§ 28-205. National categorical pretreatment standards.

(a)

The categorical pretreatment standards found at F.A.C. ch. 62-660, as existing or as may be amended from time to time, are hereby incorporated by reference herein. Industrial users who are now or who hereafter (as determined by the EPA) may become subject to national categorical pretreatment standards promulgated by the EPA specifying quantities or concentrations of pollutants or pollutant properties which may be discharged into the WWF shall comply with all requirements of such standards, and shall also comply with any additional or more stringent limitations contained in this article. Upon the promulgation of new national categorical pretreatment standards, if more stringent than limitations imposed under this article for sources in that subcategory, such standards shall immediately supersede the limitations imposed under this article. The director shall notify all known affected users of the applicable reporting requirements. Compliance with national categorical pretreatment standards for new sources shall be required upon promulgation of the standard or prior to connection to the WWF.

(1)

When wastewater subject to a categorical pretreatment standard is mixed with wastewater not regulated by the same standard, the director may impose an alternate limit using the combined wastestream formula in F.A.C. 62-625.410.

(2)

A user may obtain a variance from a categorical pretreatment standard if the user can prove, pursuant to the procedural and substantive provision in F.A.C. 62-625.410, that factors relating to its discharge are fundamentally different from the factors considered by EPA when developing the categorical pretreatment standard.

(3)

A user may obtain a net gross adjustment to a categorical standard in accordance with F.A.C. 62-625.820.

(b)

The director reserves the right to establish, by ordinance or in individual wastewater discharge permits, more stringent pretreatment standards or requirements on discharges to the WWF consistent with the purpose of this article.

(Ord. No. C-98-61, § 3, 10-20-98; Ord. No. C-12-49, § 8, 12-18-12 )