Township of Unity, PA General Provisions

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; or

(c)

A duly authorized representative of the individual designated in Subsection (1)(a) or (b) if described in Subsection (1)(a) or (b), the authorization specifies either an individual or person having responsibility for the overall responsibility for environmental matters for the company and written authorization is submitted to the control authority.

BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD)

If an authorized individual or position has responsibility for environmental matters for the company, a new authorization satisfying the requirements of Subsection (1)(c) must be submitted to the control authority prior to or together with any reports to be signed by an authorized representative.

The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure, five days at 20° C. expressed in terms of concentration [milligrams per liter (mg/l)].

BUILDING SEWER

A sewer conveying wastewater from the premises of a user to the wastewater system of Unity Township or THTMA.

CATEGORICAL STANDARDS

National Categorical Pretreatment Standards or pretreatment standard.

CONTROL AUTHORITY

Refers to the "approval authority," defined hereinabove, or the Manager of THTMA if there is an approved pretreatment program applicable under the provisions of 40 CFR 403.11.[1]

DIRECT DISCHARGE

The discharge of treated or untreated wastewater directly to the waters of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

DIRECTOR

The chief administrative officer of a state or interstate water pollution control agency with an NPDES permit program approved pursuant to Section 402(b) of the Act and an approved state pretreatment program.

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY OR EPA

The United States Environmental Protection Agency, or where the term may also be used as a designation for the Administrator or other duly authorized official of said agency.

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 over a period of time not to exceed 15 minutes.

HOLDING TANK WASTE

Any waste from holding tanks such as vessels, chemical toilets, campers, trailers, septic tanks and vacuum-pump tank trucks.

INDIRECT DISCHARGE

The discharge or the introduction of pollutants into the sewage treatment plant of THTMA from any source regulated under Section 307(b), (c) or (d) of the Act (33 U.S.C. § 1317).

INDUSTRIAL USER

A source of indirect discharge.

INTERFERENCE

A discharge which, alone or in conjunction with a discharge or discharges from other sources, both inhibits or disrupts the sewage treatment plant of THTMA, its treatment processes or operations or its sludge processes, use or disposal; and, therefore, is a cause of a violation of any requirements of THTMA sewage treatment plant's NPDES permit (including an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation) or of the prevention of sewage sludge use or disposal in compliance with the following statutory provisions and regulations or permits issued thereunder (or more stringent state or local regulations): Section 405 of the Clean Water Act, the Solid Waste Disposal Act (SWDA) [including Title II, more commonly referred to as the "Resource Conservation and Recovery Act" (RCRA)] and including state regulations contained in any state sludge management plan prepared pursuant to Subtitle D of the SWDA, the Clean Air Act, the Toxic Substance Control Act and the Marine Protection, Research and Sanctuaries Act.

NATIONAL CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARD, NATIONAL PRETREATMENT STANDARD OR PRETREATMENT STANDARD

Any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated by the EPA in accordance with Section 307(b) and (c) of the Act, which applies to industrial users. This term includes prohibitive discharge limits established pursuant to 40 CFR 403.5. The categorical pretreatment standards found in 40 CFR Chapter I, Subchapter N, Parts 405.471 are hereby incorporated.

NEW SOURCE

Discharge of pollutants.

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;

[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 of 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.

Construction on a site at which an existing source is located results in a modification rather than a new source if the construction does not create a new building, structure, facility or installation meeting the criteria of Subsection (1)(a)[2] or [3] of this definition but otherwise alters, replaces or adds to existing process or production equipment.

Construction of a new source as defined under this subsection has commenced if the owner or operator has:

Begun, or caused to begin as part of a continuous on-site construction program, any placement, assembly or installation of facilities or equipment; or significant site preparation work, including clearing, excavation, or removal of existing buildings, structures or facilities which are necessary for the placement, assembly or installation of new source facilities or equipment; or

PUBLICLY-OWNED TREATMENT WORKS OR POTW

Entered into a binding contractual obligation for the purchase of facilities or equipment which are intended to be used in its operation within a reasonable time.

(4)

Options to purchase or contracts which can be terminated or modified without substantial loss and contracts for feasibility, engineering and design studies do not constitute a contractual obligation under this definition.

NONCONTACT COOLING WATER

Water used for cooling which does not come into direct contact with any raw material, intermediate product, waste product or finished product.

