Washington Administrative Code › Title 173 - Ecology, Department of (See also Titles 197, 317, 372, and 508) › Chapter 173-220 - National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit program › Section 173-220-150 - Other terms and conditions

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
(1) In addition to the requirements of WAC
			 173-220-130 and
			 173-220-140, each issued permit
			 shall require that:
(a) All discharges
			 authorized by the permit shall be consistent with the terms and conditions of
			 the permit;
(b) Any facility
			 expansions, production increases or process modifications which would result in
			 new or increased discharges of pollutants causing effluent limitations in the
			 permit to be exceeded must be reported to the department by submission of a new
			 application or supplement thereto; or, if such discharge does not violate
			 effluent limitations specified in the permit, by submission to the department
			 of notice of such new or increased discharges of pollutants;
(c) Any discharge of any pollutant more
			 frequent than or at a level in excess of that identified and authorized by the
			 permit shall constitute a violation of the terms and conditions of the
			 permit;
(d) The permit may be
			 modified or revoked in whole or in part during its terms for cause including,
			 but not limited to, the following:
(i)
			 Violation of any term or condition of the permit;
(ii) Obtaining a permit by misrepresentation
			 or failure to disclose fully all relevant facts;
(iii) A change in any condition that requires
			 either a temporary or permanent reduction or elimination of the permitted
			 discharge;
(iv) A determination
			 that the permitted activity endangers human health or the environment, or
			 contributes to water quality standards violations;
(v) Incorporation of an approved local
			 pretreatment program into a municipality's permit;
(vi) Establishment of a toxic effluent
			 standard or prohibition (including any schedule of compliance specified in such
			 effluent standard or prohibition) under section 307(a) of the FWPCA for a toxic
			 pollutant which is more stringent than any limitation upon such pollutant in
			 the permit;
(vii) Failure or
			 refusal of the permittee to allow entry as required in
			 RCW
			    90.48.090; and
(viii) Nonpayment of permit fees assessed
			 pursuant to RCW 90.48.610.
(e) The permittee shall allow the department
			 or its authorized representative upon the presentation of credentials and at
			 reasonable times:
(i) To enter upon
			 permittee's premises in which an effluent source is located or in which any
			 records are required to be kept under terms and conditions of the permit,
			 subject to any access restrictions due to the nature of the project;
(ii) To have access to, and copy at
			 reasonable cost, any records required to be kept under terms and conditions of
			 the permit;
(iii) To inspect any
			 monitoring equipment or method required in the permit; and
(iv) To sample any discharge of
			 pollutants.
(f) If the
			 permit is for a discharge from a publicly owned treatment works, the permittee
			 shall provide notice to the department of the following:
(i) Any new introduction of pollutants into
			 such treatment works from a source which would be a new source as defined in
			 section 306 of the FWPCA if such source were discharging pollutants;
(ii) Except as to such categories and classes
			 of point sources or discharges specified by the department, any new
			 introduction of pollutants into such treatment works from a source which would
			 be subject to section 301 of the FWPCA if such source were discharging
			 pollutants;
(iii) Any substantial
			 change in volume or character of pollutants being introduced into such
			 treatment works by a source existing at the time of issuance of the permit.
Such notice shall include information on:
(A) The quality and quantity of effluent to
			 be introduced into such treatment works; and
(B) Any anticipated impact of such change in
			 the quantity or quality of effluent to be discharged from such publicly owned
			 treatment works.
(g) The permittee shall at all times properly
			 operate and maintain any facilities or systems of control installed by the
			 permittee to achieve compliance with the terms and conditions of the permit.
			 Where design criteria have been established, the permittee shall not allow
			 flows or waste loadings to exceed approved design criteria, or approved
			 revisions thereto.