(A) Repeat sampling and reporting. If sampling performed by a user indicates a violation, the user must notify the POTW Director within 24 hours of becoming aware of the violation. The user shall also repeat the sampling and analysis and submit the results of the repeat analysis to the POTW Director within 30 days after becoming aware of the violation. If allowed by the POTW Director, the user is not required to resample:
(1) If the POTW Director monitors at the user’s facility at least once a month; or
(2) If the POTW Director samples between the users initial sampling and when the user receives the results of this sampling.
(B) If the POTW Director has performed the sampling and analysis in lieu of the industrial user and the POTW sampling of the user indicates a violation, the POTW Director shall repeat the sampling and obtain the results of the repeat analysis within 30 days after becoming aware of the violations, unless sone of the following occurs:
(1) The POTW Director monitors at the user’s facility at least once a month;
(2) The POTW Director samples the user between their initial sampling and when the POTW receives the results of this initial sampling; or
(3) The POTW Director requires the user to perform sampling and submit the results to the POTW Director within the 30 day deadline of the POTW becoming aware of the violation.
(C) Notification of the intent to discharge hazardous waste. The city prohibits the discharge of any hazardous wastes without notification to and approval by the POTW Director.
(1) Any user who commences the discharge hazardous waste shall notify the POTW, the EPA Regional Waste Management Division Director and state hazardous waste authorities, in writing, of any discharge into the POTW of a substance which, if otherwise disposed of, would be a hazardous waste under 40 C.F.R. part 261. The notification must include the name of the hazardous waste as set forth in 40 C.F.R. part 261, the EPA hazardous waste number, and the type of discharge (continuous, batch or other). If the user discharges more than 100 kilograms of the waste per calendar month to the POTW, the notification also shall contain the following information to the extent the information is known and readily available to the user: an identification of the hazardous constituents contained in the wastes, an estimation of the mass and concentration of the constituents in the waste stream discharge during any calendar month, and an estimation of the mass and concentration of constituents in the waste stream expected to be discharged during the following 12 months. All notifications must take place no later than 180 days before the discharge commences. The user shall not begin the discharge until receiving written approval from the city. Any notification under this division need be submitted only once for each hazardous waste discharge. However, notifications of changed conditions must be submitted under § 53.148. The notification requirement in this section does not apply to pollutants already reported by users subject to categorical pretreatment standards under the self-monitoring requirements of §§ 53.144, 53.146 and 53.147.
(2) Dischargers are exempt from the requirements of division (1) above, during a calendar month in which they discharge no more than 15 kilograms of hazardous wastes, unless the wastes are acute hazardous wastes as specific in 40 C.F.R. §§ 261.30(d) and 261.33(e). Discharge of more than 15 kilograms of nonacute hazardous wastes in a calendar month, or of any quantity of acute hazardous wastes as specified in 40 C.F.R. §§ 261.30(d) and 261.33(e), requires a one-time notification. Subsequent months during which the user discharges more than such quantities of any hazardous waste do not require additional notification.
(3) In the case of any new regulation under § 3001 of RCRA, being 42 U.S.C. 6921, identifying additional characteristics of hazardous waste or listing any additional substance as a hazardous waste, the user must notify the Director, the EPA Regional Waste Management Waste Division Director, and state hazardous waste authorities of the discharge of the substance within 90 days of the effective date of the regulations.
(4) In the case of any notification made under this section, the user shall certify that it has a program in place to reduce the volume and toxicity of hazardous wastes generated to the degree it has determined to be economically practical.
(5) This provision does not create a right to discharge any substance not otherwise permitted to be discharged by this chapter, a permit issued thereunder, or any applicable federal or state law.
(Ord. 01-19, passed 3-27-2001; Ord. 13-20, passed 9-24-2013)