SECTION 98-10 [REPORTING REQUIREMENTS]
- Within either one hundred eighty (180) days after the effective date
of a categorical pretreatment standard, or the final administrative
decision on a category determination under 40 CFR
403.6(a)(4), whichever is later, existing categorical users currently
discharging to or scheduled to discharge to the POTW shall submit to the
Manager a report which contains the information listed in paragraph 2,
below. At least ninety (90) days prior to commencement of their
discharge, new sources, and sources that become categorical users
subsequent to the promulgation of an applicable categorical standard,
shall submit to the Manager a report which contains the information
listed in paragraph 2, below. A new source shall report the method of
pretreatment it intends to use to meet applicable categorical standards.
A new source also shall give estimates of its anticipated flow and
quantity of pollutants to be discharged.
- Users described above shall submit the information set forth below.
- Identifying Information. The name and address of the facility,
including the name of the operator and owner.
- Environmental Permits. A list of any environmental control
permits held by or for the facility.
- Description of Operations. A brief description of the nature,
average rate of production, and standard industrial classifications
of the operation(s) carried out by such user. This description should
include a schematic process diagram that indicates points of
discharge to the POTW from the regulated processes.
- Flow Measurement. Information showing the measured average daily
and maximum daily flow, in gallons per day, to the POTW from
regulated process streams and other streams, as necessary, to allow
use of the combined wastestream formula set out in 40
CFR 403.6(e).
- Measurement of Pollutants.
- The categorical pretreatment standards applicable to each
regulated process.
- The results of sampling and analysis identifying the nature
and concentration, and/or mass, where required by the standard or
by the Manager, of regulated pollutants in the discharge from
each regulated process. Instantaneous, daily maximum, and
long-term average concentrations, or mass, where required, shall
be reported. The sample shall be representative of daily
operations and shall be analyzed in accordance with procedures
set out in Sec. 98-11 (A)
of this ordinance.
- Sampling must be performed in accordance with procedures set
out in Section 98-11 (B) of
this ordinance.
- Certification. A statement, reviewed by the user's authorized
representative and certified by a qualified professional, indicating
whether pretreatment standards are being met on a consistent basis,
and, if not, whether additional operation and maintenance (O&M)
and/or additional pretreatment is required to meet the pretreatment
standards and requirements.
- Compliance Schedule. If additional pretreatment and/or O&M
will be required to meet the pretreatment standards, the shortest
schedule by which the user will provide such additional pretreatment
and/or O&M. The completion date in this schedule shall not be
later than the compliance date established for the applicable
pretreatment standard. A compliance schedule pursuant to this section
must meet the requirements set out in Sec. 98-10 (B) of this ordinance.
- Signature and Certification. All baseline monitoring reports must
be signed and certified in accordance with Sec. 98-8 (F) of this ordinance.
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The following conditions shall apply to the compliance schedule required
by Sec. 98-10 (A)(2)(g) of this
ordinance:
- The schedule shall contain progress increments in the form of dates
for the commencement and completion of major events leading to the
construction and operation of additional pretreatment required for the
user to meet the applicable pretreatment standards (such events include,
but are not limited to, hiring an engineer, completing preliminary and
final plans, executing contracts for major components, commencing and
completing construction, and beginning and conducting routine
operation);
- No increment referred to above shall exceed nine (9) months;
- The user shall submit a progress report to the Manager no later than
fourteen (14) days following each date in the schedule and the final date
of compliance including, as a minimum, whether or not it complied with
the increment of progress, the reason for any delay, and, if appropriate,
the steps being taken by the user to return to the established schedule;
and
- In no event shall more than nine (9) months elapse between such
progress reports to the Manager.
Within ninety (90) days following the date for final compliance with
applicable categorical pretreatment standards, or in the case of a new
source following commencement of the introduction of wastewater into the
POTW, any user subject to such pretreatment standards and requirements
shall submit to the Manager a report containing the information described
in Sec. 98-10 (A)(2)(d-f) of this
ordinance. For users subject to equivalent mass or concentration limits
established in accordance with the procedures in 40 CFR
403.6(c), this report shall contain a reasonable measure of the user's
long-term production rate. For all other users subject to categorical
pretreatment standards expressed in terms of allowable pollutant discharge
per unit of production (or other measure of operation), this report shall
include the user's actual production during the appropriate sampling
period. All compliance reports must be signed and certified in accordance
with Sec. 98-8 (F) of this
ordinance.
- All significant industrial users shall, at a frequency of no more
than twelve times but in no case less than twice per year (in June and
December), submit a report indicating the nature and concentration of
pollutants in the discharge which are limited by pretreatment standards
and the measured or estimated average and maximum daily flows for the
reporting period. All periodic compliance reports must be signed and
certified in accordance with Sec. 98-8
(F) of this ordinance.
- All wastewater samples must be representative of the user's
discharge. Wastewater monitoring and flow measurement facilities shall be
properly operated, kept clean, and maintained in good working order at
all times. The failure of a user to keep its monitoring facility in good
working order shall not be grounds for the user to claim that sample
results are unrepresentative of its discharge.
- If a user subject to the reporting requirement in this section
monitors any pollutant more frequently than required, using the
procedures prescribed in Section
98-11(B) of this ordinance, the results of this monitoring shall be
included in the report.
Each user must notify CCWA of any planned significant changes to the
user's operations or system that might alter the nature, quality, or volume
of its wastewater at least thirty (30) days before the change.
- CCWA may require the user to submit such information as may be deemed
necessary to evaluate the changed condition, including the submission of
a wastewater discharge permit application under Sec. 98-8 (E) of this ordinance.
- CCWA may issue a wastewater discharge permit under Sec. 98-8 (G) of this ordinance or modify an
existing wastewater discharge permit under Sec. 98-9 (D) of this ordinance in response
to changed conditions or anticipated changed conditions.
