Unless the context specifically and clearly indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this chapter 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.
APPROVAL AUTHORITY
The Regional Administrator of Region III of the EPA.
APPROVED TRANSPORTING ENTITY
A person who obtains sewage from a holding tank and transports such matter to a disposal site approved by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and who is at that time covered by a valid and binding agreement with the Township governing such transportation and disposal.
AUTHORITY
Upper Allen Township Authority, a Pennsylvania municipal authority, acting by and through its Board or, in appropriate cases, acting by and through its authorized representatives.
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE (OF THE USER)
A. 
If the user is a corporation, the authorized representative shall be:
(1) 
The president, vice-president, secretary or treasurer of the corporation in charge of a principal business function, or any other person who performs similar policy or decision-making functions for the corporation; or
(2) 
The manager of one or more manufacturing, production or operating facilities, provided the manager is authorized to make management decisions that govern the operation of the regulated facility, including having the explicit or implicit duty of making major capital investment recommendations, and initiate and direct other comprehensive measures to assure long-term environmental compliance with environmental laws and regulations; can ensure that the necessary systems are established or actions take to gather complete and accurate information for control mechanism requirements; and where authorized to sign documents has been assigned or delegated to the manager in accordance with corporate procedures.
B. 
If the user is a partnership or sole proprietorship, an authorized representative shall mean a general partner or proprietor, respectively.
C. 
If the user is a federal, state or local government facility, the authorized representative shall mean a ranking elected official or principal executive official having responsibility for the overall operation and performance of the activities of the principal geographic unit of the government facility.
D. 
The individuals described in Subsections A through C, above, may designate another authorized representative if:
(1) 
The authorization is made in writing by the individual described above;
(2) 
The authorization specifies either an individual or a position responsible for the overall operation of the facility from which the indirect discharge originates or having overall responsibility for environmental matters for the company; and
(3) 
The written authorization is submitted to the Township and Authority.
BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES (BMPs)
Schedules of activities, prohibitions of practices, maintenance procedures and other management practices to implement the prohibitions listed in §§ 200-5.1 and 200-5.2 of Article V of these regulations and 40 CFR 403.5(a)(1) and (b). BMPs also include treatment requirements, operating procedures and practices to control plant site runoff, spillage or leaks, sludge or waste disposal, or drainage from raw materials storage.
BILLING UNIT
Includes, as applicable, each of the following: an equivalent dwelling unit, a residential unit, or any nonresidential use, including a commercial establishment, industrial establishment and an institutional establishment.
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD)
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure for five days at 20° C., expressed in terms of weight and concentration (mg/L). The standard laboratory procedure shall be that found in the latest edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, published by the American Public Health Association.
COMMISSIONERS or BOARD
The governing body of the Township.
BUILDING SEWER
The extension from the sewage drainage system of any structure to the lateral of a sanitary sewer. The building sewer shall be maintained by the owner.
BUSINESS ESTABLISHMENT
A location where business is conducted, goods are made or stored or processed, or where services are rendered, and may include commercial and/or institutional land use for facilities such as a retail store, office, warehouse, factory, assembly plant, or similar use, and where generally the main objective is the receipt or generation of a financial return in exchange for goods or services provided.
BYPASS
The intentional diversion of wastewater from any portion of an industrial user's pretreatment facility through which the wastewater normally passes.
CALENDAR DAY
Unless otherwise specified, the term "calendar day" when referred to in these rates, rules, and regulations consists of the period from midnight to midnight, or any equivalent twenty-four-consecutive-hour period, as determined to be appropriate by the Township.
CATEGORICAL INDUSTRIAL USER
An industrial user subject to categorical standards.
CATEGORICAL STANDARDS
The national categorical pretreatment standards (40 CFR 403-471).
CERTIFIED PROFESSIONAL
A registered professional engineer under the laws of the state.
CHAIN OF CUSTODY
A record of sample collection indicating the place, date and time of collection and the person collecting the sample. It shall also include a record of each person involved in possession of the sample, including the laboratory person who takes final possession of the sample for the purpose of analysis.
CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (COD)
A measure of the oxygen required to oxidize all compounds, both organic and inorganic, in water.
CLEAN STREAMS LAW
The Act of June 22, 1937, P.L. 1937, as amended and reenacted by the Act of October 10, 1980, P.L. 894, 35 P.S. §§ 691.1 to 691.702.
