Kentucky Administrative Regulations
Title 401 - ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT CABINET - DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Chapter 5 - Water Quality
Section 401 KAR 5:045 - Treatment requirements; compliance; biochemically degradable wastes
Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, March 1, 2024
RELATES TO: KRS 224.10-100, 224.70-100, 224.70-110
NECESSITY, FUNCTION, AND CONFORMITY: KRS 224.10-100(19) requires the cabinet to issue, continue in effect, revoke, modify, suspend, or deny permits to discharge into waters of the Commonwealth. KRS 224.10-100(21) authorizes the cabinet to require technological levels of treatment and effluent limitations. This administrative regulation establishes minimum treatment requirements, requires all persons discharging pollutants through point sources to apply these measures, or more stringent as required, to comply with water quality standards, and requires a minimum of secondary treatment or best conventional pollutant control technology for a facility that receives biochemically degradable wastes.
Section 1. Treatment Requirements.
Section 2. Biochemically Degradable Wastes; Treatment.
Section 3. Secondary Treatment of Biochemically Degradable Wastes. Secondary treatment shall be the degree of treatment that results in an effluent quality that complies with the minimum requirements established in this section.
Section 4. Continuation of a Permit. A person responsible for an existing facility that receives biochemically degradable influent and discharges into waters of the Commonwealth shall apply for a permit to continue to discharge to the waters of the Commonwealth not later than 180 days prior to the expiration of the current permit.
STATUTORY AUTHORITY: KRS 224.10-100(19), (21)