§ 13.20.330. Reporting requirements.

In addition to reporting potential problems (see Sections 13.20.270 and 13.20.272), industrial users, at their sole expense, may be required to submit one or more of the following types of reports to the City:

A.

Self-Monitoring Reports: The Director may require a permittee to submit periodic self-monitoring reports containing a description of the (1) nature, concentration, and flow of pollutants; (2) the time, date, and place of sampling; (3) methods of analysis; and (4) other information reasonably related to ensuring compliance with this chapter. Sampling for self-monitoring reports shall be performed by the user as the Director specifies. All required analyses shall be performed by a state-certified laboratory using approved analytical methods. Class I and Class II users shall submit self-monitoring reports at least once every six months. Each sample report shall be accompanied by an approved chain of custody that ensures proper handling and integrity of the sample from collection, preservation, holding times, approved analytical methods, and storage. All monitoring data collected from the approved sample location(s) must be submitted.

B.

Compliance Reports: Class I users shall submit initial baseline monitoring reports (BMRs) and periodic compliance reports, and, if applicable, compliance schedule reports and final compliance reports.

1.

Initial baseline monitoring reports shall be submitted to the City within 180 days after the effective date of the categorical standard, which will facilitate evaluation of initial compliance status and any modifications or conditions necessary to achieve full compliance with categorical standards. Baseline monitoring reports shall include:

(a)

All information listed in Section 13.20.305;

(b)

The results of sampling and analysis identifying the nature and concentration, where required by the applicable categorical standard or the Director, 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; and

(c)

A statement, reviewed by an authorized representative of the industrial user, and certified as to accuracy 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 for the industrial user to meet the pretreatment standards and requirements. New sources shall submit a baseline monitoring report at least 90 days prior to commencement of discharge.

If immediate compliance with the categorical standard is not possible and additional pretreatment or operation and maintenance is necessary, the report must specify the shortest time necessary to achieve compliance. The completion date must not be later than that specified in the applicable categorical standards. New sources shall achieve compliance with all applicable pretreatment standards within 90 days of commencing discharge.

2.

Compliance schedule reports shall be submitted to the City, if necessary, to demonstrate compliance with conditions of a time schedule requiring full compliance with categorical standards and/or other applicable discharge limits set forth in this chapter by a specific date.

Compliance schedule reports shall contain dates for commencement and completion of major events leading to construction and operation of additional pretreatment equipment, including but not limited to dates for pretreatment equipment design completion, building permit submittal, construction commencement, construction milestones, progress reports, construction completion, employee training completion, and final compliance. Samples shall be collected and analyzed to demonstrate compliance. The samples shall be taken in accordance with 40 CFR 136 and 40 CFR 403.12(g)(3). Compliance schedule reports shall be submitted at the completion of all major events necessary to achieve full compliance with categorical standards or discharge requirements, but not less frequency than 30 days. Compliance schedule reports shall be submitted within 14 days of a milestone date. Absent unusual circumstances, the duration of a compliance schedule shall not exceed nine months.

3.

Final compliance reports shall be submitted to the City by any user subject to categorical pretreatment standards within 90 days following the date for final compliance with applicable, categorical pretreatment standards, or in the case of a new source, within 90 days following commencement of the introduction of wastewater into the POTW, to demonstrate that full compliance with categorical standards has been achieved. Final compliance reports shall include all information contained in a baseline monitoring report.

4.

Periodic compliance reports shall be submitted to the City to demonstrate continued compliance with categorical standards. Periodic compliance reports shall include all monitoring data specified in the applicable categorical standard, and any additional monitoring data obtained by the user during the period covered by the report.

Sampling for periodic compliance reports shall be performed during the period covered by the report. Analyses shall be performed by a state-certified laboratory using approved analytical methods. The Control Authority shall require that frequency of monitoring necessary to assess and assure compliance by industrial users with applicable pretreatment standards and requirements. Grab samples must be used for pH, cyanide, total phenols, oil and grease, sulfide, and volatile organic compounds. For all other pollutants, 24-hour composite samples must be obtained through flow-proportional composite sampling techniques, unless time-proportional composite sampling or grab sampling is authorized by the Control Authority. Where time-proportional composite sampling or grab sampling is authorized by the Control Authority, the samples must be representative of the discharge and the decision to allow the alternative sampling must be documented in the industrial user file for that facility or facilities. Using protocols (including appropriate preservation) specified in 40 CFR part 136 and appropriate EPA guidance, multiple grab samples collected during a 24-hour period may be composited prior to the analysis as follows: For cyanide, total phenols, and sulfides the samples may be composited in the laboratory or in the field; for volatile organics and oil & grease the samples may be composited in the laboratory. Composite samples for other parameters unaffected by the compositing procedures as documented in approved EPA methodologies may be authorized by the Control Authority, as appropriate.

