The words and terms used in this chapter, unless otherwise expressly stated, shall have the following meaning:
(a) "Best Management Practices (BMPs)" means schedules of activities, prohibitions of practices, general good house keeping practices, pollution prevention and educational practices, maintenance procedures, and other management practices to prevent or reduce the discharge of pollutants to storm water, receiving waters, or to storm water 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.
(b) "City of Loveland" means the City of Loveland, its designated representatives, boards, or commissions.
(c) “Clean Water Act" means Pub. L. 92-500, as amended Pub. L. 95-217, Pub. L. 95-576, Pub. L. 96-483, Pub. L. 97-117, and Pub. L. 100-4, 33 U.S.C. 1251 et. seq. Formally referred to as the Federal Water Pollution Control Act or the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972.
(d) "Discharge" The release, addition or deposit of any fluid, liquid, solid, flowing substance, or any other material or substance to the storm water conveyance system.
(e) “Environmental Protection Agency or United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA)" means the United States Environmental Protection Agency, including but not limited to the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (Ohio EPA), or any duly authorized official of said agency.
(f) "Floatable Material" means any foreign matter that may float or remain suspended in the water column, and includes but is not limited to: plastic, aluminum cans, wood products, bottles, and paper products.
(g) "Hazardous Material" 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.
(h) "Illegal Connection" means any drain or conveyance, whether on the surface or subsurface, that allows an illicit discharge to enter the MS4 including but not limited to any conveyances which allow any non-storm water discharge including sewage, process wastewater, and wash water to enter the storm drain system and any connections to the storm drain system from indoor drains and sinks, or any drain or conveyance connected from a non-residential land use to the storm drain system which has not been documented in plans, maps, or equivalent records and approved by the City of Loveland and the OEPA.
(i) "Illicit Discharge" as defined at 40 C.F.R. 122.26 (b)(2) means any discharge to an MS4 that is not composed entirely of storm water, except for those discharges to an MS4 pursuant to a NPDES permit or noted in Section 928.08.
(j) “Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4)" as defined at 40 C.F.R. 122.26 (b)(8), means a conveyance or system of conveyances (including publicly-owned facilities such as roads with drainage systems, municipal streets, pumping facilities, retention and detention basins, reservoirs, catch basins, curbs, gutters, ditches, man-made channels, or storm sewer pipes):
(1) Owned or operated by a State, city, town, borough, county, parish, district, municipality, township, county, association, or other public body (created by or pursuant to State law) having jurisdiction over sewage, industrial wastes, including special districts under State law such as a sewer district, or similar entity, or an Indian tribe or an authorized Indian tribal organization, or a designated and approved management agency under Section 208 of the Clean Water Act that discharges to waters of the United States;
(2) Designed or used for collecting or conveying storm water;
(3) Which is not a combined sewer; and
(4) Which is not part of a Publicly Owned Treatment Works (POTW) as defined at 40 C.F.R. 122.2.
(k) “National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Storm Water Discharge Permit" means a permit issued by the EPA (or by a State under authority delegated pursuant to 33 USC Section 1342(b)) that authorizes the discharge of pollutants to waters of the United States, whether the permit is applicable on an individual, group or general area-wide basis.
(l) "Off-Lot Discharging Home Sewage Treatment System" means a system designed to treat home sewage on-site and discharges treated wastewater effluent off the property into a storm water or surface water conveyance or system.
(m) "Owner / Operator" means any individual, association, organization, partnership, firm, corporation or other entity recognized by law and acting as either the owner or on the owner's behalf.
(n) "Person" means any individual, association, organization, partnership, firm, corporation or other entity recognized by law and acting as either the owner or as the owner's agent.
(o) "Pollutant" means anything that causes or contributes to pollution. Pollutants may include, but are not limited to, paints, varnishes, solvents, oil and other automotive fluids, non-hazardous liquid and solid wastes, yard wastes, refuse, rubbish, garbage, litter or other discarded or abandoned objects, floatable materials, pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers, hazardous materials, wastes, sewage, dissolved and particulate metals, animal wastes, residues that result from constructing a structure, and noxious or offensive matter of any kind.
(p) "Premises" means any building, lot, parcel of land, or portion of land, whether improved or unimproved, including adjacent sidewalks and parking strips.
(q) "Storm Water" means any surface flow, runoff, and drainage consisting entirely of water from any form of natural precipitation, and resulting from such precipitation.
(r) "Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan" means a document which describes the Best Management Practices and activities to be implemented by a person or business to identify sources of pollution or contamination at a site and the actions to eliminate or reduce pollutant discharges to storm water, storm water conveyance systems, and/or receiving waters to the maximum extent practicable.
(s) "Wastewater" means the spent water of a facility. From the standpoint of a source, it may be a combination of the liquid and water-carried wastes discharged from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants, and institutions.
(Ord. 2012-14. Passed 2-28-12.)