10.20.210 Wastewater discharge permit | Millersburg Municipal Code

10.20.210 Wastewater discharge permit.

Wastewater permits shall include such conditions as are deemed reasonably necessary by the Director to prevent pass through or interference, protect the quality of the receiving water body, protect worker health and safety, facilitate sludge management and disposal, protect against damage to the POTW, and to implement the objectives of this code.

(1) Wastewater permits must contain the following conditions:

(a) A statement that indicates permit duration, which in no event shall exceed five years;

(b) A statement that the permit is nontransferable without prior notification to and approval from the City and provisions for furnishing the new owner or operator with a copy of the existing permit;

(d) Self-monitoring, sampling, reporting, notification and record-keeping requirements. These requirements shall include an identification of pollutants (or best management practice(s)) to be monitored, sampling location, sampling frequency and sample type based on Federal, State and local law;

(e) Statement of applicable penalties for violation of pretreatment standards and requirements, and compliance schedules;

(f) The process for seeking a waiver from monitoring for a pollutant neither present nor expected to be present in the discharge in accordance with MMC 10.20.240(2)(c). Any grant of the monitoring waiver by the Director must be included as a condition in the user’s permit; and

(g) Requirements to control slug discharge, if determined by the Director to be necessary.

(2) Permits may contain, but need not be limited to, the following:

(a) Limits on the average and/or maximum rate of discharge, time of discharge and/or requirements for flow regulation and equalization;

(b) Limits on the instantaneous, daily and monthly average and/or maximum concentration, mass or other measure of identified wastewater pollutants or properties;

(c) Requirements for the installation of pretreatment technology or construction of appropriate containment devices, etc., designed to reduce, eliminate or prevent the introduction of pollutants into the POTW;

(d) Development and implementation of waste minimization plans to reduce the amount of pollutants discharged to the POTW;

(e) The unit charge or schedule of user charges and fees for the management of the wastewater discharged to the wastewater treatment system;

(f) Requirements for installation and maintenance of inspection and sampling facilities and equipment;

(g) Specifications for monitoring programs that may include sampling locations, frequency of sampling, number, types and standards for tests, and reporting schedules;

(h) Requirements for immediate reporting of any instance of noncompliance and for automatic re-sampling and reporting within 30 days where self-monitoring indicates a violation(s);

(i) Compliance schedules for meeting pretreatment standards and requirements;

(j) Requirements for submission of periodic self-monitoring or special notification reports;

(k) Requirements for maintaining and retaining plant records relating to wastewater discharge as specified in MMC 10.20.290 and affording the Director, or his or her representatives, access thereto;

(l) Requirements for the prior notification and approval by the Director of any change in the manufacturing and/or pretreatment process used by the permittee;

(m) A statement that compliance with the permit does not relieve the permittee of responsibility for compliance with all applicable Federal and State pretreatment standards, including those that become effective during the term of the permit; and

(n) Other conditions as deemed appropriate by the Director to ensure compliance with this chapter, and State and Federal laws, rules and regulations; the term of the permit. (Ord. 106 § 6(8), passed 10-9-2012; Code 2014 § 52.06(H))