§ 500.340. Definitions.

For the purposes of this Act, the following definitions shall apply:

BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES (BMPS)

Schedules of activities, prohibitions of practices, general good housekeeping practices, pollution prevention and educational practices, maintenance procedures and other management practices to prevent or reduce the discharge of pollutants directly or indirectly to stormwater, receiving waters or stormwater conveyance systems. BMPs also include treatment practices, operating procedures and practices to control site runoff, spillage or leaks, sludge or water disposal or drainage from raw materials storage.

CAR

Any vehicle meeting the definition for passenger car, passenger van, pickup truck, motorcycle, recreational vehicle or motor home as defined in "The Standard Traffic Ordinance for Kansas Cities" most recent edition.

CITY

The City of Mission, Kansas.

CLEAN WATER ACT

The Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. Section 1251 et seq.) and any subsequent amendments thereto.

CODE

The City Municipal Code.

DIRECTOR

The Director of Planning, Development and Codes Department or the Director's authorized representative.

DISCHARGE

The addition or introduction, directly or indirectly, of any pollutant, stormwater or any other substance into the MS4 or surface waters.

DOMESTIC SEWAGE

Human excrement, gray water (from home clothes washing, bathing, showers, dishwashing and food preparation), other wastewater from household drains and waterborne waste normally discharged from the sanitary conveniences of dwellings (including apartment houses and hotels), office buildings, retail and commercial establishments, factories and institutions that is free from industrial waste.

EXTREMELY HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE

Any substance listed in the appendices to 40 CFR Part 355, Emergency Planning and Notification.

FERTILIZER

A substance or compound that contains a plant nutrient element in a form available to plants and is used primarily for its plant nutrient element content in promoting or stimulating growth of a plant or improving the quality of a crop or a mixture of two (2) or more fertilizers.

HAZARDOUS HOUSEHOLD WASTE (HHW)

Any material generated in a household (including single and multiple residences) by a consumer which, except for the exclusion provided in 40 CFR Section 261.4(6)(1), would be classified as a hazardous waste under 40 CFR Part 261 or K.A.R 28-29-23b.

HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE

Any substance listed in Table 302.4 of 40 CFR Part 302.

HAZARDOUS WASTE

Any substance identified or listed as a hazardous waste by the EPA pursuant to 40 CFR Part 261.

INDUSTRIAL WASTE

Any waterborne liquid or solid substance that results from any process of industry, manufacturing, mining, production, trade or business.

MUNICIPAL SEPARATE STORM SEWER SYSTEM (MS4)

The system of conveyances (including roads with drainage systems, municipal streets, private streets, catch basins, curbs, gutters, ditches, manmade channels or storm drains) owned and operated by the City and designed or used for collecting or conveying stormwater and which is not used for collecting or conveying sewage.

NPDES

The national program for issuing, modifying, revoking and reissuing, terminating, monitoring and enforcing permits and imposing and enforcing pretreatment requirements under Sections 307, 402, 318 and 405 of the Federal Clean Water Act.

NPDES PERMIT

For the purpose of this Article, a permit issued by United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) or the State of Kansas that authorizes the discharge of pollutants to waters of the United States, whether the permit is applicable on an individual, group or general area-wide basis.

OIL

Any kind of oil in any form including, but not limited to: petroleum, fuel oil, crude oil, synthetic oil, motor oil, bio-fuel, cooking oil, grease, sludge, oil refuse and oil mixed with waste.

PERSON

Any individual, partnership, co-partnership, firm, company, corporation, association, joint stock company, trust, estate, governmental entity or any other legal entity; or their legal representatives, agents or assigns, including all Federal, State and local governmental entities.

PESTICIDE

A substance or mixture of substances intended to prevent, destroy, repel or migrate any pest or substances intended for use as a plant regulator, defoliant or desiccant.

PETROLEUM PRODUCT

A product that is obtained from distilling and processing crude oil and that is capable of being used as a fuel or lubricant in a motor vehicle, boat or aircraft including motor oil, motor gasoline, gasohol, other alcohol blended fuels, aviation gasoline, kerosene, distillate fuel oil and #1 and #2 diesel fuel.

POLLUTANT

Any substance or material which contaminates or adversely alters the physical, chemical or biological properties of the waters including changes in temperature, taste, odor, turbidity or color of the water. Such substance or material may include, but is not limited to, dredged spoil, spoil waste, incinerator residue, sewage, pet and livestock waste, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical waste, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, soil, yard waste, hazardous household wastes, oil and petroleum products, used motor oil, anti-freeze, litter, pesticides and industrial, municipal and agricultural waste discharged into water.

PROPERTY OWNER

The named property owner as indicated by the records of the Johnson County Kansas Records and Tax Administration.

RELEASE

Any spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, discharging, injecting, escaping, leaching, dumping or disposing into the MS4 and/or surface waters.

SANITARY SEWER

The system of pipes, conduits and other conveyances which carry industrial waste and domestic sewage from residential dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial and manufacturing facilities and institutions, whether treated or untreated, to a sewage treatment plant and to which stormwater, surface water and ground water are not intentionally admitted.

SEPTIC TANK WASTE

Any domestic sewage from holding tanks such as vessels, chemical toilets, campers, trailers and septic tanks.

SEWAGE

The domestic sewage and/or industrial waste that is discharged into the sanitary sewer system and passes through the sanitary sewer system to a sewage treatment plant for treatment.

STATE

The State of Kansas.

STORMWATER

Stormwater runoff, snow melt runoff and surface runoff and drainage.

SURFACE WATERS

Any body of water classified as "surface waters" by the State of Kansas including streams, rivers, creeks, brooks, sloughs, draws, arroyos, canals, springs, seeps, cavern streams, alluvial aquifers associated with these surface waters, lakes, manmade reservoirs, oxbow lakes, ponds and wetlands, as well as any other body of water classified by the Federal Government as a "water of the United States".

WASTE

Any garbage, refuse, sludge or other discarded material which is abandoned or committed to treatment, storage or disposal, including solid, liquid, semisolid or contained gaseous materials resulting from industrial, commercial mining, community and agricultural activities. "Waste" does not include solid or dissolved materials in domestic sewage or irrigation return flows or solid or dissolved materials or industrial discharges which are point sources subject to permits under the State of Kansas. The Federal definition of solid waste is found at 40 CFR 257.2.

WATER QUALITY STANDARD

The law or regulation that consists of the beneficial designated use or uses of a water body, the numeric and narrative water quality criteria that are necessary to protect the use or uses of that particular water body and an antidegradation statement.

Ord. No. 1201 §1, 5-10-2006