A. ACT or THE ACT AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF INDUSTRIAL USER (1) (2) (3) BOARD OF SELECTMEN BOD (denoting "biochemical oxygen demand") BUILDING DRAIN BUILDING SEWER CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARD or CATEGORICAL STANDARD COMBINED SEWER COMPOSITE SAMPLE DIRECT DISCHARGE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY or EPA GARBAGE GRAB SAMPLE HOLDING TANK WASTE INDIRECT DISCHARGE or DISCHARGE INDUSTRIAL USER or USER INDUSTRIAL WASTES INTERFERENCE NATIONAL GENERAL PROHIBITED DISCHARGE STANDARD or PROHIBITED DISCHARGE STANDARD NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM or NPDES PERMIT NATURAL OUTLET NEW SOURCE (1) (a) (b) (c) (2) (3) NONCONTACT COOLING WATER PASS-THROUGH PERSON pH POTW TREATMENT PLANT or SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT PRETREATMENT or TREATMENT PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENTS PRETREATMENT STANDARD or STANDARDS PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS (POTW) or SEWAGE WORKS PUBLIC SEWER SANITARY SEWER SEWAGE SEWER SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER (1) (2) SIGNIFICANT NONCOMPLIANCE (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) SLUG STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION (SIC) STATE STORM DRAIN (sometimes termed "storm sewer") SUSPENDED SOLIDS TOXIC POLLUTANT USER WATERCOURSE
Unless specifically indicated in these rules and regulations, the meaning of terms used shall be as follows:
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the "Clean Water Act," as amended, 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.
An authorized representative of an industrial user may be:
A responsible executive officer [President, Secretary, Treasurer or Vice President or other person who performs similar policy-making or decisionmaking functions for the corporation, including a manager of a facility employing 250 persons or more or having gross annual sales of $25 million (1980 dollars) or more], 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 and a written authorization is submitted to the publicly owned treatment works (POTW) by the individual being represented.
The duly elected Board of Selectmen of the Town of Belchertown or its authorized deputy, agent or representative.
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at 20° C., expressed in milligrams per liter.
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, beginning 10 feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
Any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in accordance with Section 307(b) and (c) of the Act (33 U.S.C. § 1317), which apply to a specific category of users and which appear in 40 CFR Chapter I, Subchapter N, Parts 405 through 471.
A sewer receiving both surface runoff and sewage.
A sample which represents many aliquots taken throughout an extended time period.
The discharge of treated or untreated wastewater directly to the waters of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency, or, where appropriate, the term also may be used as a designation for the Administrator or other duly authorized official of said agency.
The solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking and dispensing of food and from 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.
The discharge or the introduction of pollutants into the POTW from any nondomestic source regulated under Section 307(b), (c) or (d) of the Act (including holding waste discharged into the system).
A source of indirect discharge.
The liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes, trade or business, as distinct from sanitary sewage.
A discharge by an industrial user which, alone or in conjunction with discharges by other sources, inhibits or disrupts the POTW, its treatment processes or operations or its sludge processes, use or disposal and which 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) or of the prevention of sewage sludge use or disposal by the POTW in accordance 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.
Any regulation or limitation developed by the town to implement 40 CFR 403.5.
A permit issued pursuant to Section 402 of the Act (33 U.S.C. § 1342).
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface water or groundwater.
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:
The building, structure, facility or installation is constructed at a site at which no other source is located;
The building, structure, facility or installation totally replaces the process of production equipment that causes the discharge of pollutants at an existing source; or
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.
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 stated above 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 is necessary for the placement, assembly or installation of new source facilities or equipment, or entered into a binding contractual obligation for the purchase of facilities or equipment which is intended to be used in its operation within a reasonable time. 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 contract obligation under this subsection.
Water used for cooling which does not come into direct contact with any raw material, intermediate product, waste product or finished product.
A discharge of pollutant 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).
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation, governmental agency or group.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.
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 may be obtained by physical, chemical or biological processes or process changes or other means, except as prohibited by 40 CFR 403.6(d).
Any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment, other than a National Pretreatment Standard imposed on an industrial user.
Prohibited Discharge Standards, Categorical Pretreatment Standards and local limits.
