[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 40, Volume 28]

[Revised as of July 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 40CFR403.19]



[Page 53-54]

 

                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT

 

         CHAPTER I--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED)

 

PART 403_GENERAL PRETREATMENT REGULATIONS FOR EXISTING AND NEW SOURCES OF 

POLLUTION--Table of Contents

 

Sec.  403.19  Provisions of specific applicability to the Owatonna Waste 

Water Treatment Facility.



    (a) For the purposes of this section, the term ``Participating 

Industrial Users'' includes the following Industrial Users in the City 

of Owatonna, Minnesota: Crown Cork and Seal Company, Inc.; Cybex 

International Inc.; Josten's Inc.--Southtown Facility; SPx Corporation, 

Service Solutions Division; Truth Hardware Corporation; and Uber Tanning 

Company.

    (b) For a Participating Industrial User discharging to the Owatonna 

Waste Water Treatment Facility in Owatonna, Minnesota, when a 

categorical Pretreatment Standard is expressed in terms of pollutant 

concentration the City of Owatonna may convert the limit to a mass limit 

by multiplying the five-year, long-term average process flows of the 

Participating Industrial User (or a shorter period if production has 

significantly increased or decreased during the five year period) by the 

concentration-based categorical Pretreatment Standard. Participating 

Industrial Users must notify the City in the event production rates are 

expected to vary by more than 20 percent from a baseline production rate 

determined by Owatonna when it establishes a Participating Industrial 

User's initial mass limit. To remain eligible to receive equivalent mass 

limits the Participating Industrial User must maintain at least the same 

level of treatment as at the time the equivalent mass limit is 

established. Upon notification of a revised production rate from a 

Participating Industrial User, the City will reassess the 

appropriateness of the mass limit. Owatonna shall reestablish the 

concentration-based limit if a Participating Industrial User does not 

maintain at least the same level of treatment as when the equivalent 

mass limit was established.

    (c) If a categorical Participating Industrial User of the Owatonna 

Waste Water Treatment Facility has demonstrated through sampling and 

other technical factors, including a comparison of three years of 

effluent data with background data, that pollutants regulated through 

categorical Pretreatment Standards, other than 40 CFR part 414, are not 

expected to be present in quantities greater than the background 

influent concentration to the industrial process, the City of Owatonna 

may reduce the sampling frequency specified in Sec.  403.8(f)(2)(v) to 

once during the term of the categorical Participating Industrial User's 

permit.

    (d) If a Participating Industrial User is discharging to the 

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Water Treatment Facility in Owatonna, Minnesota and is subject to a 

categorical Pretreatment Standard other than one codified at 40 CFR part 

414, the City of Owatonna may authorize the Participating Industrial 

User to forego sampling of a pollutant if the Participating Industrial 

User has demonstrated through sampling and other technical factors, 

including a comparison of three years of effluent data with background 

data, that the pollutant is not expected to be present in quantities 

greater than the background influent concentration to the industrial 

process, and the Participating Industrial User certifies on each report, 

with the following statement, that there has been no increase in the 

pollutant in its wastestream due to activities of the Participating 

Industrial User. The following statement is to be included as a comment 

to the periodic reports required by Sec.  403.12(e):



    ``Based on my inquiry of the person or persons directly responsible 

for managing compliance with the pretreatment standard for 40 CFR ----, 

I certify that, to the best of my knowledge and belief, the raw 

materials, industrial processes, and potential by-products have not 

contributed this pollutant to the wastewaters since filing of the last 

periodic report under 40 CFR 403.12(e).''



    (e) If the average daily loading from the Participating Industrial 

Users to the Owatonna Waste Water Treatment Facility is equal to or less 

than 0.68 pounds per day of chromium, 0.25 pounds per day of copper, 

1.17 pounds per day of nickel, and 1.01 pounds per day of zinc, Owatonna 

may authorize a categorical Participating Industrial User to satisfy the 

reporting requirements of Sec.  403.12(e) with an annual report provided 

on a date specified by Owatonna, provided that the Participating 

Industrial User has no reasonable potential to violate a Pretreatment 

Standard for any pollutant for which reduced monitoring is being 

allowed, and has not been in Significant Noncompliance within the 

previous three years.

    (f) The Owatonna Waste Water Treatment Facility in Owatonna, 

Minnesota shall post public notice of all Significant Noncompliance 

subject to the publication requirement in Sec.  403.8(f)(2)(vii) at the 

Minnesota Pollution Control Agency website for a period of one year, as 

soon as practicable upon identifying the violations. In addition, the 

Owatonna Waste Water Treatment Facility shall post an explanation of how 

Significant Noncompliance is determined, and a contact name and phone 

number for information regarding other, non-Significant Noncompliance 

violations. If a violation is not corrected within thirty (30) calendar 

days or results in pass through or interference at the Owatonna Waste 

Water Treatment Facility, publication must also be made in the format 

specified in Sec.  403.8(f)(2)(vii).

    (g) The provisions of this section shall expire on October 6, 2005.



[65 FR 59747, Oct. 6, 2000]