New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 21 - Miscellaneous › Chapter LXXXII - Buffalo Sewer Authority › Part 10075 - Buffalo Sewer Authority Sewer Use Regulations › Section 10075.1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a)
Abbreviations.
The following abbreviations shall have the meanings set forth
				  herein when used in these regulations:
ASTM
American Society for Testing and Materials
AWWA
American Water Works Association
BOD5
Biochemical Oxygen Demand
BPDES
Buffalo Pollution Discharge Elimination System
BSA
Buffalo Sewer Authority
CERCLA
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and
							 Liability Act (42 U.S.C.
							 section 9601,
et seq.
CFR
Code of Federal Regulations
EPA
United States Environmental Protection Agency
gpd
gallons per day
l
liter
mg
milligram
mg/l
milligrams per liter
NPDES
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
NYSDEC
New York State Department of Environmental
							 Conservation
NYSDOH
New York State Department of Health
P
Total Phosphorus
psi
pounds per square inch
POTW
Publicly Owned Treatment Works
ppm
parts per million, weight basis
SIC
Standard Industrial Classification
SPDES
State Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
TSS
Total Suspended Solids
USC
United States Code
ug/l
micrograms per liter
(b)
Definitions.
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the
				  meaning of the terms used in these regulations shall be as stated below. Terms
				  not defined in this section, or terms found to be ambiguous shall be defined by
				  the Clean Water Act, or E.P.A. regulations issued pursuant thereto. When not
				  inconsistent with the context, the present tense shall include the future, and
				  words used in the plural shall include the singular and vice versa. A masculine
				  pronoun shall include the feminine.
(1)
40 C.F.R. part 403
shall mean the General Pretreatment Regulations for existing and new sources of
				pollution as promulgated by the U.S.E.P.A. and published in the Code of Federal
				Regulations.
(2)
Abnormal
				strength sewage
shall mean any waste having a total suspended solid,
				B.O.D.5, or total phosphate concentration in excess of
				that found in normal strength sewage, but which is otherwise acceptable into a
				public sewer under the terms of these regulations.
(3)
A.S.T.M.
shall mean the
				American Society for Testing and Materials.
(4)
Approval authority
shall
				mean the N.Y.S.D.E.C. or the E.P.A.
(5)
Authorized representative of an
				industrial user
shall mean:
(i) if
				the user is a corporation of limited liability company:
(a) the president, secretary, treasurer,
				vice-president, general manager, or executive director of the corporation or
				company in charge of a principal business function, or any other person who
				performs similar policy or decisionmaking functions for the corporation or
				company; or
(b) the manager of one
				or more manufacturing, production, or operation facilities, if authority to
				sign documents binding upon such entity has been assigned or delegated to such
				manager in accordance with corporate or company procedures;
(ii) if the user is a partnership,
				a limited liability partnership, a limited partnership, or sole proprietorship,
				a general partner or proprietor, respectively;
(iii) if the user is a Federal, State,
				municipal or other political subdivision, special district, public authority or
				agency; the person who is elected, appointed or designated to oversee the
				operation and performance of the activities of such government or entity and
				its operations, or his designee;
(iv) if the user is a trust, estate or person
				under a disability, then the trustee, executor, or other representative duly
				appointed or authorized by law to act on behalf thereof; and
(v) the individuals described in
				subparagraphs (i) through (iv) of this paragraph, may designate another
				authorized representative if the authorization is in writing, the authorization
				specifies the individual or position responsible for the overall operation of
				the facility from which the discharge originates or having overall
				responsibility for any discharges or environmental matters for the company,
				partnership or entity, and the written authorization is submitted to the
				B.S.A.
(6)
Best
				management practices (BMPs)
means schedules of activities,
				prohibitions of practices, general good housekeeping practices, pollution
				prevention and educational practices, maintenance procedures, and other
				management practices to prevent or reduce the discharge of pollutants directly
				or indirectly to stormwater, receiving waters, or stormwater conveyance
				systems. BMPs also include treatment practices, operating procedures, and
				practices to control site runoff, spillage or leaks, sludge or water disposal,
				or drainage from raw materials storage.
