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911.03 DEFINITIONS. The following definitions shall apply to Chapters 911, 915, 917, and 919. (1) "Act" means the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the Clean Water Act, as amended, 33 U.S.C. 1251, et seq. (2) "Applicable pretreatment standard" means any pretreatment limit or prohibitive standard, Federal and/or local, deemed to be the most restrictive, with which nondomestic users are required to comply. (3) "Approval authority" means the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency or the United States Environmental Protection Agency. (4) "Assigned unit" means the measurement of a connection based on flow. One unit is equal to 1,000 cubic feet (Mcf). (5) "Authorized representative of industrial user" means: A. A president, secretary, treasurer or vice president of a corporation, or; B. A general partner or proprietor if the industrial user is a partnership or proprietorship respectively, or; C. A duly authorized representative of the above if the authorization is previously made in writing to the Superintendent by a person listed in subsections (5)A. or B. hereof. (6) "Average monthly discharge limitation" 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 the month. (7) "Average weekly discharge limitation" means the highest allowable average of daily discharges over a calendar week, calculated as the sum of all daily discharges measured during a calendar week divided by the number of daily discharges measured during that week. (8) "Beneficial uses" includes, but is not limited to, domestic, municipal, agricultural and industrial use, power generation, recreation, aesthetic enjoyment, navigation and the preservation and enhancement of fish, wildlife and other aquatic resources or reserves, and other uses, both tangible and intangible, as specified by State and Federal law. (9) "Biochemical oxygen demand" (BOD) means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at twenty degrees Centigrade expressed in terms of weight and concentration, milligrams per liter (mg/1). Laboratory procedures shall be in accordance with the latest edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, as defined in subsection (83) hereof. (9.1) "Best Management Practices" or "BPMs" means schedules of activities, prohibitions of practices, maintenance procedures, and other management practices to implement the prohibitions listed in rule OAC 3745-3-04. BMPs also include treatment requirements, operating procedures, and practices to control plant site runoff, spillage or leaks, sludge or wasted disposal, or drainage from raw materials storage. (10) "Building Commissioner" or "Building Administrator" means the Building Commissioner of the City, or his authorized deputy, agent or representative. (11) "Building drain" means that part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system which receives the discharge from soil, waste and other drainage pipes inside the walls of a building and conveys it to the sewer, beginning outside the inner face of the building wall. (12) "Building sewer" means the extension from the building drain to the municipal sewer or other place of disposal.