Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meanings
of terms used in this Part 2 shall be as follows:
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.
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF INDUSTRIAL USER
An authorized representative of an industrial user may be:
(1)
A principal executive officer of at least the level of vice
president, if the industrial user is a corporation.
(2)
A general partner or proprietor if the industrial 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.
BOD (denoting "biochemical oxygen demand")
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days
at 20° C. expressed in parts per million.
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
inside the inner face of the building wall nearest the sewer line.
BUILDING SEWER
The extension from the inner face of the building wall to
the public sewer or other place of disposal.
CITY ENGINEER
The City Engineer of the City of Ogdensburg or his/her duly
authorized deputy, agent or representative.
COMPOSITE SAMPLE
A combination of individual samples of water or wastewater
taken at selected intervals, generally hourly for some specified period,
to minimize the effect of the variability of the individual sample.
Individual samples may have equal volume or may be roughly proportioned
to the flow at time of sampling.
COOLING WATER
The water discharged from any use such as air conditioning,
cooling or refrigeration or to which the only pollutant added is heat.
EASEMENT
An acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned
by others.
GARBAGE
Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation,
cooking and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and
sale of produce.
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 shall be
collected over a period of time not to exceed 15 minutes.
INDUSTRIAL USER
A discharger to the POTW who discharges non-domestic wastewater.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
The liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes,
trade or business as distinct from sanitary sewage.
INTERFERENCE
Inhibition or disruption of the POTW treatment processes
or operations or which contributes to a violation of any requirement
of the City'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.
NATIONAL CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARD
Any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated
by the EPA in accordance with Section 307 (B) and (C) of the Act (22
U.S.C. 1347), which applies to a specific category of industrial users
which appear in 40 CFR Chapter I, Subchapter N, Parts 405-471. These
standards apply at the end of the categorical process ("end of process").
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 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:
(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.
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PASS THROUGH
A discharge which exits the City's POTW into water of
the State in quantities which, alone or in conjunction with 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 of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen
ions in grams per liter of solution.
PRETREATMENT
The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination
of pollutants or the alteration of the nature of the pollutant properties
in wastewater prior to discharge to the City of Ogdensburg wastewater
facilities.
PRETREATMENT STANDARD
Any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated
by the EPA in accordance with Section 307(b) and (c) of the Clean
Water Act, as amended, which applies to industrial users including
the general and specific prohibitions found in 40 CFR Part 403.5.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
The wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of
food that have 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 (1.27 centimeters)
in any dimension.
PUBLIC SEWER
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal
rights, and is owned or controlled by public authority.
PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS OR POTW
A treatment works as defined by section 212 of the Act, which
is owned by a State or municipality (as defined by section 502(4)
of the Act). 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 sewers,
pipes and other conveyances only if they convey wastewater to a POTW
Treatment Plant. 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.
SANITARY SEWAGE
Liquid wastes from the sanitary conveniences of dwellings
(including apartment houses and hotels), office buildings, factories,
or institutions, and free from stormwater, surface water, industrial
and other wastes.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm-, surface
and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
SEWAGE
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences,
business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together
with such ground-, surface and storm waters as may be present.
SEWAGE WORKS
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing
of sewage.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER
(1)
All industries subject to promulgated Categorical Pretreatment
Standards (categorical industries).
(2)
Industries having substantial impact, either singly or in combination
with other contributing industries, on the operation of the treatment
works.
(3)
Except as provided in 40 CFR 403.3(v)(3), any other industrial
user that discharges an average of 25,000 gallons per day or more
of process wastewater (excluding sanitary, noncontact cooling and
boiler blowdown wastewater) to the POTW.
(4)
Except as provided in 40 CFR 403.3(v)(3), any other industrial
user that contributes a process waste stream which makes up 5% or
more average dry weather hydraulic or organic capacity of the POTW
treatment plant.
(5)
All facilities permitted under 6 NYCRR Part 360 or Part 364
which discharge or transport leachate from sanitary landfills to any
portion of the City's collection or treatment system.
[Added 11-25-1991]
(6)
Any other industrial user that the Control Authority designates
as having a reasonable potential for adversely affecting the POTW's
operation or for violating a pretreatment standard or requirement.
SIGNIFICANT NON-COMPLIANCE
A user is in significant non-compliance when its violation(s)
meet one or more of the following criteria:
(1)
Chronic violations of wastewater Discharge limits, defined here
as those in which 66% or more of all of the measurements taken for
the same pollutant parameter during a six-month period exceed (by
any magnitude) a numeric Pretreatment Standard or Requirement, including
instantaneous limits;
(2)
Technical Review Criteria (TRC) violations, defined here as
those in which 33% or more of all of the measurements taken for the
same pollutant parameter during a six-month period equal or exceed
the product of the numeric Pretreatment Standard or Requirement including
instantaneous limits, multiplied by the applicable TRC (TRC=1.4 for
BOD, TSS, fats, oil, and grease, and 1.2 for all other pollutants
except pH);
(3)
Any other violation of a Pretreatment Standard or Requirement
(daily maximum, long-term average, instantaneous limit, or narrative
Standard) that the POTW determines has caused, alone or in combination
with other Discharges, Interference or Pass Through (including endangering
the health of POTW personnel or the general public);
(4)
Any discharge of a pollutant that has caused imminent endangerment
to human health, welfare or to the environment or has resulted in
the POTW's exercise of its emergency authority to halt or prevent
such a discharge;
(5)
Failure to meet, within 90 days after the schedule date, a compliance
schedule milestone contained in a local control mechanism or enforcement
order for starting construction, completing construction, or attaining
final compliance;
(6)
Failure to provide, within 30 days after the due date, required
reports such as baseline monitoring reports, ninety-day compliance
reports, periodic self-monitoring reports, and reports on compliance
with compliance schedules;
(7)
Failure to accurately report non-compliance;
(8)
Any other violation or group of violations, which may include
a violation of Best Management Practices, which the POTW determines
will adversely affect the operation or implementation of the local
Pretreatment program.
SLUG
Any discharge of a non-routine, episodic nature, including
but not limited to an accidental spill or a non-customary batch discharge,
which has a reasonable potential to cause Interference or Pass Through,
or in any other way violate the POTW's regulations, local limits
or permit conditions, including, but not limited to, any discharge
of water, sewage or industrial waste which in concentration of any
given constituent or in quantity of flow, that exceeds, for any period
of duration longer than 15 minutes more than five times the average
twenty-four-hour concentration or flows during normal operation.
STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION (SIC)
A classification pursuant to the Standard Industrial Classification
Manual issued by the Executive Office of the President, Office Management
and Budget 1972, or newest edition.
STORM SEWER OR STORM DRAIN
A sewer which carries storm- and surface water and drainage,
but excludes sewage and industrial wastes, other than unpolluted cooling
water.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
Solids that either float on the surface of or are in suspension
in water, sewage or other liquids, and which are removable by laboratory
filtering.
TOXICS
Any of the pollutants designated by federal regulations pursuant
to Section 307(a)(1) of the Clean Water Act, as amended.
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.
WATERCOURSE
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.