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A.
Within either one hundred eighty (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 industrial users currently discharging to or scheduled to discharge to the POTW shall submit to the Superintendent a report which contains the information listed in Subsection (B) below. At least ninety (90) days prior to commencement of their discharge, new sources and sources that become categorical industrial users subsequent to the promulgation of an applicable categorical standard shall submit to the Superintendent 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.
2.
Measurement of pollutants.
a.
The user shall provide the information required in Section 725.190(A)(7)(a) through (d).
b.
The user shall take a minimum of one (1) representative sample to
compile that data necessary to comply with the requirements of this
paragraph.
c.
Samples should be taken immediately downstream from pretreatment
facilities if such exist or immediately downstream from the regulated
process if no pretreatment exists. If other wastewaters are mixed
with the regulated wastewater prior to pretreatment, the user should
measure the flows and concentrations necessary to allow use of the
combined wastestream formula in 40 CFR 403.6(e) to evaluate compliance
with the pretreatment standards. Where an alternate concentration
or mass limit has been calculated in accordance with 40 CFR 403.6(e),
this adjusted limit along with supporting data shall be submitted
to the control authority.
e.
The Superintendent may allow the submission of a baseline report
which utilizes only historical data so long as the data provides information
sufficient to determine the need for industrial pretreatment measures.
f.
The baseline report shall indicate the time, date and place of sampling
and methods of analysis and shall certify that such sampling and analysis
is representative of normal work cycles and expected pollutant discharges
to the POTW.
3.
Compliance 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.
4.
Compliance schedule.
a.
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 must be provided.
b.
The completion date in this schedule shall not be later than the
compliance date established for the applicable pretreatment standard.
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A.
The following conditions shall apply to the compliance schedule required by Section 725.290 of this Chapter:
1.
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);
2.
No increment referred to above shall exceed nine (9) months;
3.
The user shall submit a progress report to the Superintendent no
later than fourteen (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
4.
In no event shall more than nine (9) months elapse between such progress
reports to the Superintendent.
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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 Superintendent a report containing the information described in Section 725.190(A)(6) and (7) and Section 725.290(B)(2) of this Chapter. For users subject to equivalent mass or concentration limits established in accordance with the procedures in Section 725.060 of this Chapter, 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 725.420 of this Chapter. All sampling will be done in conformance with Section 725.390.
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A.
All
significant industrial users must, at a frequency determined by the
Superintendent, submit no less than twice per year (June and December
[or on dates specified]) reports 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. In cases where the pretreatment standard requires
compliance with a Best Management Practice (BMP) or pollution prevention
alternative, the user must submit documentation required by the Superintendent
or the pretreatment standard necessary to determine the compliance
status of the user.
B.
All periodic compliance reports must be signed and certified in accordance with Section 725.420 of this Chapter.
C.
All
wastewater samples must be representative of the user's discharge.
Wastewater monitoring and flow measurement facilities shall be properly
calibrated, 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. Documentation
of calibration of monitoring and flow measurement equipment shall
be maintained by the user.
D.
If a user subject to the reporting requirement in this Section monitors any regulated pollutant at the appropriate sampling location more frequently than required by the Superintendent using the procedures prescribed in Section 725.390 of this Chapter, the results of this monitoring shall be included in the report.
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A.
Each
user must notify the Superintendent of any significant changes to
the user's operations or system which might alter the nature, quality
or volume of its wastewater at least ninety (90) days before the change.
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A.
In
the case of any discharge including, but not limited to, accidental
discharges, discharges of a non-routine, episodic nature, a non-customary
batch discharge, a slug discharge or slug load that might cause potential
problems for the POTW, the user shall immediately telephone and notify
the Superintendent 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 (5) days following such discharge, the user shall, unless waived
by the Superintendent, 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 might 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 who to call in the event of a discharge described in Subsection (A) above. Employers shall ensure that all employees, who could cause such a discharge to occur, are advised of the emergency notification procedure.
D.
Significant
industrial users are required to notify the Superintendent immediately
of any changes at its facility affecting the potential for a slug
discharge.
