(a) General Disclosure and Permits. All industrial dischargers proposing to connect to or to discharge sewage, industrial wastes and/or other wastes to the POTW shall comply with all terms of this chapter. Proposed new and existing industrial dischargers shall be required by the Chemist/Pretreatment Coordinator to complete and file with the City a one- page survey, standard questionnaire or a baseline report in a form prescribed by the City. All industrial dischargers subject to existing or proposed National Categorical Pretreatment Standards shall complete and file with the Chemist/Pretreatment Coordinator a baseline report in accordance with subsection (c) hereof. The Chemist/Pretreatment Coordinator may, upon review of the data, require additional information, a standard questionnaire, a baseline report or a permit application per subsection (b) hereof from the industrial discharger.
All industrial dischargers defined as significant industrial user, minor industrial user and nonsignificant industrial user shall obtain a wastewater discharge permit before discharging to the POTW. Significant industrial users, minor industrial users and nonsignificant industrial users shall complete and file with the City a permit application per sub-section (b) hereof.
(b) Permit Application. Industrial dischargers required to obtain a wastewater discharge permit shall complete and file with the City an application in the form prescribed by the City. Existing significant industrial users shall apply for a wastewater discharge permit within a period established by the POTW. Proposed new industrial dischargers shall apply at least ninety days prior to connecting to or contributing to the POTW. In support of the application, the industrial discharger shall submit, in units and terms appropriate for evaluation, a standard questionnaire or the information listed in subsection (c) hereof. The Chemist/Pretreatment Coordinator shall evaluate the data furnished by the discharger and may require additional information. After evaluation and acceptance of the data furnished, the Chemist/Pretreatment Coordinator may issue a wastewater discharge permit subject to terms and conditions provided herein. The Chemist/Pretreatment Coordinator reserves the right to require an industrial user to apply for a permit at a later date if a permit is not issued on the original permit application.
All new sources shall install and start up any pollution control equipment deemed necessary by the Chemist/Pretreatment Coordinator to meet any Federal, State and local limitations before beginning discharge.
New sources shall achieve compliance with applicable categorical standards in the shortest feasible time, not to exceed ninety days.
New sources and sources becoming categorical shall submit a report containing the information required by 40 CFR 403.12 (b)(1-5) as follows:
(1) Identifying information. The user shall submit the name and address of the facility, including the name of the operator and owners.
(2) Permits. The user shall submit a list of any environmental control permits held by or for the facility.
(3) Description of operations. The user shall submit a brief description of the nature, average rate of production, and operation carried out by such industrial user. This description should include a schematic process diagram that indicates points of discharge to the POTW from the regulated processes.
(4) Flow measurement. The user shall submit information showing the measured average daily and maximum daily flow, in gallons per day to the POTW from regulated process streams and other streams as necessary to allow use of the combined waste stream formula of 40 CFR 403.6(E).
(5) Measurement of pollutants. The user shall identify the pretreatment standards applicable to each regulated process and submit the results of sampling and analysis identifying the nature and concentration of regulated pollutants in the discharge from each regulated process, and follow the sampling requirements in 40 CFR 136.
(6) Certification. A statement, reviewed by an authorized representative of the user and certified to by a qualified professional, indicating whether pretreatment standards are being met on a consistent basis, and, if not, whether additional operation and maintenance and/or additional pretreatment is required.
(7) Compliance schedule. If additional pretreatment and/or O and M will be required to meet the pretreatment standards; the shortest schedule by which the user will provide such additional pretreatment and/or O and M. The completion date shall not be later than the compliance date established for the applicable standard.
(c) Baseline Report. Industrial dischargers as required by the Chemist/Pretreatment Coordinator shall complete and file with the Chemist/Pretreatment Coordinator a baseline report in the form prescribed by the Chemist/Pretreatment Coordinator. Existing industrial dischargers shall file baseline reports within thirty days after the effective date of this chapter, and proposed new dischargers shall file baseline reports at least ninety days prior to connecting to the POTW. The report to be made by the discharger shall be made on written forms provided by the Chemist/Pretreatment Coordinator and shall cover:
(1) Disclosure of name, address and location of the discharger.
(2) Disclosure of wastewater constituents and characteristics including but not limited to those mentioned in this chapter, including 40 CFR 423.17 Appendix A Priority Pollutants List and Appendix B Local Limits as appropriate, as determined by bona fide chemical and biological analysis. Sampling and analysis shall be performed in accordance with procedures established by the U.S.EPA and contained in 40 CFR, Part 136, as amended.
(3) Disclosure of time and duration of discharges.
(4) Disclosure of average daily and instantaneous peak wastewater flow rates, in gallons per day, including daily, monthly and seasonal variations, if any. All flows shall be measured unless other verifiable techniques are approved by the City due to cost or non-feasibility.
(5) 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.
(6) Description of activities, facilities and plant processes on the premises including all materials that are or may be discharged to the sewers or works of the City.
(7) Disclosure of the nature and concentration of any pollutants or materials prohibited by this chapter in the discharge, together with a statement regarding whether or not compliance with this chapter is being achieved on a consistent basis and, if not, whether additional operation and maintenance activities and/or additional pretreatment is required for the discharger to comply with this chapter.
(8) Where additional pretreatment and/or operation and maintenance activities will be required to comply with this chapter, the discharger shall provide a declaration of the shortest schedule by which the discharger will provide such additional pretreatment and/or implementation of additional operational and maintenance activities.
A. 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 discharger to comply with the requirements of this chapter including, but not limited to dates relating to hiring an engineer, hiring other appropriate personnel, completing preliminary plans, completing final plans, executing contracts for major components, commencing construction, completing construction, and all other acts necessary to achieve compliance with this chapter.
