New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 7 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › Chapter 14A - NEW JERSEY POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM › Subchapter 22 - TREATMENT WORKS APPROVALS, SEWER BANS, SEWER BAN EXEMPTIONS › Section 7:14A-22.4 - Activities for which a treatment works approval is not required

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
(a) A treatment
				works approval from the Department is not required for the following
				activities:
1. Building, installing,
				modifying or operating any sewer lateral (whether forced or by gravity), which
				will convey less than 8,000 gallons per day of projected flow;
2. Building, installing, modifying or
				operating any wastewater pumping equipment which utilizes a lateral force main
				connection, whether publicly or privately owned, to serve a facility whose
				projected flow is less than 8,000 gallons per day;
3. Except as provided at
				7:14A-22.3(a)5,
				building, installing, operating or modifying an individual subsurface sewage
				disposal system where the aggregate projected flow of the facility, using the
				criteria established in N.J.A.C. 7:9A, is less than or equal to 2,000 gallons
				per day of sanitary sewage. Treatment works for such facilities are regulated
				pursuant to N.J.A.C. 7:9A, Standards for Individual Subsurface Sewage Disposal
				Systems;
4. For existing
				facilities, and regardless of current flow, aggregate increases in the
				projected flow of less than 8,000 gallons per day over a five year period
				resulting from internal plumbing modifications, building additions, renovations
				or changes in use of a facility, providing that the project does not involve
				construction of a sewer extension or other treatment works which requires a
				permit pursuant to N.J.A.C. 7:14A-22.3.
i. In
				sewer ban areas, this exception shall not be construed to exempt the need for a
				sewer ban exemption prior to construction, if required pursuant to this
				subchapter;
ii. This exception does
				not apply to projects served by individual subsurface disposal systems or small
				treatment plants (less than 150,000 gpd) that discharge to
				groundwater;
5.
				Rehabilitation or the replacement of existing sewer lines providing that the
				diameter and location of the sewer line will remain unchanged and providing
				that the slope is either unchanged or changed only as necessary to bring an
				existing below-slope sewer into conformance with minimum (or greater)
				Department design standards.
6. The
				replacement of worn, damaged, defective or inoperable wastewater pumps, sewage
				treatment units or components of residuals treatment and storage units
				providing that the capacity and location of the pumps or treatment units to be
				replaced will not change and the replacement treatment unit or wastewater pump
				station will be utilized to perform the same function as the former unit;
i. Existing pumping stations whose capacity
				is increased through a change in impeller size only, with no other
				modifications, do not require a treatment works approval.
7. Minor modifications of treatment works
				including, but not limited to, chemical addition for the purpose of improving
				performance and/or odor control (provided no treatment unit construction is to
				be undertaken), and modifications to treatment units for repair, maintenance or
				monitoring providing that the treatment process is not altered;
8. Residuals spreading and injection
				equipment to be utilized to disperse residuals at NJPDES permitted and exempted
				operations for land application of residuals;
9. The following mobile (not stationary)
				residuals storage installations:
i. Frac
				tanks except when fixed into position;
ii. Tanker trailers; and
iii. Roll-off containers;
10. Mobile street sweepers and
				payloaders utilized to collect and move residuals at NJPDES permitted and
				exempted residual operations;
11.
				Provisions for emergency storage of residuals provided said storage is less
				than 180 days in duration and in accordance with Part 4-VIII of the Statewide
				Sludge Management Plan;
12.
				Building, installing, operating or modifying handling equipment or storage
				units for marketable residual products; or
13. Building, installing, operating or
				modifying a treatment works for a groundwater recovery and reinjection system
				which is performed under the authority of the Administrative Requirements for
				the Remediation of Contaminated Sites, N.J.A.C. 7:26C.