Ambler Wastewater Treatment Plant may modify
a wastewater discharge permit for good cause, including but not limited
to the following reasons:
A. To incorporate any new or revised federal, state or
local pretreatment standards or requirements.
B. To address significant alterations or additions to
the user's operation, processes or wastewater volume or character
since the time of wastewater discharge permit issuance.
C. A change in the POTW that requires either a temporary
or permanent reduction or elimination of the authorized discharge.
D. Information indicating that the permitted discharge
poses a threat to Ambler Wastewater Treatment Plant's POTW, Ambler
Wastewater Treatment Plant's personnel or the receiving waters.
E. Violation of any terms or conditions of the wastewater
discharge permit.
F. Misrepresentations or failure to fully disclose all
relevant facts in the wastewater discharge permit application or in
any required reporting.
G. Revision of or a grant of variance from categorical
pretreatment standards pursuant to 40 CFR 403.13.
H. To correct typographical or other errors in the wastewater
discharge permit.
I. To reflect a transfer of the facility ownership or
operation to a new owner or operator.
A user with an expiring wastewater discharge permit shall apply for wastewater discharge permit reissuance by submitting a complete permit application, in accordance with §
122-12E of this Part
1, a minimum of 180 days prior to the expiration of the user's existing wastewater discharge permit.
The following conditions shall apply to the compliance schedule required by §
122-19B(7) of this Part
1:
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 Ambler
Wastewater Treatment Plant no later than 14 days following each date
in the schedule and the final date of compliance, including, at 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 Ambler Wastewater Treatment Plant.
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 Ambler Wastewater Treatment Plant a report containing the information described in §
122-19B(4) through
(6) of this Part
1. 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 §
122-12E of this Part
1.
Each user must notify Ambler Wastewater Treatment
Plant 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 60 days before the change.
A. Ambler Wastewater Treatment Plant 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 §
122-12 of this Part
1.
B. Ambler Wastewater Treatment Plant may issue a wastewater discharge permit under §
122-12 of this Part
1 or modify an existing wastewater discharge permit under §§
122-13 through
122-18 of this Part
1 in response to changed conditions or anticipated changed conditions.
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.
All users not required to obtain a wastewater
discharge permit shall provide appropriate reports to Ambler Wastewater
Treatment Plant as Ambler Wastewater Treatment Plant may require.
If sampling performed by a user indicates a
violation, the user must notify Ambler Wastewater Treatment Plant
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 Ambler Wastewater Treatment Plant within 30 days
after becoming aware of the violation. The user is not required to
resample if Ambler Wastewater Treatment Plant monitors at the user's
facility at least once a month or if Ambler Wastewater Treatment Plant
samples between the user's initial sampling and when the user receives
the results of this sampling.
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 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 EPA.
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.
[Amended 4-3-2012 by Ord. No. 155-8]
Users subject to the reporting requirements
of this Part shall maintain, and make available for inspection and
copying by Ambler, all records of information obtained pursuant to
any monitoring activities required by this Part 1, any additional
records of information obtained pursuant to monitoring activities
undertaken by the user independent of such requirements, and records
associated with implementation of BMPs. 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 and any other information or date
deemed necessary by Ambler. 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
Ambler or where the user has been specifically notified of a longer
retention period by Ambler.