(A) Permit application. All users required to obtain a wastewater discharge permit must submit a permit application.
(1) The Director may require all users to submit as part of an application the following information:
(a) All information required by § 51.065(B);
(b) Description of activities, facilities, and plant processes on the premises 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;
(c) Number and type of employees, hours of operation, and proposed or actual hours of operation;
(d) Each product produced by type, amount, process or processes, and rate of production;
(e) Type and amount of raw materials processed (average and maximum per day);
(f) 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;
(g) Time and duration of discharges; and
(h) Any other information as may be deemed necessary by the Director to evaluate the wastewater discharge permit application.
(2) Incomplete or inaccurate applications will not be processed and will be returned to the user for revision.
(B) Signatories and certification.
(1) An authorized representative of the user must sign all wastewater discharge permit applications, user reports, and enforcement responses. Wastewater discharge permit applications and user reports as identified in 40 C.F.R. § 403.12(b), (d), (e), and (h), must contain the following certification statement:
"I certify under penalty of law that this document and all attachments were prepared under my direction or supervision in accordance with a system designed to assure that qualified personnel properly gather and evaluate the information submitted. Based on my inquiry of the person or persons who manage the system, or those persons directly responsible for gathering the information, the information submitted is, to the best of my knowledge and belief, true, accurate, and complete. I am aware that there are significant penalties for submitting false information, including the possibility of fine and imprisonment for knowing violations."
(2) If the designation of an authorized representative of the user is no longer accurate because a different individual or position has responsibility for the overall operation of the facility or overall responsibility for environmental matters for the company, a new written authorization satisfying the requirements of this section must be submitted to the Director prior to or together with any reports to be signed by an authorized representative of the user.
(3) A facility determined to be a non-significant categorical industrial user (NSCIU) by the Director pursuant to the definition of “NSCIU” in § 51.004 must annually submit the signed certification statement signed in accordance with the signatory requirements listed under the definition of “authorized representative of the user” in § 51.004. This certification must accompany an alternative report required by the Director:
"Based on my inquiry of the person or persons directly responsible for managing compliance with the categorical Pretreatment Standards under 40 C.F.R. §_____, I certify, to the best of my knowledge and belief, that during the period from ________, to ________, ________ [months, days, year]:
(a) The facility described as __________ [facility name] met the definition of a non-significant categorical industrial user as described in § 51.004; [Note: See 40 C.F.R. § 403.3(v)(2)]
(b) The facility complied with all applicable pretreatment standards and requirements during this reporting period; and the facility never discharged more than 100 gallons of total categorical wastewater on any given day during this reporting period.
(c) This compliance certification is based on the following information.
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(Ord. 317, passed 10-16-1995; Am. Ord. O-21-932, passed 3-1-2021) Penalty, see § 51.999