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(a) The director is authorized by § 12.5-121 of this chapter to enter and inspect facilities subject to regulation under this article.
(b) Facility operators shall allow the director ready access to all parts of the premises for the purposes of inspection, sampling, examination and copying of records that must be kept under the conditions of an NPDES or TPDES permit to discharge stormwater, and the performance of any additional duties as defined by state and federal law.
(c) The director shall have the right to set up on any permitted facility such devices as are necessary in the opinion of the director to conduct monitoring and/or sampling of the facility’s stormwater discharge.
(d) Any temporary or permanent obstruction to safe and easy access to the facility to be inspected and/or sampled shall be promptly removed by the operator at the written or oral request of the director and shall not be replaced. The costs of clearing such access shall be borne by the operator.
(e) Unreasonable delays in allowing the director access to a permitted facility is a violation of a stormwater discharge permit and of this article. A person who is the operator of a facility with a NPDES or TPDES permit to discharge stormwater associated with industrial activity commits an offense if the person denies the director reasonable access to the permitted facility for the purpose of conducting any activity authorized or required by this article.
(Ord. 13808, § 1, passed 5-18-1999)
A person who is the operator of a facility commits an offense if the person discharges, or causes to be discharged, stormwater associated with industrial activity without first having obtained a NPDES or TPDES permit to do so.
(Ord. 13808, § 1, passed 5-18-1999)
(a) The operator of a facility, including construction sites, required to have a NPDES or TPDES permit to discharge stormwater associated with industrial activity shall submit a copy of the notice of intent (NOI) to the director at the same time the operator submits the original notice of intent to the EPA or the TNRCC as applicable.
(b) The copy of the notice of intent may be delivered to the director either in person or by mailing it to:
Notice of Intent to Discharge Stormwater Department of Environmental Management 1000 Throckmorton Street Fort Worth, Texas 76102 |
(c) A person commits an offense if the person operates a facility that is discharging stormwater associated with industrial activity without having submitted a copy of the notice of intent to do so to the director.
(Ord. 13808, § 1, passed 5-18-1999)
(a) A facility shall be operated in strict compliance with the requirements of its NPDES or TPDES permit to discharge stormwater associated with industrial activity.
(b) A person commits an offense if the person operates a facility in violation of a requirement of the facility’s NPDES or TPDES permit to discharge stormwater associated with industrial activity.
(Ord. 13808, § 1, passed 5-18-1999)
(a) The director may require any operator of a facility to modify the facility’s stormwater pollution prevention plan if in the best professional judgment of the director, the SWPPP does not comply with the requirements of the facility’s NPDES or TPDES permit to discharge stormwater associated with industrial activity.
(b) The deficiencies in a facility’s SWPPP will be made in writing, and the director will give the facility operator a reasonable amount of time, not to exceed 30 days, to make the necessary changes in the SWPPP.
(Ord. 13808, § 1, passed 5-18-1999)
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