Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 39, September 25, 2024
(b)
Definitions.
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the
meaning of the terms used in these regulations shall be as stated below. Terms
not defined in this section, or terms found to be ambiguous shall be defined by
the Clean Water Act, or E.P.A. regulations issued pursuant thereto. When not
inconsistent with the context, the present tense shall include the future, and
words used in the plural shall include the singular and vice versa. A masculine
pronoun shall include the feminine.
(1)
40 C.F.R. part 403
shall mean the General Pretreatment Regulations for existing and new sources of
pollution as promulgated by the U.S.E.P.A. and published in the Code of Federal
Regulations.
(2)
Abnormal
strength sewage shall mean any waste having a total suspended solid,
B.O.D.5, or total phosphate concentration in excess of
that found in normal strength sewage, but which is otherwise acceptable into a
public sewer under the terms of these regulations.
(3)
A.S.T.M. shall mean the
American Society for Testing and Materials.
(4)
Approval authority shall
mean the N.Y.S.D.E.C. or the E.P.A.
(5)
Authorized representative of an
industrial user shall mean:
(i) if
the user is a corporation of limited liability company:
(a) the president, secretary, treasurer,
vice-president, general manager, or executive director of the corporation or
company in charge of a principal business function, or any other person who
performs similar policy or decisionmaking functions for the corporation or
company; or
(b) the manager of one
or more manufacturing, production, or operation facilities, if authority to
sign documents binding upon such entity has been assigned or delegated to such
manager in accordance with corporate or company procedures;
(ii) if the user is a partnership,
a limited liability partnership, a limited partnership, or sole proprietorship,
a general partner or proprietor, respectively;
(iii) if the user is a Federal, State,
municipal or other political subdivision, special district, public authority or
agency; the person who is elected, appointed or designated to oversee the
operation and performance of the activities of such government or entity and
its operations, or his designee;
(iv) if the user is a trust, estate or person
under a disability, then the trustee, executor, or other representative duly
appointed or authorized by law to act on behalf thereof; and
(v) the individuals described in
subparagraphs (i) through (iv) of this paragraph, may designate another
authorized representative if the authorization is in writing, the authorization
specifies the individual or position responsible for the overall operation of
the facility from which the discharge originates or having overall
responsibility for any discharges or environmental matters for the company,
partnership or entity, and the written authorization is submitted to the
B.S.A.
(6)
Best
management practices (BMPs) means schedules of activities,
prohibitions of practices, general good housekeeping practices, pollution
prevention and educational practices, maintenance procedures, and other
management practices to prevent or reduce the discharge of pollutants directly
or indirectly to stormwater, receiving waters, or stormwater 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.
(7)
B.O.D.5
(denoting five-day biochemical oxygen demand) shall mean the quantity
of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under
standard laboratory procedure in five days at 20°C, expressed in milligrams per
liter.
(8)
B.P.D.E.S.
permit or Buffalo Pollution Discharge Elimination System
permit shall mean a permit which authorizes the discharge of
industrial waste or, which authorizes the discharge of spills or temporary
discharges of industrial waste, including, but not limited to, discharges from
property remediation, construction and/or demolition activities into the
B.S.A.'s facilities or into any sanitary sewer under jurisdiction of the B.S.A.
or, in a contracted service area, under the jurisdiction of the B.S.A. and the
contracted service area jurisdiction.
(9)
B.S.A. or the
authority shall mean the Buffalo Sewer Authority, a public
benefit corporation organized and existing pursuant to the New York Public
Authorities Law, section 1175 et seq., as amended, with its
principal office located at 1038 City Hall, Buffalo, NY 14202.
(10)
B.S.A. Schedule of Sewer
Rents shall mean the schedule of sewer rents and other charges,
including but not limited to, the amount of sewer rents, fees, charges,
surcharges and delinquent charges, established by the Buffalo Sewer Authority
pursuant to the New York Public Authorities Law, section 1180. A copy of the
current edition of such schedule is available at the principal office of the
B.S.A.
(11)
Building
drain is that part of the horizontal piping of a building drainage
system which receives the discharge of all soil, waste and other drainage from
inside the walls of any building and conveys the same to the building service
sewer five feet outside the foundation wall of such building.
