Florida Administrative Code › 62 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 62 - Departmental › Chapter 62-620 - WASTEWATER FACILITY AND ACTIVITIES PERMITTING › Section 62-620.620 - Guidelines for Establishing Specific Permit Conditions

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
(1)
				Permit conditions shall be based on relevant statutory or regulatory provisions
				in effect prior to the final administrative disposition of a permit. All permit
				conditions shall be incorporated either expressly or by reference. If
				incorporated by reference, a specific citation to the applicable regulations or
				requirements must be given in the permit. Except for collection system permits
				under Chapter 62-604, F.A.C., each permit shall contain the following permit
				conditions as applicable:
(a) Technology-based
				effluent limitations and standards set forth in Chapter 62-600, 62-610, 62-611,
				62-660, 62-670, or 62-671, F.A.C., or developed under  40 C.F.R. Part 125, subpart A;
(b) New source
				performance standards set forth in Chapter 62-660 or 62-671, F.A.C.;
(c) Other effluent limitations and standards
				set forth in Chapter 62-600, 62-610, 62-611, 62-650, 62-660, 62-670, or 62-671,
				F.A.C.;
(d) Standards for residuals
				use or disposal set forth in Chapter 62-640, 62-2, 62-7, or 62-701,
				F.A.C.;
(e) The permitted capacity
				for a domestic wastewater facility, including capacities for all disposal
				options, in accordance with Chapter 62-600, F.A.C.;
(f) A reopener clause that notifies the
				permittee that the permit may be revised or revoked and reissued if a standard
				is promulgated by the Department that is more stringent than the requirements
				of the permit for a primary industry category listed in  40 C.F.R. 122  Appendix
				A, or for residuals use or disposal, including requirements for the control of
				a pollutant or practice not limited in the permit;
(g) Any requirements in addition to or more
				stringent than applicable promulgated effluent limitations necessary to provide
				reasonable assurance that a discharge will not cause or contribute to
				violations of water quality standards set forth in Chapter 62-302, F.A.C.,
				including chemical-specific limits and whole effluent toxicity limits, as
				applicable;
(h) Technology-based
				controls for toxic pollutants which are or may be discharged at a level greater
				than the level which can be achieved by technology-based treatment requirements
				appropriate to the permittee or, in the alternative, limitations to control
				those or other pollutants that will provide treatment of the toxic pollutants
				to the required levels for discharge;
(i) A notification level established under
				subparagraphs  62-620.625(1)(a) 
				4. and (1)(b)4., F.A.C. This new notification level shall not exceed the level
				which can be achieved by the technology-based treatment requirements applicable
				to the permittee under Chapter 62-660, F.A.C.;
(j) Other pollutants for which the permittee
				must report violations of maximum daily discharge limitations within 24 hours
				in accordance with subparagraph
				 62-620.610(20)(a) 
				3., F.A.C. This list shall include any toxic pollutant or hazardous substance,
				or any pollutant specifically identified as the method to control a toxic
				pollutant or hazardous substance;
(k) The effective date and the expiration
				date of the permit;
(l) A schedule
				for construction of the facility or any modification thereto, and any required
				start-up or testing period needed, including dates for compliance with interim
				and final effluent limitations;
(m)
				A schedule for the development of a pretreatment program, if required under
				Chapter 62-625, F.A.C. If a program has already been approved, the permit shall
				incorporate the program by reference;
(n) In addition to the requirements and
				restrictions authorized by Section
				 403.088(2)(c),
				F.S., and subsection  62-620.310(9),
				F.A.C., best management practices as provided in
				40 C.F.R.
				122.44(k);
(o) When a permit is renewed or reissued
				pursuant to Rule  62-620.325 or
				 62-620.335, F.A.C., interim
				effluent limitations, standards or conditions shall be at least as stringent as
				the final effluent limitations, standards, or conditions in the previous permit
				unless the circumstances on which the previous permit was based have materially
				and substantially changed since the time the permit was issued and would
				constitute cause for permit revision or revocation and reissuance;
(p) When a permit is issued to a facility
				that may operate at certain times as a means of transportation over water, a
				condition that the discharge shall comply with any applicable regulations,
				promulgated by the Secretary of the Department in which the U.S. Coast Guard is
				operating, that establish specifications for safe transportation, handling,
				carriage, and storage of pollutants;
(q) Any conditions that the Secretary of the
				Army (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) considers necessary to ensure that
				navigation and anchorage will not be substantially impaired, or
(r) For a permit to a privately owned
				domestic wastewater facility, any permit conditions expressly applicable to any
				industrial user of the domestic wastewater facility, as a limited co-permittee,
				that are necessary to ensure compliance with applicable requirements under
				Chapter 62-625, F.A.C. Alternatively, the Department may require a separate
				permit application from any industrial user and may issue separate permits to
				the treatment works and to its industrial users to ensure compliance with
				Chapter 62-625, F.A.C. The Department shall include in the fact sheet for the
				draft permit(s) the reason(s) for its decision to issue a permit to the
				treatment works with no conditions applicable to any industrial user, to impose
				in the permit to the treatment works conditions on one or more industrial
				users, or to require separate applications and separate permits for the
				treatment works and the industrial users.