COLOR
Color of light transmitted through a waste after removal of all suspended matter, including pseudo-colloidal particles, and measured in platinum-cobalt units.
COMBINED WASTE FORMULA
A procedure for calculating discharge concentrations of constituents of industrial waste, as defined in 40 CFR 403.6(e).
COMMERCIAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any room, group of rooms, building or enclosure used or intended for use in the operation of one or more business enterprise for the sale and distribution of any product, commodity, article or service used or intended for use for any social, amusement, religious, educational, charitable or public purpose and containing plumbing facilities for kitchens, toilets or washing facilities, and shall include institutional dormitories, individual condominium units and integral units within a single structure (such as "flex-space offices"), but does not include personal-care boarding homes as licensed by the state. A commercial establishment represents a nonresidential use. Each business enterprise shall represent a minimum of one EDU subject to applicable tapping fees.
COMPLIANCE
Adherence to conditions and requirements of these Rates, Rules, and Regulations, any order issued by the Township and any wastewater discharge permit and other permit issued under the provisions of these Rates, Rules, and Regulations.
COMPOSITE SAMPLE
A sample composed of individual subsamples taken at regular intervals over a specified period of time. Subsamples may be proportioned by time interval or size according to flow (flow-proportioned composite sample) or be of equal size and taken at equal time intervals (equal-time composite sample).
CONDENSATE
The liquid that condenses from chiller or cooling unit gas caused by a reduction in temperature.
CONFESSED JUDGMENT PROMISSORY NOTE
A signed legal agreement made by a party to a promissory note to a creditor, such as a municipality, that, in the event that the party does not abide by the repayment terms or otherwise defaults on the agreement, the creditor has the right to file a complaint in confession of judgment against the party in the County Courthouse, declare a default and enter judgment immediately in an agreed amount. The defaulting party does not receive the benefit of a trial.
CONNECTION FEE
A fee, as established and defined by Act 203 of 1990 and amended by Act 57 of 2003, which is imposed to recover the Township's cost for facilities installed between the sewer mains and the property line of the property to be connected to the sewer system and which is payable to the Township.
CONTRACT DRAWINGS
All drawings or plans pertaining to a development project as prepared by a registered professional engineer and as approved by the Township.
COOLING WATER
The water from any use such as air conditioning, cooling or refrigeration, not otherwise considered as process wastewater, and to which the only pollutant added is heat.
CUSTOMER FACILITIES FEE
A fee, as established and defined by Act 203 of 1990 and amended by Act 57 of 2003, which is imposed to recover the Township's cost for facilities installed between the property line and the internal plumbing of the building being connected to the Township's sewer and which is payable to the Township.
DAILY MAXIMUM
The highest value obtained for samples collected in any calendar day. When used in a limit, the daily maximum is the highest value allowed in any composite sample or the maximum value allowed as an average of one or more grab samples taken during a calendar day. The daily maximum may also be expressed as the maximum mass allowed to be discharged during any one calendar day.
DEP
The Department of Environmental Protection of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or its successor in authority.
DESIGNATED PLUMBER
A master plumber or plumbers selected by the Township to perform installation, repair and maintenance services for grinder pump systems.
DEVELOPER
Any landowner, or sometimes hereafter and otherwise referred to as "owner," agent of such landowner, or tenant with the permission of such landowner, who makes or causes to be made a subdivision of land or a land development, or other prospective users of the Township's sanitary sewer system developing in that portion of the Township served through the sewage treatment plants of the Lower Allen Township Authority and the Township.
DIRECT DISCHARGE
The discharge of treated or untreated wastewater directly to the waters of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
DOMESTIC WASTEWATER
Human excrement and gray water (showers, dishwashers, washing machines, etc.) generated from residential households, institutions, commercial and industrial establishments, but excluding industrial wastewater.
DWELLING UNIT
Any room, group of rooms, building, house trailer, mobile or manufactured home or other enclosure occupied or intended for occupancy as separate living quarters by a family or other group of persons living together or by a person living alone.
EMERGENCY
A generally unexpected occurrence that demands immediate action.
ENFORCEMENT RESPONSE PLAN
A plan and guide developed pursuant to 40 CFR 403.8(f)(5) providing for the enforcement of the industrial pretreatment program.
EPA
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.