[Amended 7-28-1998 by Ord. No. O-2-98]

NPDES PERMIT OR PERMIT

A permit issued to a POTW pursuant to Section 402 of the Act.

NPDES STATE

A state (as defined in 40 CFR 122.2) or interstate water pollution control agency with an NPDES permit program approved pursuant to Section 402(b) of the Act.

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 NPDES permit (including an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation).

PERSON

An individual, corporation, partnership, association, state, municipality, municipal authority, commission or political subdivision of a state or an interstate body.

POTW TREATMENT PLANT

The portion of the POTW which is designed to provide treatment (including recycling and reclamation) of municipal sewage and industrial waste.

PRETREATMENT

The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination of pollutants or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties in wastewater prior to or in lieu of discharging or otherwise introducing such pollutants into a POTW. The reduction or alteration may be obtained by physical, chemical or biological processes, process changes or by other means, except as prohibited by 40 CFR 403.6(d). Appropriate pretreatment technology includes control equipment, such as equalization tanks or facilities, for protection against surges or slug loadings that might interfere with or otherwise be incompatible with the POTW. However, where wastewater from a regulated process is mixed in an equalization facility with unregulated wastewater or with wastewater from another regulated process, the effluent from the equalization facility must meet an adjusted pretreatment limit calculated in accordance with 40 CFR 403.6(e).

PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENT

Any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment, other than a pretreatment standard, imposed on an industrial user.

PRETREATMENT STANDARD

Any regulation containing pollution 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, or any rule, regulation, ordinance or term of condition of a permit or order adopted or issued by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or a POTW for the implementation or enforcement of an industrial waste pretreatment program, established under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act or the Clean Streams Law.

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 references 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. Within the context of this, the term "POTW" specifically refers to THTMA Sewage Treatment Plant.

REGIONAL ADMINISTRATOR

The appropriate EPA Regional Administrator.

SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER

[Amended 7-28-1998 by Ord. No. O-2-98]:

A user subject to categorical pretreatment standards; or

A user that:

Discharges an average of 25,000 GPD or more of process wastewater to the POTW (excluding sanitary noncontact cooling and boiler blowdown wastewater);

Contributes a process waste system which makes up 5% or more of the average dry weather hydraulic or organic capacity of the POTW treatment plant; or

(c)

Is designated as such by THTMA on the basis that it has a reasonable potential for adversely affecting the POTW's operation or violating any pretreatment standard or requirement.

SIGNIFICANT NONCOMPLIANCE

Upon finding that a user meeting the criteria in Subsection (2) has no reasonable potential for adversely affecting the POTW's operation or for violating any pretreatment standard or requirement, THTMA may at any time, on its own initiative or in response to a petition received from a user, and in accordance with 40 CFR 403.8(f) and (g), determine that such user should not be considered a significant user.

An industrial user is in significant noncompliance if its violation meets one or more of the following criteria:

Chronic violations of wastewater discharge limits, defined here as those in which 66% or more of all the measurements taken during a six-month period exceed (by any magnitude) the daily maximum limit or the average limit for the same pollutant parameter;

Technical review criteria (TRC) violations, defined here as those in which 33% or more of all of the measurements for each pollutant parameter taken during a six-month period equal or exceed the product of the daily maximum limit or average limit multiplied by the applicable TRC (TRC equals 1.4 for BOD, TSS, fats, oil and grease and 1.2 for all other pollutants except pH);

SLUG DISCHARGE OR ACCIDENTAL DISCHARGE

Any other violation of a pretreatment effluent limit (daily maximum or longer-term average) that the control authority 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 under 40 CFR 403.8 (f)(1)(vi)(B) 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 noncompliance; or

(8)

Any other violation or group of violations which the control authority determines will adversely affect the operation or implementation of the local pretreatment program.

Any discharge of a nonroutine, episodic nature, including but not limited to an accident spill or a noncustomary batch discharge, which would cause a violation of the prohibited discharge standards found in § 96-46.

STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION (SIC)

A classification pursuant to the Standard Industrial Classification Manual issued by the Executive Office of the President, Office of Management and Budget, 1972.

STATE

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

STORMWATER

Any flow occurring during or following any form of natural precipitation and resulting therefrom.

SUBMISSION

A request by THTMA for approval of a pretreatment program to the EPA or a director;

A request by THTMA to the EPA or a director for authority to revise the discharge limits in categorical pretreatment standards to reflect sewage treatment plant pollutant removals; or