(a) Industrial users who commence discharging after the effective date of this chapter shall, no later than 180 days after the discharge of the listed or characteristic hazardous waste, notify the Authority, the United States EPA Regional Waste Management Division Director and the Ohio EPA Division of Solid and Hazardous Waste Management, in writing, of any discharge to the Authority of a substance, which, if otherwise disposed of, would be a hazardous waste under 40 C.F.R. Part 261. Any notification under this section need be submitted only once for each hazardous waste discharged although notification of changed discharges must be submitted under § 1044.209 of this chapter. This notification requirement does not apply to pollutants already reported under the self monitoring requirements of §§ 1044.18, 1044.203 and 1044.206 of this chapter.
(b) The required notification must include:
(1) The name of the hazardous waste as set forth in 40 C.F.R. Part 261;
(2) The EPA hazardous waste number;
(3) The type of discharge (continuous, batch or other); and
(4) If the industrial user discharges more than 100 kilograms of such waste per calendar month to the Authority, the notification shall also include the following information to the extent it is known and readily available to the industrial user:
A. An identification of the hazardous constituents contained in the wastes;
B. An estimation of the mass and concentration of such constituents in the waste stream discharged during that calendar month; and
C. An estimation of the mass of constituents in the water stream expected to be discharged during the following 12 months.
(c) Industrial users are exempt from the requirements of divisions (a) and (b) hereof during a calendar month in which they discharge no more than 15 kilograms of hazardous wastes, unless the wastes are acute hazardous wastes as specified in 40 C.F.R. Parts 261.30(d) and 261.33(e). Discharge of more than 15 kilograms of non-acute hazardous wastes in a calendar month, or of any quantity of acute hazardous wastes as specified in 40 C.F.R. Parts 261.30(d) and 261.33(e), requires a one-time notification. Subsequent months during which the industrial user discharges more than such quantities of any hazardous waste do not require additional notification.
(d) In case of any new regulations under § 3001 of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), identifying additional characteristics of hazardous waste or listing any additional substance as a hazardous waste, the industrial user must notify the Authority, United States EPA and Ohio EPA of the discharge of such substances within 90 days of the effective date of such regulations.
(e) In the case of any notification under this section, the industrial user shall certify that it has a program in place to reduce the volume and toxicity of hazardous wastes to the degree it has determined to be economically practical.
(Ord. 1991-239, passed 12-2-1991)