EQUIVALENT DWELLING UNIT (EDU)
With to regard residential owner: any home, mobile home, house trailer, enclosure, room, group of rooms, etc., occupied or intended for occupancy as separate living quarters for a family or other group of persons living together or by persons living alone. An EDU also represents a unit of measurement applied to a nonresidential establishment or improvement and its use which produces a volume of sanitary sewage equivalent to residential dwelling units. The unit rate of flow of sanitary sewage generated by one EDU is stated to be an average daily flow of 221 gallons per day, subject to adjustment from time to time in conjunction with the Township tapping fee calculation in accordance with the provisions of PA Act 57 of 2003. Measurement of average daily flow is to be based upon water consumed at said use or structure or upon the actual flow of sewage discharged into the said sewer system.
EXISTING SOURCE
Any source of discharge, the construction or operation of which commenced prior to the publication by the EPA of proposed categorical standards, which categorical standards will be applicable to such source if the categorical standard is thereafter promulgated in accordance with Section 307 of the Act.
FATS, OILS AND GREASE (FOG)
Organic polar compounds derived from animal and/or plant sources that contain multiple carbon chain triglyceride molecules, such as rendered animal fat, vegetable shortening and other such oily material used for the purposes of and resulting from cooking and/or preparing food, and is distinct from petroleum or mineral oils.
FLEX SPACE
Refers to a type of building designed to provide its occupants or tenants with the ability to configure a flexible amount of space for an office, warehouse, showroom, manufacturing facility or other use.
FOOD SERVICE ESTABLISHMENT
Any food service facility that prepares, packages or serves food or beverages for sale or consumption, on site or off site, with the exception of private residences, and that uses one or more of the following preparation activities: cooking by frying (all methods), baking (all methods), grilling, sauteing, rotisserie cooking, broiling (all methods), boiling, blanching, roasting, toasting or poaching. Also included are infrared heating, searing, barbecuing and other food preparation activities that produce a hot, nondrinkable food product in or on a receptacle that requires washing. Food service establishments shall include, but are not limited to, food courts, food manufacturers, food packagers, meat distributors, restaurants, grocery stores, bakeries, lounges, hospitals, hotels, nursing homes, churches and schools.
GARBAGE
Solid or semisolid wastes resulting from preparation, cooking and dispensing of food and from handling, storage and sale of produce.
GRAB SAMPLE
A sample which is taken from a waste stream without regard to the flow in the waste stream and over a period of time not to exceed 15 minutes.
GREASE INTERCEPTOR
A device located underground and outside of a food service establishment designed to collect, contain or remove food wastes and grease from the waste stream while allowing the wastewater to discharge to the sewer system by gravity.
GREASE TRAP
A device located inside a food service establishment or under a sink and designed to collect, contain or remove food wastes and grease from the waste stream by hydromechanical means while allowing the wastewater to discharge to the sewer system.
GRINDER PUMP
A manufactured device enclosed in an impervious container containing an electrically powered pumping device for the movement of wastewater or sewage with various operating and safety controls as specified from time to time by the Township and owned by the owner.
GRINDER PUMP SYSTEM
The sewage movement system as contained within an owner's property, including the inflow sewage pipe from the house, building or other structure to the grinder pump, the outflow sewage pipe from the grinder pump to the point of connection to the Township's sewer system (whether beyond the owner's property), and the necessary exterior controls and the electrical wiring to energize the grinder pump and any exterior controls.
GROUNDWATER
Water which is contained in or passing through the ground.
HOLDING TANK
A watertight receptacle, whether permanent or temporary, which receives and retains sewage conveyed by a water-carrying system and is designed and constructed to facilitate the ultimate disposal of the sewage at another site.
HOLDING TANK WASTE
Any waste from holding tanks such as vessels, chemical toilets, campers, trailers, septic tanks and vacuum-pump tank trucks.
IMPROVED PROPERTY
Any property located within this Township upon which there is erected a structure intended for continuous or periodic habitation, occupancy or use by human beings or animals and from which structure sanitary sewage and/or industrial wastes shall be or may be discharged.
INDIRECT DISCHARGE
The introduction of pollutants into the POTW from any nonresidential source regulated under Section 307 (b), (c) or (d) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, including holding tank waste discharged into the sewer system.
INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any room, group of rooms, building or other enclosure used or intended for use, in whole or in part, in the operation of one business enterprise for manufacturing, processing, cleaning, laundering or assembling any product, commodity or article or from which process waste, as distinct from sanitary sewage, shall be discharged. An industrial establishment represents a nonresidential use.
