(A) Notification of potential problems. All industrial users shall notify the city immediately of all discharges that violate this chapter or could cause problems to the system, including slug loadings.
(B) Notification of new of changed discharge. All industrial users shall immediately notify the city of a new discharge or of any substantial change in the volume or character of pollutants in their discharge. If there is advance knowledge of the new or changed discharge, notification shall be made in advance. The city shall evaluate all the new or changed discharges to determine whether the discharge complies with the pretreatment standards and prohibitions established by this chapter, and whether the city can accept, or in cases where advance notice was not received, continue to accept the discharge.
(C) Notification of hazardous waste discharge.
(1) The industrial user shall notify the city, the EPA Regional Waste Management Division Director, and MDEQ Waste Management Division 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. The notification must include the name of the hazardous waste set forth in 40 C.F.R. part 261, the EPA hazardous waste number, and the type of discharge (continuous, batch or other).
(a) If the industry discharges more than 100 kilograms of the waste per calendar month to the system, the notification shall also contain the following information to the extent the information is known and readily available to the industrial user.
(b) An identification of the hazardous constituents contained in the wastes, an estimation of the mass and concentration of the constituents in the waste stream discharged during the calendar month, and an estimation of the mass and concentration of the constituents in the waste stream discharged during the calendar month, and an estimation of the mass of constituents in the waste stream expected to be discharged during the following 12 months.
(c) Industrial users shall provide the notification no later than 180 days after the discharge of the listed or characteristics hazardous waste. Any notification under this division need to be submitted only once for each hazardous waste discharged.
(2) Industrial users are exempt from the requiring during a calendar month in which they discharge no more than 15 kilograms of hazardous waste, unless the wastes are acute hazardous wastes as specified in 40 C.F.R. §§ 261.30(d) and 261.33(e). Discharges of more than 15 kilograms of non-acute hazardous waste 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.
(3) In the case of any new regulations under § 3001 of RCRA identifying additional characteristics of hazardous waste or listing any additional substances as hazardous waste, the industrial user must notify the city, the EPA Regional Waste Management Division Director, and state hazardous waste authorities of the discharge of the substances within 90 days of the effective date of the regulations.
(4) In case of any notification made under 40 C.F.R. § 403.12(p), the industrial user shall certify that it has a program in place to reduce the volume and toxicity of hazardous wastes to the degree if has determined to be economically practical.
(D) Notice of violation.
(1) If sampling performed by an industrial user indicates a violation of any applicable pretreatment standard or requirement, the user must notify the Superintendent within 24 hours of becoming aware of the violation.
(2) The user shall also repeat the sampling and analysis and submit the results of the repeat analysis to the Superintendents within 30 days after becoming aware of the violation.
(3) The user shall not be required to re-sample if the city monitors the user’s facility at least once a month, or if the city samples between the user’s initial sampling and when the user receives the result of this sampling.
(Ord. 162, passed 8-12-2002)