For the purpose of this subchapter the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
(a) FEDERAL GRANT AMOUNTS. That portion of the total construction costs for Project Number C 391423 02 which was sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The Federal grant will amount to approximately $1,003,223.
(b) INDUSTRIAL USERS. Any nongovernmental user of the City's sewage works which discharges more than 25,000 gallons per day of sanitary waste, or a volume of processed wastes, or combined process and sanitary waste, equivalent to 25,000 gallons per day. Also, any nongovernmental user of the City's sewage works which discharges wastewater to the works which contains toxic pollutants or poisonous solids, liquids, or gases in sufficient quantity either singly or by interaction, with other wastes, to injure or interfere with any sewage treatment process, constitute a hazard to humans or animals, create a public nuisance, or create any hazard in or have an adverse effect on waters receiving any discharge from the treatment works.
(c) INDUSTRIAL USERS. Any nongovernmental user of the treatment works identified in the Standard Industrial Classification Manual, 1972, Office of Management and Budget, as amended and supplemented, under the following divisions:
(1) Division A—Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing.
(2) Division B—Mining.
(3) Division D—Manufacturing.
(4) Division E—Transportation, Communication, Electric, Gas and Sanitary Services.
(5) Division I—Services.
(d) NONINDUSTRIAL USER. Any governmental or residential user. The term also includes commercial, and institutional users where it has been determined that the wastes contributed by these users are primarily segregated domestic wastes from sanitary conveniences.
(e) NONINDUSTRIAL USERS. Any user of the City's sewage works which does not meet the definition of industrial user.
(f) NORMAL DOMESTIC WASTES. Wastes which do not exceed a biochemical oxygen demand strength of 240 milligrams per liter of fluid, or a suspended solids strength in excess of 240 milligrams per liter of fluid.
(g) OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE. The involvement of a practical application of a principal or process to keep in an existing state or efficiently preserve from failure or decline, the existing or future treatment works.
(h) PAYMENT TO U.S. TREASURY. That portion of the recorded amounts that must be returned to the U.S. Treasury on an annual basis. The annual payments to the U.S. Treasury shall amount to fifty percent (50%) of the annual recovered amounts, together with interest earned thereon.
(i) PROJECT NUMBER C 391423 02. A separate and distinct construction project for construction of the City of Loveland Wastewater Disposal Works which was sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under the provisions of Public Law 92-500. This project does not include past or future construction, equipment, or other services not included under the specific project number and the approved plans, specifications and approved change orders for the project which are on file at the municipal office, and by reference made a part of this subchapter as fully as if same were attached hereto or incorporated herein.
(j) RECONSTRUCTION AND EXPANSION AMOUNTS. Those amounts retained by the City, together with interest earned thereon. These amounts shall be used solely for reconstruction and expansion of wastewater treatment facilities which must be approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The remaining twenty percent (20%) of retained amounts may be used at the discretion of the City.
(k) RECOVERED AMOUNTS. The annual payments from industrial users for their share of the federal grant allocable to the cost of treating industrial wastewater, which is determined by dividing the amount of the total federal grant, allocable to the treatment of industrial wastewater, by the recovery period.
(l) RECOVERY PERIOD. The industrial cost recovery period, which is defined as a period of 30 years.
(m) REPLACEMENT AMOUNT. Expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories, or appurtenances which are necessary during the service life of the treatment works to maintain the capacity and performance for which such works were designed and constructed.
(n) RETAINED AMOUNT. That portion of the recovered amounts retained by the City. The retained amounts shall be equal to fifty percent (50%) of the recovered amounts, together with interest earned thereon.
(o) SEGREGATED DOMESTIC WASTES. Wastes from nonresidential sources, resulting from normal domestic activities and measurable and set apart from industrial trade or process discharges.
(p) SEWER SERVICE CHARGE. A system of charges to assure that each recipient of waste treatment service pays his proportionate share of the cost of operation and maintenance including replacement of all waste treatment services provided by the agency.
(q) USER CHARGE. A charge levied on users of a treatment works for the cost of operation and maintenance of such works.
(Ord. 1980-14. Passed 2-12-80; Ord. 1980-33. Passed 5-27-80.)