(7)
B.O.D.5
				(denoting five-day biochemical oxygen demand)
shall mean the quantity
				of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under
				standard laboratory procedure in five days at 20°C, expressed in milligrams
				per liter.
(8)
B.P.D.E.S.
				permit
or
Buffalo Pollution Discharge Elimination System
				permit
shall mean a permit which authorizes the discharge of
				industrial waste or, which authorizes the discharge of spills or temporary
				discharges of industrial waste, including, but not limited to, discharges from
				property remediation, construction and/or demolition activities into the
				B.S.A.'s facilities or into any sanitary sewer under jurisdiction of the B.S.A.
				or, in a contracted service area, under the jurisdiction of the B.S.A. and the
				contracted service area jurisdiction.
(9)
B.S.A.
or the
authority
shall mean the Buffalo Sewer Authority, a public
				benefit corporation organized and existing pursuant to the New York Public
				Authorities Law, section 1175
et seq.,
as amended, with its
				principal office located at 1038 City Hall, Buffalo, NY 14202.
(10)
B.S.A. Schedule of Sewer
				Rents
shall mean the schedule of sewer rents and other charges,
				including but not limited to, the amount of sewer rents, fees, charges,
				surcharges and delinquent charges, established by the Buffalo Sewer Authority
				pursuant to the New York Public Authorities Law, section 1180. A copy of the
				current edition of such schedule is available at the principal office of the
				B.S.A.
(11)
Building
				drain
is that part of the horizontal piping of a building drainage
				system which receives the discharge of all soil, waste and other drainage from
				inside the walls of any building and conveys the same to the building service
				sewer five feet outside the foundation wall of such building.
(12)
Building service sewer
is that part of the horizontal piping of a building drainage system beginning
				five feet from the foundation wall and terminating at its connection with the
				main sewer, cesspool, bacterial tank or other disposal terminal.
(13)
City of Buffalo
or
the city
shall mean the City of Buffalo, a municipal
				corporation of the State of New York with principal offices at City Hall, 65
				Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14202.
(14)
Collecting sewer
shall
				mean a sewer that receives wastewater from a relatively small area and
				discharges into a main sewer serving more than one collecting sewer.
(15)
Combined sewer
is a
				public sewer or drain intended or designed to receive and transport domestic
				sewage, industrial wastes, as well as surface runoff and stormwater.
(16)
Commercial
				establishments
shall mean private establishments such as restaurants,
				hotels, stores, filling stations, or recreational facilities. Private nonprofit
				entities such as churches, schools, hospitals, or charitable organizations are
				considered to be commercial establishments.
(17)
Common sewer
shall mean
				a building service sewer or building drain that receives wastewater from more
				than one discharger before it empties into a collecting sewer.
(18)
Compatible pollutant
shall mean bio-chemical oxygen demand (B.O.D.), total suspended solids
				(T.S.S.), pH, fecal or total coliform bacteria, phosphate and phosphorus
				compounds, fats, oils, and greases of animal or vegetable origin, except as
				prohibited herein or identified on the Buffalo Sewer Authority's State
				Pollution Discharge Elimination System permit.
(19)
Composite sample,
				composite
shall mean a combination of individual (or continuously
				taken) samples obtained at regular intervals over the entire discharge day. The
				volume of each sample shall be proportional to the discharge flow rate. For a
				continuous discharge, a minimum of 48 individual grab samples (at half-hour
				intervals) shall be collected and combined to constitute a 24-hour composite
				sample. For intermittent discharges of four to eight hours duration, grab
				samples shall be taken at a minimum of 30-minute intervals. For intermittent
				discharges of less than four hours duration grab samples shall be taken at a
				minimum of 15-minute intervals.
