Column Name: CATEGORICAL_INDUSTRIAL_USERS
Description: A four digit field representing the number of categorical industrial u sers (CIUs) which discharge to a particular pretreatment control authority's treatment works (i.e., a POTW with an approved pre treatment program.) Categorical industrial users are those users in a particular industrial category (e.g., metal chemicals , etc.) for which pretreatment standards have been established or proposed. Industrial facilities in categories such as t extiles or plastics molding and forming for which speci fic effluent standards were apparently considered but never proposed or es tablished will not be included as categorical industrial users.
Envirofacts Table Name(s):
Data Source:
- Data Element: CATEGORICAL INDUSTRIAL USERS
- PCS Acronym: CIUS
- Data Type: PCI/Audit
- WENDB: Yes
- Type: Character
- Length: 4
- Optional
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