18 AAC 83.330 - Permit application requirements for new and existing POTWs and other dischargers designated by the department
(a)
Permit
application.Except as provided in (b) of this section, an applicant that
is a POTW and any other discharger designated by the dependent shall provide
the information in this section to the department, using the applicable forms
specified in
18 AAC 83.305(a).
A permit applicant under this section shall submit all information available at
the time of permit application; however, an applicant may provide information
by referencing information previously submitted to the department.
(b)
Waiver.The department may
waive any requirement of this section if the department has access to
substantially identical information, or if that information is not of material
concern for a specific permit, if approved by the regional
administrator.
(c)
Information requirements.An applicant under this section must
provide the following information:
(1) name,
mailing address, and location of the facility for which the application is
submitted;
(2) name, mailing
address, electronic mail address, and telephone number of the applicant, and a
statement whether the applicant is the facility's owner, operator, or
both;
(3) a list of all
environmental permits or construction approvals received or applied for,
including dates, under any of the following programs or types of activities:
(A) hazardous waste management program under
42 U.S.C.
6921 -
6939 e (Resource Conservation and
Recovery Act);
(B) underground
injection control program under
42 U.S.C.
300 f - 300j-26 (Safe Drinking Water
Act);
(C) APDES or NPDES program
under 33 U.S.C.
1342 (Clean Water Act, sec. 402);
(F) national emission standards for hazardous
pollutants preconstruction approval under
42 U.S.C.
7412 (Clean Air Act);
(G) ocean dumping activities under
33 U.S.C.
1412 -
1414(b) (Marine
Protection Research and Sanctuaries Act);
(H) dredge or fill activities under
33 U.S.C.
1344 (Clean Water Act, sec. 404);
(I) other relevant environmental programs or
activities, including those subject to state jurisdiction and
approval;
(4) the name
and population of each municipal entity served by the facility, including
unincorporated connector districts, a statement whether each municipal entity
owns or maintains the collection system and, if the information is available,
whether the collection system is a separate sanitary sewer or a combined storm
and sanitary sewer;
(5) a statement
whether the facility is located in Indian country and whether the facility
discharges to a receiving stream that flows through Indian country;
(6) the facility's design flow rate, or the
wastewater flow rate the plant was built to handle, annual average daily flow
rate, and maximum daily flow rate for each of the previous three
years;
(7) a statement identifying
the types of collection systems, either separate sanitary sewers or combined
storm and sanitary sewers, used by the treatment works, and an estimate of the
percent of sewer line that each type comprises;
(8) the following information for outfalls to
waters of the United States and other discharge or disposal methods:
(A) for effluent discharges to waters of the
United States, the total number and types of outfalls including treated
effluent, combined sewer overflows, bypasses, constructed emergency
overflows;
(B) for wastewater
discharged to surface impoundments, the location of each surface impoundment,
the average daily volume discharged to each surface impoundment, and a
statement whether the discharge is continuous or intermittent;
(C) for wastewater applied to the land, the
location of each land application site, the size in acres of each land
application site, the average daily volume in gallons per day applied to each
land application site, and a statement whether the land application is
continuous or intermittent;
(D) for
effluent sent to another facility for treatment prior to discharge, the means
by which the effluent is transported, the name, mailing address, electronic
mail address, contact person, and phone number of the organization transporting
the discharge; if the transport is provided by a party other than the
applicant, the name, mailing address, electronic mail address, contact person,
phone number, and APDES or NPDES permit number, if any, of the receiving
facility, and the average daily flow rate from this facility into the receiving
facility in million gallons per day;
(E) for wastewater disposed of in a manner
not included in (c)(8)(A) through (D) of this section, including underground
percolation and underground injection, a description of the disposal method,
including the location and size of each disposal site, if applicable, the
annual average daily volume in gallons per day disposed of by this method, and
a statement whether disposal by this method is continuous or intermittent;
and
(9) the name,
mailing address, electronic mail address, telephone number, and
responsibilities of all contractors responsible for any operational or
maintenance aspects of the POTW facility.
(d)
Additional information for design
flow greater than.1 million gallons per day.In addition to the
information described in (c) of this section, an applicant under this section
with a design flow greater than or equal to 0.1 million gallons per day must
provide the following information:
(1) the
current average daily volume in gallons per day of inflow and infiltration, and
a statement describing steps the facility is taking to minimize inflow and
infiltration;
(2) a topographic
map, or other map if a topographic map is unavailable, extending at least one
mile beyond property boundaries of the treatment plant including all unit
processes, and showing
(A) the treatment
plant area and unit processes;
(B)
the major pipes or other structures through which wastewater enters the
treatment plant and the pipes or other structures through which treated
wastewater is discharged from the treatment plant, including outfalls from
bypass piping, if applicable;
(C)
each well where fluids from the treatment plant are injected
underground;
(D) wells, springs,
and other surface water bodies listed in public records or otherwise known to
the applicant within 1/4 mile of the property boundaries of the treatment
works;
(E) sewage sludge management
facilities including on-site treatment, storage, and disposal sites;
and
(3) a process flow
diagram or schematic as follows:
(A) a diagram
showing the processes of the treatment plant, including all bypass piping and
all backup power sources or redundancy in the system, including a water balance
showing all treatment units, including disinfection, and showing daily average
flow rates at influent and discharge points and approximate daily flow rates
between treatment units;
(B) a
narrative description of the diagram; and
(4) the following information regarding
scheduled improvements:
(A) the outfall number
of each affected outfall;
(B) a
narrative description of each required improvement;
(C) scheduled dates for commencement and
completion of construction, commencement of discharge and attainment of
operational level, and actual completion date for any event listed in this
sub-paragraph that has been completed;
(D) a description of permits and clearances
concerning other federal and state requirements.