(20)
Connector
shall mean
				the attachment of the pipeline from the sewer main to the building drain,
				control manhole or monitoring station.
(21)
Construction activity
means activities requiring authorization under the SPDES permit for stormwater
				discharges from construction activity, GP-02-01, as amended or revised. These
				activities include construction projects resulting in land disturbance of one
				or more acres. Such activities include, but are not limited to, clearing and
				grubbing, grading, excavating, and demolition.
(22)
Contact cooling water
shall mean water used in a process for cooling purposes which has come in
				direct contact with the process reactants or products.
(23)
Contracted service area
shall mean a geographic area outside the immediate city boundaries
				(
e.g.,
sewer district) of the B.S.A. which, through
				contractual agreement, is connected to the B.S.A. sewage collection system in
				order to have sewage generated in that area treated at the B.S.A. treatment
				plant.
(24)
Direct
				contributor
shall mean any user conveying waste from a building
				service, directly to a B.S.A. public sewer.
(25)
Direct discharge
is the
				discharge of treated or untreated wastewater directly to the waters of the
				State of New York.
(26)
Domestic sewage
shall mean a combination of the water-carried
				normal strength sewage from residences, business buildings, institutions and
				industrial establishments.
(27)
Domestic user
shall mean any user not covered under the
				definition of industrial user.
(28)
Environment
shall mean any water, water vapor, any land,
				including land surface or subsurface, air, fish, wildlife, biota, and all other
				natural resources.
(29)
E.P.A.
or
U.S.E.P.A.
shall mean the United
				States Environmental Protection Agency. This agency name may also refer to the
				administrator or other duly authorized official of the E.P.A., as the context
				may indicate.
(30)
Fine
shall mean a sum of money imposed as a penalty for
				violation of these regulations.
(31)
Garbage
shall mean
				solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking and
				dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and sale of
				produce.
(32)
General
				manager
shall mean the Chief Executive Officer of the Buffalo Sewer
				Authority or his designated deputy, agent or representative.
(33)
Grab sample
shall mean
				an individual 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.
(34)
Groundwater
shall mean water within the earth.
(35)
Hazardous materials
means any material, including any substance, waste, or combination thereof,
				which because of its quantity, concentration, or physical, chemical, or
				infectious characteristics may cause, or significantly contribute to, a
				substantial present or potential hazard to human health, safety, property, or
				the environment when improperly treated, stored, transported, disposed of or
				otherwise managed.
(36)
Illicit connection
means any drain or conveyance, whether on
				the surface or subsurface, which allows an illegal discharge to enter the MS4,
				including but not limited to:
(i) any
				conveyances which allow any non-stormwater discharge including treated or
				untreated sewage, process wastewater, and wash water to enter the MS4 and any
				connections to the storm drain system from indoor drains and sinks, regardless
				of whether such drain or connection had been previously allowed, permitted, or
				approved by an authorized enforcement agency; or
(ii) any drain or conveyance connected from a
				commercial or industrial land use to the MS4 which has not been documented in
				plans, maps, or equivalent record and approved by an authorized enforcement
				agency.
(37)
Illicit discharge
shall mean any direct or indirect
				non-stormwater discharge to the MS4, except as exempted in this
				regulation.
(38)
Incompatible pollutant
shall mean any pollutant which is not a
				compatible pollutant.
(39)
Indirect contributor
shall mean any person who contributes
				waste to a public B.S.A. sewer by any means other than that defined in
				paragraph (24) of this subdivision.
(40)
Indirect discharge
shall mean the introduction of pollutants into a POTW from any
				source.
(41)
Industrial
				user
shall mean an industrial source of indirect discharge.
(42)
Industrial waste
means
				the liquid, solid, and gaseous waste, including suspended solids resulting from
				the processes employed in industrial or commercial establishments.
