15.52.050 Permit conditions.
Sewer use permits shall be subject to all provisions of these Chapters 15.44 through 15.76, user fees established by the city and all other standards and requirements. The conditions of sewer use permits shall be uniformly enforced by the city in accordance with these regulations and applicable federal and state regulations. Permits may contain restrictions and requirements including but not limited to the following:
A. Effluent limitations as required by Chapter 15.48 (including all aspects of this section, prohibitions, local limits, and BMPs) or to meet pretreatment standards. This section also includes a description of process and non-process wastewater discharges, outfall description, sampling location, composite sampling and grab sampling description, peak flow requirements, and general discharge standards.
B. Monitoring requirements including an identification of the pollutants to be monitored (including the process for seeking a waiver for a pollutant neither present nor expected to be present in the discharge in accordance with 40 CFR 403.12(e)(2), or a specific waived pollutant), frequency, sampling location and sample type. All sampling and analytical methods shall be performed in accordance with 40 CFR 136.
C. Reporting requirements including self-monitoring reports, reporting additional monitoring, automatic retesting, accidental discharge or process upset or bypass reporting, city contact information, and declaration of authorized representative.
D. Special conditions such as the design, construction and operation of a pretreatment system, development and implementation of slug discharge control plan and notification of slug discharges, and changes at the facility affecting the potential for a slug discharge.
E. Standard permit conditions including the following:
1. General conditions such as severability, duty to comply, duty to mitigate, permit modification, permit termination, permit appeals, property rights, limitation on permit transfer, continuation of expired permits, or any other conditions as deemed necessary by the city.
2. Definitions such as bypass, composite sample, noncontact cooling water, contact cooling water, daily maximum, fat oil and grease, grab sample, instantaneous maximum concentration, monthly average, production line, slug discharge, upset, significant noncompliance and compliance with applicable pretreatment standards, or any other definition as deemed necessary by the city.
3. Operation and maintenance including proper operation and maintenance, duty to halt or reduce activity, bypass of treatment facilities, and handling of removed substances.
4. Monitoring and record keeping including representative samples, flow measurement, analytical methods to demonstrate compliance, city monitoring (inspection, sampling, obstruction), record retention, record contents, planned changes, anticipated noncompliance, duty to provide information.
5. Enforcement, including a definition for falsifying information, annual publication of facilities in significant noncompliance, civil and criminal liability, penalties for violations of permit conditions, and recovery of costs incurred by the city.
F. Compliance schedules with requirements for reporting progress.
G. Requirements for submission of technical reports, progress reports or discharge reports.
H. Requirements for notification of the city before 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.
I. Denials or conditions for new or increased contributions of pollutants, or changes in the nature of pollutants, to the community sewers or the POTW by industrial users where such contributions do not meet applicable pretreatment standards and requirements, potentially cause interference or where such contributions would cause or contribute to the POTW to violate its NPDES permit.
J. Requirements for notification of slug discharges.
K. Limits for incompatible pollutants (those not amenable to treatment) present in the user’s wastewater discharge.
L. Requirements for the development and implementation of waste minimization plans.
M. Other conditions or requirements as deemed appropriate by the city to ensure compliance with these regulations including but not limited to nuisance abatement.
(Ord. 2402 NCS §2 (part), 2011; Ord. 2282 NCS §3 (part), 2007.)