For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
AMOUNTS FOR RECONSTRUCTION AND EXPANSION. Those amounts which represent a minimum of 80% of the amount retained by the town, 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 (EPA). The remaining 20% of retained amounts may be used at the discretion of the town.
FEDERAL GRANT AMOUNTS. The portion of the total construction costs for Project Number C-180502, which was sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Total construction costs will amount to approximately $829,377. The federal grant will amount to approximately $726,975.
INDUSTRIAL USER.
(1) 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:
(a) Division A: Agriculture, forestry and fishing;
(b) Division B: Mining;
(c) Division D: Manufacturing;
(d) Division E: Transportation, communication, electric, gas and sanitary services; and
(e) Division I: Services.
(2) A user in the divisions listed may be excluded if it is determined that the user will introduce primarily segregated domestic wastes or wastes from sanitary conveniences.
NONINDUSTRIAL USER. 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 are primarily segregated domestic wastes or wastes from sanitary conveniences.
NORMAL DOMESTIC ESTATES. Wastes which do not exceed a biochemical oxygen demand strength of 250 mg/l or a suspended solids strength in excess of 250 mg/l.
PROJECT NUMBER C-180502. A separate and distinct construction project for construction of the municipal wastewater, which was sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the provisions of Public Law 92-500, known as the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. 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 chapter as fully as if same were attached hereto or incorporated herein.
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 AMOUNTS. The portion of the recovered amounts retained by the town. The retained amounts will be equal to 50% of the recovered amounts, together with interest earned thereon.
SEGREGATED DOMESTIC WASTES. Wastes from nonresidential users which are generated from activities of a domestic nature and which are measurable and set apart from industrial discharges.
(1995 Code, § 51.105) (Ord. 2-1976, passed 3-18-1976)