| #D001 | | MOTEMS | Marine Oil Terminal Engineering & Maintenance Standards | high |
| #D002 | | surface water | Generally refers to surface waters, as defined for the purposes of the federal Clean Water Act (CWA). For the purpose of this Or er, the terms 'surface water' an 'receiving water' are interchangeably use to mean 'waters of the Unite States' unless note otherwise. | high |
| #D003 | | No Exposure | all Industrial Materials and Activities are protected by a storm-resistant shelter to prevent exposure to rain, snow, snowmelt, and/or runoff. | high |
| #D004 | | Industrial Materials and Activities | includes, but is not limited to, material handling activities or equipment, industrial machinery, raw materials, intermediate products, by-products, final products, or waste products. | high |
| #D005 | | Material Handling Activities | includes the storage, loading and unloading, transportation, or conveyance of any raw material, intermediate product, final product, or waste product. | high |
| #D006 | | Sealed | banded or otherwise secured, but without operational taps or valves. | high |
| #D007 | | Storm-Resistant Shelters | includes completely roofed and walled buildings or structures. They also include structures with only a top cover supported by permanent supports but with no side coverings, provided material within the structure is not subject to wind dispersion (sawdust, powders, etc.), track-out, and there is no storm water discharged from within the structure that has come into contact with any materials. | high |
| #D008 | | 40 CFR | Code of Federal Regulations, title 40 | high |
| #D009 | | Basin Plan | Water Quality Control Plan for the San Diego Basin | high |
| #D010 | | Acute Toxicity | The ability of a substance to cause severe biological harm or death soon after a single exposure or dose. The term acute toxicity also encompasses any poisonous effect resulting from a single short-term exposure to a toxic substance. | high |
| #D011 | | Beneficial Uses | The Beneficial Uses of waters of the State may be protected against quality degradation include, but are not limited to, domestic, municipal, agricultural and industrial supply; power generation; recreation; aesthetic enjoyment; navigation; and preservation and enhancement of fish, wildlife, and other aquatic resources or preserves. | high |
| #D012 | | Best Management Practices (BMPs) | Schedules of activities, prohibitions of practices, maintenance procedures, and other management practices to prevent or reduce the pollution of waters of the United States. BMPs also include treatment requirements, operating procedures, and practices to control plant site runoff, spillage or leaks, sludge or waste disposal, or drainage from raw material storage. | high |
| #D013 | | Industrial Storm Water | Storm water which has the potential to come in contact with areas used for manufacturing, processing, or raw materials storage at an industrial facility. | high |
| #D014 | | Waters of the United States | Generally refers to surface waters, as defined for the purposes of the federal Clean Water Act (CWA). For the purpose of this Or er, the terms 'surface water' an 'receiving water' are interchangeably use to mean 'waters of the Unite States' unless note otherwise. | high |
| #D015 | | AMEL | Average Monthly Effluent Limitation | high |
| #D016 | | AWEL | Average Weekly Effluent Limitation | high |
| #D017 | | BAT | Best Available Technology | high |
| #D018 | | Discharger | City of Escondido (Discharger) | high |
| #D019 | | Anti-Backsliding | Provisions in the Clean Water Act (CWA) and United States Environmental Protection Agency regulations [CWA part 303 (d) (4); CWA part 402 (c); CFR section 122.44 (1)] that require a reissued permit to be as stringent as the previous permit with some exceptions. | high |
| #D020 | | Antidegradation | Policies which ensure protection of water quality for a particular body where the water quality exceeds levels necessary to protect fish and wildlife propagation and recreation on and in the water. This also includes special protection of waters designated as outstanding natural resource waters. Antidegradation plans are adopted by the State to minimize adverse effects on water. | high |