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All users not required to obtain an individual wastewater discharge
permit shall provide appropriate reports to the Superintendent as
the Superintendent may require.
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If sampling performed by a user indicates a violation, the user
must notify the Superintendent 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 Superintendent
within thirty (30) days after becoming aware of the violation. Resampling
by the industrial user is not required if the City performs sampling
at the user's facility at least once a month or if the City performs
sampling at the user between the time when the initial sampling was
conducted and the time when the user or the City receives the results
of this sampling or if the City has performed the sampling and analysis
in lieu of the industrial user.
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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 one hundred (100) kilograms of such waste per calendar month to the POTW, the notification also shall contain the following information to the extent 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 twelve (12) months. All notifications must take place no later than one hundred eighty (180) days after the discharge commences. Any notification under this paragraph need be submitted only once for each hazardous waste discharged. However, notifications of changed conditions must be submitted under Section 725.330 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 Sections 725.290, 725.310 and 725.320 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 fifteen (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 fifteen (15) kilograms of non-acute 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 Superintendent,
the EPA Regional Waste Management Waste Division Director and State
hazardous waste authorities of the discharge of such substance within
ninety (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.
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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 the 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 Superintendent or other parties
approved by EPA.
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A.
Samples
collected to satisfy reporting requirements must be based on data
obtained through appropriate sampling and analysis performed during
the period covered by the report, based on data that is representative
of conditions occurring during the reporting period.
1.
Except as indicated in Subsections (2) and (3) below, the user must collect wastewater samples using twenty-four (24) hour flow-proportional composite sampling techniques, unless time-proportional composite sampling or grab sampling is authorized by the Superintendent. Where time-proportional composite sampling or grab sampling is authorized by the City, the samples must be representative of the discharge. Using protocols (including appropriate preservation) specified in 40 CFR Part 136 and appropriate EPA guidance, multiple grab samples collected during a twenty-four (24) hour period may be composited prior to the analysis as follows: for cyanide, total phenols and sulfides, the samples may be composited in the laboratory or in the field; for volatile organics and oil and grease, the samples may be composited in the laboratory. Composite samples for other parameters unaffected by the compositing procedures as documented in approved EPA methodologies may be authorized by the City, as appropriate. In addition, grab samples may be required to show compliance with instantaneous limits.
2.
Samples for oil and grease, temperature, pH, cyanide, total phenols,
sulfides and volatile organic compounds must be obtained using grab
collection techniques.
3.
For sampling required in support of baseline monitoring and ninety (90) day compliance reports required in Section 725.290 and Section 725.310 of this Chapter and 40 CFR 403.12(b) and (d), a minimum of four (4) grab samples must be used for pH, cyanide, total phenols, oil and grease, sulfide and volatile organic compounds for facilities for which historical sampling data do not exist; for facilities for which historical sampling data are available, the Superintendent may authorize a lower minimum. For the reports required by Section 725.320 (40 CFR 403.12(e) and 403.12(h)), the industrial user is required to collect the number of grab samples necessary to assess and assure compliance with applicable pretreatment standards and requirements.
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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.
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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, any additional records of information obtained pursuant to monitoring activities undertaken by the user independent of such requirements and documentation associated with Best Management Practices established under Section 725.080 of this Chapter. 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 City or where the user has been specifically notified of a longer retention period by the Superintendent.
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Certification Of Permit Applications And User Reports. The following certification statement is required to be signed and submitted by users submitting permit applications in accordance with this Chapter; users submitting baseline monitoring reports under Section 725.290; users submitting reports on compliance with the categorical pretreatment standard deadlines under Section 725.310 and users submitting periodic compliance reports required by Section 725.320. The following certification statement must be signed by an authorized representative as defined in this Chapter:
"I certify under penalty of law that this document and all attachments
were prepared under my direction or supervision in accordance with
a system designed to assure that qualified personnel properly gather
and evaluate the information submitted. Based on my inquiry of the
person or persons who manage the system or those persons directly
responsible for gathering the information, the information submitted
is, to the best of my knowledge and belief, true, accurate and complete.
I am aware that there are significant penalties for submitting false
information, including the possibility of fine and imprisonment for
knowing violations."
