Each user must notify the Director of Public
Works 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. Users located within the City
and discharging to treatment works within another municipality must
notify the Director of Public Works at least 120 days prior to the
change.
A. The Director of Public Works may require the user to submit such information as may be deemed necessary to evaluate the changed condition, including the submittal of an industrial discharge permit application under §
136-26, Industrial discharge permit application contents, of this chapter.
B. Upon approval of the request by the city, a discharge
request will be submitted by the city to the NHDES on behalf of the
user. All applicable NHDES review fees shall be provided by the user.
C. Upon approval of the discharge request by the NHDES, the Director of Public Works may issue an industrial discharge permit under §
136-29, Industrial discharge permit decisions, of this chapter or modify an existing industrial discharge permit under §
136-33, Industrial discharge permit modification, of this chapter in response to changed conditions or anticipated changed conditions.
All users not required to obtain an industrial
discharge permit shall provide appropriate reports to the Director
of Public Works as the Director of Public Works may require.
If the results of sampling performed by a user
indicate a violation, the user must notify the Director of Public
Works 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 Director of Public Works within 30 days
subsequent to becoming aware of the violation. The user is not required
to resample if the Director of Public Works monitors at the user's
facility at least once a month, or if the Director of Public Works
samples between the user's initial sampling and when the user receives
the results of this sampling.
All industrial users shall notify the Director
of Public Works within 24 hours of becoming aware of any violations
of this chapter and/or their industrial discharge permit conditions.
Immediate notification is required for any violations of this chapter
which may cause flammability, chemical reactivity, organic/solids
loadings, interference, pass-through, or worker health and safety
impacts at the POTW.
Permitted industrial users discharging pollutants on the local limits or pollution prevention action lists of §
136-12, Local discharge restrictions, of this chapter, at concentrations greater than background levels, shall report annually on pollution prevention activities undertaken to reduce or minimize the generation of wastes containing these pollutants. The city may publicize these efforts in the annual notification provided for in §
136-60, Publication of pollution prevention achievements, of this chapter.
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 city.
Written reports will be deemed to have been
submitted on the date postmarked. For reports that 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 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. Records shall include
the date, exact location, method and time of sampling, and the name
of the person(s) obtaining 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 five 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 Director of Public Works.