(43)
Industrial waste
				surcharge
shall mean a charge, as specified in the latest edition of
				the B.S.A. Schedule of Sewer Rents (see Appendix 52 of this Title), levied on
				industrial users of the sewerage treatment works for the additional cost of
				treating waste discharges of abnormal strength sewage. This charge may include
				capital, as well as operating and maintenance costs.
(44)
Infiltration
shall mean
				the water entering a sewer system from the ground through such means as, but
				not limited to, defective pipes, pipe joints, connections, or manhole walls.
				Infiltration does not include, and is distinguished from, inflow.
(45)
Infiltration/inflow
shall mean the total quantity of water from both infiltration and inflow
				without distinguishing the source.
(46)
Inflow
shall mean the
				water discharged into a sewer system and service connections from such sources
				as, but not limited to, roof leaders, cellar, yard and area drains, foundation
				drains, cooling water discharges, drains from springs and swampy areas, manhole
				covers, cross-connections from storm sewers and combined sewers, catch basins,
				stormwater, surface run-off, street wash water, or drainage. It does not
				include, and is distinguished from, infiltration.
(47)
Interference
shall mean
				an inhibition or disruption of the authority's facilities, its treatment
				processes or operations, or its sludge processes, use or disposal.
(48)
Land development
				activity
shall mean construction activity including clearing, grading,
				excavating, soil disturbance or placement of fill that results in land
				disturbance of equal to or greater than one acre or activities disturbing less
				than one acre of total land area that is part of a larger common plan of
				development or sale, even though multiple separate and distinct land
				development activities may take place at different times on different
				schedules.
(49)
Lateral
				sewer
shall mean a sewer that discharges into a collecting sewer or
				other sewers and has no other common sewer tributary to it.
(50)
Main sewer
shall mean a
				sewer that receives wastewater from the collecting sewer.
(51)
mg/l
shall mean
				milligrams per liter. For purposes of this regulation, mg/l and ppm are
				equivalent.
(52)
MS4
or
municipal separate storm sewer system
shall mean a conveyance or system of conveyances (including roads with drainage
				systems, municipal streets, catch basins, curbs, gutters, ditches, man-made
				channels, or storm drains) owned or operated by the B.S.A., designed or used
				for collecting or conveying stormwater, which is not a combined sewer, and
				which is not part of a publicly owned treatment works (POTW).
(53)
National Pretreatment
				Standard
or
Federal Categorical Standard
shall mean
				any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated by EPA in
				accordance with section 307(b) and (c) of the Clean Water Act, which applies to
				industrial users. This term includes prohibitive discharge limits established
				pursuant to 40 CFR section
				403.5.
(54)
Natural outlet
shall
				mean any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface
				or groundwater.
(55)
Noncontact cooling water
shall mean water used for cooling
				that does not come into direct contact with any raw material, intermediate
				product, waste product or finished product.
(56)
Non-significant industrial
				user
shall mean an industrial user that does not come under any of the
				provision of paragraph (90) of this subdivision.
(57)
Non-stormwater
				discharge
means any discharge to the MS4 that is not composed entirely
				of stormwater.
(58)
Normal
				strength sewage
shall mean sewage having a concentration of not
				greater than 250 parts per million BOD5, 250 parts per
				million TSS, and 5.0 parts per million of total phosphorous, and which is
				otherwise acceptable into a public sewer under the terms of these
				regulations.
(59)
NPDES
				(National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System)
shall mean the
				Federal system through which permits are issued to regulate discharge into
				navigable waters from all point sources of pollution including industries and
				municipal wastewater treatment plants.
(60)
N.Y.S.D.E.C.
or
D.E.C.
shall mean the New York State Department of
				Environmental Conservation. This department name may also refer to the
				commissioner or other duly authorized official of the N.Y.S.D.E.C., as the
				context may indicate.
(61)
Objectionable waste
shall mean any wastes that can harm either
				the sewers, sewage treatment process, or equipment, have an adverse effect on
				the receiving stream, or otherwise endanger life, health, or property, or
				constitutes a nuisance.
