For the purpose of this chapter the following acronyms and definitions are provided.
A. Acronyms.
1. "AAC" means the Arizona Administrative Code.
2. "ADEQ" means the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality or any successor agency.
3. "BCS" means building connection sewer.
4. "BOS" means Board of Supervisors.
5. "GPD" means gallons per day.
6. "HCS" means house connection sewer.
7. "OSHA" means Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
8. "PCC" means Pima County Code.
9. "PSCS" means public sewage conveyance system.
10. "SIP" means sewer improvement plan.
11. "WSA" means wastewater service agreement.
B. Definitions.
1. "Accept", "accepted", or "acceptance" means the written notice from the County agreeing to the concept presented in the plans, studies, or reports required as part of a review submittal.
2. "Applicant" means a person requesting permission: to construct a system improvement; to connect a property or a unit to the PSCS; or to conduct construction activities in the vicinity of the PSCS.
3. "Approve", "approved", "approval", or "approvable" means the County's written notice confirming that a submittal complies with the Department's current "Engineering Design Standards" and "Standard Specifications and Details for Construction".
4. "Area under development" means the property for which wastewater service is requested by the applicant plus the rights-of-way and utility easements that abut this property.
5. "Assigned" or "assignable" means a wastewater utility fee credit may be transferred to a third party by the applicant as authorized pursuant to a written WSA with the County.
6. "Augment" or "augmentation" or "augmenting" means the construction of a system improvement for the purpose of increasing the capacity of the PSCS.
7. "Base pipe size" means the minimum pipe size required to convey the predicted peak dry-weather flow from the area under development without exceeding a flow depth ratio of 0.75 d/D (where d is the depth of flow and D is the diameter of the pipe) based on the Manning equation, using an "n" value of 0.013.
8. "Building connection sewer" means the private sewer connecting a non-residential building to the PSCS. See "service lateral."
9. "Capacity allocation" means a formal commitment of PSCS and treatment capacity for a proposed development.
10. "Clearance" means the written acceptance of a third-party construction activity within proximity of the PSCS.
11. "Commercial/industrial" means a property zoned or used for recognized commercial or industrial uses. Commercial/industrial uses include, but are not limited to: restaurants; bars; laundromats; hotels; motels; offices; in-home businesses with rest room facilities provided primarily for customer use; service stations; barber shops; beauty salons; hospitals; nursing homes; schools; churches; penal institutions; car washes; medical and dental laboratories; pet clinics; bakeries; industries; manufacturing; machinery; and meat packing.
12. "Construction documents" means plans, specifications, submittals, special provisions, and any other documents required by the County for construction of a system improvement or a connection to the PSCS.
13. "Construction permit" means an authorization for the construction of a system improvement or a connection to the PSCS.
14. "Contractor" means a person, acting as an applicant's agent and who is, at all times while performing activities regulated by this chapter, licensed by the Arizona Registrar of Contractors and bonded and insured to act in the capacity of a contractor for the type of activity performed.
15. "County" means the constitutional entity governing Pima County, Arizona.
16. "Credit" or "wastewater utility fee credit" means a reduction against the wastewater utility fee for eligible construction costs and engineering fees, not including easement costs, incurred by a developer at the request of the County.
17. "Department" means the Pima County Regional Wastewater Reclamation Department or any successor County department.
18. "Developer" means a person contracting with the County to design and construct a system improvement or connection to the PSCS.
19. "Development" means one or more properties in common ownership which are under consideration for service or served by the Department.
20. "Director" means the Director of the Department, including the Director's delegates, and any person who is, by operation of law, authorized to carry out the Director's functions.
21. "Discount" or "wastewater utility fee discount" means a fee reduction applied against the wastewater utility fee for constructing a qualified system improvement.
22. "Flow-through" means wastewater originating from future development that would flow through a sewer located within an area under development or municipality.
23. "House connection sewer" means the private sewer connecting a residential building and the PSCS. The term "HCS" does not include sewers connecting multi-family buildings to the PSCS. See "service lateral."
24. "Large agency" means a unit of federal or state government or a federally recognized Indian tribe. The term "large agency" does not include school districts.
25. "Multi-family" means more than one residential unit on a single lot. This includes duplexes, townhomes, condominiums, and apartments. Multi-family connections are commercial connections.
26. "Off-site system improvement" means a system improvement outside of the boundaries of the property necessary to connect an area under development to the PSCS.
27. "Over-sizing" or "over-sized" means a department-requested increase in a new pipe size to accommodate system improvement capacity beyond that determined by the department as necessary to serve the area under development.
28. "Owner" means a person who holds an indicia or proof of ownership for a property.
29. "Person" means an individual, company, corporation, partnership, governmental body, or any other entity that has legal rights and is subject to obligations.
