Code of Massachusetts Regulations › 314 CMR - DIVISION OF WATER POLLUTION CONTROL › Title 314 CMR 7.00 - Sewer System Extension And Connection Permit Program › Section 7.02 - Definitions

Current through Register 1525, July 5, 2024
As used in
				314 CMR 7.00, the following
				words have the following meaning:
Bypass
means the diversion of wastes
				from any portion of a treatment works.
Department
means the Massachusetts
				Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) as established by M.G.L. c. 21A,
				§ 7.
Discharge or Discharge of Pollutants
means any addition of any pollutant or combination of pollutants to waters of
				the Commonwealth from any source, including but not limited to, discharges from
				surface runoff which is collected or channeled by man; discharges through
				pipes, sewers, or other conveyances owned by a State, municipality, or other
				person which do not lead to a POTW; and discharges through pipes, sewers, or
				other conveyances, leading into privately owned treatment works.
Discharge or Discharge of Pollutants
does not include
				an addition of pollutants by any indirect discharger.
Effluent
means a discharge of
				pollutants into the environment, or to a sewer system whether or not
				treated.
Effluent Limitation or Effluent Limit
means any requirement, restriction, or standard imposed by the Department,
				local municipality, or US EPA on quantities, discharge rates, and
				concentrations of pollutants which are discharged from point sources into
				waters of the Commonwealth or to publicly owned treatment works.
Environmental Protection Agency or EPA
means the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
Existing Sewer Connection
means any
				connection to the sewer system on or before April 25, 2014.
Federal Act
means the Clean Water Act,
				P.L. 92 500, as amended by P.L. 95 217 and P.L. 95 576,
				33 U.S.C.
				1251 et seq.
Hazardous Waste
means a hazardous
				waste pursuant to 310 CMR 30.000: Hazardous Waste.
Industrial User, or Indirect
				Discharger
means the entity that introduces pollutants into a
				municipal sewer system from any non-domestic source.
Industrial Waste
means any liquid,
				gaseous, or solid waste substance or a combination thereof resulting from any
				process of industry, manufacturing, trade, or business or from the development
				or recovery of any natural resources.
Industrial Wastewater
means waste in
				liquid form resulting from any process of industry, trade, or business,
				regardless of volume or pollutant content. Waste in liquid form consisting of
				only sewage is not considered industrial wastewater.
IPP-POTW
means a POTW that has an
				industrial pretreatment program approved by US.EPA under 40 CFR 403.
Infiltration
means water other than
				wastewater that enters a sewer system (including sewer connections and
				foundation drains) from the ground through means which include, but are not
				limited to, defective pipes, pipe joints, connections, or manholes.
				Infiltration does not include, and is distinguished from inflow.
Infiltration/Inflow
means the quantity
				of water from both infiltration and inflow without distinguishing the
				source.
Inflow
means water other than sanitary
				flow that enters a sewer system (including sewer connections) from sources that
				include, but are not limited to, roof leaders, cellar drains, yard drains, area
				drains, drains from springs and swampy areas, manhole covers, cross connections
				between storm sewers and sanitary sewers, catch basins, cooling towers, storm
				waters, surface runoff, street wash waters, or drainage. Inflow does not
				include and is distinguished from, infiltration.
Massachusetts (MA) Historical
				Commission
means the enabling statute for the Massachusetts
				Historical Commission at M.G.L. c. 9, §§ 26 through 27C, and
				950 CMR 71.00: Protection of
				Properties Included in the State Register of Historic Places.
Massachusetts Water Quality Standards
means
				314 CMR 4.00: Massachusetts
				Surface Water Quality Standards and the ground water quality standards
				established at
				314 CMR
				5.11: Ground Water Standards.
MEPA
means the Massachusetts
				Environmental Policy Act, M.G.L. c. 30, §§ 61 through 62H, and
				301 CMR
				11.00: MEPA Regulations.
Non-IPP-POTW
means a POTW that does
				not have an industrial pretreatment program approved by US EPA under 40 CFR
				403.
Pass Through
means the discharge of
				pollutants through the POTW into waters of the Commonwealth in quantities or
				concentrations which cause or significantly contribute to a violation of any
				requirement or limit of the POTW's permit (including but not limited to an
				increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation).
