Section 103.21. Definitions

The following words and terms, when used in this subchapter, have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

Abandoned facilities—Facilities no longer maintained or used.

Act—The act of August 20, 1953 (P. L. 1217, No. 339) (35 P. S. § § 701—703).

Applicant municipality—A county, city, town, borough, township, school district, institution or an authority created by any one of the foregoing. If more than one municipality forms a single authority which applies for funding under this program, the term includes the total of the political boundaries of the municipalities and population of those municipalities, whether or not the entire population of each municipality is served by the authority.

Backup facilities—Components that are not routinely used and are an alternate to another component, and which are available but not necessary for continued treatment plant operations in the event of failures or breakdowns. The term does not include necessary components, as required by a water quality management sewage permit.

Component—Equipment, structure or treatment unit used in a sewage treatment works.

Construction—The construction of new treatment works, pumping stations and intercepting sewers which are an integral part of the treatment facilities, and the altering, improving or adding to of existing treatment works, pumping stations, and intercepting sewers which are essential to the sewage treatment plant system.

First connection—The nearest point on the intercepting sewer to the sewage treatment works at which the intercepting sewer receives sewage or other liquid wastes from an outlet.

Industrial waste treatment works—An arrangement of devices and structures for treatment and disposal of industrial waste, all or part of which is required, or authorized, by a water quality management industrial waste permit issued under The Clean Streams Law (35 P. S. § § 691.1—691.1001).

Intercepting sewer—A sewer which receives sewage from various outlets and conducts the sewage to the treatment works. The term does not include main, submain and trunk sewers.

Lift station—A sewage pumping station designed to raise sewage from areas too low to drain into available sewers, and as such are not eligible for payment consideration.

Out of service—Facilities no longer in use. The term includes obsolete and outmoded facilities.

PENNVEST—Pennsylvania Infrastructure Investment Authority Act Program.

Pennsylvania Infrastructure Investment Authority Act—An act providing low interest loans and limited grant assistance for financing sewerage and water treatment facilities. See the act of March 1, 1988 (P. L. 82, No. 16) (35 P. S. § § 751.1—751.20).

Pumping station—Facilities to house sewage pumps and their appurtenances and the force main into which the pumps discharge.

Sewage treatment facilities—Sewage treatments works.

Sewage treatment plant—Sewage treatment works.

Sewage treatment works—An arrangement of devices and structures for treatment and disposal of sewage, all or part of which is required, or authorized, by a water quality management sewage permit issued under The Clean Streams Law. The term includes treatment and disposal devices and structures located inside the fence surrounding the treatment works site, outfalls to the receiving stream and their appurtenances, and liquid waste disposal equipment and facilities.

Treatment facilities—Sewage treatment works.

Treatment works—Sewage treatment works.

The provisions of this § 103.21 adopted September 2, 1971, effective September 3, 1971, 1 Pa.B. 1804; amended January 22, 1982, effective January 23, 1982, 12 Pa.B. 382; amended September 27, 1991, effective September 28, 1991, 21 Pa.B. 4397. Immediately preceding text appears at serial pages (67539) and (151607).

Notation

Authority

The provisions of this § 103.21 amended under the act of August 20, 1953 (P. L. 1217, No. 339) (35 P. S. § § 701—703); The Clean Streams Law (35 P. S. § § 691.1—691.1001); section 20 of the Pennsylvania Infrastructure Investment Authority Act (35 P. S. § 751.201); and section 1920-A of The Administrative Code of 1929 (71 P. S. § 510-20).

Notes of Decisions

Applicant Municipality

Although not all of the interceptors constructed by the municipal authority were eligible for State subsidies, they were considered interceptors as they received sewage from various outlets and conducted the sewage to the treatment works. Northampton-Bucks County Municipal Authority v. Department of Environmental Resources, 547 A.2d 802 (Pa. Cmwlth. 1988).