The following conditions shall apply to the compliance schedule required by §
435-30B(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
operations);
B. No increment referred to above shall exceed nine months;
C. The user shall submit a progress report to the Superintendent, or
his/her designee, 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 Superintendent, or his/her designee.
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 Superintendent, or his/her designee, a report containing the information described in §
435-30B(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 §
435-20 of this chapter. All sampling will be done in conformance with §
435-40.
[Note: All SIUs are required to submit periodic compliance reports
unless they have been designated a non-significant categorical industrial
user (NSCIU) under the streamlining provision per 40 CFR 403.12(e)(3).
(See Subsection E.)]
A. All significant industrial users shall, at a frequency determined by the Superintendent, or his/her designee, but in no case less than twice per year, 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. The reporting periods are January through June (submit report by July 15), and July through December (submit report by January 15). All periodic compliance reports must be signed and certified in accordance with §
435-20 of this chapter. 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 his/her designee, or the pretreatment standard necessary to determine the compliance status of the user.
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.
C. If a user subject to the reporting requirement in this section monitors any regulated pollutant more frequently than required by the Superintendent, or his/her designee, using the procedures prescribed in §
435-40 of this chapter, the results of this monitoring shall be included in the report.
D. The City may authorize an industrial user subject to a categorical
pretreatment standard to forego sampling of a pollutant regulated
by a categorical pretreatment standard if the industrial user has
demonstrated through sampling and other technical factors that the
pollutant is neither present nor expected to be present in the discharge,
or is present only at background levels from intake water and without
any increase in the pollutant due to activities of the industrial
user [40 CFR 403.12(e)(2)]. This authorization is subject to the following
conditions:
(1) The waiver may be authorized where a pollutant is determined to be
present solely due to sanitary wastewater discharged from the facility,
provided that the sanitary wastewater is not regulated by an applicable
categorical standard and otherwise includes no process wastewater.
(2) The monitoring waiver is valid only for the duration of the effective period of the individual wastewater discharge permit, but in no case longer than five years. The user must submit a new request for the waiver before the waiver can be granted for each subsequent individual wastewater discharge permit. See Article
IV, §
435-19B(8).
(3) In making a demonstration that a pollutant is not present, the industrial
user must provide data from at least one sampling of the facility's
process wastewater prior to any treatment present at the facility
that is representative of all wastewater from all processes.
(4) The request for a monitoring waiver must be signed in accordance with Article
I, §
435-4, definition of "authorized representative of the user," and include the certification statement in Article
IV, §
435-20 [40 CFR 403.6(a)(2)(ii)].
(5) Nondetectable sample results may be used only as a demonstration
that a pollutant is not present if the EPA-approved method from 40
CFR Part 136 with the lowest minimum detection level for that pollutant
was used in the analysis.
(6) Any grant of the monitoring waiver by the Superintendent must be
included as a condition in the user's permit. The reasons supporting
the waiver and any information submitted by the user in its request
for the waiver must be maintained by the Superintendent for three
years after expiration of the waiver.
(7) Upon approval of the monitoring waiver and revision of the user's permit by the Superintendent, the industrial user must certify on each report with the statement in Article
VI, §
435-43C that there has been no increase in the pollutant in its waste stream due to activities of the industrial user.
(8) In the event that a waived pollutant is found to be present or is
expected to be present because of changes that occur in the user's
operations, the user must immediately comply with the monitoring requirements
imposed by the Superintendent and notify the Superintendent.
(9) This provision does not supersede certification processes and requirements
established in categorical pretreatment standards, except as otherwise
specified in the categorical pretreatment standards.
E. Reduce periodic compliance reporting. As per the streamlining provision
in 40 CFR 403.12(e)(3), NSCIUs are required to submit certification
only, one time per year. However, at the discretion of the Superintendent
or his/her designee, a periodic compliance report may still be a requirement.
A "middle-tier" significant CIU is required to submit a PCR once per
year and all other CIUs two times per year (at a minimum).
F. All periodic compliance reports must be signed and certified in accordance with Article
VI, §
435-43.
Each user must notify the Superintendent, or his/her designee,
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 Superintendent, or his/her designee, 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 §
435-19 of this chapter.
B. The Superintendent, or his/her designee, may issue a wastewater discharge permit under §
435-21 of this chapter or modify an existing wastewater discharge permit under §
435-25 of this chapter 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 the Superintendent, or his/her
designee, as the Superintendent, or his/her designee, may require.
If sampling performed by a user indicates a violation, the user
must notify the Superintendent, or his/her designee, 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 Superintendent, or his/her designee, within 30 days after becoming
aware of the violation. The user is not required to resample if the
Superintendent, or his/her designee, monitors at the user's facility
at least once a month, or if the Superintendent, or his/her designee,
samples between the users initial sampling and when the user receives
the results of this sampling, or if the City of Crystal Lake has performed
the sampling and analysis in lieu of the industrial user [40 CFR 403.12(g)(2)].
The discharge of any hazardous waste is prohibited.
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.
Written reports will be deemed to have been submitted on the
date received. 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. Written reports include
baseline monitoring reports, periodic compliance reports, monthly
monitoring reports, slug plans, toxic organic management plans, wastewater
discharge questionnaires, and any other documents required by the
City of Crystal Lake.
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, and documentation associated with best management practices established under Article
II, §
435-8B. 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 City, or where the user has been specifically notified of a longer retention period by the Superintendent or his/her designee.