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(A) If sampling performed by a user indicates a violation, the user must notify the Superintendent 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 within 30 days after becoming aware of the violation.
(B) Resampling by the industrial user is not required if the town performs sampling at the user’s facility at least once a month, or if the town performs sampling at the user between the time when the initial sampling was conducted and the time when the user or the town receives the results of this sampling, or if the town has performed the sampling and analysis in lieu of the industrial user.
(Ord. 7-2010, passed 11-22-2010)
(A) (1) Any user who commences the discharge of hazardous waste shall notify the POTW, the EPA Regional Waste Management Division Director and the state’s 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 C.F.R. part 261. Such notification must include the name of the hazardous waste as set forth in 40 C.F.R. part 261, the EPA hazardous waste number and the type of discharge (continuous, batch or other).
(2) If the user discharges more than 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:
(a) An identification of the hazardous constituents contained in the wastes;
(b) An estimation of the mass and concentration of such constituents in the waste stream discharged during that calendar month; and
(c) An estimation of the mass of constituents in the waste stream expected to be discharged during the following 12 months.
(3) All notifications must take place not later than 180 days after the discharge commences. Any notification under this division (A) need be submitted only once for each hazardous waste discharged. However, notifications of changed conditions must be submitted under § 54.099 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 §§ 54.095, 54.097 and 54.098 of this chapter.
(B) Dischargers are exempt from the requirements of division (A) above during a calendar month in which they discharge not more than 15 kilograms of hazardous wastes unless the wastes are acute hazardous wastes as specified in 40 C.F.R. §§ 261.30(d) and 261.33(c). Discharge of more than 15 kilograms of nonacute hazardous wastes in a calendar month, or of any quantity of acute hazardous wastes as specified in 40 C.F.R. §§ 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 RCRA § 3001 identifying additional characteristics of a hazardous waste or listing any additional substance as a hazardous waste, the user must notify the Superintendent, the EPA Regional Waste Management Division Director and the state’s hazardous waste authorities of the discharge of such substance within 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 the user has a program in place to reduce the volume and toxicity of hazardous wastes generated to the degree the user 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.
(Ord. 7-2010, passed 11-22-2010)
(A) 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 C.F.R. part 136, and amendments thereto, unless otherwise specified in an applicable categorical pretreatment standard.
(B) If 40 C.F.R. 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 the EPA.
(Ord. 7-2010, passed 11-22-2010)
(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.
(B) (1) Except as indicated in divisions (C) and (D) below, the user must collect wastewater samples using 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 town, the samples must be representative of the discharge.
(2) Using protocols (including appropriate preservation) specified in 40 C.F.R. part 136 and appropriate EPA guidance, multiple grab samples collected during a 24-hour period may be composited prior to the analysis as follows:
(a) For cyanide, total phenols and sulfides, the samples may be composited in the laboratory or in the field; and
(b) For volatile organics and oil and grease, the samples may be composited in the laboratory.
(3) Composite samples for other parameters unaffected by the compositing procedures as documented in approved EPA methodologies may be authorized by the town, as appropriate. In addition, grab samples may be required to show compliance with instantaneous limits.
(C) Samples for oil and grease, temperature, pH, cyanide, total phenols, sulfides and volatile organic compounds must be obtained using grab collection techniques.
(D) (1) For sampling required in support of baseline monitoring and 90-day compliance reports required in §§ 54.095 and 54.097 of this chapter, 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 does not exist; for facilities for which historical sampling data is available, the Superintendent may authorize a lower minimum.
(2) For the reports required by § 54.098 of this chapter, the industrial user is required to collect the number of grab samples necessary to assess and assure compliance with applicable pretreatment standards and requirements.
(Ord. 7-2010, passed 11-22-2010)
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.
(Ord. 7-2010, passed 11-22-2010)
(A) 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 § 54.023(C) of this chapter.
(B) 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.
(C) 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 town, or where the user has been specifically notified of a longer retention period by the Superintendent.
(Ord. 7-2010, passed 11-22-2010)
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