INDUSTRIAL PRETREATMENT PROGRAM
The sum of the provisions of these Rates, Rules, and Regulations, amendments thereto, and any activities authorized by this chapter as regards the regulation and control of industrial users to the extent required by the federal pretreatment regulations set forth in 40 CFR 403, and including similar provisions in ordinances administered and enforced by the Lower Allen Township Authority.
INDUSTRIAL USER
A source of indirect discharge.
INDUSTRIAL WASTE
Any solid, liquid or gaseous substance, waterborne waste or form of energy which is produced as a result, whether directly or indirectly, of any industrial, manufacturing, commercial, trade or business or research process or activity or in the course of developing, recovering or processing of natural resources and which is discharged into the sewer system; but not noncontact cooling water or sanitary sewage. Any wastewater which contains industrial waste and which is discharged from an industrial, manufacturing, trade or business premises is considered industrial waste for the purposes of these Rates, Rules, and Regulations.
INFECTIOUS WASTE
Any substance which is discharged and which consists of or is contaminated by pathogens or other etiologic agents and which has not been sterilized, neutralized or otherwise rendered harmless. Infectious waste includes but is not limited to contaminated blood, blood products or other bodily fluids (excepting excreta discharged by normal bodily functions); wastes, including excreta, from patient isolation areas; laboratory samples or test materials; animal wastes and bedding; body parts; pathology and autopsy wastes; and glassware, hypodermic needles, surgical instruments and other sharps.
INSTANTANEOUS LIMIT
The maximum concentration of a pollutant allowed to be discharged at any time, determined from the analysis of any discrete or composited sample collected, independent of the industrial flow rate and the duration of the sampling event.
INSTITUTIONAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any room, group of rooms, building or other enclosure which does not constitute a commercial establishment, a dwelling unit or an industrial establishment. An institutional establishment represents a nonresidential use.
INTERFERENCE
A discharge, which, alone or in conjunction with discharges from other sources:
A. 
Inhibits or disrupts the processes or operations of the sewage treatment plant or the sewage collection system, or sludge processes, use or disposal; and therefor
B. 
Is a cause of or contributes to a violation of any requirement of the Township'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): Article 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 Substances Control Act, and the Marine Protection, Research and Sanctuaries Act; or which results in or increases the severity of a violation of other state or national environmental statutes, rules or regulations.
LAND DEVELOPMENT
The improvement, conversion of use or expansion of existing use of one lot or two or more contiguous lots, tracts or parcels of land for any purpose involving:
A. 
A group of two or more residential buildings or one or more nonresidential buildings on a lot or lots regardless of the number of occupants or tenure.
B. 
The division or allocation of land or space between or among two or more existing or prospective occupants by means of, or for the purpose of, streets, common areas, leaseholds, condominiums, building groups or other features.
C. 
Any other project requiring the approval of the Board of the Township pursuant to any act or ordinance.
LATERAL
That part of the sewer system extending from a sewer main to the limits of the sewer easement or street rights-of-way for the purpose of providing for connection of any building sewer; this term may also be referred to as "service lateral."
LOCAL LIMITS
Numerical limitations on the concentration, mass or other characteristics of wastes or pollutants discharged, or likely to be discharged, by industrial users, and which are developed by the Township to implement the general and specific discharge prohibitions listed in 40 CFR 403.5(a)(1) and (b).
LOWER ALLEN TOWNSHIP FACILITIES
The sewage treatment plant, interceptor and related facilities owned and operated by the Lower Allen Township Authority and used for the purpose of transportation, treatment and disposal of sewage collected in the sewer system.
MANHOLE
A structure allowing access from the surface of the ground to a sewer.
MEDICAL WASTE
Isolation wastes, infectious agents, human blood and blood byproducts, pathological wastes, sharps, body parts, etiologic agents, contaminated bedding, surgical wastes, potentially contaminated laboratory wastes, and dialysis wastes.
METERING FACILITIES
A flow measuring system designed and installed in accordance with accepted engineering practices and approved by the Township for the measurement of wastewater flows. For industrial and nonresidential establishments, publicly metered water use records may be considered "metering facilities" if approved by the Township.
mg/l
Milligrams per liter, a measure of concentration of waterborne substances.
MONTHLY AVERAGE
The arithmetic mean of all daily determinations of concentration and/or mass measurements made during a calendar month.
MULTIPLE UNIT
Any improved property in which shall be located more than one billing unit.
MUNICIPALITY
Upper Allen Township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.
