A.
This Part 4 sets forth uniform requirements for direct and indirect contributors into the wastewater collection and treatment system for the municipality and enables the municipality to comply with all applicable state and federal laws required by the Clean Water Act of 1977 and the General Pretreatment Regulations (40 CFR 403).
B.
The objectives of this Part 4 are:
(1)
To prevent the introduction of pollutants into the
municipal wastewater system which will interfere with the operation
of the system or contaminate the resulting sludge.
(2)
To prevent the introduction of pollutants into the
municipal wastewater system which will pass through the system inadequately
treated into receiving waters or the atmosphere or otherwise be incompatible
with the system.
(3)
To improve the opportunity to recycle and reclaim
wastewaters and sludges from the system.
(4)
To provide for equitable distribution of the cost
of the municipal wastewater system.
C.
This Part 4 provides for the regulation of direct and indirect contributors to the municipal wastewater system through the issuance of permits to certain nondomestic users and through enforcement of general requirements for the other users, authorizes monitoring and enforcement activities, requires user reporting, assumes that existing customer capacity will not be preempted and provides for the setting of fees for the equitable distribution of costs resulting from the program established herein.
This Part 4 shall apply to the municipality and to persons outside the municipality who are, by contract or agreement with the municipality, users of the municipal POTW. Except as otherwise provided herein, the Municipal Engineer of the municipality shall administer, implement and enforce the provisions of this Part 4.
A.
ACT or THE ACT
APPROVAL AUTHORITY
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF INDUSTRIAL USER
(1)
(2)
(3)
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD)
BUILDING SEWER
CATEGORICAL STANDARDS
COMPATIBLE POLLUTANT
CONTROL AUTHORITY
COOLING WATER
DIRECT DISCHARGE
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY or EPA
GRAB SAMPLE
HOLDING TANK WASTE
INCOMPATIBLE POLLUTANT
INDIRECT DISCHARGE
INDUSTRIAL USER
INTERFERENCE
MUNICIPALITY
NATIONAL CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARD or PRETREATMENT STANDARD
NATIONAL POLLUTION DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM OR NPDES PERMIT
NATIONAL PROHIBITIVE DISCHARGE STANDARD or PROHIBITIVE DISCHARGE
STANDARD
NEW SOURCE
PERSON
pH
POLLUTANT
POLLUTION
POTW TREATMENT PLANT
PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENTS
PRETREATMENT or TREATMENT
PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS (POTW)
SEWER SUPERINTENDENT
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION (SIC)
STATE
STORMWATER
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
TOXIC POLLUTANT
USER
WASTEWATER
WASTEWATER CONTRIBUTION PERMIT
WATERS OF THE STATE
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the following terms and phrases, as used in this Part 4, shall have the meanings hereinafter designated:
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the
"Clean Water Act," as amended, 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.
The Director in an NPDES state with an approved state pretreatment
program and the Administrator of the EPA in a non-NPDES state or an
NPDES state without an approved state pretreatment program.
May be:
A principal executive officer of at least the
level of vice president if the industrial user is a corporation.
A general partner or proprietor if the industrial
user is a partnership or proprietorship, respectively.
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.
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days
at 20° C., expressed in terms of weight and concentration [milligrams
per liter (mg/l)].
A sewer conveying wastewater from the premises of a user
to the POTW.
National Categorical Pretreatment Standards or pretreatment
standards.
Biochemical oxygen demand, suspended solids, pH and fecal
coliform bacteria, plus any additional pollutants identified in the
publicly owned treatment works' NPDES permit where the publicly owned
treatment works is designed to treat such pollutants and, in fact,
does treat such pollutants to the degree required by the POTW's NPDES
permit.
The approval authority defined hereinabove or the Sewer Superintendent
if the municipality has an approved pretreatment program under the
provisions of 40 CFR 403.11.
The water discharge from any use such as air conditioning,
cooling or refrigeration or to which the only pollutant added is heat.
The discharge of treated or untreated wastewater directly
to the waters of the State of New York.
