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(A) Within 90 days following the date for final compliance with applicable categorical pretreatment standards, or in the case of a new source following commencement of the introduction of wastewater into the POTW, any user subject to pretreatment standards and requirements shall submit to the POTW Director a report containing the information described in § 53.31(B)(4) through (6) above.
(B) For users subject to equivalent mass or concentration limits established in accordance with the procedures in 40 C.F.R. pt. 403.6(c), this report shall contain a reasonable measure of the user's long-term production rate.
(C) For all other users subject to categorical pretreatment standards expressed in terms of allowable pollutant discharge per unit of production (or other measure of operation), this report shall include the user's actual production during the appropriate sampling period.
(D) All compliance reports must be signed and certified in accordance with § 53.30(C) above.
(Ord. – § 5.3, passed 9-26-2005)
Municipalities may sample and analyze user discharges in lieu of requiring the users to conduct sampling and analysis.
(A) All significant industrial users shall, at a frequency determined by the POTW Director but in no case less than twice per year (in June and December), submit a report indicating the nature and concentration of pollutants in the discharge which are limited by pretreatment standards and the measured or estimated average and maximum daily flows for the reporting period. All periodic compliance reports must be signed and certified in accordance with § 53.30(E)(1) above.
(B) All wastewater samples must be representative of the user's discharge. Wastewater monitoring and flow measurement facilities shall be properly operated, kept clean and maintained in good working order at all times. The failure of a user to keep its monitoring facility in good working order shall not be grounds for the user to claim that sample results are unrepresentative of its discharge.
(C) If a user subject to the reporting requirement in this section monitors any pollutant more frequently than required by the POTW Director, using the procedures prescribed in § 53.40 below, the results of this monitoring shall be included in the report.
(Ord. – § 5.4, passed 9-26-2005)
Each user must notify the POTW Director of any planned significant changes to the user's operations or system which might alter the nature, quality or volume of its wastewater at least 30 days before the change.
(A) The POTW Director may require the user to submit information as may be deemed necessary to evaluate the changed condition, including the submission of a wastewater discharge permit application under § 53.30 above.
(C) For purposes of this requirement, significant changes include, but are not limited to, flow increases of 20% or greater, and the discharge of any previously unreported pollutants.
(Ord. – § 5.5, passed 9-26-2005)
(A) In the case of any discharge, including, but not limited to, accidental discharges, discharges of a nonroutine, episodic nature, a noncustomary batch discharge or a slug load, that may cause potential problems for the POTW, the user shall immediately telephone and notify the POTW Director of the incident. This notification shall include the location of the discharge, type of waste, concentration and volume, if known, and corrective actions taken by the user.
(B) (1) Within 5 days following the discharge, the user shall, unless waived by the POTW Director, submit a detailed written report describing the cause(s) of the discharge and the measures to be taken by the user to prevent similar future occurrences.
(2) Notification shall not relieve the user of any expense, loss, damage or other liability which may be incurred as a result of damage to the POTW, natural resources or any other damage to person or property; nor shall the notification relieve the user of any fines, penalties or other liability which may be imposed pursuant to this chapter.
(C) A notice shall be permanently posted on the user's bulletin board or other prominent place advising employees whom to call in the event of a discharge described in division (A) above. Employers shall ensure that all employees, who may cause a discharge to occur, are advised of the emergency notification procedure.
(Ord. – § 5.6, passed 9-26-2005)
(A) 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.
(B) 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.
(C) The user is not required to resample if the POTW Director monitors at the user's facility at least once a month, or if the POTW Director samples between the user's initial sampling and when the user receives the results of this sampling.
(Ord. – § 5.8, passed 9-26-2005)
The town prohibits the discharge of any hazardous wastes without notification and approval of the POTW Director.
(A) (1) Any user who commences the discharge of 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.
(2) 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).
(3) If the user discharges more than 100 kilograms of waste per calendar month to the POTW, the notification also shall contain the following information to the extent that 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 constituents in the wastestream discharge during the calendar month; and an estimation of the mass of constituents in the wastestream expected to be discharged during the following 12 months.
(4) All notifications must take place no later than 180 days after the discharge commences. Any notification under this subchapter need be submitted only once for each hazardous waste discharge. However, notifications of changed conditions must be submitted under § 53.35 above.
(B) (1) Dischargers are exempt from the requirements of division (A) 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. pt. 261.30(d) and 261.33(e).
(2) 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. pts. 261.30(d) and 261.33(e), requires a 1-time notification. Subsequent months during which the user discharges more than those quantities of any hazardous waste do not require additional notification.
(C) In the case of any new regulation under § 3001 of RCRA identifying additional characteristics of hazardous waste or listing any additional substance as a hazardous waste, the user must notify the POTW Director, the EPA Regional Waste Management Waste Division Director, and state hazardous waste authorities of the discharge of that substance within 90 days of the effective date of the regulations.
(D) 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.
(E) 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. – § 5.9, passed 9-26-2005)
(A) All pollutant analyses, including sampling techniques, to be submitted as part of a wastewater discharge permit application or report shall be performed in accordance with the techniques prescribed in 40 C.F.R. Part 136, unless otherwise specified in an applicable categorical pretreatment standard.
(B) If 40 C.F.R. Part 136 does not contain sampling or analytical techniques for the pollutant in question, sampling and analyses must be performed in accordance with procedures approved by EPA.
(Ord. – § 5.10, passed 9-26-2005)
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