New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 7 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Chapter 14A - NEW JERSEY POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM
Subchapter 19 - PRETREATMENT PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS FOR LOCAL AGENCIES
Section 7:14A-19.6 - Additional requirements for delegated local agencies
Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 24, December 18, 2024
(a) Each permitted facility discharging into the municipal treatment works of a delegated local agency, other than a facility discharging only stormwater or non-contact cooling water, shall be inspected by the delegated local agency at least once a year. The Department may also inspect a facility required to be inspected by a delegated local agency. Exemption of stormwater facilities from the provisions of this subsection shall not apply to any permitted facility discharging or receiving stormwater runoff having come into contact with a hazardous discharge site on the Federal National Priorities List adopted by the EPA pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 9601 et seq., or any other hazardous discharge site included by the Department on the master list for hazardous discharge site cleanups adopted pursuant to N.J.S.A. 58:10-23.1 6. An inspection required under this subsection shall be conducted within six months following a permittee's submission of an application for a permit, permit renewal or issuance of a permit for a new facility, except that if for any reason, a scheduled inspection cannot be made, the inspection shall be rescheduled to be performed within 30 days of the originally scheduled inspection or in the case of a temporary shutdown, of resumed operation. Inspections shall include:
(b) In addition to the inspection requirements of (a) above, all delegated local agencies shall inspect any permittee which meets the significant noncomplier definition at N.J.A.C. 7:14A-1.2. The inspection under this subsection shall be conducted within 60 days of receipt of the discharge monitoring report or self-monitoring report that initially results in the permittee's being identified as a significant noncomplier. The inspection shall include a random check of written summaries of test results, prepared by the certified laboratory providing the test results for the immediately preceding 12-month period signed by a responsible official of the certified laboratory, certifying the accuracy of the test results. A copy of each summary shall be maintained by the permittee. The inspection shall be for the purpose of determining compliance and shall only be performed once each calendar year. A delegated local agency is not required to make an inspection hereunder if an inspection has been made pursuant to (a) above within six months of the period within which an inspection is required to be conducted under this subsection.
(c) A delegated local agency shall submit a "Clean Water Enforcement Act" (CWEA) annual report to the Department by February 1 of each year. The CWEA annual report shall include, at a minimum, the information under N.J.S.A. 58:10A-14.2, including all supplements and amendments thereto.
(d) In addition to the information required in the CWEA annual report under (c) above, delegated local agencies shall also include the following information in the CWEA annual report:
(e) The information required in (c) and (d) above shall be submitted on forms provided by the Department.
(f) All delegated local agencies shall submit to the Department a " 40 CFR Part 403 " annual report which describes their pretreatment program activities. This report must contain, at a minimum, the information required under 40 CFR 403.12(i), including all supplements and amendments thereto. This report shall be submitted by the date specified in the delegated local agency's NJPDES permit. This report shall be signed by a principal executive officer, ranking elected official or other duly authorized employee. The duly authorized employee shall be an individual or position having responsibility for the overall operation of the facility or the pretreatment program. This authorization shall be made in writing by the principal executive officer or ranking elected official, and submitted to the Department prior to or together with the report being submitted.
(g) Each delegated local agency shall, by February 2, 2008, submit to the Department a sewer use ordinance or rules and regulations that include those provisions specified in N.J.A.C. 7:14A-19.3(d).
(h) A delegated local agency shall submit a grace period annual report to the Department. The grace period annual report shall include, for each calendar year, the information required under N.J.S.A. 13:1D-132, including, but not limited to:
(i) The information required in (h) above shall be submitted to the Department on or before March 1 of the year immediately following the calendar year to which the information applies. The information required in (h) above shall be submitted on forms provided by the Department.
(j) If a delegated local agency determines to establish equivalent mass limits pursuant to N.J.A.C. 7:14A-21.4(b), the delegated local agency:
(k) A delegated local agency shall not express limits in terms of mass for pollutants such as pH, temperature, radiation, or other pollutants that cannot appropriately be expressed as mass.