All applications, reports or information submitted to the Murray Sewer System shall be signed and certified in accordance with the following requirements. Written designation of the signatory official must be received by the Director of Public Works and Utilities prior to acceptance of any application or other required document.
(A) All permit applications shall be signed:
(1) For a corporation, by a principal executive officer of at least the level of vice-president;
(2) For a partnership or sole proprietorship, by a general partner or the proprietor, respectively;
(B) All other correspondence, reports, and self-monitoring reports shall be signed by a person described above or by a duly authorized representative of that person. A person is a duly authorized representative only if:
(1) The authorization is made in writing by a person described above;
(2) The authorization specifies either an individual or a position having facility oversight or activity, such as the position of plant manager, superintendent, or position of equivalent responsibility.
(C) Certification.
(1) Pretreatment standards certification. Any person signing a document under this section shall make the following certification in writing:
"I certify under penalty of law that this document and all attachments were prepared under my direction or supervision in accordance with a system designed to assure that qualified personnel properly gathered and evaluated the information submitted. Based on my inquiry of the person(s) who manage the system, or those persons directly responsible for gathering the information, the information submitted is, to the best of my knowledge and belief, true, accurate and complete. I am aware that there are significant penalties for submitting false information, including the possibility of fine and imprisonment for knowing violations." 40 CFR § 403.6(a)(2)(ii).
(2) Annual certification by non-significant categorical industrial users. A facility determined to be a non-significant categorical industrial user by the Pretreatment Coordinator pursuant to this chapter, must annually submit the following certification statement signed in accordance with the signatory requirements in this section. The certification must accompany any alternative report required by the Murray Sewer System:
"Based on my inquiry of the person or persons directly responsible for managing compliance with the categorical pretreatment standards under 40 CFR 403.12(g). I certify that, to the best of my knowledge and belief that during the period from [month/day], [year] to [month/day] [year]:
(a) The facility described as (facility name) met the definition of a non-significant categorical industrial user as described in 40 CFR 403.3(v)(2); (b).
(b) The facility complied with all applicable pretreatment standards and requirements during this reporting period;
(c) The facility never discharged more than 100 gallons of total categorical wastewater on any given day during this reporting period; and
(d) The industrial user never discharges any untreated concentrated wastewater." The compliance certification is based upon the following information (to be supplied by the Murray Sewer System Pretreatment Coordinator):
(Ord. 2024-1867, passed 7-11-24)