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The BOD and suspended solids loads from Industrial Users will be based on the actual concentrations of those constituents, except that for industrial users with sewage containing BOD and suspended solids concentrations less than the concentrations as defined for General Municipal Flow, the charges shall be based on concentrations as defined for General Municipal Flow. Industrial users shall be subject to the Industrial Cost Recovery System (ICRS). "INDUSTRIAL COST RECOVERY CHARGES" (ICRC) means the charge levied upon each industrial user of the City facilities as payment for the users' share of the total amount of grants received by the City and related to Title II of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972 (P.L. 92-500, 33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.). "INSTITUTIONAL USER" means those establishments engaged in activities of a non-economic nature, frequently being the performance of services classified as a governmental or commercial user in this ordinance. "LOAD" means quantities of sewage characteristics such as BOD, SS' and other constituents as expressed in milligrams per liter (mg/l) or pounds per twenty-four (24) hours (lbs/24 hours). "OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE COSTS" (O&M Costs) means the expenses related to the costs of the operation, maintenance, replacement and administration of the City facilities. "REPLACEMENT COSTS" means costs related to the expenditures for obtaining' and installing equipment, accessories, or appurtenances which are necessary to maintain the capacity and performance during the service life of the City facilities for which such facilities were designed and constructed. The term "Operat!on and Maintenance" includes replacement. "SANITARY WASTES" means the liquid and water carried wastes discharged from sanitary plumbing facilities. "SEWAGE" means the liquid carried waste products from whatever source derived, together with such ground water infiltration and surface water as may be present. "SEWERII means a pipe or conduit for carrying sewage, industrial waste and other waste liquids. "SEWER SERVICE CHARGE" means the aggregate of all the charges including the user charges, debt service charges, industrial cost recovery charges and other sewer related charges that are billed periodically to users of the City facilities. "SEWER SYSTEM" means pipeliners or conduits, pumping stations, forcemains, and all other devices and appliances appurtenant thereto, used for collecting or conducting sewage. "SlGNU'ICANT INDUSTRIAL USER" means any industrial user who discharges sewage which constitutes greater than ten percent (10%) of the design flow or design pollutant loading of the wastewater treatment plant. -3-