| #D021 | | Average Monthly Effluent Limitation (AMEL) | The highest allowable average of daily discharges over a calendar month, calculated as the sum of all daily discharges measured during a calendar month divided by the number of daily discharges measured during that month. | high |
| #D022 | | Average Weekly Effluent Limitation (AWEL) | The highest allowable average of daily discharges over a calendar week (Sunday through Saturday), calculated as the sum of all daily discharges measured during a calendar week divided by the number of daily discharges measured during that week. | high |
| #D023 | | Arithmetic Mean (μ) | Also called the average, is the sum of measured values divided by the number of samples. | high |
| #D024 | | Best Available Technology Economically Achievable (BAT) | The best existing performance of treatment technologies that are economically achievable within an industrial point source category. BAT standards apply to toxic and non-conventional pollutants. | high |
| #D025 | | Best Conventional Pollutant Control Technology (BCT) | The control from existing industrial point sources of conventional pollutants including BOD, TSS, fecal coliform, pH, and oil and grease. | high |
| #D026 | | Best practicable treatment control technology (BPT) | The average of the best performance by plants within an industrial category or subcategory. BPT standards apply to toxic, conventional, and non-conventional pollutants. | high |
| #D027 | | Best Professional Judgment (BPJ) | The method used by permit writers to develop technology-based NPDES permit conditions on a case-by-case basis using all reasonably available and relevant data. | high |
| #D028 | | Bioaccumulative Pollutants | Those substances taken up by an organism from its surrounding medium through gill membranes, epithelial tissue, or from food and subsequently concentrated and retained in the body of the organism. | high |
| #D029 | | Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) | A measurement of the amount of oxygen utilized by the decomposition of organic material, over a specified time period (usually 5 days) in a wastewater sample. | high |
| #D030 | | Carcinogenic | Pollutants are substances that are known to cause cancer in living organisms. | high |
| #D031 | | Chronic Toxicity | This parameter shall be used to measure the acceptability of waters for supporting a healthy marine biota until improved methods are developed to evaluate biological response. | high |
| #D032 | | Bypass | 'Bypass' means the intentional diversion of waste streams from any portion of a treatment facility. | high |
| #D033 | | Severe property damage | 'Severe property damage' means substantial physical damage to property, damage to the treatment facilities, which causes them to become inoperable, or substantial and permanent loss of natural resources that can reasonably be expected to occur in the absence of a bypass. | high |
| #D034 | | Upset | Upset means an exceptional incident in which there is unintentional and temporary noncompliance with technology based effluent limitations (TBELs) because of factors beyond the reasonable control of the Discharger. | high |
| #D035 | | Single Operational Upset (SOU) | A SOU is broadly defined as a single unusual event that temporarily disrupts the usually satisfactory operation of a system in such a way that it results in violation of multiple pollutant parameters. | high |
| #D036 | | BMPs | Best Management Practices | high |
| #D037 | | CCR | California Code of Regulations | high |
| #D038 | | CEQA | California Environmental Quality Act | high |
| #D039 | | CIWQS | California Integrated Water Quality System | high |
| #D040 | | CTR | California Toxics Rule | high |
| #D041 | | CWA | Clean Water Act | high |
| #D042 | | MDEL | Maximum Daily Effluent Limitation | high |
| #D043 | | MDL | Method Detection Limit | high |
| #D044 | | ML | Minimal Level | high |
| #D045 | | NPDES | National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System | high |
| #D046 | | SIP | State Implementation Policy | high |
| #D047 | | TMDL | Total Maximum Daily Load | high |
| #D048 | | TST | Test of Significant Toxicity | high |
| #D049 | | Compliance Storm Event | A Compliance Storm Event is a storm event less than a 5-year frequency, 24-hour storm (expressed in tenths of an inch of rainfall), as determined at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Weather Service Hydrometeorological Design Studies Center website at https://hdsc.nws.noaa.gov/hdsc/pfds/pfds_map_cont.html?bkmrk=ca. | high |
