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Notice: 7839557

Notice of Proposed Rule

Department:

DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

Chapter:

PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENTS FOR EXISTING AND OTHER SOURCES OF POLLUTION

Overview

RULE:

62-625.100	Scope/Intent/Purpose (Repealed)
62-625.110	Applicability/References
62-625.200	Definitions
62-625.400	Pretreatment Standards: Prohibited Discharges
62-625.410	Pretreatment Standards: Categorical Standards
62-625.420	Removal Credits
62-625.500	Pretreatment Program Development and Submission Requirements
62-625.510	Pretreatment Program Review and Approval Procedures
62-625.540	Modification of Pretreatment Programs
62-625.600	Reporting Requirements for Control Authorities and Industrial Users
62-625.700	Fundamentally Different Factors Variance
62-625.820	Net/Gross Calculation
62-625.880	Tables

PURPOSE:

In 1995, EPA authorized the Department to implement the National Pretreatment program to control pollutants from industrial dischargers which have the potential to pass-through or interfere with the operation of domestic wastewater treatment facilities. The Department currently regulates 63 approved programs and those programs regulate a total of 744 industrial users through permitting. To implement the program, the Department originally adopted Chapter 62-625, F.A.C., in November 1994. Chapter 62-625, F.A.C., was last amended January 8, 1997. The Department is now amending Chapter 62-625, F.A.C., to incorporate the October 2005 revisions of 40 CFR Part 403 and to clean up and clarify existing language.

SUMMARY:

The Department is amending Chapter 62-625, F.A.C., to incorporate changes that EPA made to 40 CFR Part 403 to streamline procedures for approval and implementation of the pretreatment program. The amendments to Chapter 62-625, F.A.C., are as follows: (1) allow Control Authorities to authorize an industrial user (IU) subject to categorical Pretreatment Standards to reduce sampling of a pollutant if the IU demonstrates that a given pollutant is neither present nor expected to be present in the discharge; (2) allow Control Authorities to authorize the use of equivalent concentration limits in lieu of mass limits for Categorical Industrial Users (CIUs) in certain industrial categories; (3) allow Control Authorities to issue general control mechanisms to groups of Significant Industrial Users (SIUs) that are substantially similar; (4) allow Control Authorities to reduce oversight of certain CIUs based on percentage of contribution to the wastewater facility; (5) allow Control Authorities to reduce oversight of certain Industrial Users that may be reclassified as Non-Significant Categorical Industrial Users (NCSIUs); (6) provide greater flexibility in the use of certain sampling techniques; (7) allow, in certain circumstances, Control Authorities to express CIUs’ concentration-based categorical Pretreatment Standards as equivalent mass limits; (8) clarify that wastewater facilities may use Best Management Practices as alternatives to numeric limits that are developed to protect the wastewater treatment facility, water quality, and sewage sludge; (9) clarify the definition of significant noncompliance as it applies to violations of instantaneous and narrative requirements, and late reports; and (10) changes to the evaluation of local limits and evaluation of the need for a pretreatment program for certain discharges to UIC wells.

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY:

403.061(7), 403.061(31), 403.0885 FS.

LAW:

403.0885 FS.

PRINT PUBLISH DATE:

12/18/2009 Vol. 35/50

COMMENTS:

From 12/18/2009 To 1/8/2010 (21 Days)
The public comment period for this notice has already expired.

REFERENCE MATERIALS:

No reference(s).

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