For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
FEDERAL GRANT AMOUNTS. That portion of the total construction costs for Project Number C-180342, which was sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The federal grant will amount to approximately $1,929,226.
INDUSTRIAL USER.
(1) (a) Any nongovernmental, nonresidential user of the city's sewage works which discharges more than the equivalent of 25,000 gallons per day (gpd) of sanitary wastes and which is identified in the Standard Industrial Classification Manual, 1972, Office of Management and Budget, as amended and supplemented under one of the following divisions:
Division A — Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing
Division B — Mining
Division D — Manufacturing
Division E — Transportation, Communications, Electric, Gas and Sanitary Services
Division I — Services
(b) In determining the amount of user's discharge for purpose of industrial costs recovery, the city will exclude domestic wastes or discharges from sanitary conveniences.
(c) After applying the sanitary waste exclusion above, discharges in the above divisions that have a volume exceeding 25,000 gallons per day or the weight of biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) or suspended solids (SS) equivalent to that weight found in 25,000 gallons per day of sanitary waste are considered industrial users. SANITARY WASTE shall have the same meaning as “normal domestic wastes” defined in this section.
(2) Any nongovernmental user of the city's sewage works which discharges waste water to the treatment works which contains toxic pollutants or poisonous solids, liquids or gases in sufficient quantity, either singly or by interaction with other wastes, to contaminate the sludge of any municipal systems, or injure or interfere with any sewage treatment process, or which constitutes a hazard to humans or animals, creates a public nuisance, or creates any hazard in or has an adverse effect on the waters receiving any discharge from the treatment works.
NONINDUSTRIAL USERS. Any user of the city's sewage works which does not meet the definition of “industrial user.”
NORMAL DOMESTIC WASTES. Wastes which do not exceed a BOD strength of 200 mg/l of fluid, a suspended solids strength in excess of 210 mg/l of fluid, or phosphorus in excess of ten mg/l of fluid.
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 50% of the annual recovered amounts, together with interest earned thereon.
PROJECT NUMBER C-180342. A separate and distinct construction project for construction of the Monticello Municipal Sewage Works which was sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under the provisions of Public Law 92-600. 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 in the city hall, and by reference made a part of this subchapter as fully as if same were attached hereto or incorporated herein.
RECONSTRUCTION AND EXPANSION AMOUNTS. Those amounts which represent a minimum of 80% of the amount retained by the city, together with interest earned thereon. These amounts shall be used solely for reconstruction and expansion of waste treatment facilities which must be approved by the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency. The remaining 20% of retained amounts may be used at the discretion of the city.
RECOVERED AMOUNTS. The annual payments from industrial users for their share of the federal grant allocable to the cost of treating industrial waste, which is determined by dividing the amount of the total federal grant, allocable to the treatment of industrial waste, by the recovery period.
RECOVERY PERIOD. The industrial cost recovery period, which is hereby defined as a period of 30 years.
RETAINED AMOUNT. That portion of the recovered amounts retained by the city. The retained amounts shall be equal to 50% of the recovered amounts, together with interest earned thereon.
SEGREGATED DOMESTIC WASTES. Wastes from nonresidential sources, resulting from normal domestic activities and measurable and set apart from industrial trade or process discharges.
('77 Code, § 20-73) (Ord. 375, passed 4-3-78; Am. Ord. 412, passed 7-16-79)