(A) All users required to obtain an individual wastewater discharge permit must submit a permit application. The Superintendent may require users to submit all or some of the following information as part of a permit application:
(1) Identifying information.
(a) The name and address of the facility, including the name 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) 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 waste stream formula set out in this chapter. (40 C.F.R. 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 standard or by the Superintendent, 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 this chapter. Where the standard requires compliance with a BMP or pollution prevention alternative, the user shall submit documentation as required by the Superintendent or the applicable standards to determine compliance with the standard.
(e) Sampling must be performed in accordance with procedures set out in this chapter.
(8) Where additional pretreatment facilities 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 the additional pretreatment 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 appropriate personnel, completing preliminary plans, completing final plans, executing the contract for major components, commencing construction, completing construction, and all other acts necessary to achieve compliance with this chapter.
(b) Under no circumstances shall the Superintendent permit a time increment for any single step directed toward compliance which exceeds 270 days.
(c) Within 14 days following each milestone date in the schedule and within 14 days following the final date for compliance, the discharger shall submit a progress report to the Superintendent, including no less than a statement as to whether or not it complied with the increment of progress represented by that milestone date and, if not, the date on which it expects to comply with this increment of progress, the reason for the delay, and the steps being taken by the discharger to return the construction to the approved schedule. In no event shall more than 270 days elapse between the progress reports to the Superintendent.
(9) Any other information as may be deemed necessary by the Superintendent to evaluate the permit application.
(B) Incomplete or inaccurate applications will not be processed and will be returned to the user for revision.
(Ord. G-13-07, passed 4-1-2012)