(A) Wastewater discharge permit. All significant industrial users proposing to connect to or to contribute to the POTW shall obtain a wastewater discharge permit before connecting to or contributing to the POTW. All significant industrial users which are existing sources connected to or contributing to the POTW shall obtain a wastewater discharge permit within 180 days after the effective date of this chapter. All industrial users which become significant industrial users after promulgation of this chapter shall apply for a wastewater discharge permit within 180 days after becoming a significant industrial user. The latter includes, but is not limited to, industrial users regulated by a newly promulgated national categorical pretreatment standard.
(B) Wastewater discharge permit application.
(1) Significant industrial users required to obtain a wastewater discharge permit shall complete and file with the city an application in a form to be prescribed and furnished by the city, and accompanied by a fee to be determined by the city.
(2) Existing significant industrial users shall apply for a wastewater discharge permit within 90 days after the effective date of this chapter. Proposed significant industrial users which are new sources shall apply at least 90 days prior to discharging to the POTW. In case of conflict between application deadlines for significant industrial users in division (A) above and this division (B)(2), the stricter deadline shall apply.
(3) In support of the application, the significant industrial user shall submit, in units and terms appropriate for evaluation, the following information:
(a) Name, address, and location;
(b) SIC number according to the Standard Industrial Classification Manual, Bureau of the Budget, 1972, as amended;
(d) Time and duration of discharge;
(e) Average and maximum wastewater flow rates, including monthly and seasonal variations, if any;
(f) Site plans showing all pipe sizes, manholes, and location of sanitary and storm sewers leaving the building or premises, together with all connections to lateral sanitary and storm sewers;
(g) Total number of employees and hours of operation of a plant;
(h) Proposed or actual hours of operation of pretreatment system and the name of the IEPA certified pretreatment operator;
(i) Name of the authorized representative of the significant industrial user;
(j) Significant industrial user’s source of intake water together with the types of usage and disposal sources of water and the estimated volumes in each category;
(k) If additional significant industrial user operation and maintenance or pretreatment techniques or installations will be required to meet pretreatment standards, the shortest schedule by which the significant industrial user will provide such additional pretreatment. The completion date in this schedule shall not be later than the compliance date established under §§ 51.025 through 51.035; and
(l) Any other information as may be deemed by the city to be necessary to evaluate the permit application.
(C) Review of wastewater discharge permit applications. The city will evaluate the data furnished by the significant industrial user and may require additional information. After evaluation of the data furnished, the city may issue a wastewater discharge permit. No temporary permit will be issued by the city except as set forth in division (G) below.
(D) Permit conditions. Wastewater discharge permits shall be expressly subject to all provisions of this chapter and all other applicable regulations, user charges, and fees established by the city. Wastewater discharge permits shall contain the following:
(1) The wastewater discharge permit shall include the limits on daily maximum and average pollutant concentrations from the applicable pretreatment standard (which includes federal, state, and local limits), whichever is more stringent;
(2) Where the national categorical pretreatment standards are modified by a removal allowance (40 C.F.R. § 403.7) or the combined waste stream formula (40 C.F.R. § 403.6(e)) or net/gross calculations (40 C.F.R. § 403.15) or fundamentally different factor variance for non-toxics (40 C.F.R. § 403.13), of the General Pretreatment Regulations, the limits as modified shall be made a part of the wastewater discharge permit and shall be adjusted consistent with USEPA guidelines and regulations;
(3) Limits on maximum and average flow rate and time of discharge or requirements for flow regulation and equalization for each separate discharge of a user;
(4) Requirements for installation and operation of inspection, sampling, and monitoring facilities;
(5) Specifications for monitoring programs which may include sampling locations, frequency of sampling, number, types, and standards for tests and reporting schedule;
(6) Compliance schedule, if necessary;
(7) Requirements for submission of technical reports or discharge reports;
(8) Requirements to retain for a minimum of three years any records of monitoring activities and results relating to wastewater discharge and for affording the city access to said records;
(9) Requirements for advance notification to the city of any new introduction of wastewater constituents or any substantial change in the volume or character of the wastewater constituents being introduced into the wastewater treatment system pursuant to the terms of division (E) below;
(10) Requirements for notification of slug discharges as defined in this chapter;
(11) Requirements for reporting pretreatment sludge disposal practices; and
(12) Other conditions as deemed appropriate by the city to ensure compliance with this chapter and pretreatment requirements and standards.
(E) Change in conditions. In the event the type, quality, or volume of wastewater from the property for which a wastewater discharge permit was previously granted is expected to materially and substantially change as reasonably determined by the permittee or city, the permittee previously granted such permit shall give 30 days’ notice in writing to the city and shall make a new application to the city prior to said change, in the same manner and form as originally made, provided that information previously submitted and unchanged does not need to be resubmitted by the permittee. No permittee shall materially and substantially change the type, quality, or volume of its wastewater beyond that allowed by its permit without prior approval of the city.
(F) Duration. Wastewater discharge permits shall be issued for a specified time period, not to exceed five years. The permittee shall file an application for renewal of its permit at least 90 days prior to expiration of the user’s permit. The industrial user shall apply, on a form provided by the city, for reissuance of the permit. Upon reissuance, any applicable provisions of the wastewater discharge permit shall be incorporated as conditions of the new wastewater discharge permit. The terms and conditions of the permit may be subject to modification by the city during the term of the permit as limitations or requirements as identified in §§ 51.025 through 51.035 are modified or other just cause exists. The significant industrial user shall be informed of any proposed changes in its permit at least 30 days prior to the effective date of change. Where any changes are made in the significant industrial user’s permit, a reasonable time shall be given to achieve compliance.
(G) Transfer. Wastewater discharge permits are issued to a specific significant industrial user for the process activity specified in the permit. A wastewater discharge permit shall not be assigned, transferred or sold to a new owner or new user in different premises or to a new or changed operation in the same or different premises without the approval of the city. If the premises are sold or otherwise transferred by the permittee to a new owner who will maintain the operation in the same premises, then the permit held by the seller shall be reissued by the city to the new owner as a temporary permit; provided that the new owner shall immediately apply for a new permit in accordance with this chapter and further provided that the temporary permit shall only be effective for 90 days after the date of sale or transfer. The POTW shall have the same remedies for violation of temporary permits as it has for violation of other discharge permits.
(Prior Code, § 51.141) (Ord. 88-9, passed 9-20-1988) Penalty, see § 51.999