(A) An industrial user shall make application for a permit on a form provided by the Department.
(B) The application will not be accepted unless the fee is paid.
(C) An applicant, upon compliance with the terms and conditions established by this code for the issuance of industrial wastewater discharge permits and upon payment of established fees, shall be issued an industrial wastewater discharge permit which shall be valid for a period of one year from the date of issuance.
(D) An applicant, upon continued compliance with the terms and conditions discharge permits, shall file an application for renewal of an industrial wastewater discharge permit, shall pay the town the appropriate renewal fees and shall be issued a renewed industrial wastewater discharge permit which shall be valid for a period of one year from the date of issuance of the renewal.
(E) An applicant seeking an industrial wastewater discharge permit must submit, as part of its application, the results of an analysis, compliance with standard methods, as that term is herein defined, and conducted by a professional testing laboratory acceptable to the Department of a grab sample or a daily composite sample, as those terms are defined herein, of the effluent discharge from the applicant’s plant.
(F) An applicant shall submit, as part of its application for a permit, a discharge report which must include, but not be limited to, nature of process, volume, rates of flow, production quantities or any other information that is relevant to the generation of waste, including substances and concentrations in the wastewater discharge.
(G) An applicant shall, as part if its application for a permit, submit a plat showing location and size of on-site sewers, sampling points, pretreatment facilities, sewers and any other pertinent details.
(H) An applicant shall, as part of its application for a permit, list each product reproduced by type, amount and rate of production and the chemical components and quantity of liquid or gaseous materials stored on site, even though they may not normally be discharged into the sewer system.
(I) In the event a producer of industrial waste who is authorized to make a connection to the sewer for industrial waste disposal under the provisions hereof, is sold, leased or whose operation is assumed or taken over by another person other than that named in the permit, a new application for permit shall be made by the new owner, lessee or operator. No permit issued under the provisions hereof shall be assignable, and a violation of this provision shall be grounds for summary suspension or revocation of such permit by the Wastewater Treatment Department.
(J) It shall be a condition of the permit that the Department may at any time test any of the wastes being discharged by the company or plant for quality or quantity. A duly authorized Department representative may enter the permittee’s premises at any time during business or operation hours for the purpose of inspecting plant operations to estimate quality and quantity of wastes, as defined herein.
(K) It shall be a condition of a permit that the permittee will install facilities (sampling well) at the permittee’s expense for the purpose of the Wastewater Department’s representative inspecting, observing and sampling representative flows.
(L) It shall be a condition of the permit that periodic reports, hereinafter set forth or as required by the Department, be submitted to the Department.
(M) Issuance of an industrial wastewater discharge permit shall not release the permit holder from the obligation to comply with all other provisions of this section.
(N) The Department shall change the conditions of any permit from time to time as circumstances, laws or regulations enacted by the state or federal government may require.
(Prior Code, § 16-2-3)