(12)
Building service sewer
is that part of the horizontal piping of a building drainage system beginning
five feet from the foundation wall and terminating at its connection with the
main sewer, cesspool, bacterial tank or other disposal terminal.
(13)
City of Buffalo or
the city shall mean the City of Buffalo, a municipal
corporation of the State of New York with principal offices at City Hall, 65
Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14202.
(14)
Collecting sewer shall
mean a sewer that receives wastewater from a relatively small area and
discharges into a main sewer serving more than one collecting sewer.
(15)
Combined sewer is a
public sewer or drain intended or designed to receive and transport domestic
sewage, industrial wastes, as well as surface runoff and stormwater.
(16)
Commercial
establishments shall mean private establishments such as restaurants,
hotels, stores, filling stations, or recreational facilities. Private nonprofit
entities such as churches, schools, hospitals, or charitable organizations are
considered to be commercial establishments.
(17)
Common sewer shall mean
a building service sewer or building drain that receives wastewater from more
than one discharger before it empties into a collecting sewer.
(18)
Compatible pollutant
shall mean bio-chemical oxygen demand (B.O.D.), total suspended solids
(T.S.S.), pH, fecal or total coliform bacteria, phosphate and phosphorus
compounds, fats, oils, and greases of animal or vegetable origin, except as
prohibited herein or identified on the Buffalo Sewer Authority's State
Pollution Discharge Elimination System permit.
(19)
Composite sample,
composite shall mean a combination of individual (or continuously
taken) samples obtained at regular intervals over the entire discharge day. The
volume of each sample shall be proportional to the discharge flow rate. For a
continuous discharge, a minimum of 48 individual grab samples (at half-hour
intervals) shall be collected and combined to constitute a 24-hour composite
sample. For intermittent discharges of four to eight hours duration, grab
samples shall be taken at a minimum of 30-minute intervals. For intermittent
discharges of less than four hours duration grab samples shall be taken at a
minimum of 15-minute intervals.
(20)
Connector shall mean
the attachment of the pipeline from the sewer main to the building drain,
control manhole or monitoring station.
(21)
Construction activity
means activities requiring authorization under the SPDES permit for stormwater
discharges from construction activity, GP-02-01, as amended or revised. These
activities include construction projects resulting in land disturbance of one
or more acres. Such activities include, but are not limited to, clearing and
grubbing, grading, excavating, and demolition.
(22)
Contact cooling water
shall mean water used in a process for cooling purposes which has come in
direct contact with the process reactants or products.
(23)
Contracted service area
shall mean a geographic area outside the immediate city boundaries
(e.g., sewer district) of the B.S.A. which, through
contractual agreement, is connected to the B.S.A. sewage collection system in
order to have sewage generated in that area treated at the B.S.A. treatment
plant.
(24)
Direct
contributor shall mean any user conveying waste from a building
service, directly to a B.S.A. public sewer.
(25)
Direct discharge is the
discharge of treated or untreated wastewater directly to the waters of the
State of New York.
(26)
Domestic sewage shall mean a combination of the water-carried
normal strength sewage from residences, business buildings, institutions and
industrial establishments.
(27)
Domestic user shall mean any user not covered under the
definition of industrial user.
(28)
Environment shall mean any water, water vapor, any land,
including land surface or subsurface, air, fish, wildlife, biota, and all other
natural resources.
(29)
E.P.A. or U.S.E.P.A. shall mean the United
States Environmental Protection Agency. This agency name may also refer to the
administrator or other duly authorized official of the E.P.A., as the context
may indicate.
(30)
Fine shall mean a sum of money imposed as a penalty for
violation of these regulations.
(31)
Garbage shall mean
solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking and
dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and sale of
produce.
(32)
General
manager shall mean the Chief Executive Officer of the Buffalo Sewer
Authority or his designated deputy, agent or representative.
(33)
Grab sample shall mean
an individual sample which is taken from a waste stream on a one-time basis
with no regard to the flow in the waste stream and without consideration of
time.
(34)
Groundwater shall mean water within the earth.
(35)
Hazardous materials
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.
