Wyoming Administrative Code
Agency 020 - Environmental Quality, Dept. of
Sub-Agency 0011 - Water Quality
Chapter 15 - USE OF SURFACE DISPOSAL OF BIOSOLIDS, APP. A-C
Part B - LAND APPLICATION
Section 18 - Record keeping
Universal Citation: WY Code of Rules 18
Current through September 21, 2024
(a) Biosolids.
(i) The person who prepares the biosolids in
Section 11(b) or (g) shall develop the following information and shall retain
the information for five (5) years:
(A) The
concentration of each pollutant listed in Table 3 of Section 14 in the
biosolids;
(B) The following
certification statement: "I certify, under penalty of law, that the Class A
pathogen requirements in Section 31(a) of Chapter 15, Wyoming Water Quality
Rules and Regulations and the vector attraction reduction requirement in
[insert one of the vector attraction reduction requirements in Section 32(f)
through Section 32(m) ] have been met. This determination has been made under
my direction and supervision in accordance with the system designed to ensure
that qualified personnel properly gather and evaluate the information used to
determine that the pathogen requirements and vector attraction reduction
requirements have been met. I am aware that there are significant penalties for
false certification including the possibility of fines and
imprisonment.";
(C) A description
of how the Class A pathogen requirements in Section 31(a) are met;
and
(D) A description of how one of
the vector attraction reduction requirements in Section 32(f) through Section
32(m) is met.
(ii) The
person who derives the material in Section 11(d) or (h) shall develop the
following information and shall retain the information for five (5) years:
(A) The concentration of each pollutant
listed in Table 3 of Section 14 in the material;
(B) The following certification statement: "I
certify, under penalty of law, that the Class A pathogen requirements in
Section 31(a) of Chapter 15, Wyoming Water Quality Rules and Regulations and
the vector attraction reduction requirement in [insert one of the vector
attraction reduction requirements in Section 32(f) through Section 32(m) ] have
been met. This determination has been made under my direction and supervision
in accordance with the system designed to ensure that qualified personnel
properly gather and evaluate the information used to determine that the
pathogen requirements and the vector attraction reduction requirements have
been met. I am aware that there are significant penalties for false
certification including the possibility of fines and imprisonment.";
(C) A description of how the Class A pathogen
requirements in Section 31(a) are met; and
(D) A description of how one of the vector
attraction reduction requirements in Section 32(f) through Section 32(m) is
met.
(iii) If the
pollutant concentrations in Section 14(b) (iii), the Class A pathogen
requirements Section 31(a), and the vector attraction reduction requirements in
either Section 32(n) or Section 32(o) and (p) are met when bulk biosolids are
applied to agricultural land, forest, a public contact site, or a reclamation
site:
(A) The person who prepares the bulk
biosolids shall develop the following information and shall retain the
information for five (5) years:
(I) The
concentration of each pollutant listed in Table 3 of Section 14 in the bulk
biosolids;
(II) The following
certification statement: "I certify, under penalty of law, that the pathogen
requirements in Section 31(a) of Chapter 15, Wyoming Water Quality Rules and
Regulations have been met. This determination has been made under my direction
and supervision in accordance with the system designed to ensure that qualified
personnel properly gather and evaluate the information used to determine that
the pathogen requirements have been met. I am aware that there are significant
penalties for false certification including the possibility of fines and
imprisonment."; and
(III) A
description of how the pathogen requirements in Section 31(a) are
met.
(B) The person who
applies the bulk biosolids shall develop the following information and shall
retain the information for five (5) years:
(I) The following certification statement: "I
certify, under penalty of law, that the management practices in Section 15 of
Chapter 15, Wyoming Water Quality Rules and Regulations and the vector
attraction reduction requirement in [insert either Section 32(n) or Section
32(o) and (p) ] have been met. This determination has been made under my
direction and supervision in accordance with the system designed to ensure that
qualified personnel properly gather and evaluate the information used to
determine that the management practices and vector attraction reduction
requirements have been met. I am aware that there are significant penalties for
false certification including fines and imprisonment.";
(II) A description of how the management
practices in Section 15 are met for each site on which bulk biosolids are
applied; and
(III) A description of
how the vector attraction reduction requirements in either Section 32(n) or (o)
and (p) are met for each site on which bulk biosolids are applied.
