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C. Any other violation of a pretreatment effluent limit (daily maximum or longer term average) that the Service Director has determined caused, alone or in combination with other discharges, interference or pass through (including endangering the health of POTW personnel or the general public). D. Any discharge of a pollutant that has caused imminent endangerment of human health, welfare or to the environment or has resulted in the POTW's exercise of emergency authority to halt or prevent such a discharge. E. Failure to meet, within ninety days after a schedule date, a compliance schedule milestone contained in a wastewater discharge permit or enforcement order for starting construction, completing construction or attaining final compliance. F. Failure to provide, within thirty days after the due date, required reports such as baseline monitoring reports, ninety-day compliance reports, periodic self-monitoring reports and reports on compliance with compliance schedules. G. Failure to accurately report noncompliance. H. Any other violation or group of violations which the Service Director determines will or has adversely affected the operation or implementation of the City's pretreatment program. (80) "Sludge" means any solid, semi-solid or liquid waste generated by a Municipal, commercial or industrial wastewater treatment plant, water supply treatment plant or air pollution control facility, or any other waste having similar characteristics and effects as defined in standards issued under Section 402, 405 of the Act and in the applicable requirements under Sections 3001, 3004 and 4004 of the Solid Waste Disposal Act (PL 94-580). (81) "Slug" , in eoneentFation of any given eonstituent or in quantity of flow, exeeeds for any period of longer duration than fifteen minutes more than five times its aver-age hourly eoneentr-ation or- flow, or- whieh would eause, in whole or- in part, the POTW to violate the NPDES PeFfflit limitationsw a slug discharge is any discharge of a non-routine, episodic nature, including but not limited to an accidental spill or a non-customary batch discharge that has a reasonable potential to cause interference or pass through, or in any way violate the POTW's regulations, local limits or permit conditions. (82) "Standard Industrial Classification (SIC)" means the classification of industries pursuant to the Standard Industrial Classification Manual issued by the Executive Office of the President, Office of Management and Budget, 1972, assigning a code, SIC Code, denoting the manufacturing process. (83) "Standard Methods" means the laboratory procedures set forth in the most recent edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water, Sewage and Industrial Wastes, published jointly by the American Public Health Association, the American Water Works Association and the Federation of Sewage and Industrial Wastes Associations. (84) "Storm sewer" or "storm drain" means a public sewer and public ditch which carries storm, surface and ground water drainage, but excludes sewage and industrial wastes. (85) "Stormwater runoff' means that portion of rainfall that is drained into the sewers. (86) "Superintendent" means the person in charge of the wastewater treatment system, or his authorized deputies, agents or representatives, as may be designated by him to supervise and enforce the provisions hereof. (87) "Surcharge" means the assessment in addition to the service charge which is levied on those persons whose wastes are greater in strength than the concentration values established as representative of normal sewage.