§ 50.53. Permit application and conditions.

A.

SIU shall complete and file with the Service Director, a permit application and a wastewater discharge disclosure declaration therefor in the form prescribed by the Service Director, and accompanied by an appropriate fee, if any. Proposed new dischargers shall apply at least ninety days prior to connecting to the POTW. Any nonsignificant industry, which, via changes in process or facilities use, will cease to be a nonsignificant industry, shall apply for a permit within ninety days prior to the change. Fees and charges for initial permits shall be established from time to time by the Service Director. The following permit conditions shall apply to all permits as a condition precedent to issuance:

1.

Shall include the limits on the average and maximum wastewater constituents and characteristics regulated thereby including categorical pretreatment standards, local limitations, and state and local law. Permits may include a limit on total flow. An increase in flow greater than twenty-five percent of the permitted flow requires prior written approval of the city. The Service Director may develop best management practices (BMPs), by ordinance or in individual wastewater discharge permits, to implement local limitations and the requirements of § 50.46.

2.

Shall include the requirements for installation and maintenance of inspection and sampling facilities.

3.

Shall include special conditions as the city through the Service Director may reasonably require under particular circumstances of a given discharge including self monitoring, sampling locations, frequency of sampling, number, types, and standards for tests, reporting schedule, and notification and record keeping requirements.

4.

May include compliance schedules.

5.

May include those requirements for submission of special technical reports or discharge reports where same differ from those prescribed by this subchapter.

6.

All wastewater discharge permits are issued to a specific discharger for a specific operation and period of time. Permits are not assignable or transferable to another discharger or location without the prior notification to the POTW and written approval of the Service Director.

7.

Shall include statement of applicable civil and criminal penalties for violation of pretreatment standards and requirements.

B.

Each application shall include:

1.

The name, address, and location of the discharger;

2.

The Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) number of the applicant according to the Standard Industrial Classification Manual, Bureau of the Budget, 1987, as amended;

3.

The wastewater constituents and characteristics, including, but not limited to, those mentioned in this subchapter, in the anticipated discharge as determined by bona fide chemical and biological analyses. Sampling and analysis shall be performed in accordance with procedures established by the U.S. EPA and contained in 40 CFR, Part 136, as amended;

4.

The anticipated time and duration of discharges, the average and peak flows, and seasonal variations, if any.

5.

Provide, if requested, site plans, floor plans, mechanical and plumbing plans and details to show all sewers, sewer connections, inspection manholes, sampling chambers and appurtenances by size, location and elevation of the applicant's premises.

6.

A description of the activities, facilities and plant processes on the premises including all materials which are discharged to the sewerage system and their discharge points in the applicant's sewer collection system.

7.

Disclosure of product by type, amount, process or processes and rate of production as requested.

8.

Disclosure of the type and amount of raw materials utilized as requested.

9.

Provide, if requested, all waste manifests or approved summary sheets and material safety data sheets.

10.

All permit applications for new or modified permits shall be signed by an authorized representative of the discharger and all renewal applications for existing permits shall be signed by an authorized representative of the discharger.

11.

All dischargers required to submit baseline monitoring reports shall provide the information for permit application or modification according to 40 CFR 403.12 as currently promulgated or as subsequently amended or modified.

The city shall evaluate the completed application and data furnished by the discharger and may require at that time additional information. Upon review the city may issue a wastewater discharge permit.

C.

Permit Modifications.

1.

The city reserves the right to amend any wastewater discharge permit issued hereunder in order to assure compliance by the city with applicable laws and regulations. All national categorical pretreatment standards adopted after the promulgation of this subchapter shall without further action by the city become part of this subchapter upon their effective date. A discharger with an existing wastewater discharge permit shall submit to the city within one hundred eighty days after the promulgation of an applicable national categorical pretreatment standard, the amended information required by §§ 50.52 and 50.53. New source dischargers shall submit to the city at least ninety days prior to commencement of discharge the amended information required by §§ 50.52 and 50.53. The discharger shall be informed of any proposed changes in this permit at least thirty days prior to the effective date of change in such permit. Any changes or new conditions in the permit shall include a reasonable time schedule for compliance.

2.

The Service Director may at any time, on its own initiative or in response to a petition received from an SIU, determine that a noncategorical industrial user is not a significant industrial user if the industrial user has no reasonable potential to adversely affect the POTW's operation in the opinion of the city or for violating any pretreatment standard or requirement.

D.

Permit Duration. New and modified wastewater discharge permits shall be issued for a specific time period, not to exceed five years. The discharger shall apply for permit re-issuance a minimum of one hundred eighty days prior to the expiration of the existing permit.

E.

Compliance Schedules.

1.

Where additional pretreatment and/or operation and maintenance activities will be required to comply with this subchapter, the discharger shall provide a declaration of the shortest schedule by which the discharger will provide such additional pretreatment and/or implementation of additional operational and maintenance activities. The schedule shall contain milestone dates for the commencement and completion of major events leading to the construction and operation of additional pretreatment required for the discharger to comply with the requirements of this subchapter or categorical pretreatment standard including, but not limited to, dates relating to hiring an engineer, hiring other appropriate personnel, completing preliminary plans, completing final plans, executing contract for major components, commencing construction, completing construction, start-up of operations, and all other acts necessary to achieve compliance with this subchapter.

2.

Upon completing final plans all required permits shall be obtained by the discharger. If required by Ohio EPA a permit to install shall be obtained by the discharger prior to construction. Final plans shall be signed by an authorized representative of the discharger and certified to by a qualified engineer who is a licensed professional.

3.

Under no circumstances shall the city permit a time increment in the compliance schedule for any single step directed toward compliance, which exceeds nine months.

4.

Not later than fourteen days following each milestone date in the schedule and the final date for compliance, the discharger shall submit a progress report to the city, including no less than a statement as to whether or not it complied with the increment of progress represented by that milestone date and, if not, the date on which it expects to comply with this increment of progress, the reason for delay, and the steps being taken by the discharger to return the construction to the approved schedule. In no event shall more than nine months elapse between such progress reports to the city.

(Ord. 173-1991; Ord. 546-1985)

(Ord. 412-2012)