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 (33 U.S.C. 1317) which applies to a specific category of industrial users. National categorical pretreatment standards are enumerated in 40 CFR, Chapter 1, Subchapter N, Parts 405 through 471.
NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM (NPDES) PERMIT
A permit issued to control the discharge of pollutants from point sources into the navigable waters, the contiguous zone and the oceans pursuant to Section 402 of the Act (33 U.S.C. 1342).
NEW SOURCE
A. 
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 federal categorical pretreatment standards under Section 307(c) of the Act (33 U.S.C. 1317) which apply 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.
B. 
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 A(2) or (3) of this definition but otherwise alters, replaces or adds to existing process or production equipment.
C. 
Construction of a new source as defined under this subsection has commenced if the owner or operator has:
(1) 
Begun, or caused to begin, as part of a continuous on-site construction program:
(a) 
Any placement, assembly or installation of facilities or equipment; or
(b) 
Significant site preparation work, including clearing, excavation or removal of existing buildings, structures or facilities which is necessary for the placement, assembly or installation of new source facilities or equipment; or
(2) 
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 from the date on which the contract was entered. 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 subsection.
NONCOMPLIANCE
Not in compliance.
NONCONTACT COOLING WATER
The water used for cooling that does not come into direct contact with any raw material, intermediate product, waste product or finished product.
NONRESIDENTIAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any room, group of rooms, building or other enclosure, including commercial establishments, industrial establishments, and institutional establishments, which do not or does not constitute a residential dwelling unit.
NONSIGNIFICANT CATEGORICAL INDUSTRIAL USER (NSCIU)
An industrial user subject to federal categorical pretreatment standards that is deemed not a significant industrial user (SIU), as defined in this section, based on a finding that the industrial user never discharges more than 100 gallons per day (GPD) of total categorical wastewater (excluding sanitary, noncontact cooling and boiler blowdown wastewater, unless specifically included in the pretreatment standard) and the following conditions are met:
A. 
The industrial user, prior to the Township's finding, has consistently complied with all applicable categorical pretreatment standards and requirements;
B. 
The industrial user annually submits the certification statement required in § 200-6.4 of Article VI of these regulations and under 40 CFR 403.12(q), together with any additional information necessary to support the certification statement; and
C. 
The industrial user never discharges any untreated concentrated wastewater.
NORMAL PRODUCTION DAY
For the purposes of sampling wastewater, a normal production day is that portion of a calendar day during which wastewater is discharged and production, cleanup and other activities that normally produce wastewater or industrial waste are occurring. If a sample is specified to be collected during a normal production day, it should not include aliquots taken during low waste stream flow periods that are not representative of such normal activities or during times when wastewater is not being discharged.
NORTH AMERICAN INDUSTRY CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM (NAICS)
Provides common industry definitions for Canada, Mexico, and the United States to facilitate economic analyses that cover the economies of the three North American countries and includes groupings of industries as defined by the Office of Management and Budget.
OCCUPANCY PERMIT
A permit issued by the Township stating that all work indicated on a building permit has been satisfactorily completed, or, in cases not involving construction, a proposed new use is in conformity with applicable ordinances, and the building or lot may be occupied.
OPERATOR (INDUSTRIAL)
Any person having charge, care, control or management of a pretreatment facility for industrial wastes or of a truck or trucks used in the removal, transport or disposal of sewage or industrial wastes.
OWNER
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole or partial, of any improved property.
PASS-THROUGH
A discharge which exits the sewage treatment plant into waters of the state 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 Township's or the Lower Allen Township Authority's NPDES permit, including an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, copartnership, firm, company, association, joint-stock company, society, trust, corporation, estate, governmental entity, limited-liability company or other group or 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 context.
pH
The logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the weight (concentration) of hydrogen ions, expressed in grams per liter of solution, and indicates the degree of acidity or alkalinity of a substance.
PLANNING MODULE
The DEP sewage facilities planning module for new land development required for submission by the Township on behalf of the owner or developer to DEP for approval as a revision to the Official Sewage Facility Plan of the Township.
POLLUTANT
Any substance, including but not limited to dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt, medical wastes, backwash from water filtration and industrial, municipal, and agricultural waste and certain characteristics of wastewater (BOD, COD, color, odor, pH, temperature, TSS, toxicity, turbidity).
