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§ 52.071 WASTEWATER DISCHARGE PERMIT TRANSFER.
   (A)   Wastewater discharge permits may be transferred to a new owner or operator only if the permittee gives at least 30 days advance notice to the coordinator and the coordinator approves the wastewater discharge permit transfer.
   (B)   The notice to the coordinator must include a written certification by the new owner or operator or user which:
      (1)   States that the new owner and/or operator and/or user has no immediate intent to change the facility’s operations and processes;
      (2)   Identifies the specific date on which the transfer is to occur; and
      (3)   Assumes and acknowledges full responsibility and liability for complying with the existing wastewater discharge permit.
   (C)   Failure to provide advance notice of a transfer and to obtain prior approval of such transfer renders the wastewater discharge permit void as of the date of facility transfer.
(Ord. 1433, passed 7-1-2002)
§ 52.072 WASTEWATER DISCHARGE PERMIT REVOCATION.
   (A)   The coordinator may revoke a wastewater discharge permit for good cause, including, but not limited to, the following reasons:
      (1)   Failure to notify the coordinator of significant changes to the wastewater prior to the changed discharge;
      (2)   Failure to provide prior notification to the coordinator of changed conditions pursuant to § 52.089;
      (3)   Misrepresentation or failure to fully disclose all relevant facts in the wastewater discharge permit application;
      (4)   Falsifying self-monitoring reports or otherwise creating, maintaining and/or providing inaccurate or false information, data, documents and/or reports with respect to the user’s discharge or any other information or documentation required to be maintained or provided under this chapter, the user’s permit, wastewater discharge or applicable federal and state pretreatment laws and regulations;
      (5)   Tampering with monitoring equipment;
      (6)   Refusing to allow the coordinator timely access to the facility premises and records;
      (7)   Failure to meet effluent limitations;
      (8)   Failure to pay fines and/or penalties;
      (9)   Failure to pay sewer charges;
      (10)   Failure to meet compliance schedules;
      (11)   Failure to complete a wastewater survey or the wastewater discharge permit application;
      (12)   Failure to provide advance notice of the transfer of business ownership of a permitted facility;
      (13)   Violation of any pretreatment standard or requirement, or any terms of the wastewater discharge permit or this chapter; or
      (14)   Failure to provide any or all documents and information as may be requested by the city.
   (B)   Wastewater discharge permits shall be voidable upon cessation of operations or transfer of business ownership. All wastewater discharge permits issued to a particular user are void upon the issuance of a new wastewater discharge permit to that user.
(Ord. 1433, passed 7-1-2002)
§ 52.073 WASTEWATER DISCHARGE PERMIT REISSUANCE.
   A user with an expiring wastewater discharge permit shall apply for wastewater discharge permit reissuance by submitting a complete permit application, in accordance with § 52.064, a minimum of 60 days prior to the expiration of the user’s existing wastewater discharge permit.
(Ord. 1433, passed 7-1-2002)
REPORTING REQUIREMENTS
§ 52.085 BASELINE MONITORING REPORTS.
   (A)   (1)   All categorical standard users of the city POTW shall provide the city with a copy of all reports, documents and certifications required to be provided to USEPA pursuant to 40 C.F.R. part 403.
      (2)   Within either 180 days after the effective date of a categorical pretreatment standard, or the final administrative decision on a category determination under 40 C.F.R. § 403.6(a)(4), whichever is later, existing categorical users currently discharging to or scheduled to discharge to the POTW shall submit to the coordinator a report which contains the information listed in division (B) below. Within 90 days following the commencement of their discharge to the POTW, new categorical users, and sources that become categorical users subsequent to the promulgation of an applicable categorical standard, shall submit to the coordinator a report which contains the information listed in division (B) below. A new source shall report the method of pretreatment it intends to use to meet applicable categorical standards. A new source also shall give estimates of its anticipated flow and quantity of pollutants to be discharged.
   (B)   Categorical users described above shall submit the information set forth below:
      (1)   Identifying information. The name and address of the facility, including the name of the operator and owner;
      (2)   Environmental permits. A list of any environmental control permits held by or for the facility;
      (3)   Description of operations. A brief description of the nature, average rate of production, and standard industrial classifications of the operation(s) carried out by such user. This description should include a schematic process diagram which indicates points of discharge to the POTW from the regulated processes;
      (4)   Flow measurement. Information showing the measured average daily and maximum daily flow, in gallons per day, to the POTW from regulated process streams and other streams, as necessary, to allow use of the combined wastestream formula set out in 40 C.F.R. § 403.6(e);
      (5)   Measurement of pollutants.
         (a)   The categorical pretreatment standards applicable to each regulated process.
         (b)   The results of sampling and analysis identifying the nature and concentration, and/or mass, where required by the standard or by the coordinator, of regulated pollutants in the discharge from each regulated process. Instantaneous, daily maximum, and long-term average concentrations, or mass, where required, shall be reported. The sample shall be representative of daily operations and shall be analyzed in accordance with procedures set out in § 52.094.
         (c)   Sampling must be performed in accordance with procedures set out in § 52.095.
      (6)   Certification. A statement, reviewed by the user’s authorized representative and certified by a qualified professional, indicating whether pretreatment standards are being met on a consistent basis, and, if not, whether additional operation and maintenance (O&M) and/or additional pretreatment is required to meet the pretreatment standards and requirements;
      (7)   Compliance schedule. If additional pretreatment and/or O&M will be required to meet the pretreatment standards, the shortest schedule by which the user will provide such additional pretreatment and/or O&M. The completion date in this schedule shall not be later than the compliance date established for the applicable pretreatment standard. A compliance schedule pursuant to this section must meet the requirements set out in § 52.086; and
      (8)   Signature and certification. All baseline monitoring reports must be signed and certified in accordance with § 52.065.
(Ord. 1433, passed 7-1-2002)
§ 52.086 COMPLIANCE SCHEDULE PROGRESS REPORTS.
   The following conditions shall apply to the compliance schedule required by § 52.085:
   (A)   The schedule shall contain progress increments in the form of dates for the commencement and completion of major events leading to the construction and operation of additional pretreatment required for the user to meet the applicable pretreatment standards (such events include, but are not limited to, hiring an engineer, completing preliminary and final plans, executing contracts for major components, commencing and completing construction, and beginning and conducting routine operation);
   (B)   No increment referred to above shall exceed nine months;
   (C)   The user shall submit a progress report to the coordinator no later than 14 days following each date in the schedule and the final date of compliance including, as a minimum, whether or not it complied with the increment of progress, the reason for any delay and, if appropriate, the steps being taken by the user to return to the established schedule; and
   (D)   In no event shall more than nine months elapse between such progress reports to the coordinator.
(Ord. 1433, passed 7-1-2002)
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