N.J. Admin. Code § 7:14A-20.5 - Establishing limitations, standards and other permit conditions
(a) The Department
shall establish conditions in each NJPDES permit for the use or disposal of
residual, as required on a case-by-case basis, to provide for and ensure
compliance with all applicable requirements of the Federal and State Acts and
the regulations promulgated thereunder, as follows:
1. The Department shall include standards for
residual use or disposal in each NJPDES permit unless those standards have been
included in a permit issued under the appropriate provisions of the New Jersey
Solid Waste Management Act,
13:1E-1 et seq., or the New Jersey
Air Pollution Control Act,
26:2C-1 et seq. If any applicable
standard for residual use or disposal is promulgated and that standard is more
stringent than any limitation on the pollutant or practice in the permit, the
Department may initiate proceedings under
7:14A-16.4 to modify or revoke and
reissue the permit to conform to the standard for residual use or
disposal.
2. For any permit issued
to a treatment works treating domestic sewage or residual-only facility, the
Department shall include a reopener clause to allow the incorporation of any
applicable standard for residual use or disposal. The Department shall promptly
modify or revoke and reissue any permit containing the reopener clause required
by this paragraph if an applicable standard for residual use or disposal is
more stringent than any requirements for residual use or disposal in the
permit, or controls a pollutant or practice not limited in the
permit.
3. On a case-by-case basis,
the Department may impose requirements for the use or disposal of residual in
addition to or more stringent than the requirements in the subchapter when
necessary to protect public health or the environment from any adverse effect
of the pollutant in the residual. This authority shall include, but not be
limited to, the following:
i. The authority
to require compliance with pollutant limits for additional constituents which
the Department has evidence exceed the range found in sewage sludge produced in
the State as determined by the Sludge Quality Assurance Regulations, N.J.A.C.
7:14C, or which exceed acceptable levels in USEPA's Technical Support Document
for Land Application of Sewage Sludge, EPA 822/R-93-001a and 001b, November
1992 or Technical Support Document for Surface Disposal of Sewage Sludge, EPA
822/R-93-002, November 1992, as amended and supplemented;
ii. For bulk exceptional quality residual,
the authority to require compliance with any or all of the general requirements
in 7:14A-20.7(b)1
and the management practices in
7:14A-20.7(b)2
upon the Department's determination that the general requirements or management
practices are needed to protect public health and the environment, to prevent
the loss of excess nutrients to the waters of the State, or to address the
release of air contaminants consistent with the Air Pollution Control Act,
26:2C-1 et seq.;
iii. For all residual applied in accordance
with 7:14A-20.7(h), the
authority to establish additional steps in the treatment, delivery, storage,
and land application of residual to control the release of air contaminants
(including, but not limited to, ammonia) consistent with the Air Pollution
Control Act,
26:2C-1 et seq. These additional
steps shall include, but not be limited to, the requirement to increase the
maturity of marketable residual products by achieving additional temperature
reduction and moisture reduction; and
iv. For sites where bulk residual is applied
under N.J.A.C.
7:14A-20.7(h), the authority
to require a permit or a Letter of Land Application Management Approval to be
obtained upon the Department's determination that a permit or Letter of Land
Application Management Approval is needed to protect public health and the
environment, to prevent the discharge of excess nutrients to the waters of the
State, or to address the release of air contaminants consistent with the Air
Pollution Control Act,
26:2C-1 et seq.
(b) The Department
shall set forth the basis for permit conditions imposed under (a) above in a
fact sheet issued pursuant to
7:14A-15.8, or, if the requirements
are based on site-specific factors, a Letter of Land Application Management
Approval issued pursuant to
7:14A-20.7(h) for
the residual land application site.
(c) Innovative or alternative technologies
and systems for residual use or disposal shall be regulated on a case-by-case
basis in conformance with the requirements for the technology which most
closely resembles the innovative or alternative technology system.
(d) The Department may designate any person
subject to the standards for residual use or disposal as a "treatment works
treating domestic sewage" or "residual-only facility" as defined by
7:14A-1.2, where it is found that a
permit is necessary to protect public health and the environment from the
adverse effects of a residual or to ensure compliance with the technical
standards for residual use or disposal. Any person designated as a "treatment
works treating domestic sewage" or "residual-only facility" shall submit an
application for a permit under N.J.A.C. 7:14A-4 within 180 days of being
notified by the Department that a permit is required. The basis for the
Department's decision to designate a person as a "treatment works treating
domestic sewage" or "residual-only facility" under this paragraph shall be
stated in the fact sheet or statement of basis for the permit.
Notes
See: 31 N.J.R. 200(a), 31 N.J.R. 1320(a).
In (a)3i, changed N.J.A.C. reference.
Amended by R.2009 d.7, effective
See: 40 N.J.R. 1478(a), 41 N.J.R. 142(a).
Rewrote (a)3ii and (a)3iv; in (a)3iii, inserted "all" and ", delivery, storage, and land application" and substituted "These" for "This" and "steps" for "step"; in (a)3iv, inserted ", to prevent the discharge of excess nutrients to the waters of the State, or to address the release of air contaminants consistent with the Air Pollution Control Act, N.J.S.A. 26:2C-1 et seq."; and in (b), updated the first N.J.A.C. reference.
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