(a) Materials required. On request by the County, a user shall provide plans, reports, questionnaires, notices, analytical data, and information required to be provided by 40 CFR 403.12 or this subtitle or any other item the Director determines is necessary to evaluate the user's waste discharge characteristics and ensure compliance with this subtitle.
(b) Reports for all significant industrial users. Unless required more frequently by the Director or applicable national categorical pretreatment standards, each significant industrial user, after commencement of the discharge into the County system, shall submit to the Director not less than semiannually periodic compliance reports and the results of any monitoring of pollutants using approved analytical and sampling procedures that are obtained more frequently than otherwise required by this subsection.
(c) Reports and records for grease interceptor or oil separator. A user required by this Code to use or maintain a grease interceptor or oil separator that discharges into the County system shall file an annual report as required by the permit, maintain records of compliance with the County Plumbing Code for three years, and make records of compliance available for inspection by the Director.
(d) Report for accidental discharge. A user that experiences an accidental discharge or a slugload shall immediately inform the Department and within five days of discovery file a written follow-up report with the Department stating:
(1) a description of the accidental discharge or slugload, its cause, and its impact on the user's compliance status;
(2) the duration of noncompliance, including exact dates and times of noncompliance, and if the noncompliance continues, the time by which compliance is reasonably expected to occur; and
(3) a description of steps taken or to be taken to reduce, eliminate, and prevent recurrence of an accidental discharge, a slugload, or other conditions of noncompliance.
(e) Responsibilities of reporter. The filing of a report required under this section does not release the user from any responsibility for loss or damages to the County system or for fines or penalties imposed on the County by State or federal law that are the result of any action or inaction by the user.
(f) Analysis. Any analysis performed as a requirement of this subtitle shall be undertaken in accordance with procedures established by the Administrator under 40 CFR Part 136, as amended.
(g) Reports by industrial user that indicate violation of this subtitle. If the analysis of any sampling undertaken by an industrial user, whether required or voluntary, indicates that there may be a violation of this subtitle, the user shall notify the Director no more than 24 hours after discovering the violation; immediately repeat the sampling and analysis; and, within 30 days after discovering the violation, submit the repeat analysis to the Director.
(h) Report certification. All reports submitted by industrial users shall include the certification statement contained in 40 CFR 403.12 and be signed by an authorized representative of the user.
(i) Plan to control slug discharges. No less than every two years, the Director shall evaluate and determine if each significant user needs a plan to control slug discharges and, if required by the Director, a significant industrial user shall submit a plan that contains the specific information described in 40 CFR 403.8(f).
(j) Discharge of hazardous waste. Nonresidential users shall notify in writing the Director, the United States Environmental Protection Agency Regional Waste Management Division Director, and State hazardous waste authorities in accordance with the procedures described in 40 CFR 403.12(p) of any discharge into the County system of a substance that is a hazardous waste as defined in 40 CFR Part 261.
(k) Miscellaneous notifications. A user shall promptly notify the County of any discharge that may violate this subtitle or have an adverse impact on a POTW. A user shall promptly notify the County prior to any substantial change in the volume or character of the pollutants in the user's discharges.
(1985 Code, Art. 25, § 25-5-512) (Bill No. 40-85; Bill No. 53-90; Bill No. 94-92; Bill No. 63-04)