(A) All significant industrial users required to obtain an industrial user wastewater discharge permit shall complete and file with the environmental officer, an application upon a form provided by the city. The city may charge a permit application fee, which if charged, shall accompany the application.
(B) The environmental officer shall issue an industrial user wastewater discharge permit if he/she determines that pretreatment facilities are adequate for efficient treatment and that discharged wastes will comply with all applicable pretreatment standards and requirements, including those imposed by this chapter. Incomplete or inaccurate applications will not be processed and will be returned to the industrial user for revision.
(C) Within 180 days after the effective date of a categorical pretreatment standard, or 180 days after the final administrative decision made upon a category determination under 40 C.F.R. § 403.6(a)(4), whichever is later, existing industrial users subject to such categorical pretreatment standards and currently discharging to or scheduled to discharge to the POTW shall be required to submit to the environmental officer an industrial user wastewater discharge permit application and a baseline monitoring report, the two of which shall contain the information identified in divisions (1) through (6), below. At least 90 days prior to commencement of discharge, new sources, and sources that become subject to categorical standards subsequent to the promulgation of an applicable categorical standard, shall submit to the environmental officer a report which contains the information listed in divisions (1) through (5), below. New sources shall also be required to include this report information on the method of pretreatment the source intends to use to meet applicable categorical standards. New sources shall give estimates to the information requested in divisions (4) and (5).
(1) Identifying information. The user shall submit the name and address of the facility including the name of the operators and owners.
(2) Permits. The user shall submit a list of any environmental control permits held by or for the facility.
(3) Description of operations. The user shall submit a brief description of the nature, average rate of production, and the standard industrial classification of the operation(s) carried out by such industrial user. This description should include a schematic process diagram which indicates points of discharge to the POTW from the regulated processes. The user shall submit a list of all chemicals utilized in its processes and appropriate material safety data sheets (MSDSs).
(4) Flow measurement. The user shall submit information showing the measured average daily and maximum daily flow, in gallons per day, to the POTW from each of the following:
(a) Regulated process streams; and
(b) Other streams as necessary to allow use of the combined wastestream formula of 40 C.F.R. § 403.6(e). The environmental officer may allow for verifiable estimates of these flows where justified by cost or feasibility considerations.
(5) Measurement of pollutants.
(a) The user shall identify the categorical pretreatment standards applicable to each regulated process.
(b) In addition, the user shall submit the results of sampling and analysis identifying the nature and concentration (or mass, where required by the categorical pretreatment standards or by the environmental officer) of regulated pollutants in the discharge from each regulated process. Both daily maximum and average concentration (or mass, where required) shall be reported. The sample shall be representative of daily operations.
(c) A minimum of four grab samples must be used for pH, cyanide, otal phenols, oil and grease, sulfide, and volatile organic compounds (VOCs). For all other pollutants, 24-hour composite samples must be obtained through flow-proportional composite sampling techniques where feasible. The environmental officer may waive flow-proportional composite sampling for any industrial user that demonstrates that flow-proportional sampling is infeasible. In such cases, samples may be obtained through time-proportional composite sampling techniques or through a minimum of four grab samples where the user demonstrates that this will provide a representative sample of the effluent being discharged.
(d) The user shall take a minimum of one representative sample to compile that data necessary to comply with the requirements of this section.
(e) Samples should be taken immediately downstream from pretreatment facilities if such exist or immediately downstream from the regulated process if no pretreatment exists. If other wastewaters are mixed with the regulated wastewater prior to pretreatment, the user should measure the flows and concentrations necessary to allow use of the combined wastestream formula of 40 C.F.R. § 403.6(e) in order to evaluate compliance with the categorical pretreatment standards. Where an alternate concentration or mass limit has been calculated in accordance with 40 C.F.R. § 403.6(e), this adjusted limit along with supporting data shall be submitted to the environmental officer.
(f) Sampling and analysis shall be performed in accordance with the techniques prescribed in 40 C.F.R. Part 136 and amendments thereto. Where 40 C.F.R. Part 136 does not contain sampling or analytical techniques for the pollutant in question, or where EPA determines that the Part 136 sampling and analytical techniques are inappropriate for the pollutant in question, sampling and analysis shall be performed by using validated analytical methods or any other applicable sampling and analytical procedures suggested by the environmental officer or other parties, approved by EPA.
(g) The environmental officer may require the user to submit a pollutant scan of the wastewater discharge.
(h) The environmental officer may allow the submission of a baseline monitoring report which utilizes only historical data so long as the data provides information sufficient to determine the need for industrial pretreatment measures.
(i) The baseline monitoring report shall indicate the time, date and place of sampling and methods of analysis, and the industrial user shall certify that such sampling and analysis is representative of normal work cycles and expected pollutant discharges to the POTW.
(6) Certification. A statement, reviewed by an authorized representative of the industrial user (as specified in § 56.18), and certified to 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 for the industrial user 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 and requirements, the shortest schedule by which the industrial 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 or requirement. A compliance schedule pursuant to this section must meet the requirements set out in § 56.13 of this chapter.
(8) Where the industrial user's categorical pretreatment standard has been modified by a removal allowance (40 C.F.R. § 403.7), the combined wastestream formula (40 C.F.R. § 403.6(e)), and/or a fundamentally different factors variance (40 C.F.R. § 403.13) at the time the user submits the report required by this section, the information required by divisions (6) and (7) shall pertain to the modified limits.
(9) If the categorical pretreatment standard is modified by a removal allowance (40 C.F.R. § 403.7), the combined wastestream formula (40 C.F.R. § 403.6(e)), and/or a fundamentally different factors variance (40 C.F.R. § 403.13) after the user submits the report required by this section, any necessary amendments to the information requested by divisions (6) and (7) of this section shall be submitted by the user to the environmental officer within 60 days after the modified limit is approved.
(Ord. 160726-A, passed 7-26-2016)