<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 70-152. - Definitions.</div>
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               The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the
               meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates
               a different meaning:
               
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               <span class="ital">Act</span> means the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the Clean Water Act,
               as amended,<a href="" data-chunk-id="PTIICOOR_CH33RE" class="section-link" data-product-id="14529"> 33</a> USC 1251 et seq.
               
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               <span class="ital">Approval authority</span> means the director in an NPDES state with an approved state pretreatment program
               and the administrator of the EPA in a non-NPDES state or NPDES state without an approved
               state pretreatment program.
               
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               <span class="ital">Authorized representative of industrial user</span> means:
               
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                  (1)
                  
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                  A principal executive officer of at least the level of vice-president, if the industrial
                  user is a corporation;
                  
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                  (2)
                  
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                  A general partner or proprietor if the industrial user is a partnership or proprietorship,
                  respectively;
                  
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                  (3)
                  
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                  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.
                  
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               <span class="ital">Biochemical oxygen demand (BOD)</span> means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter
               under standard laboratory procedure, five days at 20 degrees Celsius expressed in
               terms of weight and concentration (milligrams per liter (mg/l)).
               
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               <span class="ital">Building sewer</span> means a sewer conveying wastewater from the premises of a user to the POTW.
               
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               <span class="ital">Categorical standards</span> means national categorical pretreatment standards or pretreatment standard.
               
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               <span class="ital">Control authority</span> means the approval authority, as defined in this section.
               
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               <span class="ital">Cooling water</span> means the water discharged from any use, such as air conditioning, cooling or refrigeration,
               or to which the only pollutant added is heat.
               
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               <span class="ital">Direct discharge</span> means the discharge of treated or untreated wastewater directly to the waters of
               the state.
               
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               <span class="ital">Director of engineering and operations</span> means the person designated by the county to supervise the operation of the publicly
               owned treatment works and who is charged with certain duties and responsibilities
               by this article or his duly authorized representative.
               
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               <span class="ital">Environmental Protection Agency</span> or <span class="ital">EPA</span> mean the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, or, where appropriate, the term "EPA"
               may also be used as a designation for the administrator or other duly authorized official
               of the agency.
               
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               <span class="ital">Grab sample</span> means 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.
               
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               <span class="ital">Holding tank waste</span> means any waste from holding tanks, such as vessels, chemical toilets, campers, trailers,
               septic tanks, and vacuum-pump tank trucks.
               
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               <span class="ital">Indirect discharge</span> means the discharge or the introduction of nondomestic pollutants from any source
               regulated under Section 307(b) or (c) of the Act (33 USC 1317(b), (c)), into the POTW,
               including holding tank waste discharged into the system.
               
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               <span class="ital">Industrial user</span> means a source of indirect discharge which does not constitute a discharge of pollutants
               under regulations issued pursuant to Section 402 of the Act (33 USC 1342).
               
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               <span class="ital">Interference</span> means the inhibition or disruption of the POTW treatment processes or operations
               which contributes to a violation of any requirement of the county's NPDES permit.
               The term "interference" includes prevention of sewage sludge use or disposal by the
               POTW in accordance with Section 405 of the Act (33 USC 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.
               
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               <span class="ital">National categorical pretreatment standard</span> or <span class="ital">pretreatment standard</span> means any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated by the EPA
               in accordance with Section 307(b) and (c) of the Act (33 USC 1317(b), (c)) which applies
               to a specific category of industrial users.
               
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               <span class="ital">National categorical pretreatment standard</span> or <span class="ital">prohibitive discharge standard</span> means any regulation developed under the authority of Section 307(b) of the Act and
               40 CFR 403.5.
               
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               <span class="ital">National Pollution Discharge Elimination System or NPDES permit</span> means a permit issued pursuant to Section 402 of the Act (33 USC 1342).
               
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               <span class="ital">New source</span> means any source, the construction of which is commenced after the publication of
               proposed regulations prescribing a Section 307(c) (33 USC 1317(c)) 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.
               
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               <span class="ital">pH</span> means the logarithm (base ten) of the reciprocal of the concentration of hydrogen
               ions expressed in grams per liter of solution.
               
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               <span class="ital">Pollutant</span> means 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.
               
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               <span class="ital">Pollution</span> means the manmade or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical, biological,
               and radiological integrity of water.
               
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               <span class="ital">POTW treatment plant</span> means that portion of the POTW designed to provide treatment to wastewater.
               
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               <span class="ital">Pretreatment</span> or <span class="ital">treatment</span> means the reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination of pollutants, or
               the alteration of the nature 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
               by other means, except as prohibited by 40 CFR 403.6(d).
               
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               <span class="ital">Pretreatment requirements</span> means any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment, other than
               a national pretreatment standard imposed on an industrial user.
               
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               <span class="ital">Publicly owned treatment works (POTW)</span> means a treatment works as defined by Section 212 of the Act (33 USC 1292) which
               is owned in this instance by the Town of Valdese or the county. 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.
               
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               <span class="ital">Significant industrial user</span> means any industrial user of the county's wastewater disposal system who has a discharge
               flow of 25,000 gallons or more per average work day, or has a flow greater than five
               percent of the flow in the county's wastewater treatment system, or has in his wastes
               toxic pollutants as defined pursuant to Section 307 of the Act or state statutes and
               rules or is found by the city, state control agency or the U.S. Environmental Protection
               Agency (EPA) to have significant impact, either singly or in combination with other
               contributing industries, on the wastewater treatment system, the quality of sludge,
               the system's effluent quality or air emissions generated by the system.
               
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               <span class="ital">Standard industrial classification (SIC)</span> means a classification pursuant to the Standard Industrial Classification Manual
               issued by the Executive Office of the President, Office of Management and Budget,
               1972.
               
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               <span class="ital">Stormwater</span> means any flow occurring during or following any form of natural precipitation and
               resulting therefrom.
               
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               <span class="ital">Suspended solids</span> means the total suspended matter that floats on the surface of, or is suspended in,
               water, wastewater or other liquids, and which is removable by laboratory filtering.
               
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               <span class="ital">Toxic pollutant</span> means any pollutant or combination of pollutants listed as toxic in regulations promulgated
               by the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency under provision of CWA
               307(a) or other acts.
               
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               <span class="ital">User</span> means any person who contributes, causes or permits the contribution of wastewater
               into the county's POTW.
               
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               <span class="ital">Wastewater</span> means 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.
               
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               <span class="ital">Wastewater contribution permit</span> means a permit as set forth in<a href="" data-chunk-id="PTIICOOR_CH70UT_ARTIIIWAPRRE_DIV2WACOPE_S70-181RE" class="section-link" data-product-id="14529"> section 70-181</a>.
               
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               <span class="ital">Waters of the state</span> means 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.
               
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               (Code 1993, Â§ 70-152)
               
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