Columbia Discharge permits ordinance (§ 22-216.3)

The director is authorized to establish local pretreatment standards and conditions for all wastewater discharged into city sewer systems. In order to enforce local, state and federal pretreatment standards, the director is authorized to require discharge permits of any person prior to that person discharging wastewater into any city sewer.

(1) As a condition of issuing a discharge permit, the director may require any permit applicant to sample the discharge, analyze the sample and record and report the results at frequencies and with methods determined by the director.

(2) As a condition of issuing a discharge permit, the director shall have the right to enter the premises of the facility generating the wastewater to inspect the facility, sample the wastewater and inspect and copy any records required to be kept relating to the wastewater or to enter any other premises where records are kept relating to the wastewater to inspect those records. (3)

The director is authorized after investigation to grant or deny the permit, or after the permit is issued to revoke the permit, upon discovery of a violation of the permit restrictions or to reconsider the permit if changes in local, state or federal pretreatment standards so require.

(4) Permits shall not be issued for a period longer than five (5) years.

(5) The permittee must submit an application for a new permit at least ninety (90) days before the expiration date of the permit if the permittee wishes to continue an activity regulated by the permit after the expiration date of the permit.

(6) An expired permit will continue to be effective and enforceable until the permit is reissued if:

a. The permittee has submitted a complete permit application at least ninety (90) days prior to the expiration date of the user's existing permit.

b. The failure to reissue the permit, prior to expiration of the previous permit, is not due to any act or failure to act on the part of the permittee.

(7) Permits shall not be transferable without a minimum thirty-day notification to the director and a copy of the permit provided to the new owner or operator. The new owner or operator within thirty (30) days of transfer of ownership or operation shall submit to the director an industrial user permit application for modification of the permit indicating changes to the company name, signatory authority, designated facility contact, and any changes in industrial operations.

(8) Permits must contain effluent limits, including best management practices, based on pretreatment standards.

(9) Permits must contain self-monitoring, sampling, reporting, notification and record-keeping requirements. These requirements shall include an identification of pollutants (or best management practices) to be monitored, sampling location, sampling frequency, and sample type based on federal, state, and local law.

(10) The permittee may seek a waiver from monitoring for a pollutant neither present nor expected to be present in the discharge. The request for a waiver must be in accordance with 40 CFR 403.12(e)(2).