Current through all regulations passed and filed through September 16, 2024
(A) The purpose of this chapter is to
establish, as a part of a state pretreatment program under Chapter 6111. of the
Revised Code, both of the following:
(1) A
permit program regulating the discharge of nondomestic wastewater into a POTW
to assure compliance with pretreatment standards in this chapter.
(2) Enforceable state requirements and
standards regulating the introduction of pollutants into POTWs by industrial
users.
(B) This chapter
has the following objectives:
(1) To prevent
the introduction of pollutants that will interfere with the operation of a
treatment works into a POTW, including interference with the use or disposal of
the POTW's sewage sludge.
(2) To
prevent the introduction of pollutants into a POTW that will pass through the
treatment works or otherwise be incompatible with such works.
(3) To improve opportunities to recycle and
reclaim municipal and industrial wastewaters and sludges.
(C) In accordance with section
6111.032 of the Revised Code,
nothing in this chapter is intended to supersede the primacy of the POTW in the
regulation of the POTW's collection system and treatment works. All local laws,
regulations, and ordinances shall apply as long as these requirements are as
stringent as, or more stringent than, any set forth in the pretreatment rules
under Chapter 3745-3 of the Administrative Code and indirect discharge permit
rules under this chapter.
(D) The
provisions in this chapter apply to both of the following:
(1) Pollutants from nondomestic sources
covered by pretreatment standards that are indirectly discharged into, or
transported by truck or rail or otherwise introduced into a POTW that is not
administering an approved pretreatment program, as defined in this chapter.
Pretreatment standards do not apply to sources connected to a sewer that is
neither connected to a POTW nor discharging directly into a POTW.
(2) As defined in rule
3745-36-02 of the Administrative
Code, industrial users that discharge nondomestic wastewater to a POTW that is
not administering an approved pretreatment program. Industrial users which
discharge nondomestic wastewater to a POTW that is administering an approved
pretreatment program are subject to the pretreatment rules in Chapter 3745-3 of
the Administrative Code.
Replaces: 3745-36-01