Periodic compliance reports shall be submitted every six months in June and December of each year, unless required to be submitted more frequently by the Director. Periodic compliance reports may be combined with self-monitoring reports pursuant to subsection A of this section.

C.

Solvent Management Plans. All industrial users subject to promulgated categorical standards which include a total toxic organic (TTO) limitation shall be required to file a solvent management plan. The Director may also require other users to submit solvent management plans where, in his judgment, a plan is necessary to assure proper containment and disposal of solvents.

D.

Slug Discharge Control Plans. All industrial users so required by the Director shall develop and file with the Director and implement a slug discharge control plan. The plan shall contain at least the following elements:

1.

Description of discharge practices, including non-routine batch discharges;

2.

Description of stored chemicals;

3.

Procedures for prompt verbal notification to the City of slug discharges, including any discharge that would violate a specific prohibition under Sections 13.20.210 or 13.20.240 of this chapter or 40 CFR 403.5(b), and procedures for follow-up written notification to the Director within 24 hours;

4.

If required by the Director, the plan shall include procedures to prevent adverse impact from accidental spills, including inspection and maintenance of storage areas, handling and transfer of materials, loading and unloading operations, control of plant site run-off, worker training, building of containment structures or equipment, measures for containing toxic organic pollutants (including solvents), and/or measures and equipment for emergency response; and

5.

If required by the Director, the plan shall include follow-up practices to limit the damage suffered by the POTW or the environment.

E.

Specific Compliance Plans. All industrial users so required by the Director shall file a specific compliance plan. The plan shall indicate the cause of noncompliance, the corrective actions which will be taken to prevent recurrence of the noncompliance, and, if required by the Director, a proposed compliance time schedule indicating the dates those corrective actions will be completed.

F.

Notification of Hazardous Waste Discharge. Any user shall notify the City, the EPA Regional Waste Management Division, State, and/or local hazardous waste authorities in writing of any discharge by the user into the POTW of a substance, which, if otherwise disposed of, would be classified a hazardous waste pursuant to 40 CFR Part 261, as revised. Such notification shall 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 100 kilograms of such waste per calendar month to the POTW, the notification shall also 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 12 months.

Users shall provide notification no later than 180 days after the discharge of the hazardous waste.

Any notification under this section need be submitted only once for each hazardous waste discharge. However, notifications of changed discharges must be submitted in accordance with 40 CFR 403.12(j).

The hazardous waste discharge notification requirements specified herein do not apply to pollutants already reported under the self-monitoring requirements of subsections A and B of this section. Users are also exempt from the above requirements during a calendar month in which they discharge no more than 15 kilograms of hazardous wastes, unless the wastes are acute hazardous wastes as specified in 40 CFR 261.30(d) and 261.33(e).

Discharges of more than 15 kilograms of non-acute hazardous wastes as specified in 40 CFR 261.30(d) and 261.33(e), require a one-time notification. Additional notification is not required for subsequent months during which the user discharges additional quantities of the same non-acute hazardous waste.

In the case of new federal regulations under Section 3001 of RCRA identifying additional characteristics of hazardous waste or listing any additional substance as a hazardous waste, the user shall notify the City, the EPA Regional Waste Management Division Director, and state hazardous waste authorities of the discharge of such substance within 90 days of the effective date of such regulations.

In the case of any notification made under these requirements, the user shall certify that it has a program in place to reduce the volume or toxicity of hazardous wastes generated to the degree it has determined to be economically practical.

G.

Any other reports required by California State Law; including such reports as are required by Chapter 6.95 of Division 20 of the California Health and Safety Code.

Users shall be responsible for compliance with all milestone dates established pursuant to the reports required pursuant to this chapter.

( Ord. No. 1094, 11-7-2017 )