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sludge management plan prepared pursuant to Title IV or the Solid Waste Disposal Act, applicable to the method of disposal or use employed by the City. (43) "Maximum daily discharge limitations" means the highest allowable daily discharge. (44) "Municipal sewer" means one in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights, and which is controlled by the City. (45) "National Categorical Pretreatment Standard" or "Categorical Pretreatment Standard" means national pretreatment standards as promulgated by the U.S.E.P.A. specifying quantities or concentrations of pollutants, or pollutant properties, which may be discharged or introduced into the City's wastewater disposal system by specific industrial dischargers or industrial users. (46) "National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Permit" means a permit issued by the State or EPA pursuant to the Act for the purpose of regulating the discharge of sewage, industrial wastes and other wastes under the authority of Section 402 of the Act, into the navigable waters of the United States. (47) "Natural outlet" means any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water. (48) "New source" means any source of wastewater from which the discharge of wastewater is commenced after the publication of regulations prescribing an applicable National Categorical Pretreatment Standard or any building, structure, facility or installation meeting the requirement for a new source of Sec. 403.3 of the "General Pretreatment Regulations for Existing and New Sources", and: A. It is constructed at a site at which no other source of discharge to the City's wastewater disposal system is located, or B. It totally replaces the process of production equipment that causes the discharge of pollutants at any existing source, or C. Its processes are substantially independent of an existing source at the same site. (49) "Normal domestic sewage" means wastewater characterized by wastes created in the preparation of foods, bathing, laundry facilities and sanitary facilities, i.e., resulting from normal living functions conducted in a domicile. Normal characteristics are considered to be a loading of 200/1 BOD and 250/1 TSS per capita. (50) "On-site treatment facilities" means any sewage treatment facilities located at the site where wastewater is being generated, when such facilities are for the purpose of treating or pretreating the generated wastewater before it enters the public sewer. (51) "Operation and maintenance costs" means the current, reasonable and necessary costs of operation and maintenance of the wastewater disposal system, paid or incurred, determined in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, including replacement costs, but excluding payments of principal and of interest on obligations issued to finance the costs of acquisition and construction of the wastewater disposal system. (52) "Parts per million (ppm)" means a weight -to -weight ratio. The parts per million value multiplied by the factor 8.345 shall be equivalent to pounds per million gallons of water. Milligrams per liter (mg/1) is a synonymous term. (53) "Pass through" means the discharge of pollutants through the POTW into the receiving stream in quantities or concentrations which are a cause in whole, or in part, of a violation of any requirement of the POTW's NPDES permit (including an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation). (54) "Person" means any and all persons, natural or artificial, including any individual, firm, company, Municipal or private corporation, partnership, copartnership, joint stock company,