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.
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.
Any waste from holding tanks, such as vessels, chemical toilets,
campers, trailers, septic tanks and vacuum-pump tank trucks.
All pollutants other than compatible pollutants as defined
above.
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.
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).
The inhibition or disruption of the POTW treatment processes
or operations or which contributes to a violation of any requirement
of the municipality's NPDES permit. 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), 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.
The City of Ithaca, Town of Ithaca and Town of Dryden or
the Municipal Board of the municipality.
Any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated
by the EPA in accordance with Section 307(b) and (c) of the Act (33
U.S.C. § 1317) which applies to a specific category of industrial
users.
A permit issued pursuant to Section 402 of the Act (33 U.S.C.
§ 1342).
Any regulation developed under the authority of 307(b) of
the Act and 40 CFR 403.5.
Any source, the construction of which is commenced after
the publication of proposed regulations prescribing a Section 307(c)
(33 U.S.C. § 1317) categorical pretreatment standard which
will be applicable to such source if such standard is thereafter promulgated
within 120 days of proposal in the Federal Register. Where the standard
is promulgated later than 120 days after proposal, a "new source"
means any source, the construction of which is commenced after the
date of promulgation of the standard.
Any individual, partnership, copartnership, firm, company,
corporation, association, joint-stock company, trust, estate, governmental
entity or 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.
The logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the concentration
of hydrogen ions, expressed in grams per liter of solution.
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.
The human-made or human-induced alteration of the chemical,
physical, biological and radiological integrity of water.
That portion of the POTW designed to provide treatment to
wastewater.
Any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment,
other than a National Pretreatment Standard imposed on an industrial
user.
The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination
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 other means, except as prohibited
by 40 CFR 403.6(d).
A treatment works, as defined by Section 212 of the Act (33
U.S.C. 1292), which is owned in this instance by the municipality.
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 Part, "POTW" shall also include any sewers that convey wastewaters
to the POTW from persons outside the municipality who are, by contract
or agreement with the municipality, users of the municipality's POTW.
The person designated by the municipality to supervise the operation of the publicly owned treatment works and who is charged with certain duties and responsibilities by this Part 4, or his/her duly authorized representative.
Any industrial user of the municipal wastewater disposal
system who:
Is subject to categorical pretreatment standards
(NRDC Concent Decree Industries);
Is found by the municipality (state control
agency) or the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
to have significant impact, either singly or in combination with other
contributing industries, on the wastewater treatment system, the quality
of sludge, the system's effluent quality or air emissions generated
by the system;
Is a manufacturing industry using substances
of concern; or
Has a process discharge flow of more than 25,000
gallons per average workday.
A classification pursuant to the Standard Industrial Classification
Manual issued by the Executive Office of the President, Office of
Management and Budget, 1972.
The State of New York.
Any flow occurring during or following any form of natural
precipitation and resulting therefrom.
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.
Any pollutant or combination of pollutants listed as toxic
in regulations promulgated by the Administrator of the Environmental
Protection Agency under the provision of Clean Water Act 307(a) or
other acts.
Any person who contributes, causes or permits the contribution
of wastewater into the municipality's POTW.
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.
All streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, watercourses, waterways,
wells, springs, reservoirs, aquifers, irrigation systems, drainage
systems and all other bodies or accumulations 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.
B.
"Shall" is mandatory. "May" is permissive.
The following abbreviations shall have the designated
meanings:
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BOD — Biochemical oxygen demand.
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CFR — Code of Federal Regulations.
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COD — Chemical oxygen demand.
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EPA — Environmental Protection
Agency.
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l — Liter.
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mg — Milligrams.
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mg/l — Milligrams per liter.
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NPDES — National Pollutant Discharge
Elimination System.
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POTW — Publicly owned treatment
works.
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SIC — Standard industrial classification.
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SWDA — Solid Waste Disposal
Act, 42 U.S.C. § 6901 et seq.
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U.S.C. — United States Code.
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TSS — Total suspended solids.
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