| #D050 | | Annual Average NAL Exceedance | An Annual Average NAL exceedance occurs when the average of all the analytical results for a parameter from all samples taken within the reporting year exceeds the Annual Average NAL value for that parameter listed in Table 7. | high |
| #D051 | | Instantaneous Maximum NAL Exceedance | An instantaneous maximum NAL exceedance occurs when two or more analytical results from samples for any single parameter taken within the reporting year exceed the Instantaneous Maximum NAL value for total suspended solids and total oil and grease or are outside of the Instantaneous Maximum NAL range for pH listed in Table 7 below. | high |
| #D052 | | DNQ | Detected, but Not Quantified | high |
| #D053 | | Conventional Pollutants | Pollutants typical of municipal sewage, and for which municipal secondary treatment plants are typically designed; defined at 40 CFR section 401.16 as BOD, TSS, fecal coliform bacteria, oil and grease, and pH. | high |
| #D054 | | Daily Discharge | Daily Discharge is defined as either: (1) the total mass of the constituent discharged over the calendar day (12:00 am through 11:59 pm) or any 24-hour period that reasonably represents a calendar day for purposes of sampling (as specified in the permit), for a constituent with limitations expressed in units of mass or; (2) the unweighted arithmetic mean measurement of the constituent over the day for a constituent with limitations expressed in other units of measurement (e.g., concentration). | high |
| #D055 | | Enclosed Bays | Enclosed Bays means indentations along the coast that enclose an area of oceanic water within distinct headlands or harbor works. Enclosed bays include all bays where the narrowest distance between the headlands or outermost harbor works is less than 75 percent of the greatest dimension of the enclosed portion of the bay. Enclosed bays include, but are not limited to, Humboldt Bay, Bodega Harbor, Tomales Bay, Drake's Estero, San Francisco Bay, Morro Bay, Los Angeles-Long Beach Harbor, Upper and Lower Newport Bay, Mission Bay, and San Diego Bay. Enclosed bays do not include inland surface waters or ocean waters. | high |
| #D056 | | First Flush | Storm water runoff that occurs between the time a storm event begins and when a minimum of 0.25 inches of precipitation has been collected in a rain gauge or equivalent measurement device at a location on the site which is representative of precipitation at the site. A storm event is a period of rainfall that is preceded by at least seven days without rainfall. | high |
| #D057 | | Grab Sample | An individual sample of at least 100 milliliters collected at a randomly selected time over a period not exceeding 15 minutes. The sample is taken from a waste stream on a one-time basis without consideration of the flow rate of the waste stream and without consideration of time of day. | high |
| #D058 | | Median | The middle measurement in a set of data. The median of a set of data is found by first arranging the measurements in order of magnitude (either increasing or decreasing order). If the number of measurements (n) is odd, then the median = X(n+1)/2. If n is even, then the median = (Xn/2 + X(n/2)+1)/2 (i.e., the midpoint between the n/2 and n/2+1). | high |
| #D059 | | Nuisance | Water Code section 13050, subdivision (m), defines nuisance as anything which meets all of the following requirements: 1. Is injurious to health, or is indecent or offensive to the senses, or an obstruction to the free use of property, so as to interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property. 2. Affects at the same time an entire community or neighborhood, or any considerable number of persons, although the extent of the annoyance or damage inflicted upon individuals may be unequal. 3. Occurs during, or as a result of, the treatment or disposal of wastes. | high |
