All Users subject to National Categorical Pretreatment Standards, promulgated by the USEPA in accordance with Section 307(b) and (c) of the Act, currently discharging or scheduled to discharge to the POTW shall comply with all pretreatment standards and requirements. Limits in categorical pretreatment standards apply to the discharge from the process regulated by the standard or as otherwise specified by the standard. The National Categorical Pretreatment Standards set forth in 40 CFR Chapter 1, Subchapter N, Parts 405 - 471, are hereby incorporated by reference into this chapter.
A. Where a Categorical Pretreatment Standard is expressed only in terms of either the mass or the concentration of a Pollutant in Wastewater, the Coordinator may impose equivalent concentration or mass limits, unless specifically restricted by the Standard, in accordance with parts E and F below in this section.
The calculated equivalent limitations are deemed pretreatment standards. Users shall be required to comply with the equivalent limitations in place of the promulgated categorical standards from which the equivalent limitations were derived. An alternative pretreatment limit shall not be used if the alternative limit is below the analytical detection limit for any of the regulated pollutants.
B. When the limits in a categorical pretreatment standard are expressed only in terms of mass of pollutant per unit of production, the Coordinator may convert the limits to equivalent limitations expressed as either mass of pollutant discharged per day or effluent concentration for purposes of calculating effluent limitations applicable to individual users.
The Coordinator calculating equivalent mass-per-day limitations shall calculate such limitations by multiplying the limits in the standard by the user's average rate of production. This average rate of production shall be based on a reasonable measure of the user's actual long-term daily production during a representative year and not based on design production capacity. For new sources, actual production shall be estimated using projected production.
The Coordinator shall calculate such limitations by dividing the mass limitations by the average daily flow rate of the user's regulated process wastewater. The average daily flow rate shall be based upon a reasonable measure of the user's actual long-term average flow rate, such as the average daily flow rate during the representative year.
C. When wastewater subject to a categorical pretreatment standard is mixed with wastewater not regulated by the same standard prior to any pretreatment, the Coordinator shall impose an alternate limit using the Combined Waste Stream Formula set forth in 40 CFR 403.6(e), provided that the applicable categorical regulation allows the Wastewaters to be mixed and the User can supply the information necessary to allow issuance of an alternative limit.
D. A user may request an adjustment to a categorical pretreatment standard to account for pollutant loadings in the user's intake water (a net/gross adjustment) in accordance with 40 CFR 403.15.
E. When a categorical pretreatment standard is expressed only in terms of pollutant concentrations, a user may request that the village convert the limits to equivalent mass limits. The determination to convert concentration limits to mass limits is within the discretion of the Coordinator. The Village may establish equivalent mass limits only if the User meets all the conditions set forth in parts 1.a. through 1.e. below.
1. To be eligible for equivalent mass limits, the User must:
a. Employ, or demonstrate that it will employ, water conservation methods and technologies that substantially reduce water during the term of its Wastewater Discharge Permit;
b. Currently use control and treatment technologies adequate to achieve compliance with the applicable Categorical Pretreatment Standard, and not have used dilution as a substitute for treatment;
c. Provide sufficient information to establish the facility's actual average daily flow rate for all wastestreams, based on data from a continuous effluent flow monitoring device, as well as the facility's long-term average production rate. Both the actual average daily flow rate and the long-term average production rate must be representative of current operating conditions;
d. Not have daily flow rates, production levels, or pollutant levels that vary so significantly that equivalent mass limits are not appropriate to control the discharge; and
e. Have consistently complied with all applicable categorical pretreatment standards during the period prior to the user's request for equivalent mass limits.
2. A User subject to equivalent mass limits must:
a. Maintain and effectively operate control and treatment technologies adequate to achieve compliance with the equivalent mass limits;
b. Continue to record the facility's flow rates through the use of a continuous effluent flow monitoring device;
c. Continue to record the facility's production rates and notify the Coordinator whenever production rates are expected to vary by more than twenty percent (20%) from its baseline production rates determined in paragraph 1.c. of this Section. Upon notification of a revised baseline production rate, the Coordinator will reassess the equivalent mass limit and revise the limit as necessary to reflect revised baseline production rates at the facility; and
d. Continue to employ the same or comparable water conservation methods and technologies as those implemented pursuant to paragraph 1(a) of this Section so long as it Discharges under an equivalent mass limit.
3. When developing equivalent mass limits, the Coordinator:
a. Shall calculate the equivalent mass limit by multiplying the actual average daily flow rate of the regulated process(es) of the user by the concentration-based daily maximum and monthly average standard for the applicable categorical pretreatment standard and the appropriate unit conversion factor;
b. Shall reassess the equivalent mass limit and recalculate the limit necessary to reflect changed conditions at the facility upon notification of a revised production rate from the User; and
c. May retain the same equivalent mass limit in subsequent Wastewater Discharge Permit terms if the User's actual average daily flow rate was reduced solely as a result of the implementation of water conservation methods and technologies, and the actual average daily flow rates used in the original calculation of the equivalent mass limit were not based on the use of dilution as a substitute for treatment pursuant to Section 4-19-3-7. The user must also be in compliance with Section 4-19-14-3 regarding the prohibition of Bypass.
F. The Pretreatment Coordinator may convert the mass limits of the Categorical Pretreatment Standards of 40 CFR Parts 414, 419, and 455 to concentration limits for purposes of calculating limitations applicable to individual Users. The conversion is at the discretion of the Coordinator.
G. Once included in its wastewater discharge permit, the user must comply with the equivalent limitations developed in this section in lieu of the promulgated categorical pretreatment standards from which the equivalent limitations were derived.
H. Many categorical pretreatment standards specify one limit for calculating maximum daily discharge limitations and a second limit for calculating maximum monthly average, or four (4)-day average, limitations. Where such Standards are being applied, the same production or flow figure shall be used in calculating both the average and the maximum equivalent limitations.
I. Any user operating under a wastewater discharge permit incorporating equivalent mass or concentration limits calculated from a production-based standard shall notify the Coordinator within two (2) business days after the User has a reasonable basis to know that the production level will significantly change within the next calendar month. Any User which fails to timely notify the Coordinator of such anticipated change will be required to meet the mass or concentration limits in its wastewater discharge permit that were based on the original estimate of the long term average production rate.
J. A User may request a variance from USEPA based on fundamentally different factors. The request must comply with the procedural and substantive provisions in 40 CFR 403.13.
All users that are subject to national categorical pretreatment standards are required to file reports as required Sections 4-19-7-2 and 4-19-7-3, signed by an authorized representative. Such reports shall include all information that the Coordinator deems necessary to make compliance determinations. (Ord. 2020-33, 11-24-2020)