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(52) Severe Property Damage. shaA-~nean Substantial physical damage to property, damage to the user's treatment facilities which causes them to become inoperable, or substaritial and permanent loss of natural resources which can reasonably be expected to occw in the absence of a bypass. Severe property damage does not mean economic loss caused by delays in production. (53) Significant Industrial User S( IU). s1~a41-mean M€asili6y industrial user which dischazges non- domestic wastewater into a publicly owned ueatmern works and which: (i) has an average daily process wastewater flow rivenry five thousand (25,000) gallons per day or more; or (ii) contributes more than five (5) percent of any design or treahnent capaciry (i.e. allowable pollutant load) of the POTW wastewate~ treahnent plant receiving the discharge; or (iii) is required to meet a national categorical pretrealment standazd; or (iv) is found by WSACC, the Division of Water Oualiry or the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to have the potential for impact, either singty or in combination with other contributing industrial users, on the wastewater treatment system, the quality of sludge, the system's efTluent qua]ity, or compliance with any pretreahnent standards or requiremenu. (54) Significant Noncompliance . s}taN--rnean A status of a user's noncompliance defined as follows: (i) Violations ofwastewater dischazge limiu. A. Chronic violations. Sixry-six percent or more of the measwements exceed (by any magnitude) the same daily maximum limit or the same average limit in a six-month period. B. Technical Review Criteria (TRC) violations. Thirty-three percem or more of the measurements equal or exceed are-~ere t~an the aonlicable TRC multialied by i'vnes the dailv maximum limit or the monthlv avera eg limit H~ar~~n-e~e~ge) in a six-month period. There are two goups of TRCs: For conventional pollutanu (BOD, TSS, fau, oil and gease) TRC = 1.4 For all other pollutanu TRC = 12 For pH any value less than or equal to 4.5 unNS or ereater than or eaual to 12.5. C. Any other violation(s) of an eftluent limit (average or daily maxunum) that the control authority determines 13elieves has caused, alone or in combination with other discharges, interference or pass-through; or endangered the health oFthe POTW ~=P:ant personnel or the public. D. Any dischazge of a pollutant that has caused imminent endangerment to human health/welfare or to the environment ar~ or has resulted in the POTW's exercise of its emergency authority under naraerauh (fls l l(vil(Bl of 40 CFR 403.8 to halt or prevent such a discharge. (ii) Violations of compliance schedule milestones, contained in a pretreahnent permit or enforcement order, for starting constrvction, completing construction, and attaining final 11 C~ -'i