PERMFILE61538 - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Browse Search

PART II Page 31 Permit No. CO-0000221 A. NOTIFICATION REQUIItEMENTS d. Upset: An exceptional incident in which there is unintentional and temporary noncompliance with peratit effluent limitations because of factors beyond the reasonable control of the permittce. An upset does not include noncompliance to the extent caused by operational error, improperly designed treatment facilities, inadequate treatment facilities, lack of preventative maintenance, or careless or improper operation. 4. Noncompliance Notification a. If, for any reason, the permittce does not comply widt or will be unable to comply with any dischazge limitations or standards specified in this permit, the permittce shall, at a minimum, provide the Division and EPA widt the following information: i. A description of the discharge and cause of noncompliance; ii. The period of noncompliance, including exact dates and times and/or the anticipated time when the dischazge will return to compliance; and iii. Steps being taken to reduce, eliminate, and prevent recurrence of the noncomplying dischazge. b. The permittee shall report the following circumstances orally within twenty-four (241 hours from the time the permit[ee becomes aware of the circuttutances, and shall mail to the Division a written report containing the information requested in Part II.A.4.a. within five (5) days after becoming aware of the following circutltstances: i. Circumstances leading to any noncompliance which may endanger health or the environment regardless of the cause of the incident; ii. Circumstances leading to any unanticipated bypass which exceeds any effluent ]imitations in the permit; • iii. Circumstances leading to any upset or spill which causes an ezceedance of any effluent limitation in the permit; iv. Daily maximum violations for any of the pollutants limited by Pan I.A of this permit and specified as requiting 24 hour notification. This includes any toxic pollutant or hazardous substance or any pollutant specifically identified as the method to control any toxic pollutant or hazardous substance. c. The permittee shall report instances of non-compliance which are not required to be reported within 24-hours at the time Discharge Monitoring Reports are submitted. The reports shall contain the information listed in sub-paragraph (a) of this section. 5. Other Notification Requirements Reports of compliance or noncompliance with, or any progress reports on, interim and final requirements contained in any compliance schedule in the permit shall be submitted no later than fourteen (]4) days following each scheduled date, unless otherwise provided by the Division. The permittee shall notify the Division, in writing, thing (30) days in advance of a proposed transfer of permit as provided in Part II.B.3. The petmittce's notification of all anticipated noncompliance does not sta} any permit condition. All existing manufacturing, commercial, mining, and silviculmral dischareers must notify the Division as soon as they know or have reason to believe: a. That an}' activity has occurred or will occur which would result in the discharge, on a routine or frequent basis, of an}• toxic pollutant which is not limited in the permit, it that discharge will exceed the highest of the following 'notification levels": i i. One hundred micrograms per liter (100 ug/I); ii. Two hundred micrograms per liter (200 ug/1) far acrolein and acrylonitrile; five hundred micrograms per liter (5()D ug/I) for 2.4-dinitrophenol and 2-methyl-0.6dinitrophenol; and one milligram per liter (1 mg/1) for antimony;