<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 58-62. - 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. Terms not otherwise defined in this section shall be adopted
               in the latest edition of Standard Methods for Examination of Water and Wastewater,
               published by the American Water Works Association, and the Water Pollution Control
               Federation.
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               <span class="ital">Act</span> or <span class="ital">the act</span> means the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the Clean Water Act,
               as amended, 33 USC 1251 et seq.
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               <span class="ital">Approval authority</span> means the director of the state division of environmental management or his authorized
               representative.
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               <span class="ital">Authorized representative of industrial user (IU)</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; or
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                  (3)
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                  A duly authorized representative of the individual designated in subsection (1) or
                  (2) of this definition 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 quality 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 county's wastewater
               treatment system.
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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">Color</span> means the true color due to the substances in solution expressed in wavelengths of
               light.
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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</span> means the director of the county water department, or his authorized representative.
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               <span class="ital">Domestic wastes</span> means liquid wastes (i) from the noncommercial preparation, cooking and handling
               of food, or (ii) containing human excrement and similar matter from the sanitary conveniences
               of dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial facilities and institutions.
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               <span class="ital">Environmental Protection Agency or EPA</span> means the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, or, where appropriate, the term may
               also be used as a designation for the administrator or other duly authorized official
               of such 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), into a WWTP, including
               holding tank waste discharged into the system.
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               <span class="ital">Industrial user</span> means any facility which discharges industrial wastes. An industrial user will be
               classified according to the latest edition of the Standard Industrial Classification
               Manual, Office of Management and Budget, of the federal government of the United States.
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               <span class="ital">Industrial waste</span> means the wastes resulting from the processes employed in industrial, manufacturing,
               trade or business establishments, as distinct from domestic wastes.
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               <span class="ital">Interference</span> means the inhibition or disruption of WWTP treatment processes or operations which
               contribute to a violation of any requirement of the sanitary district's NPDES permit.
               The term includes prevention of sewage sludge use or disposal by a WWTP 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 Substance 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 a WWTP.
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               <span class="ital">National categorical pretreatment standard or 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 1347) which applies to
               a specific category of industrial user.
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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">National prohibitive discharge standard or 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">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) 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">Person</span> means any individual, partnership, copartnership, firm, company, corporation, association,
               joint stock company, trust, estate, governmental entity or any other 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 the context.
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               <span class="ital">pH</span> means the logarithm (base 10) 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">Pretreatment or treatment</span> means the reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination of pollutants, the
               alteration of the nature of pollutants, or the alteration of the nature or pollutant
               properties in wastewater to a less harmful state prior to or in lieu of discharging
               or otherwise introducing such pollutants into a WWTP. The reduction or alteration
               can be obtained by physical, chemical or biological processes, or process change 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">Sanitary sewer</span> means a sewer intended to receive domestic sewage and industrial waste, except that
               of the type expressly prohibited by this article, without the admixture of surface
               water and stormwater.
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               <span class="ital">Significant industrial user</span> means any industrial user of the wastewater disposal system who:
               
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                  (1)
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                  Has a discharge flow of 25,000 gallons or more per average work day;
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                  (2)
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                  Has a flow greater than five percent of the flow in the wastewater treatment system;
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                  (3)
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                  Has in his wastes toxic pollutants as defined pursuant to section 307 of the act or
                  of state statutes or rules; or
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                  (4)
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                  Is found by the state division of environmental management 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">Storm sewer or storm drain</span> means a sewer which carries stormwater or surface water and drainage, but excludes
               sewage and industrial wastes.
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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">Surcharge</span> means a charge to a user of the public sewer system based on the pounds of a particular
               constituent in wastewater in excess of a specified level of concentration. It is levied
               in addition to a regular sewer service charge.
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               <span class="ital">Surcharging of sanitary sewer</span> means that the sewer is receiving more wastewater than its flowing full hydraulic
               capacity and that the amount of wastewater entering the sewer greater than its flowing
               full hydraulic capacity results in manhole water levels above the elevation of the
               top of the sewer pipe.
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               <span class="ital">Suspended solids</span> means solids that either float on the surface of, or in suspension in, water, sewage,
               or other liquids, and which are removable by laboratory filtering, expressed as milligrams
               per liter (mg/l).
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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 provisions of the
               CWA <a href="" data-chunk-id="COOR_APXCSURE_ARTIIIPRREAPSUPL_S307INBECODEPRFIPL" class="section-link" data-product-id="12479">section 307</a>(a) or other acts.
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               <span class="ital">Unpolluted water</span> means water not containing any pollutants limited or prohibited by the effluent standards
               in effect, or water whose discharge will not cause any violation of receiving water
               quality standards.
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               <span class="ital">User</span> means any person who contributes, causes or permits the contribution of wastewater
               into the wastewater system, and who pays, or who is or would be legally responsible
               for the payment of, utility rates or charges made against his premises upon its connection
               to the water distribution system.
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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 district's wastewater treatment system.
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               <span class="ital">Wastewater discharge permit</span> shall have the meaning as set forth in division 3 of this article.
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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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               (Ord. of 6-1-92(2), Â§ 1(2))
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            <p class="refcross0" block_type="hang"><b>Cross referenceâ€” </b>
               Definitions and rules of construction generally, <a href="" data-chunk-id="COOR_CH1GEPR_S1-2DERUCO" class="section-link" data-product-id="12479">Â§ 1-2</a>.
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