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"POTW" shall also include any sewers that convey wastewaters to the POTW from persons outside the city who are, by contract or agreement with the city, users of the city's POTW. 40. POTW Treatment Plant. That portion of the POTW designed to provide treatment-ro wastewater. 41. Receiving Waters. Any lakes, rivers, streams, or other surface or sub-surface water courses which receive treated or untreated wastewater. 42. Receiving Water Quality Requirements. The requirements for the POTW's treatment plant effluent established by applicable state or federal requirements shall include effluent limitations, and waste discharge standards, requirements, limitations, or prohibitions which may be established or adopted from time to time. 43. Sanitary Sewer. A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm, surface and ground waters are not intentionally admitted; including the pipe or conduit system and appurtenances, for the collection, transportation, pumpIng, and treatment of sewage. This definition shall also include the terms "public sewer", "sewer system", "POTW sewer", and "sewer". 44. Service Connection. A sewer line intended for discharging wastewater into the city's POTW and commencing at a structure or facility and terminating at a sewer main. 45. Sewer Main. Sewer Main shall mean that portion of the city's POTW used for-rne collection and transportation of wastewater to treatment facilities and which has been installed for the express purpose of allowing service connections to be made thereto. 46. Significant Contributor. A user which is classified as a categorical industry and due to the nature of its wastewater discharge is governed by categorical pretreatment standards. See "Significant Industrial User". 47. Significant Industrial User. Any Industrial User of the City's wastewater disposal system who (a) has a discharge flow of 25,000 gallons or more per average work day; or (b) has a flow greater than 5% of the flow in the City's wastewater treatment system, or (c) has in his wastes toxic pollutants as defined pursuant to Section 307 of the Act, of State Statutes and Rules; or (d) IS found by the City, Colorado Department of Health Control Agency or the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to have significant impact, either singly or in combination with other contributing industries, on the wastewater treatment system, the quality of sludge, the system's effluent quality, or air emissions generated by the system. 48. Slug Load. Any discharge of wastewater which, In concentration or-any-grven constituent or in quantity of flow, exceeds for any period longer than fifteen minutes more than five times the average twenty-four hour concentration or flow during normal operation. 49. Standard Industrial Classification (SIC). A classification pursuant to the Standard Industrial Classification Manual issued by the Executive Office of the President, Office of Management and Budget 1972, including all revisions to date. 50. Standard Methods. Procedures described in the latest edition of "Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater" as published by the American Public Health Association, the American Water Works Association, and the Water Pollution Control Federation. 51. Storm Sewer. A sewer that carries only storm, surface and ground water draInage. -5-