| #D060 | | Pollution Prevention | Pollution Prevention means any action that causes a net reduction in the use or generation of a hazardous substance or other pollutant that is discharged into water and includes, but is not limited to, input change, operational improvement, production process change, and product reformulation (as defined in Water Code section 13263.3). Pollution prevention does not include actions that merely shift a pollutant in wastewater from one environmental medium to another environmental medium, unless clear environmental benefits of such an approach are identified to the satisfaction of the State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board) or San Diego Water Board. | high |
| #D061 | | Qualifying Storm Events (QSEs) | A qualifying storm event occurs when sufficient precipitation generates runoff from the Facility that is discharged into the receiving water and is preceded by at least 48 hours with no discharge from any drainage area. | high |
| #D062 | | Water Quality Objectives | Numerical or narrative limits on constituents or characteristics of water designed to protect designated beneficial uses of the water. [Water Code section 13050(h)]. California's water quality objectives are established by the State and Regional Water Boards in the Water Quality Control Plans | high |
| #D063 | | Water Quality Standards | Provisions of State or federal law which consist of a designated use or uses for waters of the United States and water quality criteria for such waters based upon such uses. Water quality standards are to protect the public health or welfare, enhance the quality of water and serve the purposes of the Clean Water Act [40 CFR section 131.3(i)]. Under State law, the Water Boards establish beneficial uses and water quality objectives in their water quality control plans or basin plans. Together with an antidegradation policy, these beneficial uses and water quality objectives serve as water quality standards under the Clean Water Act. In Clean Water Act parlance, state beneficial uses are calle ' esignate uses' an state water quality objectives are calle 'criteria.' Throughout this General Order, the relevant term is used depending on the statutory scheme | high |
| #D064 | | Whole Effluent Toxicity (WET) | The aggregate toxic effect of an effluent measured directly by a chronic or acute toxicity tes | high |
| #D065 | | CBOD 5 | Carbonaceous Biochemical Oxygen Demand (5-Day at 20 o C) | high |
| #D066 | | CFR | Code of Federal Regulations | high |
| #D067 | | CFU | Colony Forming Units | high |
| #D068 | | CV | Coefficient of Variation | high |
| #D069 | | DDT | Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane | high |
| #D070 | | DMRs | Discharge Monitoring Reports | high |
| #D071 | | DO | Dissolved Oxygen | high |
| #D072 | | Ho | Null Hypothesis | high |
| #D073 | | IWC | In-Stream Waste Concentration | high |
| #D074 | | MRP | Monitoring and Reporting Program | high |
| #D075 | | MS4 | Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System | high |
| #D076 | | ND | Not Detected | high |
| #D077 | | NOI | Notice of Intent | high |
| #D078 | | NOT | Notice of Termination | high |
| #D079 | | NTR | National Toxics Rule | high |
| #D080 | | PCB | Polychlorinated Biphenyls | high |
| #D081 | | PAH | Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbons | high |
| #D082 | | POTWs | Publicly-Owned Treatment Works | high |
| #D083 | | RL | Reporting Level | high |
| #D084 | | ROWD | Report of Waste Discharge | high |
| #D085 | | RPA | Reasonable Potential Analysis | high |
| #D086 | | TDS | Total Dissolved Solids | high |
| #D087 | | TIE | Toxicity Identification Evaluation | high |
| #D088 | | TRE | Toxicity Reduction Evaluation | high |
| #D089 | | TSS | Total Suspended Solids | high |
| #D090 | | WQBELs | Water Quality-Based Effluent Limitations | high |
| #D091 | | WQOs | Water Quality Objectives | high |
| #D092 | | Chlordane | Chlordane shall mean the sum of chlordane-alpha, chlordane-gamma, chlordane-alpha, chlordane-gamma, nonachlor-alpha, nonachlor-gamma, and oxychlordane. | high |
| #D093 | | NOEL | The NOEL is expressed as the maximum percent effluent or receiving water that causes no observable effect on a test organism, as determined by the result of a critical life stage toxicity test listed in Ocean Plan Appendix III. | high |
