A. 
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.
COMBINED SEWER
A sewer receiving both surface runoff and sewage.
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.
CONTROL AUTHORITY
The City of Ogdensburg.
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.
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 TREATMENT PLANT
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.
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.
SPDES (denoting "State Pollution Discharge Elimination System")
A permit issued pursuant to Section 402 of the Act (33 U.S.C. § 1342).
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.
B. 
Industrial or commercial classifications which bear upon applications, rates, fees or other considerations shall be determined solely by the Common Council.
C. 
"Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.