30. "Private connection" means: [noun] the point at which a private sewage conveyance system is permanently connected to the PSCS; or [verb] the permanent connection of a private sewer system to the PSCS.
31. "Private sewage conveyance system" means a non-publicly owned sewer connecting a structure or structures to the PSCS. The term includes sewer laterals and private gravity systems and private pumping systems.
32. "Property" means a parcel or parcels of land under common control or ownership.
33. "Public sewage conveyance system" means all parts of the public sewerage system that convey or support the conveyance and operation of sewage (both residential and commercial/industrial).
34. "Public sewerage system" means the entire infrastructure owned by the County to manage wastewater including, but not limited to, all PSCS; wastewater pumping systems; odor control facilities; treatment and disposal facilities; and all appurtenances required to collect, transport, treat, store, reclaim, discharge, or recharge the liquid or solid phases of wastewater.
35. "Qualifying system improvement" means an off-site system improvement constructed by the applicant that is capable of serving other downstream properties in addition to the area under development.
36. "Residential" means one residential structure on a single lot which is zoned as single family residential and which may include detached structures.
37. "Responsible party" means for a property, the owner of the property at the time it was initially connected to the PSCS or the owner at the time of any subsequent increase in water meter size.
38. "Right-of-way" means a general term, denoting a strip of land, property, or interest therein, acquired for or dedicated to transportation and to other public works purposes.
39. "Schedule of values" means the Department's compiled list of material and labor costs in the current local market used to estimate the cost of sewer improvement construction. The Department will periodically update the listed costs.
40. “Seller” means the entity financially responsible for the design and construction of contributed Public Sewage Conveyance System infrastructure.
41. "Service lateral" means the private sewer line between a residential, commercial, industrial, or multi-family building and its connection to the PSCS. The term includes, but is not limited to, "house connection sewer" and "building connection sewer."
42. "Sewage" means waste discharged from toilets, baths, sinks, lavatories, laundries, drains, and other plumbing fixtures in residences, institutions, public and business buildings, industrial sources, mobile homes, and other places of human habitation, employment, or recreation.
43. "Sewer improvement plan" means the set of design drawings prepared by an Arizona registered professional engineer or architect and intended for the construction of a system improvement.
44. "Small activity construction" means minor construction activity impacting the PSCS such as:
a. Certain service lateral taps into the PSCS;
b. Single manhole construction;
c. Manhole adjustment or reconstruction; and
d. Change of pipe or material that does not affect the grade or location of the existing PSCS.
45. "Special facility" means a system improvement intended to be transferred into the PSCS, and which requires additional operation and maintenance expenditures above those generally associated with gravity sewers. The definition of "special facility" includes, but is not limited to, pump station systems or odor control systems.
46. "System improvement" means new sewage conveyance components that are owned, designed, permitted, constructed, and tested by a third party and which are intended for transfer to County ownership.
47. "Temporary connection" means a connection to the PSCS that is intended only for provision of short-term sewer service to a non-permanent facility. Permission to make or maintain a temporary connection is not a valid permanent connection.
48. "Transfer" or "transferred" means a legal conveyance of a system improvement or private sewage conveyance system, following County's agreement to receive, from a private party to County ownership and includes compliance with AAC R18-9-A304, Notice of Transfer.
49. "Unit" means an element of property development, either dwelling, fixture, or building, which can be identified as an individual sewage discharge point for purposes of wastewater flow calculations and wastewater utility fee assessment.
50. "User" means a person who discharges sewage to the public sewerage system.
51. "Wastewater utility fee" means an allocation to each user of the user's estimated share of the capital cost to provide wastewater conveyance and treatment capacity.
52. "Wastewater" See "sewage."
53. "Wastewater service agreement" means a written and fully executed contract between the County and applicant concerning provision of sewer service to an area under development.
54. "Water meter size" means the size of meter supplied by a municipal corporation, special taxing district, or private water company for purposes of determining wastewater utility fee. For private wells/private water systems, system flow capacity is used to determine water meter size based on City of Tucson's Water Meter Sizing Guidelines.
(Ord. No. 2023-9 § 1, 2023; Ord. 2019-20 § 1 (part), 2019; Ord. 2016-29 § 2, 2016: Ord. 2012-27 §§ 1-15, 2012; Ord. 2006-51 § 2, 2006; Ord. 2005-112 §§ 1, 2, 3, 2005; Ord. 2005-61 § 1, 2005; Ord. 2004-10 § 1 (part), 2004; Ord. 2003-29 § 1 (part), 2003; Ord. 2001-20 § 1 (part), 2001; Ord. 2000-6 § 1 (part), 2000; Ord. 1997-97 § 1 (part), 1997; Ord. 1996-18 § 1 (part), 1996)