POLLUTION
The contamination of any waters of the state such as will create or is likely to create a nuisance or to render such waters harmful, detrimental or injurious to public health, safety or welfare, or to domestic, municipal, commercial, industrial, agricultural, recreational or other legitimate beneficial uses, or to livestock, wild animals, birds, fish or other aquatic life; or contamination of the air, soil or the environment so as to produce or is likely to produce similar deleterious effects.
POTW
A publicly owned treatment works as defined by Section 212 of the Act (33 U.S.C. 1292). The term includes any devices or systems used in the collection, storage, treatment, recycling and reclamation of domestic or industrial wastewater and any conveyances which convey wastewater to a POTW. The term also means the municipality as defined in Section 502(4) of the Act (33 U.S.C. 1362(4)) which has jurisdiction over the indirect discharges to and the discharges from such a treatment works.
PPC PLAN
A preparedness, prevention, and contingency plan developed and implemented by an industrial or commercial user to prevent and control endangerment to human health and the environment from fires, explosions or accidental discharge of polluting materials to surface water or groundwater, to minimize the likelihood, duration and intensity of a slug load or spill, and to expedite control and cleanup activities should a slug load or spill occur. A PPC plan is required for any NPDES Application for Storm Water Discharge General Permit or Water Management Permit.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
ppm
Parts per million, by weight.
PRETREATMENT
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 the sewer system. The reduction or alteration can be obtained by physical, chemical or biological processes, or by means of other process changes except as prohibited by 40 CFR 403.6(d), which prohibits dilution as a substitute for treatment.
PRETREATMENT COORDINATOR
An agent of the Township designated to assist the Township Manager and Sewer Department Director in the administration of the provisions of the industrial pretreatment program, and so designated by that title.
PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENTS
Any substantive or procedural requirement, other than a categorical standard or prohibitive discharge standard, imposed on an industrial user by Section 303(b) and (c) of the Act or associated regulations, the state or the industrial pretreatment program.
PRETREATMENT STANDARDS
Prohibited discharge standards, federal categorical pretreatment standards and local limits.
PROCESS WASTEWATER
Any wastewater resulting from the direct contact of water with any raw material, intermediate product, finished product, by-product or waste during any manufacturing process, or water other than noncontact cooling water which results from a manufacturing process.
PROHIBITED OR PROHIBITIVE DISCHARGE STANDARD
Any regulation developed under Section 307(b) and (c) of the Act (33 U.S.C. 1317), including prohibitive discharge limits under 40 CFR 403.5. Prohibitive discharge standards are included in the list of prohibited discharges in § 200-5.1 of Article V of these regulations.
PROPERLY CHOPPED GARBAGE
Garbage that has been chopped to such a degree that all its particles will be carried freely under normal sewer flow conditions, with no particle greater than 1/2 inch in any dimension.
PUMPING STATION
A system designed to receive and store wastewater at a low point in the collection system and pump it to a wastewater treatment plant or to a continuation of the sewer system at a higher elevation, and generally consisting of a wet well and a series of pumps housed in a subsurface or aboveground structure.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
QUALIFIED ANALYST
Any person who has demonstrated competency in the analysis of wastewater by submission of his/her generally recognized documentation of competency to the Township and Authority, or who has received an academic degree or professional certification of competency in the field of chemical and/or biological analysis of water and wastewater.
REFRIGERATION
Maintenance of temperature for storage, preservation of food or as a process of manufacturing.
REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE
A sample taken so that it is representative of the wastewater discharged during the sampling period. A representative sample is normally a flow-proportioned composite sample taken during a normal production day.
RESERVATION OF CAPACITY AGREEMENT or ROC AGREEMENT
The agreement between the owner or developer and the Township setting forth the terms and conditions for capacity reservation.
RESERVATION OF CAPACITY FEE or ROC FEE
The charge or fee imposed by the Township pursuant to this chapter when an owner or developer has requested the Township to reserve sanitary sewer capacity for an EDU, or EDUs, in connection with an approved preliminary plan, which said fee shall be based on debt and fixed operating expenses in connection with the sewer system (hereinafter defined).
RESERVED CAPACITY
The sewage volume or capacity allocated to and reserved by an owner or developer.
RESIDENTIAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any private dwelling, any dwelling unit in a double house or in a row of connecting houses, any apartment, room, group of rooms, house, trailer, mobile home, building or other structure occupied or intended for occupancy as separate living quarters by a family or other group of persons living together or by persons living alone, excluding institutional dormitories, but including personal-care boarding homes licensed by the commonwealth.
RESIDENTIAL SUBDIVISION
A subdivision of land into lots intended for conveyance to persons for single-family or multifamily dwellings.