(iv) If the pollutant
concentrations in Section 14(b) (iii) and the Class B pathogen requirements in
Section 31(b) are met when bulk biosolids are applied to agricultural land,
forest, a public contact site, or a reclamation site:
(A) The person who prepares the bulk
biosolids shall develop the following information and shall retain the
information for five (5) years:
(I) The
concentration of each pollutant listed in Table 3 of Section 14 in the bulk
biosolids;
(II) The following
certification statement: "I certify under, penalty of law, that the Class B
pathogen requirements in Section 31(b) of Chapter 15, Wyoming Water Quality
Rules and Regulations and the vector attraction reduction requirement in
[insert one of the vector attraction reduction requirements in Section 32(f)
through Section 32(m) if one of those requirements is met] have been met. This
determination has been made under my direction and supervision in accordance
with the system designed to ensure that qualified personnel properly gather and
evaluate the information used to determine that the pathogen requirements [and
vector attraction reduction requirements if applicable] have been met. I am
aware that there are significant penalties for false certification including
the possibility of fines and imprisonment.";
(III) A description of how the Class B
pathogen requirements in Section 31(b) are met; and
(IV) When one of the vector attraction
reduction requirements in Section 32(f) through Section 32(m) is met, a
description of how the vector attraction reduction requirement is
met.
(B) The person who
applies the bulk biosolids shall develop the following information and shall
retain the information for five (5) years:
(I) The following certification statement: "I
certify, under penalty of law, that the management practices in Section 15 of
Chapter 15, Wyoming Water Quality Rules and Regulations, the site restrictions
in Section 31(b) (vi), and the vector attraction reduction requirements in
[insert either Section 32(n) or Section 32(o), if one of those requirements is
met] have been met for each site on which bulk biosolids are applied. This
determination has been made under my direction and supervision in accordance
with the system designed to ensure that qualified personnel properly gather and
evaluate the information used to determine that the management practices and
site restrictions [and the vector attraction reduction requirements if
applicable] have been met. I am aware that there are significant penalties for
false certification including the possibility of fines and
imprisonment.";
(II) A description
of how the management practices Section 15 are met for each site on which bulk
biosolids are applied;
(III) A
description of how the site restrictions in Section 31(b) (vi) are met for each
site on which bulk biosolids are applied; and
(IV) When the vector attraction reduction
requirement in either Section 32(n) or (o) are met, a description of how the
vector attraction reduction requirement is met.
(v) If the requirements in Section 14(a) (ii)
(A) are met when bulk biosolids are applied to agricultural land, forest, a
public contact site, or a reclamation site:
(A) The person who prepares the bulk
biosolids shall develop the following information and shall retain the
information for five (5) years:
(I) The
concentration of each pollutant listed in Table 1 of Section 14 in the bulk
biosolids;
(II) The following
certification statement: "I certify, under penalty of law, that the pathogen
requirements in [insert either Section 31(a) or Section 31(b) ] of Chapter 15,
Wyoming Water Quality Rules and Regulations and the vector attraction reduction
requirement in [insert one of the vector attraction reduction requirements in
Section 32(f) through (m) if one of those requirements is met] have been met.
This determination has been made under my direction and supervision in
accordance with the system designed to ensure that qualified personnel properly
gather and evaluate the information used to determine that the pathogen
requirements [and vector attraction reduction requirements] have been met. I am
aware that there are significant penalties for false certification including
the possibility of fines and imprisonment.";
(III) A description of how the pathogen
requirements in either Section 31(a) or Section 31(b) are met; and
(IV) When one of the vector attraction
requirements in Section 32(f) through (m) is met, a description of how the
vector attraction requirement is met.
(B) The person who applies the bulk biosolids
shall develop the following information, retain the information in Section
18(a) (v) (B) (I) through Section 18(a) (v) (B) (VII) indefinitely, and retain
the information in Section 18(a) (v) (B) (VIII) through Section 18(a) (v) (B)
(XIII)for five (5) years:
(I) The location,
by either street address or latitude and longitude, of each site on which bulk
biosolids are applied;
(II) The
number of hectares in each site on which bulk biosolids are applied;
(III) The date and time bulk biosolids are
applied to each site;
(IV) The
cumulative amount of each pollutant (i.e., kilograms) listed in Table 2 of
Section 14 in the bulk biosolids applied to each site, including the amount in
Section 13(e) (iii);
(V) The amount
of biosolids (i.e., metric tons) applied to each site;
(VI) The following certification statement:
"I certify, under penalty of law, that the requirements to obtain information
in Section 13(e) (ii) of Chapter 15, Wyoming Water Quality Rules and
Regulations have been met for each site on which bulk biosolids is applied.
