(a) All industrial dischargers proposing to connect to or to discharge, industrial wastes and other wastes to the City's wastewater treatment plant shall obtain a Wastewater Discharge Permit before connecting to or discharging to the City's wastewater treatment plant. All existing industrial dischargers connected to or discharging to the City's wastewater treatment plant shall obtain a Wastewater Discharge Permit within ninety days after the effective date of this chapter.
(b) Industrial dischargers shall complete and file with the Manager, a permit application in the form prescribed by the Plant Manager and accompanied by the appropriate fee as required by Section 925.55. Existing industrial dischargers shall apply for a Wastewater Discharge Permit within thirty days after the effective date of this chapter and proposed new dischargers shall apply at least ninety days prior to connecting to the City's wastewater treatment plant. No discharge permit shall be issued unless and until disclosure is made by the discharger to the Plant Manager of all information required by the permit application including, but not limited to:
(1) Identifying information.
A. The name and address of the facility, including the names of the operator and owner.
B. Contact information, description of activities, facilities, and plant production processes on the premises.
(2) Environmental permits. A list of any environmental control permits held by or for the facility.
(3) Description of operations.
A. A brief description of the nature, average rate of production (including each product produced by type, amount, processes, and rate of production), and standard industrial classifications of the operation(s) carried out by such User. This description should include a schematic process diagram, which indicates points of discharge to the POTW from the regulated processes.
B. Types of wastes generated, and a list of all raw materials and chemicals used or stored at the facility which are, or could accidentally or intentionally be discharged to the POTW.
C. Number and type of employees, hours of operation and proposed or actual hours of operation.
D. Type and amount of raw materials processed (average and maximum per day).
E. Site plans, floor plans, mechanical and plumbing plans, and details to show all sewers, floor drains, and appurtenances by size, location and elevation, and all points of discharge.
(4) Time and duration of discharges.
(5) Location. The location for monitoring all wastes covered by the permit.
(6) Flow Measurement. 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 wastewater formula set out in Section 2.2C (40 CFR 403.6(e)).
(7) Measurement of pollutants.
A. The Categorical Pretreatment Standards applicable to each regulated process and any new categorically regulated processes for existing sources.
B. The results of sampling and analysis identifying the nature and concentration and/or mass, where required by the Pretreatment Standard or by the Plant Manager, of regulated pollutants in the discharge from each regulated process.
C. Instantaneous, daily maximum, and long-term average concentrations, or mass, where required, shall be reported.
D. The sample shall be representative of daily operations and shall be analyzed in accordance with procedures set out in Section 925.41 of this ordinance. Where the standard requires compliance with a BMP or pollution prevention alternative, the User shall submit documentation as required by the Plant Manager or the applicable standards to determine compliance with the Pretreatment Standard.
E. Sampling must be performed in accordance with procedures set out in Section 925.41 of this ordinance.
(8) Any requests for a monitoring waiver (or a renewal of an approved monitoring waiver) for a pollutant neither present nor expected to be present in the discharge based on Section 925.39.
(c) All permit applications for new or modified permits shall be signed by a principal executive officer of the discharger, and a qualified engineer (State of Ohio licensed professional), and all renewal applications for existing permits shall be signed by a principal executive officer of the discharger.
(d) The Plant Manager will evaluate the complete application and data furnished by the discharger and may require additional information. Within thirty days after full evaluation and acceptance of the data furnished, the Safety-Service Director shall issue a Wastewater Discharge Permit subject to terms and conditions provided herein.
(e) Compliance with categorical pretreatment standards when applicable is required for new sources upon promulgation. New sources are required to install and start up any necessary pollution equipment before beginning to discharge. Compliance with categorical standards when applicable is required within the shortest feasible time, not to exceed ninety days, after commencement of discharge.
(1) The term "New Source" means any building, structure, facility or installation from which there is or may be a discharge of pollutants, the construction of which commenced after the publication of proposed Pretreatment Standards under Section 307(c) of the Act which will be applicable to such source if such standards are thereafter promulgated in accordance with that section, provided that:
A. The building, structure, facility or installation is constructed at a site at which no other source is located; or
B. The building structure, facility or installation totally replaces the process or production equipment that causes the discharge of pollutants at an existing source;
C. The production or wastewater generating process of the building, structure, facility or installation are substantially independent of an existing source at the same site. In determining whether these are substantially independent, factors such as the extent to which the new facility is engaged in the same general type of activity as the existing source should be considered.
(Ord. 140-2012. Passed 1-22-13.)