RIGHT-OF-WAY
The limits of an area dedicated to the Township or the state for use for streets, roads and other public access, granted by deed of dedication and recorded at the County Office of the Recorder of Deeds.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer carrying only domestic or industrial wastes and to which stormwater, surface water or groundwater are not intentionally admitted.
SANITARY SEWER EASEMENT
A legal document or agreement conveying limited property rights from the grantor (property owner) to the grantee (Township or another property owner) and being recorded at the County Office of the Recorder of Deeds, said document creating a nonexclusive, perpetual right to use a portion of the grantor's property to provide access rights to repair, replace, inspect, change, maintain, test or remove the sanitary sewer facilities located within or accessed by the easement.
SCHEDULE OF FEES AND CHARGES
A schedule, adopted by resolution of the Board of Commissioners of Upper Allen Township, setting forth various fees and charges to be levied by the Township for different purposes relative to the sewer system. The Schedule of Fees and Charges shall be considered part of the official rates, rules and regulations.
SERVICE LATERAL
A term that is synonymous with the term "lateral."
SEWAGE
This term, which is synonymous with "wastewater," represents any waterborne wastes that contain the waste products or excrement or other discharge from the bodies of human beings or animals and noxious or deleterious substances being harmful or inimical to the public health, or to animal or aquatic life, or to the use of water for domestic water supply or for recreation. These wastes may also include discharges from commercial establishments, industrial wastes, and groundwater or stormwater infiltration and inflow. This term includes any substance which constitutes pollution under the Clean Streams Law.[1]
SEWAGE COLLECTION SYSTEM
Any network of sewer pipes, mains or conduits that are referred to as collection, trunk, or interceptor sewers, force mains, or low-pressure sewers constituting a portion of the sewer system that is used or usable for sewage collection and transport.
SEWAGE/WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT
The plant and facilities owned by the Township, including all additions, extensions, alterations and improvements, and used for the purpose of treatment and discharge of treated sewage or wastewater to waters of the Commonwealth, and for dewatering of sewage sludge for disposal at a permitted facility.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
SEWER
Any pipe, main or conduit constituting a part of the sewer system used or usable for sewage collection and conveyance purposes and to which stormwater, surface water or groundwater are not intentionally admitted.
SEWER RENTS
All rates charged for sewer service imposed under the Schedule of Fees and Charges, including volume charges, charges for excess-strength wastewaters and penalties and interest charges imposed under such schedule.
SEWER SERVICE LATERAL
That part of the sewer system that extends from the sewer main to a point near the edge of the public right-of-way. The service lateral shall be maintained by the owner.
SEWER SYSTEM
All facilities, as of any particular time, for the collecting, transporting, pumping, treatment and disposal of sanitary sewage and industrial waste, including all related and necessary facilities, and including all additions, extensions, alterations and improvements owned or to be owned by the Township or to which the Township has the right to utilize such facilities for the purpose of providing public sanitary sewer service.
SHALL and MAY
When used in the chapter, "shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER (SIU)
A. 
An industrial user who:
(1) 
Has a discharge flow of 25,000 gallons or more of process wastewater during a normal production day, excluding sanitary, noncontact cooling, and boiler blowdown wastewater;
(2) 
Discharges industrial waste which makes up 5% or more of the average dry weather hydraulic or organic capacity of the sewage treatment plant;
(3) 
Is regulated by categorical standards; or
(4) 
Is determined by the Authority, Township, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection or EPA to have the potential of adversely affecting the operation of the POTW, causing interference or pass-through, or of violating any pretreatment standard or requirement.
B. 
Upon a finding that an industrial user meeting the criteria in Subsection A(1), (2) and (4) of this definition has no reasonable potential for adversely affecting the POTW's operation or for violating any pretreatment standard or requirement, the Authority and Township may at any time, on its own initiative or in response to a petition received from an industrial user, and in accordance with procedures established in 40 CFR 403.8(f)(6), determine that such industrial user should not be considered a significant industrial user and may, in accordance with regulations at 40 CFR 403.3(v) instead be considered a nonsignificant industrial user.
SIGNIFICANT NONCOMPLIANCE
A noncompliance which meets or exceeds standards of significant noncompliance determined by the Township, Township Manager, Authority, or Authority Manager and contained in these rules and regulations.
SIGNIFICANT VIOLATOR
Any industrial user in significant noncompliance at any time during a calendar year.
