§ 51.016 NATIONAL CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARDS.
   (A)   Generally. Users subject to categorical pretreatment standards are required to comply with applicable standards as set out in 40 C.F.R. Chapter 1, Subchapter N, Parts 405-471 and incorporated herein.
   (B)   Specifically.
      (1)   Where a categorical pretreatment standard is expressed only in terms of either the mass or the concentration of a pollutant in wastewater, the POTW Director may impose equivalent concentration or mass limits in accordance with 40 C.F.R. § 403.6(C).
      (2)   When wastewater subject to a categorical pretreatment standard is mixed with wastewater not regulated by the same standard, the POTW Director shall impose an alternate limit using the combined wastestream formula in 40 C.F.R. § 403.6(e).
      (3)   A user may obtain a variance from a categorical pretreatment standard if the user can prove, pursuant to the procedural and substantive provisions in 40 C.F.R. § 403.13, that factors relating to its discharge are fundamentally different from the factors considered by EPA when developing the categorical pretreatment standard.
      (4)   A user may obtain a net gross adjustment to a categorical standard in accordance with 40 C.F.R. § 403.15.
   (C)   Any violation of this section shall be subject to the penalties as described in § 51.999 herein.
(Ord. passed 8-22-1994; Ord. passed 3-21-2022)