(62)
Occupied building
means and refers to any structure erected
				and intended for habitation, occupancy or use by human beings or animals and
				from which structure wastewater is or may be discharged.
(63)
Other wastes
shall mean
				garbage (shredded or unshredded), refuse, wood, egg shells, coffee grounds,
				sawdust, shavings, bark, sand, lime, ashes, and all other discharged matter not
				normally present in sewage or industrial wastes which may cause or might be
				reasonably expected to cause pollution.
(64)
Outfall
shall mean the
				discrete point or location where sewage, wastewater or other wastes are
				discharged from a users facility to the public sewer.
(65)
ppb
shall mean parts
				per billion. For purposes of this regulation, ppb and ug/l are
				equivalent.
(66)
P (Total
				Phosphorus)
shall mean the total quantity of phosphorus contained in a
				particular waste as determined by acceptable laboratory procedures, as set
				forth in section
				10075.9(b) of
				this Part.
(67)
pH
shall mean the logarithm of the reciprocal of the concentration of hydrogen
				ions in moles per liter of solution as determined by acceptable laboratory
				procedures as set forth in section
				10075.9(b) of
				this Part.
(68)
Point of
				discharge
shall mean any discernible, confined and discrete conveyance
				or vessel from which pollutants are or may discharge into a public waterway or
				public sewer system.
(69)
Pollutant
means dredged spoil, filter backwash, solid waste,
				incinerator residue, treated or untreated sewage, garbage, sewage sludge,
				munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat,
				wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand and industrial, municipal, and
				agricultural waste or ballast discharged into water; which may cause or might
				reasonably be expected to cause pollution of the waters of the State in
				contravention of the standards.
(70)
Polluted water
or
waste
shall mean any water, liquid or gaseous waste containing
				any of the following: soluble or insoluble substances of organic or inorganic
				nature which may deplete the dissolved oxygen content of the receiving stream;
				settleable solids that may form sludge deposits; grease and oils; floating
				solids which may cause unsightly appearance; color; phenols and other
				substances to an extent which would impart any taste or odor to the receiving
				stream; and toxic or poisonous substances in suspension, colloidal state,
				solution or gases.
(71)
Pollution prevention
shall mean any method, action or activity
				that eliminates or reduces pollution prior to its creation. Pollution
				prevention does not include recycling wastes or by-products.
(72)
POTW
shall mean
				publicly owned treatment works.
(73)
POTW treatment plant, authority
				treatment plant
is that portion of the POTW designed to provide
				treatment to wastewater.
(74)
ppm
shall mean parts per million. For purposes of this
				regulation, ppm and mg/l are equivalent.
(75)
Premises
means any
				building, lot, parcel of land, or portion of land whether improved or
				unimproved adjacent sidewalks and parking strips.
(76)
Pretreatment
or
treatment
is the reduction of the amount of pollutants, the
				elimination 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, or other means except as prohibited by
				40 CFR, section
				403.6(d).
(77)
Pretreatment
				requirements
shall mean any substantive or procedural requirement
				related to pretreatment, other than a national pretreatment standard imposed on
				an industrial user.
(78)
Properly shredded garbage
shall mean the wastes from the
				preparation, cooking, and dispensing of foods that have been shredded to such a
				degree that all particles will be carried freely under the flow conditions
				normally prevailing in public sewers, with no particle greater than one-half
				inch (1.27 centimeters) in any dimension.
(79)
Publicly owned treatment works
				(POTW), authority facilities
are treatment works as defined by section
				212 of the Clean Water Act, (33 U.S.C. 1292) which are owned in
				this instance by the authority. This definition includes any sewers that convey
				wastewater to the POTW treatment plant. For the purposes of this regulation,
				POTW shall also include any sewers that convey wastewaters to the POTW from
				persons outside the authority's boundaries who are, by contract or agreement
				with the authority, users of the authority's POTW.
(80)
Public sewer
means a
				publicly-owned sewer, storm sewer, sanitary sewer or combined sewer.
