Florida Administrative Code › 62 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 62 - Departmental › Chapter 62-625 - PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENTS FOR EXISTING AND OTHER SOURCES OF POLLUTION › Section 62-625.200 - Definitions

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
Terms used in this chapter shall have the meaning specified
				  below. The meaning of any term not defined below shall be taken from
				  definitions in other rules of the Department, unless the context clearly
				  indicates otherwise.
(1) "Bypass"
				means the intentional diversion of wastewater streams from any portion of an
				industrial user's treatment facility.
(2) "Best Management Practices" or "BMPs"
				mean schedules of activities, prohibitions of practices, maintenance
				procedures, and other management practices to implement the prohibitions listed
				in subsections  62-625.400(1)(a) and
				(2), F.A.C. BMPs also include treatment
				requirements, operating procedures, and practices to control plant site runoff,
				spillage or leaks, industrial sludge or waste disposal, or drainage from raw
				materials storage.
(3) "Categorical
				Industrial User" means an industrial user subject to categorical pretreatment
				standards under Rule  62-625.410, F.A.C., including 40
				C.F.R. Chapter I, Subchapter N, Parts 405 through 471, as of July 1, 2009,
				hereby adopted and incorporated by reference.
(4) "Consistent Removal" means the average of
				the lowest 50 percent of the removal measured in accordance with subsection
				 62-625.420(2),
				F.A.C.
(5) "Control Authority"
				means any public utility that administers a pretreatment program that has been
				approved by the Department in accordance with the requirements of Rule
				 62-625.510, F.A.C. In cases
				where categorical or significant noncategorical industrial users discharge to
				domestic WWFs that are not included in an approved pretreatment program, the
				Department shall function as the control authority until an approved
				pretreatment program has been established by the public utility.
(6) "Discharge" means the introduction of
				pollutants into a WWF from any nondomestic source regulated under Chapter 403,
				F.S.
(7) "Grab Sample" means an
				individual, discrete sample collected at a specific time. A grab sample
				includes all sub samples or aliquots (e.g. individual containers for specific
				analytes or analyte groups), sample fractions (e.g. total and filtered
				samples), and all applicable field quality control samples (e.g. field sample
				duplicates or split samples) collected at the same locations within a time not
				exceeding 15 minutes.
(8)
				"Industrial User" means a source of discharge.
(9) "Interference" means a discharge which,
				alone or in conjunction with a discharge or discharges from other sources,
				both:
(a) Inhibits or disrupts the WWF or
				potable reuse system, its treatment processes or operations, or its biosolids
				processes, use or disposal; and,
(b) Is a cause of a violation of any
				requirement of the WWF's or potable reuse system's permits (including an
				increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation) or prevents use or
				disposal of biosolids in compliance with local regulations or rules of the
				Department and Chapter 403, F.S.