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SECTION 24— "NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM (NPDES) A permit issued by the MPCA, setting limits on pollutants that a permittee may legally discharge into navigable waters of the United States pursuant to Sections 402 and 405 of the Act. SECTION 25— "NATURAL OUTLET" Any outlet, including storm sewers and combined sewers, which overflow into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface water or ground water. SECTION 26— "NON-CONTACT COOLING WATER" The water discharged from any use such as air conditioning, cooling or refrigeration, or during which the only pollutant added, is heat. SECTION 27—"NORMAL DOMESTIC STRENGTH WASTE" Wastewater that is primarily introduced by residential users with a BODs concentration not greater than 250 mg/1 and a suspended solids (TSS) concentration not greater than 302mg/1. SECTION 28—"PERSON" Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation, or group. SECTION 29— `pH" The logarithm of the reciprocal of the concentration of hydrogen ions in terms of grams per liter of solution. SECTION 30— "PRETREATMENT" The treatment of wastewater from industrial sources prior to the introduction of the waste effluent into a publicly owned treatment works. (See Sec. 23.) SECTION 31 —"PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE" The wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food that have been shredded to such a degree that all particles will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers with no particle greater than '/2 inch (1.27 cm) in any dimension. SECTION 32— "SEWAGE" The spent water of a community. The preferred term is wastewater. SECTION 33— "SEWER" A pipe or conduit that carries wastewater or drainage water. (a) "Collection Sewer" —a sewer whose primary purpose is to collect wastewaters from individual point source discharges and connections. sewerord2001.doc 4