Red Bluff Municipal Code Div. 4 Wastewater Discharge Permit Application

Users must submit information on the nature and characteristics of its wastewater within ten days of a request from the city. The city shall provide an industrial waste survey form for this purpose and may periodically require users to update the information.

(Ord. 920, passed 11-7-2000)

(A) No significant industrial user shall discharge wastewater into the POTW without first obtaining a wastewater discharge permit from the city, except that a significant industrial user that has filed a timely application pursuant hereto may continue to discharge for the time period specified therein.

(B) The city may require other users to obtain wastewater discharge permits as necessary to carry out the purposes of these requirements.

(C) Any violation of the terms and conditions of a wastewater discharge permit shall be deemed a violation of these requirements and subjects the wastewater discharge permittee to the provisions shown herein. Obtaining a wastewater discharge permit does not relieve a permittee of its obligation to comply with all federal and state pretreatment standards or requirements or with any other requirements of federal, state and local law.

(Ord. 920, passed 11-7-2000)

Any user required to obtain a wastewater discharge permit who was discharging wastewater into the POTW prior to the effective date of this article and who wishes to continue the discharges in the future, shall, within 30 days after the effective date, apply to the city for a wastewater discharge permit in accordance herewith and shall not cause or allow discharges to the POTW to continue after 60 days of the effective date of these requirements, except in accordance with a wastewater discharge permit issued by the city.

(Ord. 920, passed 11-7-2000)

(A) Any user required to obtain a wastewater discharge permit that proposes to begin or recommence discharging into the POTW must obtain the permit prior to the beginning or recommencing of the discharge.

(B) An application for a wastewater discharge permit, in accordance herewith, must be filed at least 30 days prior to the date upon which any discharge will begin or recommence.

(Ord. 920, passed 11-7-2000)

(A) All users required to obtain a wastewater discharge permit must submit a permit application.

(B) The city may require all users to submit as part of an application the following information:

(1) The name and address of the facility, including the name of the operator and owner;

(2) A list of any environmental control permits held by or for the facility;

(3) A brief description of the nature, average rate of production and standard industrial classifications of the operation(s) carried out by the user; (This description should include a schematic process diagram, which indicates points of discharge to the POTW from the regulated processes.)

(4) 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 waste stream formula set out in Title 40 CFR Part 403.6(e);

(5) Measurement of pollutants:

(a) The categorical pretreatment standards applicable to each regulated process;

(b) The results of sampling and analysis identifying the nature and concentration, and/or mass, where required by the standard or by the city, have regulated pollutants in the discharge from each regulated process; and (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.)

(c) Sampling and analyzing activities shall be performed in accordance herewith.

(6) 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 and/or additional pretreatment is required to meet the pretreatment standards and requirements;

(7) If additional pretreatment and/or O&M will be required to meet the pretreatment standards, the user will employ the shortest schedule by which additional pretreatment and/or O&M can be

accomplished; (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 herein.)

(8) All wastewater discharge permit applications and user reports must be signed by an authorized representative of the user and contain the following certification statement:

“I certify, under penalty of law, that this document and all attachments were prepared under my direction or supervision in accordance with a system designed to assure that qualified personnel properly gather and evaluate the information submitted. Based on my inquiry of the person or persons who manage the system, or those persons directly responsible for gathering the information, the information submitted is, to the best of my knowledge and belief, true, accurate and complete. I am aware that there are significant penalties for submitting false information, including the possibility of fine and imprisonment for knowing violations.”

(C) Incomplete or inaccurate applications will not be processed and will be returned to the user for revision.

(Ord. 920, passed 11-7-2000)

The city will evaluate the data submitted by the user and may require additional information. Within 30 days of receipt of a complete wastewater discharge permit application, the city will determine whether or not to issue a wastewater discharge permit. The city may deny any application for a wastewater discharge permit.

(Ord. 920, passed 11-7-2000)