A.
Within either 180 days after 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 Manager 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 Manager 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 also shall 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, including 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 should
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 wastestream 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 standard or by the Manager, 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 § 67-59 of this chapter.
(6)
Certification. A statement, reviewed by the user's
authorized representative and certified by a qualified professional,
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 will be required to meet the pretreatment standards, the shortest schedule by which the user will 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 must meet the requirements set out in § 67-51 of this chapter.
The following conditions shall apply to the compliance schedule required by § 67-50B(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 an 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 Manager
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.
D.
In no event shall more than nine months elapse between
such progress reports to the Manager.
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 Manager a report containing the information described in § 67-50B(4) through (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 must be signed and certified in accordance with § 67-40 of this chapter.
A.
All significant industrial users shall, at a frequency determined by the Manager 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 pretreatment standards and the measured or estimated average and maximum daily flows for the reporting period. All periodic compliance reports must be signed and certified in accordance with § 67-40 of this chapter.
B.
All wastewater samples must 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 Manager 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 30
days before the change.
A.
The Manager may require the user to submit such information as may be deemed necessary to evaluate the change condition, including the submission of a wastewater discharge permit application under § 67-39 of this chapter.
C.
For purposes of this requirement, significant changes
include but are not limited to flow increases of 20% or greater and
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 Manager 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 Manager, 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, 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.
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 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 Manager
as the Manager may require.
If sampling performed by a user indicates a
violation, the user must notify the Manager 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 Manager
within 30 days after becoming aware of the violation. The user is
not required to resample if the Manager monitors at the user's facility
at least once a month or if the Manager samples between the user's
initial sampling and when the user receives the results of this sampling.
A.
Any user who commences the discharge of hazardous waste shall notify the POTW, 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 Part 261. Such notification must include the name of the hazardous waste as set forth in 40 CFR Part 261, the EPA hazardous waste number and the 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 also shall contain the following information, to the extent that such information is known and 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 wastestream discharged during that calendar month and an estimation of the mass of constituents in the wastestream 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 conditions must be submitted under § 67-51 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 §§ 67-50, 67-51 and 67-52 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 wastes, 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
must notify the Manager, the EPA Regional Waste Management Waste 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 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 Part 136, unless otherwise specified in an applicable categorical
pretreatment standard. If 40 CFR Part 136 does not contain sampling
or analytical techniques for the pollutant in question, sampling and
analyses must be performed in accordance with procedures approved
by the EPA.
A.
Except as indicated in Subsection B below, the user must collect wastewater samples using flow-proportional composite collection techniques. In the event that flow-proportional sampling is infeasible, the Manager may authorize the 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 must be obtained
using grab collection techniques.
Written reports will be deemed to have been
submitted on the date postmarked. For reports which are not mailed,
postage prepaid, into a mail facility serviced by the United States
Postal Service, the date of receipt of the report shall govern.
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. These records shall 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 Greater Greensburg Sewage Authority or where the user has been
specifically notified of a longer retention period by the Manager.
