All industrial users shall complete and file with the City a baseline report in the forms provided therefore, upon request of the City. Industries regulated under the categorical pretreatment standards shall submit this baseline report to the City within 180 days after the promulgation of their respective categorical standards as required by 40 CFR Part 403. At least ninety days prior to commencement of discharge, new sources and industrial users subsequent to the promulgation of an applicable categorical standard, shall submit to the City a report which contains the information listed in this section. In addition, any industrial user operating on the basis of a previous filing of a baseline report, shall submit to the City within 180 days after the promulgation of an applicable categorical pretreatment standard, the additional information required by subsections (h) and (i) hereof. Any changes or new conditions in these regulations shall include a reasonable time schedule for compliance. The baseline report to be made by the industrial user shall be made on written forms and shall cover:
(a) Disclosure of name, address, and location of the industrial user;
(b) Disclosure of the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) number;
(c) Disclosure of wastewater constituents and characteristics including but not limited to those mentioned in these regulations, as determined by bonafide chemical and biological analyses. Sampling and analysis shall be performed as described in Section 915.306;
(d) Disclosure of time and duration of discharges;
(e) Disclosure of average daily wastewater flow rates in gallons per day, including daily, monthly and seasonal variations, if any;
(f) Disclosure of site plans, floor plans, mechanical and plumbing plans and details to show all sewers, sewer connections, inspection manholes, sampling chambers and appurtenances by size, location and elevation;
(g) Description of activities, facilities and plant processes on the premises including all materials which are or may be discharged to the POTW. New sources shall provide information on the method of pretreatment the source intends to use to meet applicable pretreatment standards;
(h) Disclosure of the nature and concentration of any pollutional parameters or materials prohibited by these regu1ations in the discharge, together with a statement regarding whether or not compliance is being achieved with these regu1ations on a consistent basis and if not, whether additional operation and maintenance activities and/or additional pretreatment is required for the industrial user to comply with these regu1ations;
(i) Where additional pretreatment and/or operation and maintenance activities will be required to comply with these regu1ations, the industrial user shall provide a declaration of the shortest schedule by which the industrial user will provide such additional pretreatment and/or implementation of additional operational and maintenance activities.
(1) The schedule shall contain milestone dates for the commencement and completion of major events leading to the construction and operation of additional pretreatment required for the industrial user to comply with the requirements of these regulations including, but not limited to dates relating to hiring an engineer, hiring other appropriate personnel, completing preliminary plans, completing final plans, executing contract for major components, commencing construction, completing construction, and all other acts necessary to achieve compliance with these regulations.
(2) Under no circumstances shall the Director permit a time increment for any single step directed toward compliance which exceeds nine months.
(3) Not later than fourteen days following each milestone date in the schedule and the final date for compliance, the industrial user shall submit a progress report to the Director including no less than a statement as to whether or not it complied with the increment of progress represented by that milestone dated and, if not, the date on which it expects to comply with this increment of progress, the reason for delay, and the steps being taken by the industrial user to return the construction to the approved schedule. In no event shall more than nine months elapse between such progress reports to the Director.
(j) Disclosure of each product by type, amount, process or processes and rate of production;
(k) Disclosure of the type and amount of raw materials utilized (average and maximum per day);
(1) Number and type of employees, and hours of operation of plant and proposed or actual hours of operation of pretreatment system;
(m) Any information as may be deemed by the Director to be necessary to evaluate the permit application.
(Ord. 30-14. Passed 3-3-14.)