(36)
Illicit connection means any drain or conveyance, whether on
the surface or subsurface, which allows an illegal discharge to enter the MS4,
including but not limited to:
(i) any
conveyances which allow any non-stormwater discharge including treated or
untreated sewage, process wastewater, and wash water to enter the MS4 and any
connections to the storm drain system from indoor drains and sinks, regardless
of whether such drain or connection had been previously allowed, permitted, or
approved by an authorized enforcement agency; or
(ii) any drain or conveyance connected from a
commercial or industrial land use to the MS4 which has not been documented in
plans, maps, or equivalent record and approved by an authorized enforcement
agency.
(37)
Illicit discharge shall mean any direct or indirect
non-stormwater discharge to the MS4, except as exempted in this
regulation.
(38)
Incompatible pollutant shall mean any pollutant which is not a
compatible pollutant.
(39)
Indirect contributor shall mean any person who contributes
waste to a public B.S.A. sewer by any means other than that defined in
paragraph (24) of this subdivision.
(40)
Indirect discharge
shall mean the introduction of pollutants into a POTW from any
source.
(41)
Industrial
user shall mean an industrial source of indirect discharge.
(42)
Industrial waste means
the liquid, solid, and gaseous waste, including suspended solids resulting from
the processes employed in industrial or commercial establishments.
(43)
Industrial waste
surcharge shall mean a charge, as specified in the latest edition of
the B.S.A. Schedule of Sewer Rents (see Appendix 52 of this Title), levied on
industrial users of the sewerage treatment works for the additional cost of
treating waste discharges of abnormal strength sewage. This charge may include
capital, as well as operating and maintenance costs.
(44)
Infiltration shall mean
the water entering a sewer system from the ground through such means as, but
not limited to, defective pipes, pipe joints, connections, or manhole walls.
Infiltration does not include, and is distinguished from, inflow.
(45)
Infiltration/inflow
shall mean the total quantity of water from both infiltration and inflow
without distinguishing the source.
(46)
Inflow shall mean the
water discharged into a sewer system and service connections from such sources
as, but not limited to, roof leaders, cellar, yard and area drains, foundation
drains, cooling water discharges, drains from springs and swampy areas, manhole
covers, cross-connections from storm sewers and combined sewers, catch basins,
stormwater, surface run-off, street wash water, or drainage. It does not
include, and is distinguished from, infiltration.
(47)
Interference shall mean
an inhibition or disruption of the authority's facilities, its treatment
processes or operations, or its sludge processes, use or disposal.
(48)
Land development
activity shall mean construction activity including clearing, grading,
excavating, soil disturbance or placement of fill that results in land
disturbance of equal to or greater than one acre or activities disturbing less
than one acre of total land area that is part of a larger common plan of
development or sale, even though multiple separate and distinct land
development activities may take place at different times on different
schedules.
(49)
Lateral
sewer shall mean a sewer that discharges into a collecting sewer or
other sewers and has no other common sewer tributary to it.
(50)
Main sewer shall mean a
sewer that receives wastewater from the collecting sewer.
(51)
mg/l shall mean
milligrams per liter. For purposes of this regulation, mg/l and ppm are
equivalent.
(52)
MS4 or municipal separate storm sewer system
shall mean a conveyance or system of conveyances (including roads with drainage
systems, municipal streets, catch basins, curbs, gutters, ditches, man-made
channels, or storm drains) owned or operated by the B.S.A., designed or used
for collecting or conveying stormwater, which is not a combined sewer, and
which is not part of a publicly owned treatment works (POTW).
(53)
National Pretreatment
Standard or Federal Categorical Standard shall mean
any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated by EPA in
accordance with section 307(b) and (c) of the Clean Water Act, which applies to
industrial users. This term includes prohibitive discharge limits established
pursuant to 40 CFR section
403.5.
(54)
Natural outlet shall
mean any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface
or groundwater.
(55)
Noncontact cooling water shall mean water used for cooling
that does not come into direct contact with any raw material, intermediate
product, waste product or finished product.
(56)
Non-significant industrial
user shall mean an industrial user that does not come under any of the
provision of paragraph (90) of this subdivision.
(57)
Non-stormwater
discharge means any discharge to the MS4 that is not composed entirely
of stormwater.