Permit
means an authorization issued
				pursuant to M.G.L. c. 21, § 43 and
				314 CMR
				2.00: Permit Procedures and 3.00: Surface Water
				Discharge Permit Program, 5.00: Ground Water Discharge Permit Program, 7.00:
				Sewer System Extension and Connection Permit Program, or 20.00: Reclaimed Water
				Permit Program and Standards.
Person
means any agency or political
				subdivision of the Commonwealth, the federal government, any public or private
				corporation or authority, individual, partnership or association, or other
				entity, including any officer of a public or private agency or organization,
				upon whom a duty may be imposed by or pursuant to any provisions of M.G.L. c.
				21, §§ 26 through 53.
Pollutant
means any element or
				property of sewage, agricultural, industrial or commercial waste, runoff,
				leachate, heated effluent, or other matter, in whatever form and whether
				originating at a point or major non point source, which is or may be
				discharged, drained or otherwise introduced into any sewerage system, treatment
				works or waters of the Commonwealth.
Pollution
means the presence in the
				environment of pollutants in quantities or characteristics which are or may be
				injurious to human, plant or animal life or to property or which unreasonably
				interfere with the enjoyment of life and property throughout such areas as may
				be affected thereby.
Pretreatment
means the reduction of
				the amount of pollutants, the elimination of pollutants, or the alteration of
				the nature of pollutant properties in wastewater prior to or in lieu of
				discharging or otherwise introducing such pollutants into a POTW.
Public Entity
means any city, town,
				special district, the Massachusetts Water Resource Authority, the Department of
				Conservation and Recreation or other existing governmental unit eligible to
				receive a grant for the construction of treatment works from the United States
				Environmental Protection Agency pursuant to Title II of the Federal Act.
Publicly Owned Treatment Works or POTW
means any device or system used in the treatment (including recycling and
				reclamation) of municipal sewage or industrial wastes of a liquid nature which
				is owned by a public entity. A POTW includes any sewers, pipes, or other
				conveyances which convey wastewater to a POTW providing treatment.
RCRA
means the Solid Waste Disposal
				Act, as amended by the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 ( P.L. 94
				580, as amended by P.L. 95 609,
				42 U.S.C. §
									6901 et seq.).
RCRA Facility
means, for the purpose
				of
				314 CMR 7.00, a hazardous
				waste management facility regulated pursuant to RCRA and that discharges to any
				sewer or a POTW.
Sanitary Sewage or Sewage
means the
				water carried human or animal wastes from residences, buildings, industrial
				establishments or other places.
Sewer Authority or Pretreatment
				Authority
means any municipal authority or public entity that
				receives and may regulate the industrial indirect discharges to its
				POTW.
Sewer System
means pipelines or
				conduits, pumping stations, force mains, and all other structures, devices,
				appurtenances, and facilities used for collecting and conveying wastes to a
				site or works for treatment or disposal.
Sewer Connection
means the sewer pipes
				and appurtenant works necessary to connect a building or estate to a sewer
				system.
Sewer Extension
means the addition to
				a sewer system of a sewer pipe, together with appurtenant works, which when
				connected to the sewer system becomes the property of, and is operated and
				maintained by, the person owning the sewer system.
State Act
means the Massachusetts
				Clean Waters Act, as amended, M.G.L. c. 21, §§ 26 through 53.
TR-16
means the Guides for Design of
				Wastewater Treatment Works, prepared by the Technical Advisory Board of the New
				England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission.
Treatment Works
means any and all
				devices, processes and properties, real or personal, used in the collection,
				pumping, transmission, storage, treatment, disposal, recycling, reclamation or
				reuse of waterborne pollutants, but not including any works receiving a
				hazardous waste from off the site of the works for the purpose of treatment,
				storage or disposal, or industrial wastewater holding tanks regulated under
				314 CMR 18.00: Industrial
				Wastewater Holding Tank and Container Construction, Operation, and Record
				Keeping Requirements.
Wastewater
means sewage, industrial
				waste, other wastes or any combination of the three.
Waters of the Commonwealth
means all
				waters within the jurisdiction of the Commonwealth, including, without
				limitation, rivers, streams, lakes, ponds, springs, impoundments, estuaries,
				wetlands, coastal waters, and ground waters.