SLUG or SLUG LOAD
Any discharge of a nonroutine, episodic nature, or at a flow rate or concentration which could cause a violation of the general or specific prohibited discharge standards in §§ 200-5.1 and 200-5.2 of Article V of these regulations, including but not limited to an accidental spill or noncustomary batch discharge, which has a reasonable potential to cause interference or pass-through, or in any other way violates Township regulations, local limits or wastewater discharge permit conditions.
SPILL
Any discharge of a nonroutine, episodic nature, including but not limited to an accidental spill or a deliberate or accidental noncustomary or unauthorized batch discharge, or the control or cleanup activities associated with such an occurrence; an accidental spill may result from the spilling, overflowing, rupture or leakage of any storage, process or transfer container.
STATE
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
STORMWATER
Any flow occurring during or following any form of natural precipitation and resulting therefrom.
SUBDIVISION
The division or redivision of a single lot, tract or parcel of land or part thereof by any means into two or more lots, tracts or parcels of land, including changes in street lines or lot lines for the purposes, whether immediate or future, of improvement and development.
SUPERINTENDENT
The person designated by the Township to supervise the operation of the sewage treatment plant, or his duly authorized representative.
TAPPING FEE
A term that is synonymous with the term "connection fee."
TOTAL SOLIDS
The sum of the dissolved and undissolved solid constituents of water or wastewater.
TOTAL SUSPENDED SOLIDS
The total suspended matter that floats on the surface or is suspended in water, wastewater or other liquids and which is removable by laboratory filtering.
TOTAL TOXIC ORGANICS
The sum of all quantifiable values of various organic pollutants as determined by the Township or, for certain categorical industrial users, as defined in the applicable categorical standard.
TOWNSHIP
The Township of Upper Allen, a First-Class Township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, a Pennsylvania municipality, acting by and through its Board of Commissioners or, in appropriate cases, acting by and through its authorized representatives.
TOXIC ORGANIC MANAGEMENT PLAN
A plan submitted in lieu of testing for total toxic organics in which an industrial user specifies methods of control to assure that total toxic organics do not routinely enter the sewer system.
TOXIC POLLUTANTS
Any pollutant or combination of pollutants listed as toxic in regulations promulgated by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency under the provision of Section 307(a) of the Act, or other acts, or is present in sufficient quantity, either singly or in combination with other wastewater, so as to present risk of causing interference or pass-through, causing harm to humans, animals or plants, or creating a hazard to persons or property, either in the sewage collection system, the sewage treatment plant or the environment into which it is released.
UNAUTHORIZED DISCHARGE
Discharge of an unauthorized waste or a discharge which otherwise is not in compliance with the requirements of the industrial pretreatment program or other rules or regulations of the Township or a contributing municipality.
UNAUTHORIZED WASTE
Any substance which is discharged into the sewer system and which is not in compliance with the provisions of the industrial pretreatment program, or which is discharged by a person in violation of any of the provisions of this chapter, resolution or the provisions of the ordinances of a contributing municipality.
USER
Any person who contributes, causes, or allows the contribution of wastewater into the POTW.
WASTEWATER
A term that is synonymous with the term "sewage."
WASTEWATER COLLECTION SYSTEM
A term that is synonymous with the term "sewage collection system."
WASTEWATER DISCHARGE PERMIT
As set forth in Article VI of these regulations.
WATERS OF THE STATE
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.
WATER SYSTEM
The facilities owned by any person and used for the supply of water to the public in the Township.
[1]
Editor's Note: See 35 P.S. § 691.1 et seq.
The following abbreviations shall have the designated meanings:
BMR
Baseline monitoring report
BOD
Biochemical oxygen demand
CFR
Code of Federal Regulations
COD
Chemical oxygen demand
DEP
Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection
EPA
Environmental Protection Agency
EDU
Equivalent dwelling unit
GPD
Gallons per day
L
Liter
LEL
Lower explosive limit
mg
Milligrams
mg/L
Milligrams per liter
MGD
Million gallons per day
NH3-N
Ammonia nitrogen
NOV
Notice of violation
NPDES
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
NAICS
North American Industry Classification System
O&M
Operation and maintenance
POTW
Publicly owned treatment works
PPC
Preparedness, Prevention and Contingency Plan
RCRA
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
SNC
Significant noncompliance
SWDA
Solid Waste Disposal Act
TSS
Total suspended solids
U.S.C.
United States Code