(58)
Normal
strength sewage shall mean sewage having a concentration of not
greater than 250 parts per million BOD5, 250 parts per
million TSS, and 5.0 parts per million of total phosphorous, and which is
otherwise acceptable into a public sewer under the terms of these
regulations.
(59)
NPDES
(National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System) shall mean the
Federal system through which permits are issued to regulate discharge into
navigable waters from all point sources of pollution including industries and
municipal wastewater treatment plants.
(60)
N.Y.S.D.E.C. or
D.E.C. shall mean the New York State Department of
Environmental Conservation. This department name may also refer to the
commissioner or other duly authorized official of the N.Y.S.D.E.C., as the
context may indicate.
(61)
Objectionable waste shall mean any wastes that can harm either
the sewers, sewage treatment process, or equipment, have an adverse effect on
the receiving stream, or otherwise endanger life, health, or property, or
constitutes a nuisance.
(62)
Occupied building means and refers to any structure erected
and intended for habitation, occupancy or use by human beings or animals and
from which structure wastewater is or may be discharged.
(63)
Other wastes shall mean
garbage (shredded or unshredded), refuse, wood, egg shells, coffee grounds,
sawdust, shavings, bark, sand, lime, ashes, and all other discharged matter not
normally present in sewage or industrial wastes which may cause or might be
reasonably expected to cause pollution.
(64)
Outfall shall mean the
discrete point or location where sewage, wastewater or other wastes are
discharged from a users facility to the public sewer.
(65)
ppb shall mean parts
per billion. For purposes of this regulation, ppb and ug/l are
equivalent.
(66)
P (Total
Phosphorus) shall mean the total quantity of phosphorus contained in a
particular waste as determined by acceptable laboratory procedures, as set
forth in section
10075.9(b) of
this Part.
(67)
pH
shall mean the logarithm of the reciprocal of the concentration of hydrogen
ions in moles per liter of solution as determined by acceptable laboratory
procedures as set forth in section
10075.9(b) of
this Part.
(68)
Point of
discharge shall mean any discernible, confined and discrete conveyance
or vessel from which pollutants are or may discharge into a public waterway or
public sewer system.
(69)
Pollutant means dredged spoil, filter backwash, solid waste,
incinerator residue, treated or untreated sewage, garbage, sewage sludge,
munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat,
wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand and industrial, municipal, and
agricultural waste or ballast discharged into water; which may cause or might
reasonably be expected to cause pollution of the waters of the State in
contravention of the standards.
(70)
Polluted water or
waste shall mean any water, liquid or gaseous waste containing
any of the following: soluble or insoluble substances of organic or inorganic
nature which may deplete the dissolved oxygen content of the receiving stream;
settleable solids that may form sludge deposits; grease and oils; floating
solids which may cause unsightly appearance; color; phenols and other
substances to an extent which would impart any taste or odor to the receiving
stream; and toxic or poisonous substances in suspension, colloidal state,
solution or gases.
(71)
Pollution prevention shall mean any method, action or activity
that eliminates or reduces pollution prior to its creation. Pollution
prevention does not include recycling wastes or by-products.
(72)
POTW shall mean
publicly owned treatment works.
(73)
POTW treatment plant, authority
treatment plant is that portion of the POTW designed to provide
treatment to wastewater.
(74)
ppm shall mean parts per million. For purposes of this
regulation, ppm and mg/l are equivalent.
(75)
Premises means any
building, lot, parcel of land, or portion of land whether improved or
unimproved adjacent sidewalks and parking strips.
(76)
Pretreatment or
treatment is the reduction of the amount of pollutants, the
elimination of pollutants, or the alteration of the nature of pollutant
properties in wastewater to a less harmful state prior to or in lieu of
discharging or otherwise introducing such pollutants into a POTW. The reduction
or alteration can be obtained by physical, chemical or biological processes, or
process changes, or other means except as prohibited by
40 CFR, section
403.6(d).
(77)
Pretreatment
requirements shall mean any substantive or procedural requirement
related to pretreatment, other than a national pretreatment standard imposed on
an industrial user.