| #D094 | | Composite Sample | Sample composed of two or more discrete samples of at least 100 milliliters collected at periodic intervals during the operating hours of a facility over a 24-hour period. The aggregate sample will reflect the average water quality covering the compositing or sample period. For volatile pollutants, aliquots must be combined in the laboratory immediately before analysis. The composite must be flow proportional; either the time interval between each aliquot or the volume of each aliquot must be proportional to either stream flow at the time of sampling or the total stream flow since the collection of the previous aliquot. Aliquots may be collected manually or automatically. | high |
| #D095 | | Degrade (Degradation) | Degradation shall be determined by comparison of the waste field and reference site(s) for characteristic species diversity, population density, contamination, growth anomalies, debility, or supplanting of normal species by undesirable plant and animal species. Degradation occurs if there are significant differences in any of three major biotic groups, namely, demersal fish, benthic invertebrates, or attached algae. Other groups may be evaluated where benthic species are not affected, or are not the only ones affected. | high |
| #D096 | | Dilution Credit | Dilution Credit is the amount of dilution granted to a discharge in the calculation of a water quality-based effluent limitation, based on the allowance of a specified mixing zone. It is calculated from the dilution ratio or determined through conducting a mixing zone study or modeling of the discharge and receiving water. | high |
| #D097 | | Effluent Concentration Allowance (ECA) | ECA is a value derived from the water quality criterion/objective, dilution credit, and ambient background concentration that is used, in conjunction with the coefficient of variation for the effluent monitoring data, to calculate a long-term average (LTA) discharge concentration. The ECA has the same meaning as waste load allocation (WLA) as used in USEPA guidance (Technical Support Document for Water Quality-based Toxics Control, March 1991, second printing, EPA/505/2-90-001). | high |
| #D098 | | Effluent Limitation | Any restriction imposed by an Order on quantities, discharge rates, and concentrations of pollutants that are discharged from point sources into waters of the United States, the waters of the contiguous zone, or the ocean. | high |
| #D099 | | Estuaries | Estuaries means waters, including coastal lagoons, located at the mouths of streams that serve as areas of mixing for fresh and ocean waters. Coastal lagoons and mouths of streams that are temporarily separated from the ocean by sandbars shall be considered estuaries. Estuarine waters shall be considered to extend from a bay or the open ocean to a point upstream where there is no significant mixing of fresh water and seawater. | high |
| #D100 | | Impervious Factor | Impervious factor is calculated by the following equation: Impervious factor = (square feet of impervious surface within the facility) / (total square feet of the facility) | high |
| #D101 | | Impervious Surface | Areas that are covered by impenetrable materials such as asphalt, concrete, brick, stone and rooftops. | high |
| #D102 | | Inland Surface Waters | All surface waters of the state that do not include the ocean, enclosed bays, or estuaries. | high |
| #D103 | | Mixing Zone | Mixing Zone is a limited volume of receiving water that is allocated for mixing with a wastewater discharge where water quality criteria can be exceeded without causing adverse effects to the overall water body. | high |
| #D104 | | Natural Light | Reduction of natural light may be determined by the San Diego Water Board by measurement of light transmissivity or total irradiance, or both, according to the monitoring needs of the San Diego Water Board. | high |
| #D105 | | Persistent Pollutants | Persistent pollutants are substances for which degradation or decomposition in the environment is nonexistent or very slow. | high |
| #D106 | | Storm Event | A storm event is a period of rainfall of at least 0.25 inches of rain that is preceded by at least seven days without rainfall. | high |
| #D107 | | Storm Water | Storm water runoff, snowmelt runoff, and storm water surface runoff and drainage. | high |
| #D108 | | TCDD equivalents | TCDD equivalents represent the sum of concentrations of chlorinated dibenzodioxins (2,3,7,8 CDDs) and chlorinated dibenzofurans (2,3,7,8-CDFs) multiplied by their respective toxicity factors, as shown by the table below. USEPA Method 8280 may be used to analyze TCDD equivalents. | high |
