A.
Within 180 days after either the effective date of a categorical pretreatment standard or the final administrative decision on a category determination under 40 CFR 403.6(a)(4), whichever is later, existing categorical users currently discharging to or scheduled to discharge to the POTW shall submit to the Director a report which contains the information listed in Subsection B below. At least 90 days prior to commencement of their discharge, new sources, and sources that become categorical users subsequent to the promulgation of an applicable categorical standard, shall submit to the Director a report which contains the information listed in Subsection B below. A new source shall report the method of pretreatment it intends to use to meet applicable categorical standards. A new source shall also give estimates of its anticipated flow and quantity of pollutants to be discharged.
B.
Users described above shall submit the information set forth below:
(1)
Identifying information. The name and address of the facility, include
the name of the operator and owner.
(2)
Environmental permits. A list of any environmental control permits
held by or for the facility.
(3)
Description of operations. A brief description of the nature, average
rate of production, and standard industrial classifications of the
operation(s) carried out by such user. This description shall include
a schematic process diagram which indicates points of discharge to
the POTW from the regulated processes.
(4)
Flow measurement. Information showing the measured average daily
and maximum daily flow, in gallons per day, to the POTW from regulated
process streams and other streams, as necessary, to allow use of the
combined waste stream formula set out in 40 CFR 403.6(e)
(5)
Measurement of pollutants.
(a)
The categorical pretreatment standards applicable to each regulated
process.
(b)
The results of sampling and analysis identifying the nature and concentration, and/or mass, where required by the Director, of regulated pollutants in the discharge from each regulated process. Instantaneous, daily maximum and long-term average concentrations, or mass, where required, shall be reported. The sample shall be representative of daily operations and shall be analyzed in accordance with procedures set out in § 553-51 of this chapter.
(6)
Certification. A statement, reviewed by the user's authorized representative
and certified by a licensed professional engineer, indicating whether
pretreatment standards are being met on a consistent basis and, if
not, whether additional operation and maintenance (O&M) and/or
additional pretreatment is required to meet the pretreatment standards
and requirements.
(7)
Compliance schedule. If additional pretreatment and/or O&M is required to meet the pretreatment standards, the shortest schedule by which the user shall provide such additional pretreatment and/or O&M. The completion date in this schedule shall not be later than the compliance date established for the applicable pretreatment standard. A compliance schedule pursuant to this section shall meet the requirements set out in § 553-43 of this chapter.
The following conditions shall apply to the compliance schedule required by § 553-42B(7) of this chapter:
A.
The schedule shall contain progress increments in the form of dates
for the commencement and completion of major events leading to the
construction and operation of additional pretreatment required for
the user to meet the applicable pretreatment standards (such events
include, but are not limited to, hiring a licensed professional engineer,
completing preliminary and final plans, executing contracts for major
components, commencing and completing construction, and beginning
and conducting routine operation);
B.
No increment referred to above shall exceed nine months;
C.
The user shall submit a progress report to the Director no later
than 14 days following each date in the schedule and the final date
of compliance, including, as a minimum, whether or not it complied
with the increment of progress, the reason for any delay, and, if
appropriate, the steps being taken by the user to return to the established
schedule; and
D.
In no event shall more than nine months elapse between such progress
reports to the Director.
Within 90 days following the date for final compliance with applicable categorical pretreatment standards, or in the case of a new source following commencement of the introduction of wastewater into the POTW, any user subject to such pretreatment standards and requirements shall submit to the Director a report containing the information described in § 553-42B(4) to (6) of this chapter. For users subject to equivalent mass or concentration limits established in accordance with the procedures in 40 CFR 403.6(c), this report shall contain a reasonable measure of the user's long-term production rate. For all other users subject to categorical pretreatment standards expressed in terms of allowable pollutant discharge per unit of production (or other measure of operation), this report shall include the user's actual production during the appropriate sampling period. All compliance reports shall be signed and certified in accordance with § 553-32 of this chapter.
A.
All significant industrial users shall, at a frequency determined by the Director, but in no case less than twice per year (in June and December), submit a report indicating the nature and concentration of pollutants in the discharge which are limited by such pretreatment standards and the measured or estimated average and maximum daily flows for the reporting period. All periodic compliance reports shall be signed and certified in accordance with § 553-32 of this chapter.
B.
All wastewater samples shall be representative of the user's discharge.
Wastewater monitoring and flow measurement facilities shall be properly
operated, kept clean, and maintained in good working order at all
times. The failure of a user to keep its monitoring facility in good
working order shall not be grounds for the user to claim that sample
results are unrepresentative of its discharge.
Each user must notify the Director of any planned significant
changes to the user's operations or system which might alter the nature,
quality, or volume of its wastewater at least 90 days before the change.
A.
The Director may require the user to submit such information as may be deemed necessary to evaluate the changed condition, including the submission of a wastewater discharge permit application under § 553-31 of this chapter.
C.
For purposes of this requirement, significant changes include, but
are not limited to, flow increases or decreases of 20% or greater
or the discharge of any previously unreported pollutants.
A.
In the case of any discharge, including but not limited to accidental
discharges, discharges of a nonroutine, episodic nature, a noncustomary
batch discharge, or a slug load, that may cause potential problems
for the POTW, the user shall immediately telephone and notify the
Director of the incident. This notification shall include the location
of the discharge, type of waste, concentration, and volume, if known,
and corrective actions taken by the user.