Under no circumstances shall the Chemist/Pretreatment Coordinator permit a time increment for any single step directed toward compliance that exceeds nine months.
B. Not later that fourteen days following each milestone date in the schedule and the final date for compliance, the discharger shall submit a progress report to the Chemist/Pretreatment Coordinator, including no less than a statement as to whether or not it complied with the increment of progress, the reason for delay for steps taken by the discharger to return the construction to the approved schedule. In no event shall more than nine months elapse between such progress reports to the Chemist/Pretreatment Coordinator.
(9) Disclosure of each product produced by type, amount, process or processes and rate of production
(10) Disclosure of the type and amount of raw material utilized (average and maximum per day).
(11) All reports, documents, written responses and all correspondence shall be signed by the authorized representative of the discharger.
(12) All industries shall have an inspection and sampling manhole or structure (with an opening of no less that twenty-four inches diameter and an internal diameter of no less than thirty-six inches) containing flow measurement, recording and sampling equipment as required by the City to assure compliance with this chapter.
(13) For industrial users subject to equivalent mass or concentration limits a reasonable measure of users long-term production rate shall be included. For all other industrial users subject to categorical regulations in terms of allowable pollutant discharge per unit of production the report shall include the user's actual production during the period sampled as per 40 CFR 403.12(d).
The Chemist/Pretreatment Coordinator shall evaluate the complete baseline report and data furnished by the discharger and may require additional information. Within thirty days after full evaluation and acceptance of the data furnished, the Chemist/Pretreatment Coordinator shall notify the discharger of the City's acceptance thereof. The Chemist/Pretreatment Coordinator may issue orders or industrial waste permit to any discharger to require compliance with any requirements under this chapter, including applicable categorical pretreatment standards, and other discharge limits and reporting requirements.
(d) Standard Modification. The City reserves the right to amend this chapter and the terms and conditions thereof in order to assure compliance by the City with applicable laws and regulations. Within nine months of the promulgation of a National Categorical Pretreatment Standard, this chapter and/or the wastewater discharge permit subject to such standards shall be amended to require compliance standards. All National Categorical Pretreatment Standards adopted after the promulgation of this chapter shall be adopted by the City as part of this chapter. Where a discharger, subject to the National Categorical Pretreatment Standards has not previously submitted a baseline report as required by subsection (a) hereof, and/or an application as required by subsection (b) hereof, the discharger shall file a baseline report and/or apply for a wastewater discharge permit with the Chemist/Pretreatment Coordinator within 180 days after the promulgation of the applicable National Categorical Pretreatment Standards by the U.S. EPA. In addition, any discharger operating on the basis of a previous filing of a baseline report and/or wastewater discharge permit shall submit to the City within 180 days after the promulgation of an applicable National Categorical Pretreatment Standard the additional information required by subsections (c)(7) and (8) hereof. New sources and sources becoming industrial users subsequent to promulgation of an applicable categorical standard are to submit a report containing information required by 40 CFR 403.12(b)(1-5) as specified in this subsection (c) hereof at least ninety days prior to commencement of the discharge. The discharger shall be informed of any proposed changes in the chapter at least thirty days prior to the effective date of change. Any changes or new conditions in the chapter shall include a time schedule for compliance of thirty days unless the Superintendent determines more time is necessary.
(e) Permit Conditions. Wastewater discharge permits shall be expressly subject to all provisions of this chapter and all other applicable regulations, user charges and fees established by the City. Permits shall contain the following:
(1) Limits on the average and maximum wastewater constituents and characteristics;
(2) Limits on average and maximum rate and time of discharge or requirements for flow regulations and equalization; equivalent limits, if developed, for specific industrial users as per 40 CFR 403.6(c) (2) and (5);
(3) Requirements for installation and maintenance of inspection and sampling facilities;
(4) Specifications for monitoring programs which may include sampling locations, frequency of sampling, number, types and standards for tests and reporting schedule;
(5) Compliance schedule;
(6) Requirements for submission of technical reports or discharge reports as outlined in subsection (c) hereof;
(7) Requirements for maintaining and retaining pretreatment facility records relating to wastewater discharge as specified by the City, and according City access thereto;
(8) All industrial users shall promptly notify the Chemist/Pretreatment Coordinator 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 industrial user has submitted initial notification under 40 CFR 403.12(p).
(9) Requirements for notification of slug load discharges pursuant to Section 922.05
and 40 CFR 403.12(f).
(10) Industrial users with categorical standards that require compliance with a BMP or pollution prevention alternative shall submit documentation to determine compliance with the standard as required in OAC 3745-3-06(E) (4)(f).
(11) Other conditions as deemed appropriate by the City to ensure compliance with this chapter.
(f) Permit Duration. Permits shall be issued for a specified time period, not to exceed five years. A permit may be issued for a period less than one year or may be stated to expire on a specified date. The industrial discharger shall apply for permit reissuance a minimum of 180 days prior to the expiration of the industrial discharger's existing permit. The terms and conditions of the permit may be subject to modification by the City during the term of the permit as limitations or requirements as identified in Sections 922.03
, 922.04
, 922.05
and 922.06
are modified or other just cause exists. The industrial discharger shall be informed of any proposed changes in its permit at least thirty days prior to the effective date of change. Any changes or new conditions in the permit shall include a reasonable time schedule for compliance.
(g) Permit Transfer. Wastewater discharge permits are issued to a specific industrial discharger for a specified operation. A wastewater discharge permit shall not be reassigned or transferred or sold to a new owner, new industrial discharger, different premises or a new or changed operation.
(Ord. 285(16-17). Passed 6-15-17.)