Sec. 9-125 Definitions.
   Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this Division shall be as follows:
   a.   Industrial User shall mean any non-governmental 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
   A user in the Divisions listed may be excluded if it is determined that such user will introduce primarily segregated domestic wastes or wastes from sanitary conveniences.
   b.   Segregated Domestic Wastes shall mean wastes from non-residential sources, resulting from normal domestic activities and measurable and set apart from industrial trade or process discharges.
   c.   Normal Domestic Strength Wastes shall mean wastes which do not exceed a Biochemical Oxygen Demand strength of two hundred forty (240) milligrams per liter of fluid, or a suspended solids strength in excess of two hundred forty (240) milligrams per liter of fluid. Also, it shall mean wastewaters from segregated domestic and/or sanitary conveniences as distinct from wastes from industrial processes.
   d.   Non-Industrial User shall mean any governmental or residential user. The term also includes commercial, institutional and other industrial users where it has been determined that the wastes contributed by these users is primarily segregated domestic wastes or wastes from sanitary conveniences.
   e.   Recovered Amounts shall mean 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.
   f.   Industrial Cost Recovery Period shall mean that period during which the grant amount allocable to the treatment of wastes from industrial users is recovered from the industrial users of such works, which shall be a period of thirty (30) years.
   g.   Project Number C-180474 01 is defined as a separate and distinct construction project for construction of the Schererville Municipal Sewage 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 in the Town Hall, and by reference made a part of this ordinance as fully as if same were attached hereto or incorporated herein,
   h.   Federal Grant Amounts shall mean that portion of the total construction costs for Project Number C-180474 01 which was sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Total eligible construction costs will amount to approximately $1,549,400.00. The federal grant will amount to approximately $1,162,050.00
   i.   Retained Amounts shall mean that portion of the recovered amounts retained by the Town. The retained amounts shall be equal to fifty percent (50%) of the recovered amounts, together with interest earned thereon.
   j.   Payment to U.S. Treasury shall mean that portion of the recovered 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.
   k.   Amounts for Reconstruction and Expansion shall mean those amounts which represent a minimum of eighty percent (80%) of the amount retained by the Town, together with interest earned thereon. These amounts shall be used solely for the eligible costs of the expansion or reconstruction of treatment works associated with the project and necessary to meet the requirements of the Act. The Town shall obtain the written approval of the Regional Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency prior to commitment of the retained amounts for any expansion and reconstruction. The remaining twenty percent (20%) of retained amounts may be used at the discretion of the Town.
   l.   Act shall mean the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972, Public Law 92-500, adopted by the 92nd Congress on October 18, 1972.
(Ord. No. 672, § 1, 10-27-76; Schererville Town Code, § 10-2-23)