New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 21 - Miscellaneous › Chapter LXXXII - Buffalo Sewer Authority › Part 10075 - Buffalo Sewer Authority Sewer Use Regulations › Section 10075.8 - Pretreatment and control facilities

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) Pretreatment of industrial wastewaters.
				The general manager may require an industrial user to install and operate an
				industrial wastewater pretreatment system to treat industrial flows prior to
				discharge to the B.S.A. system when it is necessary to measure, sample,
				restrict or prevent the discharge to the sewer of certain waste constituents,
				to more equally distribute peak discharges of industrial wastewater, or to
				accomplish any pretreatment results required by the general manager. All
				pretreatment systems shall be subject to the approval of the sewer authority,
				but such approval shall not relieve the industrial dischargers of the
				responsibility of meeting any required industrial effluent limitations. All
				pretreatment systems shall be adequately engineered and designed to the
				satisfaction of the general manager and all design reports and plans shall have
				been prepared, certified and signed by a professional engineer licensed to
				practice in the State of New York. Any construction for this purpose shall
				comply with all applicable city and State codes. Approval by the general
				manager does not constitute a waiver of compliance with these regulations or
				other appropriate regulations, ordinances and codes.
(b) Spill control and prevention. Each user
				shall incorporate measures to prevent or control accidental discharges of
				substances and wastewater prohibited or limited by the requirements of these
				regulations. These measures shall include facilities and operating procedures
				as necessary to prevent the entrance of accidental spills into the authority's
				facilities. When required by the authority, detailed plans describing these
				facilities and procedures shall be submitted to the authority for review, and
				shall be approved by the general manager before construction of these
				facilities. No user who commences contribution to the POTW after the effective
				date of this regulation shall be permitted to discharge into the system until
				accidental discharge procedures have been approved by the general
				manager.
(c) Compliance schedule.
				If an industrial user is required to install and operate a pretreatment or
				control system for the purposes identified in subdivisions (a) and (b) of this
				section, the industrial user shall develop and submit a compliance schedule to
				define the shortest schedule by which the user will provide such pretreatment
				or operation and maintenance.
(d)
				The following conditions shall apply to this schedule:
(1) The schedule shall contain increments of
				progress in the form of dates for the commencement and completion of major
				events leading to the construction and operation of the pretreatment system
				required for the user to comply with the objectives stated in subdivision (a)
				of this section. These shall include hiring an engineer, completing preliminary
				plans, completing final plans, executing contract(s) for major components,
				commencing construction, completing construction, etc.
(2) No increment referred to in paragraph (1)
				of this subdivision shall exceed nine months.
(3) Not later than 14 days following each
				milestone date in the schedule and the final date for compliance, the user
				shall submit a progress report to the general manager including, as a minimum,
				whether or not it complied with the increment of progress to be met on such
				date and, if not, the date on which it expects to comply with this increment of
				progress, the reason for delay, and the steps being taken by the user to bring
				the construction back into compliance with the schedule. In no event shall more
				than nine months elapse between such progress reports.