(a) The director is authorized to administer and enforce this chapter; to conduct an industrial waste pretreatment program; to issue permits containing discharge requirements, indemnification and surety provisions and other conditions; to deny or revoke any permits, orders, or variances issued pursuant to this chapter; to adopt local limitations imposing specific discharge requirements; to enforce this chapter by any lawful means available for such purpose; to monitor and inspect any industrial user; to require industrial users to perform and submit for the director’s review and approval wastestream and process environmental audits and to require industrial users to implement any objectives, including reclamation and waste minimization objectives, identified by the audits; and to adopt such orders and rules necessary to accomplish the purposes of this chapter in accordance with the requirements that have been or may be adopted by federal or State governments, including the EPA and the DOH.
The director also may monitor, inspect, and audit any business with a pretreatment device, any business using or selling cooking oil, any person removing and transporting commercial cooking oil waste or commercial FOG waste, and any recycling facility converting commercial cooking oil waste or commercial FOG waste into a marketable product.
(b) The director may require the industrial user to construct and operate additional pretreatment systems or devices to treat wastewater before discharge into the sewerage system to achieve compliance with applicable categorical pretreatment standards. New categorical industrial users shall install and operate pretreatment systems necessary to meet applicable pretreatment standards before discharge and shall comply with all applicable categorical pretreatment standards within the shortest feasible time, not to exceed 90 days. The director may require any industrial user to develop a compliance schedule containing dates for the commencement and completion of major events leading to the construction and operation of pretreatment systems or devices necessary for compliance with this chapter in the shortest time possible. No compliance schedule shall allow more than nine months from commencement of the compliance schedule to achieving a milestone compliance to full compliance. In the case of a new categorical industrial user, the final date in the compliance schedule shall not be later than the compliance date established for the applicable categorical pretreatment standard. All proposed pretreatment systems or devices shall be subject to the review and comment of the director, but such review shall not relieve an industrial user of the responsibility for taking all steps necessary to comply with all applicable discharge limitations and standards pursuant to this chapter and other laws. All required pretreatment systems or devices shall be installed, operated, and maintained at the industrial user’s expense. The director is authorized to require industrial users to promptly notify the department in advance of any substantial change in the volume or character of pollutants in their discharge, including the listed or characteristic hazardous wastes for which the IU has submitted initial notification under 40 CFR § 403.12(p).
(c) The director may, by permit or order, require an industrial user to construct, in accordance with current city standards and at the industrial user’s expense, a monitoring facility immediately downstream from pretreatment facilities. If no pretreatment facilities exist, the monitoring facility shall be constructed immediately downstream from the regulated process.
(d) Any permit may be revoked, modified, or suspended by the director, in addition to seeking injunctive relief or imposing civil penalties, or both, when such action is necessary to stop a discharge or a threatened discharge that may present a hazard to the public health, safety, welfare, natural environment, or sewerage system, to prevent or stop violations of this chapter, the industrial wastewater discharge permit and federal pretreatment standards, or to implement programs or policies required or requested of the city by appropriate State or federal regulatory agencies.
(e) The director retains the right to deny or condition new or increased contributions of pollutants, or changes in the nature of pollutants discharged into the city’s treatment plants by industrial users where such contributions or changes do not meet applicable pretreatment standards and requirements or where such contributions would cause the city to violate the requirements of its NPDES permit.
(1990 Code, Ch. 14, Art. 1, § 14-1.3) (Added by Ord. 94-46; Am. Ords. 02-14, 21-28)