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Effluent Guidelines
Chapter 7: Regulatory Compliance Documentation (Summary)
Evaluation of wastewater treatment system performance, compliance with the PFPR effluent guidelines rule, and certification paperwork.
Each facility subject to the PFPR effluent guidelines and standards is required to keep certain paperwork on site to demonstrate compliance with the rule. This paperwork must be available to the permitting agencies, control authorities, and enforcement officials and must document the compliance options chosen by the facility. As part of the on-site compliance paperwork, the PFPR rule requires a one-time initial certification statement and periodic certification statements to be submitted to the permitting agency or control authority. The permitting agency or control authority may also choose to require submittal of additional paperwork for approval, including the supporting documentation for the facility's selected P2 practices and wastewater treatment technologies. Indirect-discharging facilities must also meet the paperwork requirements under the General Pretreatment Regulation (40 CFR 403), such as submittal of a baseline monitoring report (BMR) (40 CFR 403.12(b)). Guidance on the requirements of the BMR and applicability of categorical pretreatment standards to industrial users, including zero dischargers, is included in Appendix E.
As stated previously in this manual, each facility subject to the rule must make an initial choice of how to comply with the rule. This choice is documented in the initial certification statement. The facility periodi cally reviews those choices and makes any necessary adjustment in the periodic certification statement. Chapter 4 discusses the P2 audit and how a facility can use that tool to determine which compliance strategy to choose (i.e., zero discharge or P2 alternative). Chapter 6 discusses how to choose appropriate wastewater treatment technologies and make a final compliance decision after weighing the economic impacts of treatment. The information in these two chapters provides the means with which a facility can choose its method of complying with the PFPR regulation. This chapter discusses the way in which a facility documents its compliance decisions.
Necessary Paperwork for the P2 Alternative
- One-time initial certification statement (40 CFR 455.41(a));
- Periodic certification statement (40 CFR 455.41(b)); and
- On-site compliance paperwork (40 CFR 455.41(c)).
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