South Carolina Code of Regulations › Chapter 61 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL › Subchapter 61-67 - STANDARDS FOR WASTEWATER FACILITY CONSTRUCTION › Section 61-67.67.200 - Engineering Reports

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 6, June 28, 2024
A. Purpose. Engineering
			 Report herein after means Preliminary Engineering Report. The purpose of this
			 section of the regulation is to provide for the review and approval of Engineering
			 Reports and Proposals for wastewater facilities. All applicable data and information
			 required and outlined in this section of the regulation (appropriate to the scope of
			 the project) shall be submitted in the form of an Engineering Report to the
			 Department before acceptance for review.
B. Applicability. These provisions relating to
			 submittal of Engineering Reports apply to any person discharging or intending to
			 discharge sewage, industrial waste and/or other wastes into the waters of the State
			 or any person intending to increase the quantity of pollutant characteristics of
			 sewage, industrial wastes and/or other wastes which are being discharged to such
			 waters on the effective date of this regulation. Any person intending to construct a
			 new outlet (e.g., discharge to the environment), or build, add to, or alter
			 (permanently or for maintenance purposes) any treatment works for the handling of
			 sewage, industrial wastes, and/or other wastes shall, before starting such work,
			 apply to the Department on a form prescribed for such application, and shall submit
			 to the Department an Engineering Report describing the proposed work and the steps
			 which shall be taken to protect the waters of the State. The Department may require
			 that an Engineering Report be submitted for other wastewater facilities as deemed
			 necessary. For pretreatment facilities and modifications to existing wastewater
			 facilities a simplified Engineering Report may be allowed. The simplified
			 Engineering Report may be submitted with the permit application.
C. General Requirements.
1. Prior to the preparation and submission of a
			 formal Engineering Report, the applicant and/or his Consulting Engineer may
			 participate in a pre-application/pre-design conference with the appropriate
			 wastewater division. The purpose of this conference is for reviewing this regulation
			 as it applies to the particular project and for obtaining guidance and specific
			 information from the Department.
2. The
			 Engineering Report shall be prepared in accordance with the requirements which
			 follow. No construction work on proposed wastewater facilities shall be started
			 until the Engineering Report and subsequent plans and specifications have been
			 approved and a construction permit for the wastewater facilities has been issued by
			 the Department. It is advised that preparation of plans and specifications not begin
			 until the Engineering Report is approved and the owner/engineer is in receipt of
			 notice from the Department that the proposed project is approvable upon the receipt
			 and permitting of the appropriate plans and specifications. Final plans and
			 specifications are required to be submitted to the Department within one hundred
			 eighty (180) days of approval of the Engineering Report, or a new Engineering Report
			 may be required, unless the Department grants an extension to this time
			 period.
3. Requirements for reports
			 prepared under the State Revolving Fund (SRF) may have distinctive requirements in
			 addition to those outlined in this section, (e.g., criteria in accordance with the
			 Clean Water Act).