(81)
Receiving waters
shall
				mean a natural water course or body of water into which treated or untreated
				sewage is discharged.
(82)
Records
shall include, but not be limited to, any printed,
				typewritten, handwritten or otherwise recorded matter of whatever character
				(including paper or electronic media), including but not limited to, letters,
				files, memoranda, directives, notes and notebooks, correspondence,
				descriptions, telephone call slips, photographs, permits, applications,
				reports, compilations, films, graphs and inspection reports. For purposes of
				these regulations,
records
shall mean records of an relating
				to waste generation, reuse and disposal, and shall include records of usage of
				raw materials.
(83)
Regulation(s)
shall mean the regulations of the Buffalo Sewer
				Authority as adopted and from time to time amended, by its board and published
				in the New York Code of Rules and Regulations, and currently designated as
				Chapter LXXXII of this Title.
(84)
Release
shall mean any pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying,
				or leaching, directly or indirectly, of sewage or wastewater so that the sewage
				or wastewater or any related constituent thereof, or any degradation product
				thereof, or of a related constituent thereof, or any degradation product
				thereof, or of a related constituent thereof, may enter the environment, or the
				B.S.A.'s facilities.
(85)
Sanitary sewer
shall mean a sewer intended to receive domestic
				sewage and admissible industrial waste, but to which storm, surface and
				groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.
(86)
Sewage
shall mean a
				combination of the water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings,
				institutions and industrial establishments, together with such ground, surface,
				and stormwater as may be present.
(87)
Sewer
shall mean a pipe
				or conduit for carrying sewage.
(88)
Shall
is mandatory.
May
is permissive.
(89)
Significant industrial
				user
shall mean an industrial user of the publicly owned treatment
				works that:
(i) is subject to EPA Categorical
				Pretreatment Standards;
(ii) uses
				or stores substances that may inadvertently be spilled into the B.S.A. sewer
				system and which may potentially have an adverse impact on the sewer system
				and/or the B.S.A. treatment plant;
(iii) is Industrial Chemical Survey +
				(
e.g.,
industries which annually use more than 1,000 gallons
				or 1,000 pounds of a Buffalo Sewer Authority substance of concern);
(iv) discharges greater than 25,000 gallons
				per day;
(v) has previously been
				issued a B.S.A. BPDES permit;
(vi)
				is surchargeable; and/or
(vii) is a
				major discharger of any pollutant which could potentially have an adverse
				impact on the B.S.A. treatment plant and/or sewage conveyance system.
(90)
Significant
				violator
shall mean a violation which remains uncorrected 45 days
				after notification of noncompliance and which involves a failure to accurately
				report noncompliance; or which resulted in the treatment plant exercising its
				emergency authority to immediately and effectively halt or prevent any
				discharge of pollutants which appears to present an imminent endangerment to
				human health, the environment or which threatens to interfere with the
				operation of the plant.
(91)
Slug
shall mean:
(i) any
				discharge of water, sewage or industrial waste which contains pollutant
				concentrations greater than those listed in section
				10075.7(d) of
				this Part; and
(ii) for flow and
				any pollutant not listed in section
				10075.7(d) of
				this Part, any discharge which exceeds more than five times the discharger's
				average flow or concentration during normal operating hours.
(92)
SPDES (State
				Pollution Discharge Elimination System)
shall mean the State system
				through which permits are issued to regulate discharge into navigable waters
				from all point sources of pollution including industries and municipal
				wastewater treatment plants.
(93)
Standard methods
shall mean Standard Methods for the
				Examination of Water and Wastewater prepared and published jointly by the
				American Public Health Association, American Waterworks Association and the
				Water Pollution Control Federation, latest edition.
(94)
State
shall mean the
				State of New York.
(95)
Storm sewer
(sometimes termed
storm drain
)
				shall mean a public sewer which is intended or designed to carry storm and
				surface waters and drainage, but is not intended to carry sewage and industrial
				wastes other than unpolluted cooling water.
