§ 28-229. Notification of hazardous waste discharge.

(a)

The industrial user shall notify the director in writing of any discharge into the WWF of a substance regulated under F.A.C. ch. 62-730. Such notification shall include the name of the hazardous waste, the EPA hazardous waste number, and the type of discharge (continuous, batch, or other). If the industrial user discharges more than 100 kilograms of such waste per calendar month to the WWF, the notification shall also contain the following information to the extent such information is known and readily available to the industrial user: an identification of the hazardous constituents contained in the wastes, an estimation of the mass and concentration of such constituents in the wastestream discharged during that calendar month, and an estimation of the mass of constituents in the wastestream expected to be discharged during the following twelve (12) months. Industrial users who commence discharging after the effective date of the ordinance from which this article is derived shall provide the notification no later than one hundred eighty (180) days after the discharge of the listed or characteristic hazardous waste. Any notification under this subsection needs to be submitted only once for each hazardous waste discharged. The notification requirement in this section does not apply to pollutants already reported under the self-monitoring requirements of this article.

(b)

Discharges are exempt from the requirements of subsection (a) of this section, during a calendar month in which they discharge no more than fifteen (15) kilograms of hazardous wastes, unless the wastes are acute hazardous wastes as specified in F.A.C. ch. 62-730. Discharges of more than fifteen (15) kilograms of nonacute hazardous waste in a calendar month, or of any quantity of acute hazardous wastes as specified in F.A.C. ch. 62-730, require a one-time notification. Subsequent months during which the industrial user discharges more than such quantities of any hazardous waste do not require additional notification.

(c)

In the case of any new regulations identifying additional characteristics of hazardous waste or listing any additional substance as a hazardous waste, the industrial user must notify the director of the discharge of such substance within ninety (90) days of the effective date of such regulations.

(d)

In the case of any notification made under this section, the industrial user shall certify that it has a program in place to reduce the volume and toxicity of hazardous wastes generated to the degree it has determined such to be economically practical.

(e)

This provision does not create the right to discharge any substance not otherwise permitted to be discharged by this ordinance, a permit issued thereunder, or any applicable federal or state law.

(Ord. No. C-98-61, § 3, 10-20-98; Ord. No. C-12-49, § 22, 12-18-12 )