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(29) "Garbage" means the residue from the preparation and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and sale of produce. (30) "Government user" means any user discharging wastewater from premises utilized by public political units, including Federal, State, County and City units. (31) "Grab sample" means a 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. (32) "Grease and oil" means a group of substances including hydrocarbons, fatty acids, soaps, fats, waxes, oils or any other material that is extracted by a solvent from an acidified sample and that is not volatilized during the laboratory test procedures. Greases and oils are defined by the method of their determination in accordance with Standard Methods as explained in subsection (83) hereof. (33) "Grease and oil of animal and vegetable origin" means substances that are of a less readily biodegradable nature such as are discharged by meatpacking, vegetable oil and fat industries, food processors, canneries and restaurants. (34) "Grease and oil of mineral origin" means substances that are less readily biodegradable than grease and oil of animal or vegetable origin, and are derived from a petroleum source. Such substances include machinery lubricating oils, gasoline station wastes, petroleum refinery wastes and storage depot wastes. (35) "Ground garbage" means the residue from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food that has been shredded to such a degree that all particles will be carried freely in suspension under the flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers with no particle greater than one- half inch in any dimension. (36) "Incompatible pollutant" means any pollutant which is not a compatible pollutant as defined in subsection (19) hereof. (37) "Industrial user" means a person who discharges to the City's wastewater disposal system liquid, solid or gaseous wastes resulting from the processes employed in industrial or manufacturing activities, or from the development, recovering or processing of any natural source. (38) "Industrial waste" means any liquid, solid or gaseous substance or form of energy, or combination thereof, resulting from any process of industrial, commercial, governmental and institutional concerns, manufacturing, business, trade or research, including the development, recovery or processing of natural resources, or from sources other than those generating waste as defined in subsection (49) hereof. (39) "Industrial waste permit" means a formal permit to deposit or discharge industrial waste into any sanitary sewer, as issued by the City. (40) "Influent" means the water, together with any waste that may be present, flowing into a drain, sewer, receptacle or outlet and then to the sewage treatment plant. (41) "Institutional user" means any person discharging wastewater from premises serving educational, social or eleemosynary purposes, including, but not limited to, private schools, hospitals, nursing homes and charitable organizations. (42) "Interference" means inhibition or disruption of the sewage treatment processes or operations which contributes to a violation of any requirements of the City's NPDES permit. The term includes prevention of sewage sludge use or disposal by the treatment plant in accordance with Section 405 of the Act (33 U.S.C. 1345) or any criteria, guidelines or regulations developed pursuant to the Solid Waste Disposal Act, the Clean Air Act, the Toxic Substance Control Act or more stringent State criteria, including those contained in any State