(78)
Properly shredded garbage shall mean the wastes from the
preparation, cooking, and dispensing of foods that have been shredded to such a
degree that all particles will be carried freely under the flow conditions
normally prevailing in public sewers, with no particle greater than one-half
inch (1.27 centimeters) in any dimension.
(79)
Publicly owned treatment works
(POTW), authority facilities are treatment works as defined by section
212 of the Clean Water Act, (33 U.S.C. 1292) which are owned in
this instance by the authority. This definition includes any sewers that convey
wastewater to the POTW treatment plant. For the purposes of this regulation,
POTW shall also include any sewers that convey wastewaters to the POTW from
persons outside the authority's boundaries who are, by contract or agreement
with the authority, users of the authority's POTW.
(80)
Public sewer means a
publicly-owned sewer, storm sewer, sanitary sewer or combined sewer.
(81)
Receiving waters shall
mean a natural water course or body of water into which treated or untreated
sewage is discharged.
(82)
Records shall include, but not be limited to, any printed,
typewritten, handwritten or otherwise recorded matter of whatever character
(including paper or electronic media), including but not limited to, letters,
files, memoranda, directives, notes and notebooks, correspondence,
descriptions, telephone call slips, photographs, permits, applications,
reports, compilations, films, graphs and inspection reports. For purposes of
these regulations, records shall mean records of an relating
to waste generation, reuse and disposal, and shall include records of usage of
raw materials.
(83)
Regulation(s) shall mean the regulations of the Buffalo Sewer
Authority as adopted and from time to time amended, by its board and published
in the New York Code of Rules and Regulations, and currently designated as
Chapter LXXXII of this Title.
(84)
Release shall mean any pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying,
or leaching, directly or indirectly, of sewage or wastewater so that the sewage
or wastewater or any related constituent thereof, or any degradation product
thereof, or of a related constituent thereof, or any degradation product
thereof, or of a related constituent thereof, may enter the environment, or the
B.S.A.'s facilities.
(85)
Sanitary sewer shall mean a sewer intended to receive domestic
sewage and admissible industrial waste, but to which storm, surface and
groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.
(86)
Sewage shall mean a
combination of the water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings,
institutions and industrial establishments, together with such ground, surface,
and stormwater as may be present.
(87)
Sewer shall mean a pipe
or conduit for carrying sewage.
(88)
Shall is mandatory.
May is permissive.
(89)
Significant industrial
user shall mean an industrial user of the publicly owned treatment
works that:
(i) is subject to EPA Categorical
Pretreatment Standards;
(ii) uses
or stores substances that may inadvertently be spilled into the B.S.A. sewer
system and which may potentially have an adverse impact on the sewer system
and/or the B.S.A. treatment plant;
(iii) is Industrial Chemical Survey +
(e.g., industries which annually use more than 1,000 gallons
or 1,000 pounds of a Buffalo Sewer Authority substance of concern);
(iv) discharges greater than 25,000 gallons
per day;
(v) has previously been
issued a B.S.A. BPDES permit;
(vi)
is surchargeable; and/or
(vii) is a
major discharger of any pollutant which could potentially have an adverse
impact on the B.S.A. treatment plant and/or sewage conveyance system.
(90)
Significant
violator shall mean a violation which remains uncorrected 45 days
after notification of noncompliance and which involves a failure to accurately
report noncompliance; or which resulted in the treatment plant exercising its
emergency authority to immediately and effectively halt or prevent any
discharge of pollutants which appears to present an imminent endangerment to
human health, the environment or which threatens to interfere with the
operation of the plant.
(91)
Slug shall mean:
(i) any
discharge of water, sewage or industrial waste which contains pollutant
concentrations greater than those listed in section
10075.7(d) of
this Part; and
(ii) for flow and
any pollutant not listed in section
10075.7(d) of
this Part, any discharge which exceeds more than five times the discharger's
average flow or concentration during normal operating hours.
(92)
SPDES (State
Pollution Discharge Elimination System) shall mean the State system
through which permits are issued to regulate discharge into navigable waters
from all point sources of pollution including industries and municipal
wastewater treatment plants.
(93)
Standard methods shall mean Standard Methods for the
Examination of Water and Wastewater prepared and published jointly by the
American Public Health Association, American Waterworks Association and the
Water Pollution Control Federation, latest edition.
