Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 020 - Environmental Quality, Dept. of › Sub-Agency 0011 - Water Quality › Chapter 16 - INJECTION WELLS › Section 16-6 - Individual Permits

Current through July 13, 2024
(a) The operator
				shall submit an application and obtain a permit prior to the construction,
				installation, modification or operation of any facility in the following
				subclasses: 5A3; 5B3; 5B5; 5C1; 5C2; 5C3; 5D1; 5D3; 5D4; 5E3, 5E4 and 5F2
				unless the facility is covered by a general permit. In addition, any facility
				not authorized under Sections
				7 and
				8, and operators directed by the
				administrator to obtain an individual permit, shall obtain an individual permit
				under this section.
(b) The
				operator is responsible to make application for and obtain a permit. Each
				application must be submitted with all supporting data required in this
				chapter.
(c) A complete application
				for a Class V facility individual permit shall include:
(i) A brief description of the nature of the
				business and the activities to be conducted that require the applicant to
				obtain a permit under this chapter;
(ii) The name, address and telephone number
				of the operator, and the operator's ownership status and status as a federal,
				state, private, public or other entity;
(iii) The name address and telephone number
				of the facility. Additionally, the location of the facility shall be identified
				by section, township, range and county.
(iv) A calculation of the area of review, to
				include:
(A) A calculation to determine the
				maximum area affected by the injected waste for all Class V facilities
				constructed or modified after the effective date of these regulations. This
				calculation determines the total amount of void space around and down gradient
				from the point of injection and uses accepted groundwater theory to determine
				the extent of any affected groundwater around the facility.
(B) A Class V area of review shall never be
				less than the area of potentially impacted groundwater.
(C) All areas of review shall be legally
				described by township, range and section to the nearest ten ( 10) acres as
				described under the general land survey system.
(v) Information about the proposed facility
				including:
(A) A description of the
				substances proposed to be discharged, including type, source, and chemical,
				physical, radiological and toxic characteristics; and
(B) Construction and engineering details in
				accordance with Section
				10 of this chapter and Chapter 11 Water
				Quality Rules and Regulations.
(vi) Information, including the name,
				description, depth, geologic structure, faulting, fracturing, lithology,
				hydrology, and fluid pressure of the receiver and any relevant confining zones.
				The fracture pressure of the receiver shall be submitted only if the injection
				is under pressure into a confined aquifer.
(vii) Water quality information including
				background water quality data which will facilitate the classification of any
				groundwaters which may be affected by the proposed discharge. This must include
				information necessary for the division to classify the receiver and any
				secondarily affected aquifers under Chapter 8, Wyoming Water Quality Rules and
				Regulations.
(viii) A topographic
				and other pertinent maps, extending at least one (1) mile beyond the property
				boundaries of the facility, but never less than the area of review, depicting:
(A) The facility and each of its intake and
				discharge structures;
(B) Each
				well, drywell or subsurface fluid distribution system where fluids from the
				facility are injected underground;
(C) Other wells, springs, and surface water
				bodies, and drinking water wells listed in public records or otherwise known to
				the applicant within the area of review; and
(D) Bedrock and surficial geology, geologic
				structure, and hydrogeology in the area.
(ix) A list of other relevant permits,
				whether federal or state, that the facility has been required to obtain, such
				as construction permits. This includes a statement as to whether or not the
				facility is within a state approved water quality management plan area, a state
				approved wellhead protection area or a state approved source water protection
				area.
(x) Detailed plans for
				monitoring the volume and chemistry of the discharge, and water quality of
				selected water wells within the area of review in accordance with Section
				11 of this chapter;
(xi) All applications for permits, reports,
				or information to be submitted to the Administrator shall be signed by a
				responsible officer as follows:
(A)
For a corporation
- a responsible corporate officer
				means:
(i) A president, secretary, treasurer,
				or vice president of the corporation in charge of a principal business
				function, or any other person who performs similar policy or decision making
				functions for the corporation; or
(ii) The manager of one or more
				manufacturing, production, or operating facilities employing more than 250
				persons or having gross annual sales or expenditures exceeding $25 million (in
				second quarter 1980 dollars), if authority to sign documents has been assigned
				or delegated to the manager in accordance with corporate procedures.
(B)
For a partnership
				or sole proprietorship
-- by a general partner or the proprietor,
				respectively;
(C)
For a
				municipality, state, federal or other public agency
-- by either
				the principal executive officer or ranking elected official.
(xii) The application shall
				contain the following certification by the person signing the application:
"I certify under penalty of law that this document and all
				  attachments were prepared under my direction or supervision in accordance with
				  a system designed to assure that qualified personnel properly gather and
				  evaluate the information submitted. Based on my inquiry of the person or
				  persons who manage the system, or those persons directly responsible for
				  gathering the information, the information submitted is, to the best of my
				  knowledge and belief, true, accurate, and complete. I am aware that there are
				  significant penalties for submitting false information, including the
				  possibility of fine and imprisonment for knowing violations."