Wastewater discharge permits shall be deemed to contain all provisions of this chapter, other applicable laws, rules, regulations, user charges and fees established without repetition therein. Permits may also contain the following.
(A) Limits on the average and maximum wastewater constituents or characteristics if more restrictive than or supplemental to the numeric limits enumerated in § 52.35 of this chapter or the applicable national categorical pretreatment standards.
(B) Limits on average and maximum rate and time of discharge or requirements for flow regulation and equalization.
(C) Requirements for installation, operation and maintenance of discharge sampling manholes and monitoring facilities by the industrial user.
(D) Restrictions on which of the user's discharge waste streams are to be allowed to be discharged at each point of connection to the POTW.
(E) Specifications for industrial user monitoring programs which may include sampling locations, frequency and type of sampling, number, types and standards for tests and reporting schedule.
(F) Requirements for the prevention of accidental discharges and the containment of spills.
(G) Restrictions based on the information furnished in the application.
(H) Compliance schedules; the following conditions shall apply to these schedules.
(1) The schedule shall contain increments of progress in the form of dates for the commencement and completion of major events leading to the construction and operation of upgraded or additional pretreatment facilities, or to the implementation of additional operation and maintenance procedures required for the industrial user to meet the applicable pretreatment requirements and standards (that is, hiring an engineer, completing preliminary plans, completing final plans, executing contracts for major components, commencing construction, completing construction, and the like).
(2) No increment referred to in division (A) shall exceed nine months.
(3) Not later than 14 days following each date in the schedule and the final date for compliance, the industrial user shall submit a progress report to the control authority including, as a minimum, whether or not it complied with the increment of progress to be met on that date and, if not, the date on which it expects to comply with this increment of progress, the reason for delay, and the steps being taken by the industrial user to return to the established schedule. In no event shall more than 75 days elapse between each progress report to the control authority.
(4) The compliance schedule embodied in an industrial user's wastewater discharge permit shall be binding until the expiration and fulfillment of the schedule or until the permit is modified. Changes to the compliance schedule which are acceptable to the control authority shall be incorporated into the wastewater discharge permit by modification thereof. Any deviations from the compliance schedule may result in the industrial user being found in violation of this chapter.
(I) Reporting requirements; in addition to the above, shall be as follows.
(1) All permittees shall submit a report to the control authority in the prescribed form, or an alternative approved form indicating the status of compliance with all conditions enumerated or referred to in the wastewater discharge permit or made applicable to the permit by this chapter. The reports shall be submitted at six-month intervals, unless required more frequently, on a schedule to be established by the control authority for each permittee. Except for permittees subject to national categorical pretreatment standards or requirements, a permittee who has demonstrated consistent compliance with a permit for a period of one year or more (which contains no compliance schedule), may request in writing whether all requirements of the permit are being met and what progress is being made on work under compliance schedules. The report shall also contain projections of compliance for the next six months. At a minimum, the report shall also contain a dated and signed analytical report of at least one representative discharge sample taken during the period since the last report. If the control authority has sampled the permittee's effluent since the last report, the control authority's analytical report may be substituted for that of the permittee. The analytical report shall show the concentration of each substance for which there is specific limitation in the permit. The report shall be signed and dated by the authorized representative of the industrial user.
(2) Permittees subject to national categorical pretreatment standard or requirements shall submit compliance reports at the times and intervals specified by the federal regulations and the control authority. Compliance reports shall be submitted to the control authority no later than 90 days following the final compliance date for a standard, and at six-month intervals thereafter on the schedule established by the control authority for each permittee as hereinabove stated. New sources shall commence reporting at the time of initial discharge into the system. The reports shall be on a form prescribed by the control authority or on an approved alternative form and shall indicate the nature and concentration of all pollutants in the discharge from each regulated process which are limited by national categorical pretreatment standards and the records of each day's flow for each process unit in the industrial user's facility which is regulated by pretreatment standards. The combined waste stream formula may be used for reporting purposes after the initial information has been furnished to the control authority, provided there have been no changes to the elements composing the combined waste stream. These reports shall contain the results of sampling of the discharge and analysis of pollutants contained therein cross- referenced to the related flow or production and mass as required to determine compliance with the applicable national categorical pretreatment standards. The frequency of monitoring shall be as prescribed in the applicable general pretreatment regulations (40 CFR 403) or by the control authority, whichever is more stringent. All sampling and analysis shall be performed in accordance with applicable regulations. Where 40 CFR 136 does not include a sampling or analytical technique for the pollutant in question, sampling and analysis shall be performed in accordance with the procedures set forth in the EPA publication, Sampling and Analysis Procedures for Screening of Industrial Effluents for Priority Pollutants, April, 1977, and amendments and revisions thereto, or with any other sampling and analytical procedures approved by the EPA for these purposes. The report shall state whether the applicable pretreatment standards are being met on a consistent basis and, if not, what additional operation and maintenance practices and/or pretreatment construction is necessary to bring the industrial user into compliance with the applicable pretreatment standards. This report shall be signed, dated and certified by an authorized representative of the industrial user or a registered professional engineer.
(J) Other requirements reasonably necessary to ensure compliance with this chapter.
(K) To the extent the control authority seeks to impose restrictions in a permit which are more restrictive than established in this chapter, the control authority shall provide written documentation to substantiate the necessity of such greater restriction for protection against pass-through, interference, or violation of the NPDES permit.
(‘83 Code, § 54.07(E)) (Ord. 89-009, passed 8-21-89)