(A) The following abbreviations, when used in this chapter, shall have the designated meanings:

ADEQ – ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY

AZPDES – ARIZONA POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM

BMP – BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES

BMR – BASELINE MONITORING REPORT

BOD – BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND

CIU – CATEGORICAL INDUSTRIAL USER

COD – CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND

DML – DAILY MAXIMUM LIMIT

PS – PRETREATMENT SUPERVISOR

EPA – ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

ERP – ENFORCEMENT RESPONSE PLAN

FOG – FATS, OILS, AND GREASES

FSE – FOOD SERVICE ESTABLISHMENT

GPD – GALLONS PER DAY

IPI – INDUSTRIAL PRETREATMENT INSPECTOR

IPP - INDUSTRIAL PRETREATMENT PROGRAM

IPQ - INDUSTRIAL PRETREATMENT QUESTIONNAIRE

IU – INDUSTRIAL USER

MTCIU – MIDDLE TIER CATEGORICAL INDUSTRIAL USER

MG/L – MILLIGRAMS PER LITER

NAICS – NORTH AMERICAN INDUSTRY CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM

NOV – NOTICE OF VIOLATION

NPDES – NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM

NSCIU – NON-SIGNIFICANT CATEGORICAL INDUSTRIAL USER

POTW – PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS

SIC – STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION CODE

SIU – SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER

SMR – SELF-MONITORING REPORT

SNC – SIGNIFICANT NONCOMPLIANCE

SS – SUSPENDED SOLIDS

TRC – TECHNICAL REVIEW CRITERIA

TSS – TOTAL SUSPENDED SOLIDS

µG/L – MICROGRAMS PER LITER

WDP- WASTEWATER DISCHARGE PERMIT

(B) Unless a provision explicitly states otherwise, the following terms and phrases, as used in this chapter, shall have the meanings hereinafter designated.

ACT means the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the Clean Water Act, as amended, 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.

ADMINISTRATIVE ORDERS means enforcement documents that direct Industrial Users to undertake, or to cease, specified activities and may incorporate compliance schedules, timeframes, administrative fines, and termination of service orders.

ADMINISTRATIVE WARRANT means a warrant issued by a court which authorizes City staff to conduct an administrative search to ensure compliance with the provisions of this chapter and permits.

APPROVAL AUTHORITY means the State of Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) or Regional Administrator for Region IX of the U.S. EPA.

ARIZONA POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM (AZPDES) means the State program for issuing, modifying, revoking, reissuing, terminating, monitoring, and enforcing permits, and imposing and enforcing pretreatment and bio-solids requirements under A.R.S. Title 49, Chapter 2, Article 3.1 and 18 A.A.C. 9, Articles 9 and 10.

AUTHORIZED OR DULY AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE USER means the following:

BASELINE MONITORING REPORT (BMR) means a report submitted by CIU which indicates the compliance status of the CIU within an applicable categorical standard.

BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES (BMP) means schedules of activities, prohibitions of practices, maintenance procedures, and other management practices to implement prohibitions identified in City Code and 40 C.F.R. § 403.5(a)(1) and (b). BMPs include treatment requirements, operating procedures, and practices to control plant site runoff, spillage or leaks, sludge or waste disposal, or drainage from raw materials storage. BMPs also include alternative means, i.e. Management Plans, of complying with or in place of certain established categorical pretreatment standards and effluent limits. BMPs shall be subject to all requirements and enforcement actions contained in this chapter.

BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD) means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedures for five days at 20 degrees centigrade, usually expressed as a concentration (e.g., mg/l).

BLOWDOWN means the minimum discharge of re-circulating water for the purpose of discharging materials contained in the water, the further buildup of which would cause concentration in amounts exceeding established limits.

BYPASS means the intentional diversion of waste streams from any portion of a treatment facility.

CATEGORICAL INDUSTRIAL USER (CIU) means an Industrial User subject to a categorical pretreatment standard or categorical standard.

CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARD OR CATEGORICAL STANDARD means any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated by the EPA in accordance with Sections 307 (B) and (C) of the Act (33 U.S.C. § 1317) that applies to a specific category of Users and that appear in 40 C.F.R. Chapter I, Subchapter N, Parts 405–471.

CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (COD) means a measure of the oxygen required to oxidize all compounds, both organic and inorganic, in water.

CITY means the City of Goodyear.

CITY MANAGER means the City Manager of the City of Goodyear or their designee.

CIVIL ACTION means order(s), hearing(s), or other action(s) to enforce the City Code and other local, federal, and Arizona regulations, including judicial proceedings; orders may include fines, damages, and injunctive relief and/or any other action or remedy available by law.

