(A) Individual application requirement. All users required to obtain an individual wastewater discharge permit or zero process wastewater discharge permit must submit a permit application to the Pretreatment Coordinator. Incomplete or inaccurate applications will not be processed and will be returned to the user for revision.
(B) Individual application contents. The Pretreatment Coordinator may require all users to submit as part of an application all or some of the following information:
(2) Identifying information for the site including name of the operator and owner and authorized representative.
(3) Description of operations.
(a) A brief description of the nature of the activities, services, production, and plant processes on the premises. Include each product produced by type, amount, process or processes, and a general rate of production.
(b) Number and type of employees, hours of operation, and proposed or actual hours of operation;
(c) Type and amount of raw materials processed (average and maximum per day) including a list of all raw materials and chemicals used or stored at the facility which are, or could accidentally or intentionally be, discharged to the POTW;
(4) Time and duration of discharges with an estimate of the average daily and maximum flow;
(5) Waste characteristics. Information showing the nature and concentration of the discharge in relation to applicable pretreatment standards and local limits;
(6) Requests for a monitoring waiver for a pollutant regulated as a categorical pretreatment neither present nor expected to be present in the discharge based on 40 CFR 403.12(e)(2). Representative sampling and analysis will be required to substantiate the request;
(7) Plans and diagrams.
(a) Site plans/floor plans that show the footprint of the building with an outline of major equipment similar to an emergency exit plan;
(b) Site plans, floor plans, mechanical and plumbing plans, and details to show all sewers, floor drains, and appurtenances by size, location and elevation, and all points of discharge;
(c) A diagram showing the location for monitoring the discharge of all wastes covered by the permit; and
(8) Any other information as may be deemed necessary by the Pretreatment Coordinator to evaluate the wastewater discharge permit application.
(C) General application requirement. The Pretreatment Coordinator may require all users that are required to obtain a general wastewater discharge permit to submit an application on a form provided by the village which is specific to the category regulated by the general wastewater discharge permit. The form may require but is not limited to contact information, production processes, the types of wastes generated, and the location for monitoring all wastes if regulated by the general permit. Where the standard will require compliance with a BMP or pollution prevention alternative, the user shall submit documentation as required by the Pretreatment Coordinator.
(D) Categorical monitoring waivers.
(1) Authority. Pursuant to 40 CFR Part 403.12(e)(2)(v) and (vi), the village may authorize an industrial user subject to a categorical pretreatment standard to forego sampling of a pollutant regulated by a categorical pretreatment standard if the user has demonstrated through sampling and other technical factors that the pollutant is neither present nor expected to be present in the discharge, or is present only at background levels from intake water and without any increase in the pollutant due to activities of the user. This waiver is not available to users whose concentration standards are derived from mass standards or production based standards. This authorization is subject to the following conditions:
(a) The waiver may be authorized where a pollutant is determined to be present solely due to sanitary wastewater discharged from the facility provided that the sanitary wastewater is not regulated by an applicable categorical pretreatment standard and otherwise includes no process wastewater.
(b) The monitoring waiver is valid only for the duration of the effective period of the individual wastewater discharge permit, but in no case longer than five years. The user must submit a new request for the waiver before the waiver can be granted for each subsequent individual wastewater discharge permit.
(c) This provision does not supersede certification processes and requirements established in categorical pretreatment standards, except as otherwise specified in the categorical pretreatment standard.
(2) Application requirements.
(a) In making a demonstration that a pollutant is not present, the user must provide data from at least one sampling of the facility's process wastewater prior to any treatment present at the facility that is representative of all wastewater from all processes.
(c) Non-detectable sample results may be used only as a demonstration that a pollutant is not present if the EPA approved method from 40 CFR Part 136 with the lowest minimum detection level for that pollutant was used in the analysis.
(3) Documentation and record retention for CIU monitoring waivers. Any grant of the monitoring waiver by the Pretreatment Coordinator must be included as a condition in the user's permit. The reasons supporting the waiver and any information submitted by the user in its request for the waiver must be maintained by the Pretreatment Coordinator for three years after expiration of the waiver.
(E) Incomplete or inaccurate applications will not be processed and will be returned to the user for revision.
(Ord. 2020-06-18, passed 6-15-2020)