| #D109 | | Trash | Trash means all improperly discarded solid material from any production, manufacturing, or processing operation including, but not limited to, products, product packaging, or containers constructed of plastic, steel, aluminum, glass, paper, or other synthetic or natural materials. | high |
| #D110 | | Waste | As used in the Ocean Plan, waste includes a Dischargers total discharge, of whatever origin (i.e., gross, not net, discharge). | high |
| #D111 | | Water Quality Control Plan | There are two types of water quality control plans - Basin Plans and Statewide Plans. Regional Boards adopt Basin Plans for each region based upon surface water hydrologic basin boundaries. The Regional Basin Plans designates or describes (1) existing and potential beneficial uses of ground and surface water; (2) water quality objectives to protect the beneficial uses; (3) implementation programs to achieve these objectives; and (4) surveillance and monitoring activities to evaluate the effectiveness of the water quality control plan. | high |
| #D112 | | °F | Degrees Fahrenheit | high |
| #D113 | | GPS | Global Positioning System | high |
| #D114 | | HCH | Hexachlorocyclohexane | high |
| #D115 | | lbs/day | Pounds per Day | high |
| #D116 | | MGD | Million Gallons per Day | high |
| #D117 | | NTU | Nephelometric Turbidity Unit | high |
| #D118 | | Coefficient of Variation (CV) | CV is a measure of the data variability and is calculated as the estimated standard deviation divided by the arithmetic mean of the observed values. | high |
| #D119 | | Dichlorobenzenes | The sum of 1,2- and 1,3-dichlorobenzene. | high |
| #D120 | | Endosulfan | The sum of endosulfan-alpha and -beta and endosulfan sulfate. | high |
| #D121 | | Halomethanes | The sum of bromoform, bromomethane (methyl bromide) and chloromethane (methyl chloride). | high |
| #D122 | | Hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) | The sum of the alpha, beta, gamma (lindane) and delta isomers of HCH. | high |
| #D123 | | Phenolic Compounds (chlorinated) | The sum of 4-chloro-3-methylphenol, 2-chlorophenol, pentachlorophenol, 2,4,5-trichlorophenol, and 2,4,6-trichlorophenol. | high |
| #D124 | | Phenolic Compounds (non-chlorinated) | The sum of 2,4-dimethylphenol, 4,6-Dinitro-2-methylphenol, 2,4-dinitrophenol, 2-methylphenol, 4- methylphenol, 2-nitropheneol, 4-nitrophenol, and phenol. | high |
| #D125 | | Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) | The sum of chlorinated biphenyls whose analytical characteristics resemble those of Aroclor 1016, Aroclor-1221, Aroclor-1232, Aroclor-1242, Aroclor-1248, Arolclor-1254, and Arcolor 1260. | high |
| #D126 | | Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) | The sum of acenaphthylene, anthracene, 1,2-benzanthracene, 3,4-benzofluoranthene, benzo[k]fluoranthene, 1,12-benzoperylene, benzo[a]pyrene, chrysene, dibenzo[ah]anthracene, fluorene, indeno[1,2,3-cd]pyrene, phenanthrene and pyrene. | high |
| #D127 | | Source of Drinking Water | Any water designated as municipal or domestic supply (MUN) in a San Diego Water Board Basin Plan. | high |
| #D128 | | Standard Deviation (σ) | Standard Deviation is a measure of variability that is calculated as follows: σ = ( ∑ [(x -μ ) 2 ]/(n - 1)) 0.5 where: x is the observed value; μ is the arithmetic mean of the observed values; and n is the number of samples. | high |
| #D129 | | Technology-Based Effluent Limit | A permit limit for a pollutant that is based on the capability of a treatment method to reduce the pollutant to a certain concentration. | high |
| #D130 | | Toxic Pollutant | Pollutants or combinations of pollutants, including disease-causing agents, which after discharge and upon exposure, ingestion, inhalation or assimilation into any organism, either directly from the environment or indirectly by ingestion through food chains, will, on the basis of information available to the Administrator of USEPA, cause death, disease, behavioral abnormalities, cancer, genetic mutations, physiological malfunctions, (including malfunctions in reproduction) or physical deformations, in such organisms or their offspring. Toxic pollutants also include those pollutants listed by the Administrator under CWA section 307(a)(1) or any pollutant listed under section 405 (d) which relates to sludge management. | high |