COMPLIANCE INSPECTION means inspection(s) to determine compliance status and identify practices that may lead to noncompliance; inspections may or may not be scheduled in advance.

COMPLIANCE MEETING means meeting with Industrial User to discuss the causes of noncompliance, corrective actions to achieve compliance, and time frames for implementation of corrective actions.

COMPLIANCE SCHEDULE means a schedule of remedial measures included in a permit or an enforcement order, including a sequence of requirements (e.g., actions, operations, or milestone events), that lead to compliance with this chapter or the User’s permit.

COMPOSITE SAMPLE.

CONTROL AUTHORITY means the City of Goodyear.

CONSISTENT COMPLIANCE means full compliance with all applicable pretreatment standards and reporting requirements during the most recent reporting year (or most recent 12 month reporting period).

CRIMINAL ACTION means order(s), hearing(s), or other action(s) to enforce the City Code and other local, federal, and Arizona law, including judicial proceedings, involving violations for criminal offenses; orders may include fines, damages, injunctive relief, prohibition, and imprisonment and/or any other action or remedy available by law.

DAILY DISCHARGE means the "discharge of a pollutant" measured during a calendar day or any 24-hour period that reasonably represents the calendar day for purposes of sampling. For pollutants with limitations expressed in units of mass, the "daily discharge" is calculated as the total mass of the pollutant discharged over the day. For pollutants with limitations expressed in other units of measurements, the "daily discharge" is calculated as the average measurement of the pollutant over the day.

DAILY MAXIMUM or DAILY MAXIMUM LIMIT or MAXIMUM DAILY DISCHARGE LIMITATION means the highest allowable daily discharge.

DAY means calendar days unless otherwise specified in the text.

DIRECT DISCHARGE means the wastewater that goes directly into waters of the state (groundwater, streams, lakes, rivers, etc.) without treatment from a POTW. This includes through a storm sewer system that enters waters of the state, a ditch, or other conveyance.

DIRECTOR means the Water Services Director who is authorized by the City Manager to administer, implement, and enforce the provisions of this chapter, or other city personnel designated by the Director to act on their behalf under this chapter.

DISCHARGE means the introduction of Pollutants into the POTW from any nondomestic source.

ENFORCEMENT RESPONSE PLAN (ERP) means a document which outlines procedures that the POTW will use to identify, track and respond to noncompliance of this chapter.

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA) means the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency or, where appropriate, the Regional Water Management Division Director, the Regional Administrator, or other duly authorized EPA official.

EXISTING SOURCE means any source of discharge that is not a New Source or a new indirect discharger.

FATS, OILS, AND GREASES (FOG) means the category which requires regulation to control fats, oils and greases which includes FSEs, automotive repair, laundries, car washes, salon, barber/beauty shops that wash hair, medical clinic, etc. This includes substances that may solidify or become viscous between the temperatures of 32°F and 150°F (0°C to 65°C), and or that separate from wastewater by gravity.

FOOD SERVICE ESTABLISHMENT (FSE) means any facility that prepares or serves food for consumption and discharges kitchen or food preparation wastewater including; hotel/motel kitchens, hospitals, school kitchens, bars, factory, cafeterias, clubs, delis, kiosks, tea rooms, snack bars, ice cream shops, fudge shops, food courts, coffee shops, diners and any other facility that in the City’s determination shall require a grease trap or interceptor installation by virtue of its operations. This also includes any establishment that requires a county food service license.

GOOD FAITH EFFORT means Industrial User’s honest intention to achieve compliance and/or remedy noncompliance coupled by actions supporting this intention.

GRAB SAMPLE means a sample that is taken from a waste stream without regard to the flow in the waste stream and over a period of time not to exceed 15 minutes.

GREASE TRAP means a device for separating and retaining waterborne greases and grease complexes prior to the wastewater exiting the trap and entering the sanitary sewer collection and treatment system. Such traps are typically compact under-the-sink units that are near food preparation areas.

GREASE INTERCEPTOR means a structure or device designed for the purpose of removing and preventing fats, oils, and grease from entering the sanitary sewer collection system. These devices are often below-ground units in outside areas and are built as two or three-chamber baffled tanks.

GUIDELINE means the City of Goodyear Waste Water Discharge Permit Application Process Guideline, which is found in the City of Goodyear Administrative Process Manual.

HAULER means a person who transports sanitary sewage, industrial wastewater, or sludge off-site by other than the POTW conveyance system.

HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE means as defined in 40 C.F.R Part 300.5.

