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"POTYV treatmentplant (facility). That portion of the POTW designed to provide treatment to wastewater. "Pretreatment or treatment. The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination of pollutants, the alteration of the nature of pollutants or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties in wastewater to a less harmful state prior to or instead of the discharge of pollutants into a POTW. Such reduction or alteration can be obtained by physical, chemical, or biological processes or other process change means, except as prohibited by 40 CFR, Section 403.6(d). "Pretreatment requirements. Any requirement related to pretreatment, other than a national pretreatment standard, imposed on an industrial user. "Pretreatment standard or standards. Any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated by the EPA in accordance with Section 307(b) and (c) of the Clean Water Act, which applies to industrial users. This term includes the prohibitive discharge limits established pursuant to 40 CFR, 403.5. "Publicly owned treatment works (POTYV). A treatment works as defined by Section 212 of the Act, (33 USC 1292) owned by the City, including any sewers that convey wastewater to the POTW treatment plant, but not including pipes, sewers or other conveyances not connected to a treatment facility. For article purposes, POTW shall also include any sewers that convey wastewaters to the POTW from users outside the City, who are by agreement or contract users of the POTW treatment facility. "Receivingwaters. All streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, watercourses, waterways, wells, springs, reservoirs, aquifers, irrigation systems, drainage systems, and all other bodies or accumulations of water, surface or underground, natural or artificial, public or private, intermittent or perennial flowing, which are contained within, flow through or border upon the state or any portion thereof. "Sanitary sewer. A public sewer conveying domestic wastewater, industrial wastes, or both, into which storm water, surface water, groundwater, and other unpolluted wastes are not intentionally discharged. "Shall. Shall is mandatory. "Significant industrial user. Any industrial user of the city POTW who meets any of the following: "(1) Is subject to categorical pretreatment standards under 40 CFR 403.6 and 40 CFR chapter I, subchapter N. "(2) Discharges a flow of twenty-five thousand (25,000) gallons or more per day of process wastewater to the City of Paris POTW. I I