N.J. Admin. Code § 7:14A-6.5 - Monitoring
(a) Monitoring
requirements are as follows:
1. Samples and
measurements taken for the purpose of monitoring shall be representative of the
monitored activity.
2. The
permittee shall perform all analyses in accordance with the analytical test
procedures specified in 40 C.F.R. 136 or, in the case of residual use or
disposal, in 40 C.F.R. 136 unless otherwise specified in 40 C.F.R. 503, or
unless other test procedures have been specified in the permit. Where no
approved test procedure is available, the permittee shall indicate a suitable
analytical procedure and shall provide the Department with literature
references or a detailed description of the procedure. The Department shall
determine the appropriate procedure and require that procedure in the NJPDES
permit. The laboratory performing the analyses shall be certified by the
Department for the analysis of those specific parameters in accordance with
N.J.A.C. 7:18. Information concerning laboratory approval and/or certification
may be obtained from:
New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
Office of Quality Assurance
PO Box 424
Trenton, New Jersey 08625-0424
(609) 292-3950
(b) All permittees shall:
1. Properly install, use, and maintain
monitoring equipment and use proper monitoring methods (including biological
monitoring methods when appropriate);
2. Properly monitor the discharge in
accordance with the monitoring type, interval, and frequency as specified in
the permit;
i. Certain discharges of
non-contact cooling water shall be exempt from monitoring, unless specifically
required by the Department, where the applicant's activities do not affect the
following constituents: COD, BOD, TSS, pH, and/or settleable solids.
ii. Bacterial monitoring shall not be
required for facilities which do not receive wastewater containing pathogenic
organisms, including fecal coliform, E. coli or enterococci organisms, unless
otherwise required by the Department;
3. Comply with the reporting requirements
specified in the permit; and
4.
Monitor in accordance with the edition of the Department's "Field Sampling
Procedures Manual" applicable at the time of sampling or an alternate method
approved by the Department.
(c) If the Department has reason to believe
that the accuracy and/or precision of one or more analyses is inadequate to
provide a reasonable estimate of effluent quality, the Department shall, upon
written notification, require any facility that analyzes its effluent samples
at a laboratory it directly or indirectly owns, operates or manages to annually
have one of its permit-required periodic sampling analyses performed by a
certified laboratory which is not owned, operated or managed by the permittee.
This shall be broadly construed to include all the sample analyses that are to
be performed during the course of routine hourly, daily, monthly, quarterly,
semi-annual, or annual sampling.
(d) Requirements for automatically adjusting
effluent monitoring frequency are as follows:
1. Any permittee shall automatically adjust
its effluent monitoring and reporting frequency to monthly when the permittee:
i. Reports effluent values that would make
the permittee a serious violator for one or more parameters for which the
permittee is required to report less frequently than monthly. Monthly reporting
is only required for parameters with serious violations. (However, NJPDES-SIU
permittees shall resample within 30 days of becoming aware of any violation if
required by 40 C.F.R. Part 403 ); or
ii. Fails to submit a completed Discharge
Monitoring Report (DMR).
2. The monthly reporting required by (d)1
above shall begin the first month after the submission of the DMR or the month
in which the permittee was required to submit the completed DMR or the Baseline
Report (BR) to the Department which results in the permittee becoming a serious
violator. If the Department grants an affirmative defense pursuant to
7:14-8.3(i) for
an effluent violation, the violation shall not be considered a serious
violation and shall not be subject to monthly reporting under (d)1
above.
3. Any permittee required to
adjust its monitoring and reporting pursuant to (d)1 above shall continue this
monthly schedule until the permittee has submitted six consecutive monthly DMRs
that show compliance with the particular serious violation parameter at the
particular discharge point, at which time the permittee may resume the original
schedule in its permit.
Notes
See: 38 N.J.R. 1445(a).
Amended by R.2009 d.7, effective
See: 40 N.J.R. 1478(a), 41 N.J.R. 142(a).
In (b)2ii, inserted ", E. coli" and deleted the former last sentence; and in (d)3, substituted "DMRs that" for "Discharge Monitoring Reports which".
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