Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 528 - PRETREATMENT PROGRAM › Section 096-528-4 - Definitions [see 40 CFR 403.3]

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
For the purposes of this chapter:
(a) Except as discussed below, the general
				definitions, abbreviations, and methods of analysis set forth in Chapter 525
				shall apply to this regulation.
(b)
				The term Act means Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the Clean
				Water Act, as amended,
				33 U.S.C.
				1251, et seq.
(c) The term Approval Authority means the
				Department or the Regional Administrator.
(d) The term Approved POTW Pretreatment
				Program or Program or POTW Pretreatment Program means a program administered by
				a POTW that meets the criteria established in this regulation (Sections 9 and
				10 ) and which has been approved by a Regional Administrator or Department in
				accordance with Section 11 of this regulation.
(e) The term
Best Management
				Practices
or
BMPs
means schedules of activities,
				prohibitions of practices, maintenance procedures, and other management
				practices to implement the prohibitions listed in section 11 of this
				chapter.
(f) The term Control
				Authority means the POTW if the POTW's Submission for its pretreatment program
				has been approved in accordance with the requirements of Section 11; or(2) the
				Approval Authority in the absence of an approved Submission.
(g) The term Department means the Department
				of Environmental Protection, including the Board of Environmental Protection
				and the Commissioner.
(h) The term
				Water Management Division Director means one of the Directors of the Water
				Management Divisions within the Regional offices of the Environmental
				Protection Agency or this person's delegated representative.
(i) The term Indirect Discharge or Discharge
				means the introduction of pollutants into a POTW from any non-domestic source
				regulated under section 307(b), (c) or (d) of the Act.
(j) The term Industrial User or User means a
				source of Indirect Discharge.
(k)
				The term Interference means a Discharge which, alone or in conjunction with a
				discharge or discharges from other sources, both:
(1) Inhibits or disrupts the POTW, its
				treatment processes or operations, or its sludge processes, use or disposal;
				and
(2) Therefore 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 in compliance 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 Substances Control Act, and the Marine
				Protection, Research and Sanctuaries Act.