(94)
State shall mean the
State of New York.
(95)
Storm sewer (sometimes termed storm drain)
shall mean a public sewer which is intended or designed to carry storm and
surface waters and drainage, but is not intended to carry sewage and industrial
wastes other than unpolluted cooling water.
(96)
Stormwater or
storm water shall mean excess water which is derived from
precipitation including rain, snow, hail, sleet, drainage, snowmelt and surface
runoff.
(97)
Stormwater
management officer or SMO shall mean an employee or
other public official(s) designated by the B.S.A. to enforce this
regulation.
(98)
Surchargeable user shall mean any user of the B.S.A.'s
facilities whose discharge contains in excess of 250 mg/l of five-day
biochemical oxygen demand (BOD5), 250 mg/l total
suspended solids, and/or 5.0 mg/l total phosphorous (15.35 mg/l total
phosphate).
(99)
Surface
runoff shall mean the source of water which occurs when the rate of
precipitation exceeds the rate at which water may infiltrate into the
soil.
(100)
Suspended
solids shall mean solids that either float on the surface of, or are
in suspension in water, sewage, or other liquids, and which are measured by
acceptable laboratory procedures as set forth in section
10075.9(b) of
this Part.
(101)
The
act shall mean the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as
the Clean Water Act, as amended,
33 U.S.C.
1251, et seq.
(102)
TMDL or total
maximum daily load shall mean the maximum amount of a pollutant to be
allowed to be released into a waterbody so as not to impair uses of the water,
allocated among the sources of that pollutant.
(103)
Toxic pollutant shall
mean those pollutants, or combinations of pollutants, including disease-causing
agents, which after discharge and upon exposure, ingestion, inhalation or
assimilation into any organism, either directly from the environment or
indirectly by ingestion through food chains, are known to cause death, disease,
behavioral abnormalities, cancer, genetic mutations, physiological malfunctions
(including malfunctions in reproduction) or physical deformations, in such
organisms or their offspring. Toxic pollutants shall include, but not be
limited to, any pollutant identified pursuant to section 307(a) of the Clean
Water Act.
(104)
Trunk
sewer shall mean a sewer constructed, maintained and operated by the
authority that conveys wastewater to the authority's treatment facilities and
into which lateral and collecting sewers discharge.
(105)
ug/l shall mean
micrograms per liter. For purposes of this regulation, ug/l and ppb are
equivalent.
(106)
Unpolluted water shall mean water which is free of any
polluted water or waste as described in paragraph (70) of this
subdivision.
(107)
User shall mean any person, premises or effluent source that
directly or indirectly contributes, causes or permits the contribution of waste
stormwater into or through the authority's public sewer, P.O.T.W. or the
MS4.
(108)
User
charge shall mean a charge levied on users of the authority's
facilities for the capital cost, as well as the operation and maintenance of
such works as specified in the latest edition of the Buffalo Sewer Authority
Sewer Rent Schedule (see Appendix 52 of this Title).
(109)
Violation shall mean
any intentional or unintentional disregard or infraction of any provision of
these regulations.
(110)
Waste shall mean any liquid, solid or gaseous substance that
may be discharged into a public sewer.
(111)
Wastewater shall mean
the liquid and water-carried industrial or domestic wastewaters from dwellings,
commercial establishments, industrial facilities, and institutions, together
with any groundwater, surface water, and storm water that may be present,
whether treated or untreated, which is contributed into or permitted to enter
the P.O.T.W.
(112)
Watercourse shall mean a channel in which a flow of water
occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
(113)
Waters of the State
shall mean all streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, water courses, waterways, wells,
springs, reservoirs, aquifers, irrigation systems, drainage systems, and all
other bodies or accumulations of water, surface or underground, natural or
artificial, public or private, which are contained within, flow through, or
border upon the State or any portion thereof.
(114)
Water quality
standards shall mean any Federal, State, or local rule authoritatively
establishing, for regulatory purposes, the limit of some unnatural alterations
of water quality that is to be permitted or accepted as being compatible with
some particular intended use or uses of water.
(115)
W.P.C.F. shall mean
the Water Pollution Control Federation.