- For purposes of this requirement, significant changes include, but
are not limited to, flow increases of twenty percent (20%) or greater,
and the discharge of any previously unreported pollutants.
- In the case of any discharge, including, but not limited to,
accidental discharges, discharges of a nonroutine, episodic nature, a
noncustomary batch discharge, or a slug load, that may cause potential
problems for the POTW, the user shall immediately telephone and notify
the Manager of the incident. This notification shall include the location
of the discharge, type of waste, concentration and volume, if known, and
corrective actions taken by the user.
- Within five (5) days following such discharge, the user shall, unless
waived by the Manager, submit a detailed written report describing the
cause(s) of the discharge and the measures to be taken by the user to
prevent similar future occurrences. Such notification shall not relieve
the user of any expense, loss, damage, or other liability which may be
incurred as a result of damage to the POTW, natural resources, or any
other damage to person or property; nor shall such notification relieve
the user of any fines, penalties, or other liability which may be imposed
pursuant to this ordinance.
- A notice shall be permanently posted on the user's bulletin board or
other prominent place advising employees whom to call in the event of a
discharge described in paragraph 1, above. Employers shall ensure that
all employees, who may cause such a discharge to occur, are advised of
the emergency notification procedure.
All users not required to obtain a wastewater discharge permit shall
provide appropriate reports to CCWA as CCWA may require.
If sampling performed by a user indicates a violation, the user must
notify the Manager within twenty-four (24) hours of becoming aware of the
violation. The user shall also repeat the sampling and analysis and submit
the results of the repeat analysis to the Manager within thirty (30) days
after becoming aware of the violation. The user is not required to resample
if CCWA monitors at the user's facility at least once a month, or if CCWA
samples between the user's initial sampling and when the user receives the
results of this sampling.
- Any user who commences the discharge of hazardous waste shall notify
the POTW, the EPA Regional Waste Management Division Director, and State
hazardous waste authorities, in writing, of any discharge into the POTW
of a substance which, if otherwise disposed of, would be a hazardous
waste under 40 CFR
Part 261. Such notification must include the name of the hazardous
waste as set forth in 40 CFR
Part 261, the EPA hazardous waste number, and the type of discharge
(continuous, batch, or other). If the user discharges more than one
hundred (100) kilograms of such waste per calendar month to the POTW, the
notification also shall contain the following information to the extent
such information is known and readily available to the user: an
identification of the hazardous constituents contained in the wastes, an
estimation of the mass and concentration of such constituents in the
wastestream discharged during that calendar month, and an estimation of
the mass of constituents in the wastestream expected to be discharged
during the following twelve (12) months. All notifications must take
place no later than one hundred and eighty (180) days after the discharge
commences. Any notification under this paragraph need be submitted only
once for each hazardous waste discharged. However, notifications of
changed conditions must be submitted under Sec. 98-10 (E) of this ordinance. The
notification requirement in this section does not apply to pollutants
already reported by users subject to categorical pretreatment standards
under the self-monitoring requirements of Sections 98-10 (A), (C), and (D) of this
ordinance.
- Dischargers are exempt from the requirements of paragraph 1, above,
during a calendar month in which they discharge no more than fifteen (15)
kilograms of hazardous wastes, unless the wastes are acute hazardous
wastes as specified in 40 CFR
261.30(d) and 261.33(e). Discharge of more than fifteen (15)
kilograms of nonacute hazardous wastes in a calendar month, or of any
quantity of acute hazardous wastes as specified in 40 CFR
261.30(d) and 261.33(e), requires a one-time notification. Subsequent
months during which the user discharges more than such quantities of any
hazardous waste do not require additional notification.
- In the case of any new regulations under Section 3001 of RCRA
identifying additional characteristics of hazardous waste or listing any
additional substance as a hazardous waste, the user must notify the
Manager, the EPA Regional Waste Management Waste Division Director, and
State hazardous waste authorities of the discharge of such substance
within ninety (90) days of the effective date of such regulations.
- In the case of any notification made under this section, the user
shall certify that it has a program in place to reduce the volume and
toxicity of hazardous wastes generated to the degree it has determined to
be economically practical.
- This provision does not create a right to discharge any substance not
otherwise permitted to be discharged by this ordinance, a permit issued
thereunder, or any applicable Federal or State law.
Written reports will be deemed to have been submitted on the date
postmarked. For reports that are not mailed, postage prepaid, into a mail
facility serviced by the United States Postal Service, the date of receipt
of the report shall govern.
Information and data on a user obtained from reports, surveys,
wastewater discharge permit applications, wastewater discharge permits, and
monitoring programs, and from the Manager’s inspection and sampling
activities, shall be available to the public without restriction, unless
the user specifically requests, and is able to demonstrate to the
satisfaction of the Manager, that the release of such information would
divulge information, processes, or methods of production entitled to
protection as trade secrets under applicable State law. Any such request
must be asserted at the time of submission of the information or data. When
requested and demonstrated by the user furnishing a report that such
information should be held confidential, the portions of a report which
might disclose trade secrets or secret processes shall not be made
available for inspection by the public, but shall be made available
immediately upon request to governmental agencies for uses related to the
NPDES program or pretreatment program, and in enforcement proceedings
involving the person furnishing the report. Wastewater constituents and
characteristics and other “effluent data” as defined by
40
CFR 2.302 will not be recognized as confidential information and will
be available to the public without restriction.
The Manager may allow reports, including monitoring information, to be
submitted on electronic media or electronically using the Internet. In such
cases, the user shall acquire the necessary software as approved by the
Manager, at their own expense. The Manager may require an original report,
signed and certified, using conventional methods in addition to the
electronic format.
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