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(13) "Capital cost" means that portion of the cost of the sewage treatment system which is directly attributable to the cost of principal and interest obligations issued to finance acquisition and construction of the wastewater system. (14) "Chemical oxygen demand" (COD) means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the chemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedures, expressed in terms of parts per million by weight in accordance with procedures set forth in Standard Methods as defined in subsection (83) hereof. (15) "Chlorine requirement" means the amount of chlorine, in parts per million by weight, which must be added to sewage to produce a specified residual chlorine content, or to meet the requirements of some other objectives, in accordance with procedures set forth in Standard Methods as defined in subsection (83) hereof. (16) "City" means the City of North Olmsted, Ohio. (17) "City Engineer" means the City Engineer of the City, or his duly authorized agent or representative. (18) "Commercial user" for purposes of system charges, means any aggregation of space, office, laundry, restaurant, stores, shops, apartments and other like units, which is equipped with one or more water fixtures draining into the wastewater disposal system, separate and distinct from other users of service. In office buildings or other premises containing more than one tenant, only those tenants shall be classified as users of service who occupy space equipped with a distinct opening or fixture or set of fixtures for the use of water separately from other tenants and with waste draining into the water disposal system. (19) "Compatible pollutant" means the BOD, TSS, pH and fecal coliform bacteria, plus additional pollutants identified in the City's NPDES permit if the treatment works was designed to treat such pollutants, and in fact does remove such pollutants to a substantial degree. (20) "Composite sample" should contain a minimum of eight discrete samples taken at equal time intervals over the compositing period or proportional to the flow rate over the compositing period. More than the minimum number of discrete samples will be required where the wastewater loading is highly variable. (21) "Control manhole" means a structure which provides access to a building sewer. A control manhole may be used as an inspection chamber and may contain a certain testing equipment. (22) "Cooling water" means the water discharge from any use such as air-conditioning, cooling or refrigeration, or during which the only constituent added to the water is heat. (23) "Daily discharge" means the discharge of a pollutant measured during a calendar day or any twenty-four hour period that reasonably represents the calendar for purposes of sampling. (24) "Easement" means an acquired legal right of the specific use of land owned by others. (25) "U.S. Environmental Protection Agency" or "EPA" means the United States Environmental Protection Agency and may also be used, where appropriate, as a designation for the administrator or other duly authorized official of such agency. (26) "Ether -soluble matter" means oil and grease which is soluble in ether, as measured in the laboratory procedure made in accordance with the method set forth in Standard Methods, as defined in subsection (83) hereof. (27) "Fecal coliform" means any number of organisms common to the intestinal tract of man and animals, whose presence in sanitary sewage is an indicator of pollution. (28) "Floatable oil" means oil, fat or grease in a physical state, such that it will separate by gravity from wastewater by treatment in an approved pretreatment facility.