Municipal Code, Complete - City of Santa Barbara

EE. POTW or PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS. All collection, transport and treatment
facilities used by the Agency for the collection, treatment or disposal of Wastewater.
FF. PREMISES. Any land, including any improvements or structures thereon, which is owned, used, occupied,
leased or operated by a User and from or on which Discharges occur or Wastewater is created.
GG. PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR. The Director of Public Works for the City of Santa Barbara or his or her
designated representative.
HH. SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER. Any User who discharges more than 10,000 gpd, or is regulated
under federal categorical standards, or has the capability to affect deleteriously the POTW, or contributes greater than
5% of the POTW's hydraulic or organic loading at any time.
II. SIGNIFICANT NON-COMPLIANCE. Any action or conduct by a User which constitutes a violation of
any Applicable Regulation and which consists of one or more of the following:
1. Sixty-six percent (66%) or more of all of the Discharge samples collected during a six-month period
exceed the maximum or average limit for the same pollutant as such limit is provided for by an Applicable
Regulation;
2. Thirty-three percent (33%) or more of all of the Discharge samples collected during a six-month period
contain the same pollutant in a concentration that exceeds the TRC for that pollutant;
3. Any other violation of a pretreatment effluent limit (daily maximum or longer term average) which,
alone or in combination with other Discharges, causes Interference or Pass Through, or endangers the health of
POTW personnel or the general public;
4. Any discharge of a pollutant that causes imminent danger to human health or welfare or to the
environment and results in the POTW's exercise of its emergency authority to halt or prevent the Discharge;
5. Any violation ninety (90) days or more after the compliance schedule date of a compliance schedule
milestone, which milestone is contained in a local control mechanism or enforcement order for starting construction
or completing construction or attaining final compliance;
6. Any failure to provide to the Agency within thirty (30) days of the date required any report required by
any Applicable Regulation, including but not limited to, any baseline monitoring, 90-day compliance, or periodic
self-monitoring reports, and any report describing or discussing compliance with compliance schedules;
7. Any failure to accurately report non-compliance.
JJ. SIGNIFICANT VIOLATION. Except as this term may otherwise be defined by EPA or Title 40 of the
Code of Federal Regulations, any act or conduct by a User which constitutes a violation of any Applicable Regulation
and which:
1. Remains uncorrected forty-five (45) days after notification of non-compliance with any Applicable
Regulation;
2. Is part of a Pattern of Non-Compliance with any Applicable Regulation;
3. Occurs as a result of or in conjunction with a failure accurately to report non-compliance with any
Applicable Regulation; or
4. Results in the POTW exercising its emergency authority under 40 CFR 403.8(f)(1)(vi)(B).
KK. STATE. The State of California, including any department or agency thereof.
LL. TRC or TECHNICAL REVIEW CRITERIA. (a) 1.4 times the applicable limit for BOD, TSS, oil, grease
and fats or (b) 1.2 times the applicable limit for any other Non-Compatible Pollutant, except pH.
MM. UNPOLLUTED WATER. Water to which no constituent has been added, either intentionally or
accidentally, which would render such water unacceptable to the Agency having jurisdiction thereof for disposal to
storm or natural drainages or directly to surface waters.
NN. USER. Any Person who causes or permits a Discharge from any Premises used, in whole or in part and
whether intermittently or continuously, for any commercial, industrial, manufacturing, or institutional purpose.
OO. USER CLASSIFICATION. A classification of User based on the 1972 edition of the Standard Industrial
Classification (SIC) Manual prepared by the Executive Office of Management and Budget.
PP. WASTE. Sewage and any and all other Waste substances, liquid, solid, gaseous or radioactive, associated
with human habitation, or of human or animal origin, or from any producing, manufacturing or processing operation
of whatever nature, including such Waste placed within containers of whatever nature prior to, and for purposes of,
disposal.
QQ. WASTEWATER. Waste and water, whether treated or untreated, discharged into or permitted to enter a
Community Sewer.
RR. WASTEWATER CONSTITUENTS AND CHARACTERISTICS. The individual chemical, physical,
bacteriological and radiological parameters, including volume and flow rate and such other parameters, that serve to
define, classify or measure the contents, quality, quantity and strength of Wastewater.
SS. WATERS OF THE STATE. Any water, surface or underground, including saline waters within the
boundaries of the State. (Ord. 5340, 2004; Ord. 4589, 1989; Ord. 4269, 1984; Ord. 3883 §1, 1977.)
337 rev. 12/31/04