HAZARDOUS WASTE means as defined in 40 C.F.R Part 261.3.

INCONSISTENT COMPLIANCE is the compliance status of a user not meeting the definition of CONSISTENT COMPLIANCE and not meeting the definition of SIGNIFICANT NONCOMPLIANCE.

INDIRECT DISCHARGE means the introduction of pollutants into the POTW from any non-domestic source through a sanitary sewer or through a storm sewer.

INDUSTRIAL USER (USER or IU) means the nondomestic sewer user; a source of discharge into the POTW from a nondomestic source; a source of indirect discharge.

INDUSTRIAL WASTE means waste produced by Industrial User activity.

INSTANTANEOUS LIMIT means the maximum concentration of a pollutant allowed to be discharged at any time, determined from the analysis of any grab or composite sample collected, independent of the industrial flow rate and the duration of the sampling event.

INTERFERENCE means a discharge which, alone or in conjunction with a discharge or discharges from other sources, that either:

LOCAL LIMIT means the effluent discharge limits or BMPs applicable to Significant Industrial Users or other controlled industrial users of the City of Goodyear’s system developed by the City of Goodyear in accordance with 40 CFR 403 and any other applicable laws.

MANHOLE means a structure of suitable design and construction to permit safe access to the public sewer from the surface for inspection, control and maintenance.

MASS LIMITATION means regulatory limitations expressed in units of mass, e.g., pounds per day, as opposed to concentration, e.g., milligrams per liter.

MEDICAL WASTE means the isolation wastes, infectious agents, human blood and blood products, pathological wastes, sharps, body parts, contaminated bedding, surgical wastes, potentially contaminated laboratory wastes, dialysis wastes, and marijuana, in any form, including but not limited to pharmaceutical drug and pharmaceutical waste.

MONITORING EQUIPMENT OR SAMPLING EQUIPMENT means equipment that is used for investigating, surveying and sampling wastewater sources in an effort to obtain information on the quality and quantity of wastewater flows.

MONTHLY AVERAGE means the sum of all "daily discharges" measured during a calendar month divided by the number of "daily discharges" measured during that month.

MONTHLY AVERAGE LIMIT means the highest allowable average of "daily discharges" over a calendar month, calculated as the sum of all "daily discharges" measured during a calendar month divided by the number of "daily discharges" measured during that month.

NEW SOURCE means the following:

NONCONTACT COOLING WATER means the water used for cooling that does not come into direct contact with any raw material, intermediate product, waste product, or finished product.

NORTH AMERICAN INDUSTRY CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM (NAICS) means the standard used by Federal statistical agencies in classifying business establishments for the purpose of collecting, analyzing, and publishing statistical data related to the U.S. business economy; formerly known as the Standard Industrial Classification System (SIC).

NOTICE OF VIOLATION (NOV) means the official notice of violation delivered to the Industrial User requiring a formal response and action.

NOTICE TO SHOW CAUSE means the official notice provided to the Industrial User of the meeting with the Director, or a duly authorized representative, to provide reasons why a proposed enforcement action should not occur.

OPERATOR means a person who operates a business and therefore controls the operation and discharge.

PASS THROUGH means the discharge which exits the POTW into waters of the United States in quantities or concentrations which, alone or in conjunction with a discharge or discharges from other sources, is a cause of a violation of any requirement of the City’s AZPDES permit, including an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation.

PERSON means any individual, partnership, co-partnership, firm, company, corporation, association, trust, estate, governmental entity, municipality, state or federal agency or any other legal entity; or their legal representatives, agents, assigns or employees thereof.

pH means the measure of the acidity or alkalinity of a solution, expressed in standard units.

PHARMACEUTICAL WASTE means any prescription drug or any nonprescription drug (legal or non-legal substance) or any proprietary medicine, regardless of form, that is no longer suitable for its intended purpose or is otherwise being discarded.

POLLUTANT means the dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, filter backwash, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, medical wastes, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt, municipal, agricultural and industrial wastes, and certain characteristics of wastewater (e.g. pH, temperature, TSS, turbidity, color, BOD, COD, toxicity, or odor). This includes man-made or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical, biological or radiological integrity of the water.

POLLUTION PREVENTION means the steps taken to reduce or eliminate the creation of pollutants through:

PRETREATMENT means the reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination of pollutants, or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties in wastewater prior to, or in lieu of, introducing such pollutants into the POTW. This reduction or alteration can be obtained by physical, chemical, or biological processes; by process changes; or by other means, except by diluting the concentration of the pollutants unless allowed by an applicable Pretreatment Standard.

