(a) “General Permit” means a permit issued by the City for users conducting similar activities.
(b) General Permit Coverage. The Utilities Director may issue a general permit without application to regulate certain nondomestic, nonindustrial users having similar type discharges of pollutants. General permits may include the following users:
(1) Commercial users that discharge wastewaters to the sanitary sewer that emanate from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and sale of food products.
(2) Other public authority users that discharge wastewaters to the sanitary sewer that emanate from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food.
(c) Individual Wastewater Discharge Permit Requirement. The Utilities Director may require any user authorized by a general permit to apply for and obtain an individual wastewater discharge permit as described in Section 933.06. Cases where an individual permit may be required include any of the following:
(1) The discharge is a significant contributor of pollution;
(2) The discharger is not in compliance with the conditions of the general permit;
(3) The Utilities Director has revoked the general permit.
(d) Exclusion From General Permit Coverage. Any user authorized by a general permit may request to be excluded from the coverage of the general permit by applying for an individual wastewater discharge permit as described in Section 933.06. The user shall submit an application with reasons supporting the request. If an individual permit is issued by the Utilities Director, the applicability of the general permit to the individual permittee is automatically terminated on the effective date of the individual permit.
(e) Notification of General Permit Coverage.
(1) Each user authorized by a general permit shall submit a notice of intent on forms specified by the Utilities Director to comply with the general permit or a notice that the user wishes to receive an individual wastewater discharge permit within ninety days of issuance of the general permit. For discharges commenced after the issuance of the general permit a notice of intent to comply with the general permit shall be submitted 30 days prior to commencing discharge. Notice that the user wishes to receive an individual permit shall be provided in the form of a completed permit application which shall be submitted one hundred eighty days prior to commencing the discharge.
(2) Notices of intent shall be made only on forms approved by the City and shall be considered and processed as an application for a permit.
(3) Such notice of intent shall contain:
A. Name, address, telephone number, contact person, and title of owner or operator;
B. Description of the process generating the discharge, any existing quantitative data describing the concentration of pollutants in the discharge, and the volume to be discharged;
C. A map showing the location of the discharge and where it connects to the public sewer.
D. Any other information deemed necessary by the Utilities Director.
(4) Notices of intent submitted to the Utilities Director pursuant to this chapter shall be signed as specified in Section 933.06(a).
(5) The Utilities Director shall notify each affected entity in writing that their discharge is authorized pursuant to the general permit. The Utilities Director shall maintain a list of each entity authorized to discharge under the general permit.
(6) Failure to submit a notice of intent or request an individual wastewater discharge permit will result in an unpermitted discharge subject to enforcement.
(7) A user excluded from a general permit solely because it already has an individual permit may request that the individual permit be revoked and that it be covered by the general permit. Upon revocation of the individual permit, the general permit shall apply to the user.
(f) Criteria for Issuing and Renewing General Permit.
(1) The criteria for issuing and renewing general permits:
A. If, on the basis of all information available to the City, the Utilities Director determines that:
1. The discharges authorized by the permit are more appropriately authorized by a general permit than an individual wastewater discharge permit:
2. Adequate monitoring to obtain required pollutant discharge information is provided.
The Utilities Director shall issue a general permit or renewal for the discharge.
(2) Permit duration. A general permit shall be effective for a fixed term not to exceed five years.
(g) Modification of General Permit. The Utilities Director may modify general permits. When a permit is modified, only the conditions subject to modifications are reopened.
(1) Causes for modification. The following are causes for modification:
A. The Utilities Director has received new information. Permits may be modified during their terms for this cause only if the information was not available at the time of permit issuance and would have justified the application of different permit conditions at the time of issuance.
B. The standards or regulations on which the permit was based have been changed after the permit was issued.
C. To correct technical mistakes, such as errors in calculation or mistaken interpretations of law made in determining permit conditions.
D. Minor modifications such as correcting typographical errors, or requiring more frequent monitoring or reporting by the permittee.
(Ord. 106-94. Passed 10-3-94.)
(h) Transfer of Nonresidential Discharge Permit Coverage. Nonresidential discharge permits are issued only to a specific user. Without the City’s approval, no nonresidential discharge permit shall be reassigned, transferred, or sold to a new owner, a new user, different premises or a new or changed operation. A new owner shall notify the Utilities Director at least thirty days before taking title. Any new or succeeding owner or user shall also comply with the existing permit’s terms and conditions until he has submitted a complete permit application and the City has issued him a new nonresidential discharge permit.
(Ord. 31-2020. Passed 5-18-20.)
(i) Revocation of General Permits.
(1) The Utilities Director may revoke a general permit during its term for cause, including but not limited to his determination that any applicable laws, rules, regulations or permit terms or conditions have been violated.
(2) If the Utilities Director finds it necessary to revoke a general permit, the Utilities Director shall send notice of the proposed revocation which shall become effective ninety days from such notification.
(3) Upon notification from the Utilities Director regarding the proposed revocation of a general permit, each user that was authorized by a general permit which is revoked shall submit an application for an individual wastewater discharge permit not later than ninety days after notification of the proposed revocation of the general permit.
(4) Failure to submit an application for an individual permit not later than ninety days after notification of the proposed revocation of the general permit may result in an unpermitted discharge subject to enforcement.
(Ord. 106-94. Passed 10-3-94.)
(j) General Permit Fees and Costs.
(1) All applicants for new General Permits shall pay a processing fee of one hundred dollars ($100.00). Thereafter all permit holders will pay an annual fee of fifty dollars ($50.00) due in March of each year for monitoring, inspection and surveillance procedures. (Ord. 99-2008. Passed 12-15-08.)
(2) For existing facilities, the cost of installing a sampling port shall be credited to future sewer bills at a rate of one-half the actual cost, not to exceed two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00), and processing fees shall be waived.
(3) All new facilities must install a sampling port at the time of any grease trap installation. (Ord. 40-96. Passed 4-1-96.)