(A) (1) No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged to any wastewater facilities, wastewaters containing substances in excess of the quantity prescribed by the applicable federal categorical pretreatment standard promulgated by EPA, except as otherwise provided in this section.
(2) Compliance with such applicable pretreatment standards shall be made within three years of the date the standard is promulgated for existing systems; however, compliance with a categorical pretreatment standard for new sources shall be required upon connection to the POTW.
(B) Upon application by a Class III user, the Utilities Director shall revise any limitation on substances specified in the applicable pretreatment standards to reflect removal of the substances by the wastewater treatment facility. The revised discharge limit for specified substances shall be derived in accordance with federal law.
(C) (1) Upon application by a Class III user, the Utilities Director shall adjust any limitation on substances specified in the applicable pretreatment standards to consider factors relating to such users that are fundamentally different from the factors considered by EPA during the development of the pretreatment standard.
(2) Requests for and determinations of fundamentally different adjustments shall be in accordance with federal law.
(D) The Utilities Director shall notify any Class III user affected by the provisions of this section and establish an enforceable compliance schedule for each.
(Ord. 481-99, passed 2-15-1999) Penalty, see § 10.99