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 that 1/2 inch (1.27 centimeters) in any dimension.
A treatment works, as defined in Section 212 of the Act (33 U.S.C. § 1292), which is owned in this instance by the town. This definition includes any devices and systems used in the storage, treatment, recycling and reclamation of liquid wastes, including 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 chapter, "POTW" shall also include any sewers that convey wastewaters to the POTW from persons outside the town who are, by contract or agreement with the town, users of the town's POTW. The term also means the town and/or its agents having jurisdiction over the indirect discharges to and the discharges from such treatment works.
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights and which is controlled by public authority.
A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm-, surface and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
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.
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
All industrial users subject to National Categorical Standards under 40 CFR 403.6 and 40 CFR Chapter I, Subchapter N, and any other industrial user that discharges an average of 25,000 gallons per day (gpd) or more of process wastewater to the POTW (excluding sanitary, noncontact cooling and boiler blowdown wastewater); or contributes a process waste stream which makes up 5% or more of the average dry weather hydraulic or organic capacity of the POTW; or is designated as such by the POTW on the basis that the industrial user has a reasonable potential to adversely affect the POTW's operation or violate a pretreatment standard or requirement.
Upon a finding that an industrial user, excluding industrial users subject to National Categorical Pretreatment Standards, has no reasonable potential for adversely affecting the POTW's operation or for violating any pretreatment standard or requirement, the POTW may, in accordance with 40 CFR 403.8(f)(6), determine that such industrial user is not a significant industrial user.
A user is in significant noncompliance if it meets one or more of the following criteria:
Chronic violations of discharge limits. ("Chronic violations" means that 66% or more measurements taken in a six-month period exceed the daily maximum limit or average limit for the same pollutant parameter.)
Technical review criteria (TRC) violations, which means that 33% or more of all measurements for each pollutant parameter taken in a six-month period equal or exceed the product of the daily maximum limits or average limit multiplied by the TRC. (TRC equals 1.4 for BOD, TSS, fats and oil and grease. TRC equals 1.2 for all other pollutants except pH.)
Any other violation of effluent pretreatment limits which the POTW determines has caused, alone or in conjunction with other discharges, pass-through or interference or which endangers the health of POTW workers or the general public.
Any discharge which caused imminent endangerment to human health, welfare or the environment or has resulted in the POTW's exercise of its emergency authority to halt or prevent such discharge.
Failure to meet a compliance schedule milestone contained in a local control mechanism or enforcement order or attain final compliance within 90 days after the schedule date.
Failure to submit reports, including baseline monitoring reports, ninety-day compliance reports, periodic self-monitoring reports and compliance schedule reports, within 30 days of the due date.
Failure to accurately report noncompliance.
Any other violation or group of violations which the POTW has determined to have the potential to adversely affect POTW operations or implementation of the local pretreatment program.
Any discharge of water, sewage or industrial waste which, in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow, exceeds for any period of duration longer than 15 minutes more than five times the average twenty-four-hour concentration of flows during normal operations or which could cause a violation of Prohibited Discharge Standards.
A classification pursuant to the Standard Industrial Classification Manual issued by the Executive Office of the President, Office of Management and Budget.
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
A sewer which carries storm- and surface waters and drainage but excludes sewage and industrial wastes, other than unpolluted cooling water.
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 (CWA) Section 301(a) or other acts.
Any person who contributes, causes or permits the contribution of wastewater into the town's POTW.
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
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"Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
The following abbreviations shall have the designated meanings:
| ASTM | American Society for Testing and Materials |
| BOD | Biochemical oxygen demand (five-day) |
| CFR | Code of Federal Regulations |
| COD | Chemical oxygen demand |
| EPA | Environmental Protection Agency |
| l | Liter |
| mg | Milligrams |
| mg/l | Milligrams per liter |
| NPDES | National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System |
| POTW | Publicly owned treatment works (owned and operated by the Town of Belchertown) |
| RCRA | Resource Conservation and Recovery Act |
| SIC | Standard Industrial Classification |
| SWDA | Solid Waste Disposal Act, 42 U.S.C. § 6901 et. seq. |
| U.S.C. | United States Code |
| TRC | Technical Review Criteria |
| TSS | Total suspended solids |
| WPCF | Water Pollution Control Federation |
