The following conditions shall apply to the compliance schedule required by §
274-101B(4) of this Part
5, titled "Baseline monitoring reports."
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 Township no later
than 14 days following each date in the schedule and the final date
of compliance including, as a minimum, whether or not the user 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
scheduled; and
D. In no event shall more than nine months elapse between such progress
reports to the Township.
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 Township a report containing the information described in §
274-90 of this Part
5, titled "Wastewater discharge application contents," and §
274-101 of this Part
5, titled "Baseline monitoring reports," Subsection
B(2). For users subject to equivalent mass or concentration limits established in accordance with the procedures in §
274-79, titled "Local limits," 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 §
274-91 of this Part
5, titled "Application signatories and certification." All sampling will be done in conformance with §
274-110, titled "Sample collection."
All users not required to obtain a wastewater discharge permit
shall provide appropriate reports to the Township as the Township
may require from time to time.
If sampling performed by a user indicates a violation, the user
must notify the Township 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 Township within 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.
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 Township or other parties approved
by EPA.
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.
A. Except as indicated in Subsections
B and
C below, the user must collect wastewater samples using twenty-four-hour flow-proportional composite sampling techniques, unless time-proportional composite sampling or grab sampling is authorized by the Township. Where time-proportional composite sampling or grab sampling is authorized by the Township and/or 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-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 Township, as appropriate. In addition, grab samples may be required to show compliance with instantaneous limits.
B. Samples for oil and grease, temperature, pH, cyanide, total phenols,
sulfides, and volatile organic compounds must be obtained using grab
collection techniques.
C. For sampling required in support of baseline monitoring and ninety-day compliance reports required in §
274-101, Baseline monitoring reports, and §
274-103, Reports on compliance with categorical pretreatment standard deadline, [40 CFR 403.12(b) and (d)], a minimum of four 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 Township may authorize a lower minimum. For the reports required by §
274-104, Periodic compliance reports, [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 by with applicable pretreatment standards and requirements.
Written reports shall 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 Part
5 shall retain, and make available for inspection and copying, all records of information obtained pursuant to any monitoring activities required by this Part
5 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 §
274-79, Local limits, Subsection
C. 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, the Township, or the City, or where the user has been specifically notified of a longer retention period by the Township or the City.
Although discharges of hazardous wastes are specifically prohibited in §
274-76, Prohibited discharge standards, Subsection
B(18), if any user discharges a hazardous waste, the reporting requirements at 40 CFR 403.12(p)(1) shall be adhered to.