(e)
Outfall
information.An applicant under this section must provide the following
information for each outfall, including bypass points, through which effluent
is discharged, as applicable:
(1) for each
outfall,
(A) the outfall number;
(B) the borough, and city or town in which
the outfall is located;
(C) the
latitude and longitude, to the nearest second;
(D) the distance from shore and depth below
surface;
(E) the average daily flow
rate, in million gallons per day;
(F) if the outfall has a seasonal or periodic
discharge, the number of times per year the discharge occurs, the duration of
each discharge, the flow of each discharge, and the months in which discharge
occurs; and
(G) a statement whether
the outfall is equipped with a diffuser and the type of diffuser used, such as
high-rate;
(2) for each
outfall discharging effluent to waters of the United States, the following
receiving water information, if the information is available,
(A) the name of each receiving
water;
(B) the name of each
watershed, river, or stream system and United States Soil Conservation Service
or Natural Resource Conservation Service watershed code, if known;
(C) the name of each state management or
river basin and United States Geological Survey hydrologic cataloging unit
code, if known; and
(D) the
critical flow of each receiving stream and total hardness of the receiving
stream at critical low flow;
(3) for each outfall discharging to waters of
the United States, the following information describing the treatment of the
discharges:
(A) the highest level of
treatment, including primary, equivalent to secondary, secondary, advanced, or
other treatment level provided for
(i) the
design biochemical oxygen demand removal percentage;
(ii) the design suspended solids removal
percentage;
(iii) the design
phosphorus removal percentage;
(iv)
the design nitrogen removal percentage; and
(v) any other removals that an advanced
treatment system is designed to achieve; and
(B) a description of the type of disinfection
used, and a statement whether the treatment plant de-chlorinates if
disinfection is accomplished through chlorination.
(f)
Testing and effluent
monitoring.In addition to
18 AAC 83.335, and except as
provided in (h) of this section, an applicant under this section shall
undertake sampling and analysis and submit effluent monitoring information for
samples taken from each outfall through which effluent is discharged to waters
of the United States, except for combined sewer overflows, including the
following if applicable:
(1) sampling and
analysis for the pollutants listed in Appendix J, Table 1A to 40 C.F.R. Part
122, adopted by reference in
18 AAC 83.010;
(2) for an applicant with a design flow
greater than or equal to 0.1 million gallons per day, sampling and analysis for
the pollutants listed in Appendix J, Table 1 to 40 C.F.R. Part 122, adopted by
reference in
18 AAC 83.010, except that a
facility that does not use chlorine for disinfection, does not use chlorine
elsewhere in the treatment process, and has no reasonable potential to
discharge chlorine in the facility's effluent, is not required to sample or
analyze chlorine;
(3) sampling and
analysis for the pollutants listed in Appendix J, Table 2 to 40 C.F.R. Part
122, adopted by reference in
18 AAC 83.010, and for any other
pollutants for which the state or EPA has established water quality standards
applicable to the receiving waters if the facility is
(A) a POTW that has a design flow rate equal
to or greater than one million gallons per day;
(B) a POTW that has an approved pretreatment
program;
(C) a POTW that is
required to develop a pretreatment program; or
(D) any POTW, as required by the department
to ensure compliance with this chapter;
(4) sampling and analysis for additional
pollutants, as the department may require, on a case-by-case basis;
(5) data from a minimum of three samples
taken within four and one-half years before the date of the permit application;
to meet this requirement,
(A) samples must be
representative of the seasonal variation in the discharge from each
outfall;
(B) existing data may be
used, if available, in lieu of sampling done solely for the purpose of this
application;
(C) additional samples
may be required by the department on a case-by-case basis; and
(6) all existing data for
pollutants specified in (1) - (4) of this subsection collected within four and
one-half years of the application; this data must be included in the pollutant
data summary submitted by the applicant, except that if the applicant samples
for a specific pollutant on a monthly or more frequent basis, only the data
collected for that pollutant within one year of the application must be
provided.
(g)
Sampling methods.To meet the information requirements of (f) of
this section, an applicant must
(1) collect
samples of effluent and analyze the samples for pollutants in accordance with
analytical methods approved under 40 C.F.R. Part 136, adopted by reference in
18 AAC 83.010, unless an
alternative is specified in the existing APDES or NPDES permit;
(2) use the following methods:
(A) grab samples for pH, temperature,
cyanide, total phenols, residual chlorine, oil and grease, fecal
coliform;
(B) twenty-four hour
composite samples for all other pollutants; for a composite sample, only one
analysis of the composite of aliquots is required;
(3) provide at least the following
information for each parameter:
(A) maximum
daily discharge, expressed as concentration or mass, based upon actual sample
values;
(B) average daily discharge
for all samples, expressed as concentration or mass, and the number of samples
used to obtain this value;
(C) the
analytical method used;
(D) the
threshold level, such as the method detection limit, minimum level, or other
designated method endpoint for the analytical method used; and
(4) report metals as total
recoverable, unless the department requires otherwise.
(h)
Outfall samples.When an
applicant under this section has two or more outfalls with substantially
identical effluent discharging to the same receiving water segment, the
department may, on a case-by-case basis, allow the applicant to submit sampling
data for only one outfall. The department may also allow an applicant to
composite samples from one or more outfalls that discharge into the same mixing
zone.
(i)
Signature.An
application under this section must be signed by a certifying official in
compliance with
18 AAC 83.385.
Notes
Authority:AS 44.46.020
AS 46.03.010
AS 46.03.020
AS 46.03.050
AS 46.03.100
AS 46.03.110
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