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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