(A) Wastewater discharge permits shall include such conditions as are reasonably deemed necessary by the General Manager to prevent pass through or interference, protect the quality of the effluent from the treatment plant, protect worker health and safety, facilitate sludge management and disposal, protect ambient air quality and protect against damage to the POTW.
(B) Each wastewater discharge permit shall be expressly subject to all of the provisions of this chapter and all other regulations, user charges and fees that are established by the city. The conditions of all wastewater discharge permits shall be uniformly enforced in accordance with this chapter and applicable federal and state regulations.
(C) Wastewater discharge permits must contain:
(1) A statement that indicates wastewater discharge permit duration, which in no event shall exceed five years;
(2) A statement that the wastewater discharge permit is nontransferable;
(3) Effluent limits applicable to the user including best management practices based on applicable standards in federal, state and local law;
(4) Self-monitoring, sampling, reporting, notification and record keeping requirements. These requirements shall include an identification of pollutants to be monitored, sampling location, sampling frequency and sample type based on federal, state and local law;
(5) Statement of applicable civil, criminal and administrative penalties for violation of pretreatment standards and requirements, and any applicable compliance schedule. The schedule may not extend the time for compliance beyond that required by applicable federal, state or local law;
(6) Requirements to control slug discharges, if determined by the POTW to be necessary;
(7) The process for seeking a waiver from monitoring for a pollutant neither present nor expected to be present in the discharge in accordance with § 7.20.520(D); and
(8) Any grant of the monitoring waiver by the General Manager (§ 7.20.520(D)) must be included as a condition in the user’s permit.
(D) The conditions of each wastewater discharge permit may, without limitation, include any or all of the following:
(1) The unit charge or schedule of user charges and fees that must be paid by the permittee in order for the wastewater to be discharged into the POTW from its facilities;
(2) Limits on the average and/or maximum rate of discharge, time of discharge, and/or requirements for flow regulation and equalization;
(3) Limits on the instantaneous, daily and monthly average and/or maximum concentration, mass or other measure of identified wastewater pollutants or properties;
(4) Requirements for the installation of pretreatment technology, pollution control or construction of appropriate containment devices, designed to reduce, eliminate or prevent the introduction of pollutants into the POTW;
(5) Development and implementation of spill control plans or other special conditions including management practices necessary to adequately prevent accidental unanticipated or routine discharges;
(6) Development and implementation of waste minimization plans to reduce the amount of pollutants discharged to the POTW;
(7) Requirements for installation and maintenance of inspection and sampling facilities and equipment;
(8) Calibration frequency requirements for all devices used to measure wastewater flow and quality;
(9) The compliance schedules that are required for the permittee’s facilities;
(10) The analyses of the wastewater discharges from the permittee’s facilities that are to be established by the General Manager through an annual notification process and are to be performed, as a part of the permittee’s compliance effort, by a laboratory that is approved by the General Manager;
(11) The requirements for maintaining, and for affording the General Manager access to, the records of the permittee’s facilities that relate to its wastewater discharges;
(12) The requirements for the notification of the General Manager of any introduction of new constituents or any substantial change in the volume or character of the existing constituents of the wastewater discharges from the permittee’s facilities;
(13) The requirements for the notification of the General Manager of slug upset or bypass discharges from the permittee’s facilities;
(14) The requirement that an amended application must be filed within ten working days after
any condition that is contained in the original application is changed;
(15) A statement that compliance with the wastewater discharge permit does not relieve the permittee of responsibility for compliance with all applicable federal and state pretreatment standards, including those which become effective during the term of the wastewater discharge permit; and
(16) Other conditions as deemed appropriate by the General Manager to ensure compliance with this chapter and state and federal laws, rules and regulations.
(1995 Code, § 7.20.640) (Ord. 17-03, passed 3-21-2017; Ord. 15-02, passed 5-5-2015)