For the purpose of this section, the following definitions apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
Administrative Penalty. Administrative penalties as set forth in the enforcement response procedures.
C.F.R. The Code of Federal Regulations.
City. The City of Big Lake, Minnesota.
Contaminated. Containing a harmful quantity of any substance.
Contamination. The presence of or entry of any substance which may be deleterious to the public health and/or the quality of the water into the public storm water system, waters of the state, or waters of the United States.
Cosmetic Cleaning. Cleaning done for cosmetic purposes to the exterior of buildings, motorized vehicles, parking lots, recreational vehicles, or similar activity. It does not include industrial cleaning, cleaning associated with manufacturing activities, hazardous or toxic waste cleaning, or any cleaning otherwise regulated under federal, state, or local laws.
ERP. The enforcement response procedure document as adopted by the City Council.
Harmful Quantity. The amount of any substance that will cause pollution of waters of the city, state, or nation that will cause lethal or sub-lethal adverse effects on the representative, sensitive aquatic monitoring organisms residing in waters.
Mobile Commercial Cosmetic Cleaning. Power washing, steam cleaning, and any other mobile cosmetic cleaning operation of vehicles and/or exterior surfaces engaged for commercial purposes.
Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4). The system of conveyances, including sidewalks, municipal streets, driveways, curb and gutter, ditches, channels, retention basins, catch basins or similar storm water inlets, and/or any other conveyance delivering water to the public storm sewer collection and delivery system.
MS4 Permit. The State Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) permit issued to the city for monitoring and maintaining water quality in its MS4. The Environmental Protection Agency has promulgated the National Pollution Discharge Elimination System, Phase II storm water rules. The MPCA has delegated the responsibility to administer the National Pollution Discharge Elimination System, Phase II storm water permit system to MS4 communities.
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System. The national program for issuing, modifying, revoking, and reissuing, terminating, monitoring, and enforcing permits, and imposing and enforcing pretreatment requirements, under §§ 307, 402, 318, and 405 of the Federal Clean Water Act, being 33 U.S.C. §§ 1317, 1328, 1342, and 1345, respectively.
NOI. Notice of intent.
Notice of Intent. A written notice to the State Pollution Control Agency that the city plans on meeting the MS4 permit requirements.
NPDES. The National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System.
Point Source. Any discernible, confined, and discrete conveyance, including, but not limited to, any pipe, ditch, channel, tunnel, conduit, well, discrete fissure, container, rolling stock, concentrated animal feeding operation, landfill leachate collection system, vessel, or other floating craft from which pollutants are or may be discharged. This term does not include return flows from irrigated agriculture or agricultural storm water runoff.
Pollutant. Dredge spoil; solid waste; incinerator residue; sewage; garbage; sewage sludge; filter backwash; munitions; chemical wastes; biological materials; toxic materials; radioactive materials; heat; wrecked or discarded equipment; rock; sand; cellar dirt; and industrial, municipal, recreational, and agricultural waste discharged into water or into the municipal separate storm sewer system.
Pollution. The alteration of the physical, thermal, chemical, or biological quality of, or the contamination of, any waters of the state or the MS4, that renders the water harmful, detrimental, or injurious to humans, animal life, vegetation, or property, or to the public health, safety, or welfare, or impairs the usefulness or the public enjoyment of the water for any lawful or reasonable purpose.
Release. Any spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, discharging, injecting, escaping, leaching, dumping, or disposing into groundwater, subsurface soils, surface soils, the municipal separate storm sewer system (MS4), or the waters of the state.
Storm Water. Any flow occurring during or following any form of natural precipitation, and resulting from such precipitation, including snow melt.
Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan. A plan required by a permit to discharge storm water associated with industrial activity, including construction, and which describes and ensures the implementation of practices that are to be used to reduce the pollutants in storm water discharges associated with industrial activity at the facility.
SWPPP. Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan.
Waters of the State. All streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, watercourses, 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.