(96)
Stormwater
or
storm water
shall mean excess water which is derived from
				precipitation including rain, snow, hail, sleet, drainage, snowmelt and surface
				runoff.
(97)
Stormwater
				management officer
or
SMO
shall mean an employee or
				other public official(s) designated by the B.S.A. to enforce this
				regulation.
(98)
Surchargeable user
shall mean any user of the B.S.A.'s
				facilities whose discharge contains in excess of 250 mg/l of five-day
				biochemical oxygen demand (BOD5), 250 mg/l total
				suspended solids, and/or 5.0 mg/l total phosphorous (15.35 mg/l total
				phosphate).
(99)
Surface
				runoff
shall mean the source of water which occurs when the rate of
				precipitation exceeds the rate at which water may infiltrate into the
				soil.
(100)
Suspended
				solids
shall mean solids that either float on the surface of, or are
				in suspension in water, sewage, or other liquids, and which are measured by
				acceptable laboratory procedures as set forth in section
				10075.9(b) of
				this Part.
(101)
The
				act
shall mean the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as
				the Clean Water Act, as amended,
				33 U.S.C.
				1251,
et seq.
(102)
TMDL
or
total
				maximum daily load
shall mean the maximum amount of a pollutant to be
				allowed to be released into a waterbody so as not to impair uses of the water,
				allocated among the sources of that pollutant.
(103)
Toxic pollutant
shall
				mean those pollutants, or combinations of pollutants, including disease-causing
				agents, which after discharge and upon exposure, ingestion, inhalation or
				assimilation into any organism, either directly from the environment or
				indirectly by ingestion through food chains, are known to cause death, disease,
				behavioral abnormalities, cancer, genetic mutations, physiological malfunctions
				(including malfunctions in reproduction) or physical deformations, in such
				organisms or their offspring. Toxic pollutants shall include, but not be
				limited to, any pollutant identified pursuant to section 307(a) of the Clean
				Water Act.
(104)
Trunk
				sewer
shall mean a sewer constructed, maintained and operated by the
				authority that conveys wastewater to the authority's treatment facilities and
				into which lateral and collecting sewers discharge.
(105)
ug/l
shall mean
				micrograms per liter. For purposes of this regulation, ug/l and ppb are
				equivalent.
(106)
Unpolluted water
shall mean water which is free of any
				polluted water or waste as described in paragraph (70) of this
				subdivision.
(107)
User
shall mean any person, premises or effluent source that
				directly or indirectly contributes, causes or permits the contribution of waste
				stormwater into or through the authority's public sewer, P.O.T.W. or the
				MS4.
(108)
User
				charge
shall mean a charge levied on users of the authority's
				facilities for the capital cost, as well as the operation and maintenance of
				such works as specified in the latest edition of the Buffalo Sewer Authority
				Sewer Rent Schedule (see Appendix 52 of this Title).
(109)
Violation
shall mean
				any intentional or unintentional disregard or infraction of any provision of
				these regulations.
(110)
Waste
shall mean any liquid, solid or gaseous substance that
				may be discharged into a public sewer.
(111)
Wastewater
shall mean
				the liquid and water-carried industrial or domestic wastewaters from dwellings,
				commercial establishments, industrial facilities, and institutions, together
				with any groundwater, surface water, and storm water that may be present,
				whether treated or untreated, which is contributed into or permitted to enter
				the P.O.T.W.
(112)
Watercourse
shall mean a channel in which a flow of water
				occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
(113)
Waters of the State
shall mean all streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, water courses, 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.
(114)
Water quality
				standards
shall mean any Federal, State, or local rule authoritatively
				establishing, for regulatory purposes, the limit of some unnatural alterations
				of water quality that is to be permitted or accepted as being compatible with
				some particular intended use or uses of water.
(115)
W.P.C.F.
shall mean
				the Water Pollution Control Federation.