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-19.7 - Development of local limits by local agencies
Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 24, December 18, 2024
(a) Except as provided in (b) and (c) below, all local agencies shall perform a headworks analysis in order to develop local limits or demonstrate that local limits are not necessary. The headworks analysis and, if necessary, development of local limits shall:
(b) In lieu of conducting a complete headworks analysis, a local agency that operates a treatment works, where the treatment works receives only domestic pollutants and the NJDPES discharge permit for the treatment works does not include a water quality based effluent limit for a heavy metal, shall sample the treatment works as follows:
(c) A school or correctional facility, that operates a treatment works, is exempt from conducting a headworks analysis pursuant to (a) above, provided:
(d) Prior to initiation of any headworks analysis and development of local limits under (a) above, all delegated local agencies shall submit a work plan to the Department, for review and approval with conditions if necessary, which outlines the tasks and time frames in the development of a headworks analysis and local limits. At a minimum, this plan shall include the parameters to be sampled, the sampling locations within the treatment plant and the collection system, and a schematic diagram of the treatment plant showing sampling locations.
(e) When proposing and adopting local limits, all delegated local agencies shall comply with the public notice and hearing requirements of N.J.A.C. 7:14A-19.10(a).
(f) All delegated local agencies shall submit a written technical evaluation of the need to revise local limits whenever:
(g) The written technical evaluation required to be submitted by delegated local agencies under (f) above shall include the following:
(h) The Department shall review the written technical evaluation submitted by a delegated local agency under (f) above and, if necessary, require the delegated local agency to revise the local limits in accordance with (a) above.