of the state in contravention of pertinent standards promulgated by
the federal government, the state, the Village, or any other municipality
or department thereof having legal jurisdiction to impose such standards.
PREMISES
Any building, lot, parcel of land, or portion of land, whether
improved or unimproved, including adjacent sidewalks and parking strips.
SPDES
State Pollutant Discharge Elimination System.
SPECIAL CONDITIONS
(1)
Discharge compliance with water quality standards.
A condition that applies when the Village has been notified that the
discharge of stormwater authorized under its MS4 permit may have caused
or has the reasonable potential to cause or contribute to the violation
of an applicable water quality standard. Under this condition, the
Village must take all necessary actions to ensure future discharges
do not cause or contribute to a violation of water quality standards.
(2)
303(d) listed waters. A condition in the Village's
MS4 permit that applies when the MS4 discharges to a 303(d) listed
water. Under this condition, the stormwater management program must
ensure no increase of the listed pollutant of concern to the 303(d)
listed water.
(3)
Total maximum daily load strategy. A condition
in the Village's MS4 permit where a total maximum daily load ("TMDL"),
including requirements for control of stormwater discharges, has been
approved by the EPA for a water body or watershed into which the MS4
discharges. If the discharge from the MS4 did not meet the TMDL stormwater
allocations prior to September 10, 2003, the Village was required
to modify its stormwater management program to ensure that reduction
of the pollutant of concern specified in the TMDL is achieved.
(4)
A condition in the Village's MS4 permit that
applies if a TMDL is approved in the future by the EPA for any water
body or watershed into which an MS4 discharges. Under such condition,
the Village must review the applicable TMDL to see if it includes
requirements for control of stormwater discharges. If an MS4 is not
meeting the TMDL stormwater allocations, the Village must, within
six months of the TMDL's approval, modify its stormwater management
program to ensure that reduction of the pollutant of concern specified
in the TMDL is achieved.
STATE
The State of New York.
STORMWATER
Rainwater, surface runoff, snowmelt and drainage.
303(D) LIST
A list of all surface waters in the state for which beneficial
uses of the water (drinking, recreation, aquatic habitat, and industrial
use) are impaired by pollutants; it is prepared periodically by the
DEC as required by Section 303(d) of the Clean Water Act. 303(d) listed
waters are estuaries, lakes, and streams that fall short of state
surface water quality standards and are not expected to improve within
two years.
TOTAL MAXIMUM DAILY LOAD (TMDL)
The maximum amount of a pollutant allowed to be released
into a water body, so as not to impair uses of the water, allocated
among the sources of that pollutant.
WASTEWATER
Water that is not stormwater, is contaminated with pollutants,
and is or will be discarded.