diff --git a/changedetectionio/model/App.py b/changedetectionio/model/App.py
index 8db9e1ef..21ed1431 100644
--- a/changedetectionio/model/App.py
+++ b/changedetectionio/model/App.py
@@ -1,8 +1,4 @@
-import collections
-import os
-
-import uuid as uuid_builder
-
+from os import getenv
 from changedetectionio.notification import (
     default_notification_body,
     default_notification_format,
@@ -15,16 +11,16 @@ class model(dict):
             'watching': {},
             'settings': {
                 'headers': {
-                    'User-Agent': os.getenv("DEFAULT_SETTINGS_HEADERS_USERAGENT", 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/87.0.4280.66 Safari/537.36'),
+                    'User-Agent': getenv("DEFAULT_SETTINGS_HEADERS_USERAGENT", 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/87.0.4280.66 Safari/537.36'),
                     'Accept': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.9',
                     'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip, deflate',  # No support for brolti in python requests yet.
                     'Accept-Language': 'en-GB,en-US;q=0.9,en;'
                 },
                 'requests': {
-                    'timeout': int(os.getenv("DEFAULT_SETTINGS_REQUESTS_TIMEOUT", "45")),  # Default 45 seconds
+                    'timeout': int(getenv("DEFAULT_SETTINGS_REQUESTS_TIMEOUT", "45")),  # Default 45 seconds
                     'time_between_check': {'weeks': None, 'days': None, 'hours': 3, 'minutes': None, 'seconds': None},
                     'jitter_seconds': 0,
-                    'workers': int(os.getenv("DEFAULT_SETTINGS_REQUESTS_WORKERS", "10")),  # Number of threads, lower is better for slow connections
+                    'workers': int(getenv("DEFAULT_SETTINGS_REQUESTS_WORKERS", "10")),  # Number of threads, lower is better for slow connections
                     'proxy': None # Preferred proxy connection
                 },
                 'application': {
@@ -33,7 +29,7 @@ class model(dict):
                     'base_url' : None,
                     'extract_title_as_title': False,
                     'empty_pages_are_a_change': False,
-                    'fetch_backend': os.getenv("DEFAULT_FETCH_BACKEND", "html_requests"),
+                    'fetch_backend': getenv("DEFAULT_FETCH_BACKEND", "html_requests"),
                     'global_ignore_text': [], # List of text to ignore when calculating the comparison checksum
                     'global_subtractive_selectors': [],
                     'ignore_whitespace': True,
diff --git a/changedetectionio/model/Watch.py b/changedetectionio/model/Watch.py
index acfd9117..6c22b390 100644
--- a/changedetectionio/model/Watch.py
+++ b/changedetectionio/model/Watch.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import os
 import uuid as uuid_builder
 
 minimum_seconds_recheck_time = int(os.getenv('MINIMUM_SECONDS_RECHECK_TIME', 60))
+mtable = {'seconds': 1, 'minutes': 60, 'hours': 3600, 'days': 86400, 'weeks': 86400 * 7}
 
 from changedetectionio.notification import (
     default_notification_body,
@@ -51,7 +52,7 @@ class model(dict):
             'webdriver_js_execute_code': None, # Run before change-detection
         }
     jitter_seconds = 0
-    mtable = {'seconds': 1, 'minutes': 60, 'hours': 3600, 'days': 86400, 'weeks': 86400 * 7}
+
     def __init__(self, *arg, **kw):
         import uuid
         self.update(self.__base_config)
@@ -160,7 +161,7 @@ class model(dict):
 
     def threshold_seconds(self):
         seconds = 0
-        for m, n in self.mtable.items():
+        for m, n in mtable.items():
             x = self.get('time_between_check', {}).get(m, None)
             if x:
                 seconds += x * n
diff --git a/changedetectionio/store.py b/changedetectionio/store.py
index fbafbe04..3210e789 100644
--- a/changedetectionio/store.py
+++ b/changedetectionio/store.py
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import time
 import uuid as uuid_builder
 from copy import deepcopy
 from os import mkdir, path, unlink
+from model.Watch import mtable
 from threading import Lock
 import re
 import requests
@@ -158,7 +159,6 @@ class ChangeDetectionStore:
     @property
     def threshold_seconds(self):
         seconds = 0
-        mtable = {'seconds': 1, 'minutes': 60, 'hours': 3600, 'days': 86400, 'weeks': 86400 * 7}
         for m, n in mtable.items():
             x = self.__data['settings']['requests']['time_between_check'].get(m)
             if x: