Unless otherwise expressly stated, the following
terms shall, for the purposes of this Part 1, have the meanings herein
indicated:
The latest published amendments or revisions applicable at
any time.
The Commissioner of the Department of Environmental Conservation
of the State of New York.
May be any of the following:
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 or other unstable matter under standard laboratory procedure
in five days at 20° C., expressed in parts per million by weight.
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a building drainage
system which receives the discharge from soil, waste and other drainage
pipes inside the walls of any building and conveys such discharge
to the building sewers, beginning three feet outside the outer face
of the building wall.
That part of the horizontal piping of a drainage system which
extends from the end of the building drain and which receives the
discharge of the building drain and conveys it to a public sewer,
private sewer, individual sewage disposal system or other point of
disposal. It may be a gravity or a pressure line.
Shall hereafter refer to the approval authority, defined
hereinabove, or the Superintendent.
The water discharged from any use, such as air conditioning,
cooling or refrigeration, or to which the only pollutant added is
heat.
Any physical connection or arrangement between two otherwise
separate piping systems, one of which contains potable water and the
other which contains water of unknown or questionable safety, whereby
water may flow from one system to the other, the direction of the
flow depending on the pressure differential between the two systems.
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.
The United States Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as
amended in 1977 or thereafter.
Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing
of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
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.
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 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.
The liquid wastes resulting from the processes employed in
industrial establishments and which are free of fecal matter.
Any person or persons appointed and duly authorized by the
Village Board to inspect and approve the installation of building
sewers and their connection to the public sewer system.
The inhibition or disruption of the POTW treatment processes
or operations which contributes to a violation of any requirement
of the City of Cortland's SPDES permit. The term includes prevention
of sewage sludge 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.
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. § 1347) which applies to a specific category of industrial
users.
Any regulation developed under the authority of Section 307
(b) of the Act and 40 CFR 403.5.
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface or ground water.
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, firm, company, association, society, corporation
or group.
The measure of the acidity or alkalinity of a waste.
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 man-made or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical,
biological and radiological integrity of water.
That portion of the POTW designed to provide treatment to
wastewater.
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.
Any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment,
other than a national pretreatment standard imposed on an industrial
user.
A sewer privately owned and not directly controlled by public
authority.
The wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of
food that have been shredded to such degree that all particles will
be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in
the public sewers, with no particle greater than one-half (1/2) inch
in any dimension.
Treatment works, as defined by Section 212 of the Act (33 U.S.C. § 1292), which is owned in this instance by the City of Cortland. 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 1, "POTW" shall also include any sewers that convey wastewaters to the POTW from persons outside the village who are, by contract or agreement with the village, users of the City of Cortland's POTW.
A common sewer directly controlled by public authority.
The Regional Administrator, Region No. 2, United States Environmental
Protection Agency, as empowered by the Federal Water Pollution Control
Act or other federal statute.
A pipe which carries sewage and excludes storm- surface and
ground water.
Any liquid waste containing animal, human or vegetable matter
in suspension or solution, and may include liquids containing chemicals
in solution.
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating
sewage.
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing
of sanitary sewage.
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
Any user who:
Has a discharge flow of 25,000 gallons or more
per average workday; or
Has a flow greater than 5% of the flow in the
village's wastewater system; or
Has in its wastes toxic pollutants, as defined
pursuant to Section 307 of the Act; or
Has been identified as one of the 21 industrial
categories pursuant to Section 307 of the Act; or
Is found by the village to have significant
impact, either singly or in combination with other contributing industries,
on the treatment or collection system.
The grade or pitch of a line of pipe in reference to a horizontal
plane. In drainage, it is usually expressed as the fall in a fraction
of an inch per foot length of pipe.
A classification pursuant to the Standard Industrial Classification
Manual issued by the Executive Office of the President, Office of
Management and Budget, 1972.
A permit issued pursuant to Section 402 of the Act (33 U.S.C.
§ 1342).
A sewer used for conveying rainwater, surface water, condensate,
cooling water or similar liquid wastes, exclusive of sewage and industrial
waste.
The Superintendent of the sewage works systems in the Village
of McGraw as appointed by the Village Board.
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.
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 Section 307
(a) or other Acts.
Any person who contributes, causes or permits the contribution
of wastewater into the village sewage works system.
The Village of McGraw.
The liquid and water-carried industrial or domestic wastes
from dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial facilities and institutions,
together with other matter which may be present, whether treated or
untreated, which are contributed into or permitted to enter the POTW.
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.
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.
The following abbreviations shall have the designated
meanings:
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BOD
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Biochemical oxygen demand
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CFR
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Code of Federal Regulations
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COD
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Chemical oxygen demand
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EPA
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Environmental Protection Agency
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l
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Liter
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mg
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Milligrams
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mg/1
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Milligrams per liter
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POTW
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Publicly-owned treatment works
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SIC
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Standard Industrial Classification
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SPDES
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State Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
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SWDA
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Solid Waste Disposal Act, 42 U.S.C. § 6901,
et. seq.
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U.S.C.
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United States Code
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TSS
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Total suspended solids
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