Pennsylvania Code › Title 25 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › Part I - Department of Environmental Protection › Subpart C - Protection of Natural Resources › Article II - Water Resources › Chapter 103 - FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE › Subchapter B - STATE GRANTS FOR OPERATION OF SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTS › GENERAL › Section 103.21 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this
							 subchapter, have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
							 otherwise:
Abandoned facilities
-Facilities no
							 longer maintained or used.
Act
-The act of August 20, 1953 (P.
							 L. 1217, No. 339) (35 P. S. §§
														701-703).
Applicant municipality
-A county,
							 city, town, borough, township, school district, institution or an authority
							 created by any one of the foregoing. If more than one municipality forms a
							 single authority which applies for funding under this program, the term
							 includes the total of the political boundaries of the municipalities and
							 population of those municipalities, whether or not the entire population of
							 each municipality is served by the authority.
Backup facilities
-Components that
							 are not routinely used and are an alternate to another component, and which are
							 available but not necessary for continued treatment plant operations in the
							 event of failures or breakdowns. The term does not include necessary
							 components, as required by a water quality management sewage permit.
Component
-Equipment, structure or
							 treatment unit used in a sewage treatment works.
Construction
-The construction of new
							 treatment works, pumping stations and intercepting sewers which are an integral
							 part of the treatment facilities, and the altering, improving or adding to of
							 existing treatment works, pumping stations, and intercepting sewers which are
							 essential to the sewage treatment plant system.
First connection
-The nearest point
							 on the intercepting sewer to the sewage treatment works at which the
							 intercepting sewer receives sewage or other liquid wastes from an
							 outlet.
Industrial waste treatment works
-An
							 arrangement of devices and structures for treatment and disposal of industrial
							 waste, all or part of which is required, or authorized, by a water quality
							 management industrial waste permit issued under The Clean Streams Law
							 (35
							 P. S. §§
														691.1-691.1001).
Intercepting sewer
-A sewer which
							 receives sewage from various outlets and conducts the sewage to the treatment
							 works. The term does not include main, submain and trunk sewers.
Lift station
-A sewage pumping
							 station designed to raise sewage from areas too low to drain into available
							 sewers, and as such are not eligible for payment consideration.
Out of service
-Facilities no longer
							 in use. The term includes obsolete and outmoded facilities.
PENNVEST
-Pennsylvania
							 Infrastructure Investment Authority Act Program.
Pennsylvania Infrastructure Investment
							 Authority Act
-An act providing low interest loans and limited grant
							 assistance for financing sewerage and water treatment facilities. See the act
							 of March 1, 1988 (P. L. 82, No. 16) (35 P. S. §§
														751.1-751.20).
Pumping station
-Facilities to house
							 sewage pumps and their appurtenances and the force main into which the pumps
							 discharge.
Sewage treatment facilities
-Sewage
							 treatments works.
Sewage treatment plant
-Sewage
							 treatment works.
Sewage treatment works
-An
							 arrangement of devices and structures for treatment and disposal of sewage, all
							 or part of which is required, or authorized, by a water quality management
							 sewage permit issued under The Clean Streams Law. The term includes treatment
							 and disposal devices and structures located inside the fence surrounding the
							 treatment works site, outfalls to the receiving stream and their appurtenances,
							 and liquid waste disposal equipment and facilities.
Treatment facilities
-Sewage
							 treatment works.
Treatment works
-Sewage treatment
							 works.
The provisions of this §
															103.21 amended under the act of
								August 20, 1953 (P. L. 1217, No. 339) (35 P. S. §§
																701-703); The Clean Streams Law
								(35
								P. S. §§
																691.1-691.1001); section
								20 of the Pennsylvania Infrastructure Investment Authority Act (35 P. S. §
																751.201); and section 1920-A of The
								Administrative Code of 1929 (71 P. S. §
																510-20).