B.
Within five days following such discharge, the user shall, unless
waived by the Director, submit a detailed written report describing
the cause(s) of the discharge and the measures to be taken by the
user to prevent similar future occurrences. Such notification shall
not relieve the user of any expense, loss, damage, or other liability
which may be incurred as a result of damage to the POTW or natural
resources, or any other damage to person or property, nor shall such
notification relieve the user of any fines, penalties, or other liability
which may be imposed pursuant to this chapter or any and all other
applicable laws.
C.
A notice shall be permanently posted on the user's bulletin board or other prominent place advising employees whom to call in the event of a discharge described in Subsection A above. Employers shall ensure that all employees who may cause or suffer such a discharge to occur are advised of the emergency notification procedure.
All users not required to obtain a wastewater discharge permit
shall provide appropriate reports to the Director as the Director
may require.
If sampling performed by a user indicates a violation, the user
shall notify the Director within 24 hours of becoming aware of the
violation. The user shall also repeat the sampling and analysis and
submit the results of the repeat analysis to the Director within 30
days after becoming aware of the violation or in such time as the
Director may, in writing, require.
A.
Any user which commences the discharge of hazardous waste shall notify the City, the EPA Regional Waste Management Division Director, and state hazardous waste authorities, in writing, of any discharge into the POTW of a substance which, if otherwise disposed of, would be a hazardous waste under 40 CFR 261. Such notification must include the name of the hazardous waste as set forth in 40 CFR 261, the EPA hazardous waste number, and type of discharge (continuous, batch, or other). If the user discharges more than 100 kilograms of such waste per calendar month to the POTW, the notification shall also contain the following information to the extent such information is known or readily available to the user: an identification of the hazardous constituents contained in the wastes, an estimation of the mass and concentration of such constituents in the waste stream discharged during that calendar month, and an estimation of the mass of constituents in the waste stream expected to be discharged during the following 12 months. All notifications must take place no later than 180 days after the discharge commences. Any notification under this subsection need be submitted only once for each hazardous waste discharged. However, notifications of changed discharges must be submitted under § 553-46 of this chapter. The notification requirement in this section does not apply to pollutants already reported by users subject to categorical pretreatment standards under the self-monitoring requirements of §§ 553-42, 553-44 and 553-45 of this chapter.
B.
Dischargers are exempt from the requirements of Subsection A above during a calendar month in which they discharge no more than 15 kilograms of hazardous waste, unless the wastes are acute hazardous wastes as specified in 40 CFR 261.30(d) and 261.33(e). Discharge of more than 15 kilograms of nonacute hazardous wastes in a calendar month, or of any quantity of acute hazardous wastes as specified in 40 CFR 261.30(d) and 261.33(e), requires a one-time notification. Subsequent months during which the user discharges more than such quantities of any hazardous waste do not require additional notification.
C.
In the case of any new regulations under Section 3001 of RCRA identifying
additional characteristics of hazardous waste or listing any additional
substance as a hazardous waste, the user shall notify the Director,
the EPA Regional Waste Management Division Director, and state hazardous
waste authorities of the discharge of such substance within 90 days
of the effective date of such regulations.
D.
In the case of any new notification made under this section, the
user shall certify that it has a program in place to reduce the volume
and toxicity of hazardous wastes generated to the degree it has determined
to be economically practical.
E.
This provision does not create a right to discharge any substance
not otherwise permitted to be discharged by this chapter, a permit
issued thereunder, or any applicable federal or state law.
All pollutant analyses, including sampling techniques, to be
submitted as part of a wastewater discharge permit application or
report shall be performed in accordance with the techniques prescribed
in 40 CFR 136, unless otherwise specified in an applicable categorical
pretreatment standard. If 40 CFR 136 does not contain sampling or
analytical techniques for the pollutant in question, sampling and
analyses shall be performed in accordance with procedures approved
by EPA.
A.
Except as indicated in Subsection B below, the user shall collect wastewater samples using flow proportional composite collection techniques. In the event that flow proportional sampling is infeasible, the Director may authorize use of time proportional sampling or a minimum of four grab samples where the user demonstrates that this will provide a representative sample of the effluent being discharged. In addition, grab samples may be required to show compliance with instantaneous discharge limits.
B.
Samples for oil and grease, temperature, pH, cyanide, phenols, sulfides,
and volatile organic compounds shall be obtained using grab collection
techniques.
Written reports submitted to the Director shall be deemed to
have been submitted on the date received.
Users subject to the reporting requirements of this chapter
shall retain, and make available for inspection and copying, all records
of information obtained pursuant to any monitoring activities required
by this chapter and any additional records of information obtained
pursuant to monitoring activities undertaken by the user independent
of such requirements. Records shall include the date, exact place,
method, and time of sampling and the name of the person(s) taking
the samples; the dates analyses were performed; who performed the
analyses; the analytical techniques or methods used; and the results
of such analyses. The user shall ensure these records remain available
for a period of at least three years. This period shall be automatically
extended for the duration of any litigation concerning the user or
the City, or where the user has been specifically notified of a longer
retention period by the Director.
