The following conditions shall apply to the compliance schedule
required by Section 6.1B(4) of this Ordinance:
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 (9) months;
C. The user shall submit a progress report to the Joint Sewer Authority
no later than fourteen (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; and
D. In no event shall more than nine (9) months elapse between such progress
reports to the Joint Sewer Authority.
Within ninety (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 Joint Sewer Authority a report containing the information described in Section 4.5A(6) and (7) and 6.1B(2) of this Ordinance. For users subject to equivalent mass or concentration limits established in accordance with the procedures in Section
2.2, 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 Section 6.14A of this Ordinance. All sampling will be done in conformance with Section
6.11.
Each user must notify the Joint Sewer Authority of any planned
significant changes to the user's operations or system which
has the potential might to alter the nature, quality, or volume of
its wastewater creating a possible slug load discharge condition at
least sixty (60) days before the change.
A. The Joint Sewer Authority 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
Section 4 of this Ordinance.
B. The Joint Sewer Authority may issue a wastewater discharge permit
under Section 4 of this Ordinance or modify an existing wastewater
discharge permit under Section 5 of this Ordinance 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 twenty percent (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 the Joint Sewer Authority as
the Joint Sewer Authority may require.
If sampling performed by a user indicates a violation, the user
must notify the Joint Sewer Authority within twenty-four (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 Joint Sewer Authority within thirty (30) days after becoming
aware of the violation. The user is not required to resample if the
Joint Sewer Authority monitors at the user's facility at least
once a month, or if the Joint Sewer Authority 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, and amendments thereto, 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, or where EPA determines that the Part 136 sampling and
analytical techniques are inappropriate for the pollutant in question,
sampling and analyses shall be performed by using validated analytical
methods or any other applicable sampling and analytical procedures,
including procedures suggested by the Joint Sewer Authority or other
parties 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.
Users subject to the reporting requirements of this Ordinance
shall retain, and make available for inspection and copying, all records
of information obtained pursuant to any monitoring activities required
by this Ordinance and any additional records of information obtained
pursuant to monitoring activities undertaken by the user independent
of such requirements, including any documentation associated with
BMPs established under Section 2.4C. 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 (3) years. This period shall be automatically extended
for the duration of any litigation concerning the user or the Joint
Sewer Authority, or where the user has been specifically notified
of a longer retention period by the Joint Sewer Authority.