PRETREATMENT DEVICE means the equipment, material, or structures used to reduce, eliminate, or alter the nature of pollutant properties in wastewater before, or in lieu of, introducing pollutants into the POTW.

PRETREATMENT PROGRAM means the City’s regulation of Industrial User discharges to the POTW.

PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENTS means any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment imposed on a User, other than a Pretreatment Standard.

PRETREATMENT STANDARDS OR STANDARDS means the limitations of pollutant discharges to POTW promulgated by EPA in accordance with Section 307 of the Clean Water Act, prohibited discharge standards, categorical Pretreatment Standards, and Local Limits.

PRETREATMENT SUPERVISOR (PS) means the supervisor of the City of Goodyear IPP.

PROHIBITED DISCHARGE STANDARDS OR PROHIBITED DISCHARGES means the absolute prohibitions against the discharge of certain substances as provided in this chapter.

PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS (POTW) means a treatment works, as defined by section 212 of the Act (33 U.S.C. § 1292), which is owned by the City. This definition includes any devices or systems used in the collection, storage, treatment, recycling, and reclamation of sewage or industrial wastes of a liquid nature and any conveyances, which convey wastewater to a treatment plant.

REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE means a sample portion of material or waste stream that is as nearly identical in content and consistency as possible to the material or industrial wastewater being sampled.

SELF-MONITORING means the sampling and analyses performed by a User to determine compliance with a permit or other regulatory requirements.

SELF-MONITORING REPORT (SMR) means the report submitted by the User to demonstrate compliance.

SEVERE PROPERTY DAMAGE means substantial physical damage to property, damage to the treatment facilities which causes them to become inoperable, or substantial and permanent loss of natural resources which can reasonably be expected to occur in the absence of a bypass. Severe property damage does not mean economic loss caused by delays in production.

SEWER SYSTEM means the complete municipal sewer system, including, sanitary sewer mains, manholes, lateral sewer lines, pipelines, conduits, pumping stations, forced mains and all other structures, devices, appurtenances, and facilities used for collecting or conducting waters to an ultimate point for treatment or disposal.

SEWAGE means human excrement and gray water (household showers, dishwashing operations, etc.).

SHOW CAUSE ORDER means the official notice provided to the Industrial User of the meeting with the Director, or a duly authorized representative, to provide reasons why a proposed enforcement action should not occur.

SIGNIFICANT CHANGES means, but is not limited to, any planned physical alterations, additions or changed conditions at a User’s facility or any changes to a permittee’s operation or system; or pollutants that may alter the waste stream nature and/or quality or change in the volume of User’s wastewater discharge. A significant change in discharge volume, production level, or any factor affecting the calculation of Effluent Limits applied to a User is a change specified by the Director in writing. When not otherwise specified by the Director a change of 20% or greater applies.

SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER (SIU) means the following:

SLUG LOAD OR SLUG DISCHARGE means any discharge of a non-routine, episodic nature, including but not limited to an accidental spill or a non-customary batch discharge, which has a reasonable potential to cause Interference or Pass Through, or in any other way violate the POTW’s regulations, Local Limits or Permit conditions.

SOLID WASTE means any garbage, refuse, or sludge from a treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility and other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semisolid, or containing gaseous materials resulting from industrial, commercial, mining, and agricultural operations, and from community activities.

STORM WATER means any flow occurring during or following any form of natural precipitation, and resulting from such precipitation, including snowmelt.

TOTAL SUSPENDED SOLIDS (TSS) OR SUSPENDED SOLIDS (SS) means the total suspended matter that floats on the surface of, or is suspended in, water, wastewater, or other liquid, and that is removable by laboratory filtering.

UPSET means an exceptional incident in which there is unintentional and temporary noncompliance with discharge limits because of factors beyond the reasonable control of the User. An upset does not include noncompliance to the extent caused by operational error, improperly designed treatment facilities, inadequate treatment facilities, and lack of preventive maintenance or careless or improper operation.

WASTEWATER means the liquid and water carried industrial wastes and sewage from residential dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial and manufacturing facilities, and institutions, whether treated or untreated, which are contributed to the POTW.

WASTEWATER DISCHARGE PERMIT means an authorization or equivalent control document issued by the City to Users discharging wastewater to the POW. The Permit may contain appropriate Pretreatment Standards and Requirements as set forth in this Chapter.

WASTEWATER SLUDGE means the solids or semisolids, residues, and precipitates separated from or created in wastewater. (Ord. 14-1290, passed 3-3-2014; Am. Ord. 23-1584, passed 9-25-2023)