This determination has been made under my direction and supervision in
accordance with the system designed to ensure that qualified personnel properly
gather and evaluate the information used to determine that the requirements to
obtain information have been met. I am aware that there are significant
penalties for false certification including fines and imprisonment.";
(VII) A description of how the requirements
to obtain information in Section 13(e) (ii) are met;
(VIII) The following certification statement:
"I certify, under penalty of law, that the management practices in Section 15
of Chapter 15, Wyoming Water Quality Rules and Regulations have been met for
each site on which bulk biosolids is applied. This determination has been made
under my direction and supervision in accordance with the system designed to
ensure that qualified personnel properly gather and evaluate the information
used to determine that the management practices have been met. I am aware that
there are significant penalties for false certification including fines and
imprisonment.";
(IX) A description
of how the management practices in Section 15 are met for each site on which
bulk biosolids are applied;
(X) The
following certification statement when the bulk biosolids meets the Class B
pathogen requirements in Section 31(b): "I certify, under penalty of law, that
the site restrictions in Section 31(b) (vi) of Chapter 15, Wyoming Water
Quality Rules and Regulations have been met. This determination has been made
under my direction and supervision in accordance with the system designed to
ensure that qualified personnel properly gather and evaluate the information
used to determine that the site restrictions have been met. I am aware that
there are significant penalties for false certification including fines and
imprisonment.";
(XI) A description
of how the site restrictions in Section 31(b) (vi) are met for each site on
which Class B bulk biosolids are applied;
(XII) The following certification statement
when the vector attraction reduction requirement in either Section 32(n) or (o)
and (p) is met: "I certify, under penalty of law, that the vector attraction
reduction requirement in [insert either Section 32(n) or (o) and (p) ] of
Chapter 15, Wyoming Water Quality Rules and Regulations has been met. This
determination has been made under my direction and supervision in accordance
with the system designed to ensure that qualified personnel properly gather and
evaluate the information used to determine that the vector attraction reduction
requirement has been met. I am aware that there are significant penalties for
false certification including the possibility of fines and
imprisonment."
(XIII) If the vector
attraction reduction requirements in either Section 32(n) or (o) and (p) are
met, a description of how the requirements are met.
(vi) If the requirements in
Section 14(a) (iv) (B) are met when biosolids is sold or given away in a bag or
other container for application to the land, the person who prepares the
biosolids that is sold or given away in a bag or other container shall develop
the following information and shall retain the information for five (5) years:
(A) The annual whole sludge application rate
for the biosolids that does not cause the annual pollutant loading rates in
Table 4 of Section 14 to be exceeded;
(B) The concentration of each pollutant
listed in Table 4 of Section 14 in the biosolids;
(C) The following certification statement: "I
certify, under penalty of law, that the management practice in Section 15(e) of
Chapter 15, Wyoming Water Quality Rules and Regulations, the Class A pathogen
requirement in Section 31(a), and the vector attraction reduction requirement
in [insert one of the vector attraction reduction requirements in Section 32(f)
through (m) ] have been met. This determination has been made under my
direction and supervision in accordance with the system designed to ensure that
qualified personnel properly gather and evaluate the information used to
determine that the management practice, pathogen requirements, and vector
attraction reduction requirements have been met. I am aware that there are
significant penalties for false certification including the possibility of
fines and imprisonment.";
(D) A
description of how the Class A pathogen requirements in Section 31(a) are met;
and
(E) A description of how one of
the vector attraction requirements in Section 32(f) through (m) is
met.
(b) Domestic septage. When domestic septage is applied to agricultural land, forest, or a reclamation site, the person who applies the domestic septage shall develop the following information and shall retain the information for five (5) years:
(i) The location, by either
street address or latitude and longitude, of each site on which domestic
septage is applied;
(ii) The number
of acres in each site on which domestic septage is applied;
(iii) The date and time domestic septage is
applied to each site;
(iv) The
nitrogen requirement for the crop or vegetation grown on each site during a 365
day period;
(v) The rate, in
gallons per acre per 365 day period, at which domestic septage is applied to
each site;
(vi) The following
certification statement: "I certify, under penalty of law, that the pathogen
requirements in [insert either Section 31(c) (i) or (c) (ii) ] of Chapter 15,
Wyoming Water Quality Rules and Regulations and the vector attraction reduction
requirements in [insert Section 32(n), (o) and (p), or (r) ] have been met.
This determination has been made under my direction and supervision in
accordance with the system designed to ensure that qualified personnel properly
gather and evaluate the information used to determine that the pathogen
requirements and vector attraction reduction requirements have been met. I am
aware that there are significant penalties for false certification including
the possibility of fines and imprisonment.";
(vii) A description of how the pathogen
requirements in either Section 31(c) (i) or (c) (ii) are met;
(viii) A description of how the vector
attraction reduction requirements in Section 32(n), (o) and (p), or (r) are
met; and
(ix) The record keeping
requirements of this section are considered equivalent to the requirements of a
General Statewide Permit for Land Application of Domestic Sewage In Remote
Areas, see Appendix C.
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