City Council Ordinance 132ORDINANCE AMENDMENT NO. 132
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MONTICELLO, MINNESOTA, DO HEREBY ORDAIN
THE FOLLOWING AMENDMENTS TO THE SANITARY SEWER DISCHARGE CONTROL ORDINANCE,
TITLE 14:
Section 14-1-2. Definitions. "Commercial User" shall read as
follows: A person engaged in a trade or business and who discharges only
domestic, sanitary waste in amounts less than 25,000 gallons per day or
having less than 43 pounds BODS or 50 pounds suspended solids per day. A
commercial user shall be exempt from permit filing and associated fees.
Any person discharging more than the stated waste quantities or whose
discharge has a significant impact on the existing wastewater disposal
system shall be considered an industrial user for the purpose of this
ordinance.
Section 14-1-2. Definitions. "Significant Industrial User"
(iv) shall read as follows: has in its wastes at the point of discharge,
toxic pollutants (as defined pursuant to Section 307 of the Act of Minnesota
Statutes and rules) in sufficient quantities, either singly or by interaction
with other pollutants, to inhibit or disrupt any wastewater treatment process,
constitute a hazard to humans or animals, or create a toxic effect in the
wastewater system or (v) ...
Section 14-2-2. National Categorical Pretreatment Standards
shall read as follows: National categorical pretreatment standards
promulgated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) pursuant to
the Act shall be met by all users which are subject to such standards in
any instance where they are more stringent than the limitations in this
Ordinance unless the Director has applied for and obtained from the MPCA
approval to modify the specific limits in the national categorical pre-
treatment standards will be considered for submittal by the Director when
the City's wastewater treatment system achieves consistent removal of the
pollutants. "Consistent removal" shall be defined as in 40 CFR 403 of the
"General Pretreatment Regulations for Existing and New Sources of Pollution."
Conditional revisions of national categorical pretreatment standards may be
made by the City in accordance with 40 CFR 403 if requested by the industry,
in accordance with requirements of 40 CFR 403.
Section 14-6-3. Falsifying Information shall read as follows:
Any person who knowingly makes any false statements, representation or
certification in any application, record, report, plan or other document
filed or required to be maintained pursuant to this Ordinance or Wastewater
Discharge Permit, or who falsifies, tampers with, or knowingly renders
inaccurate any monitoring device or method required under this ordinance,
shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Ordinance Amendment No. 132
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Appendix A-6, Section 2(b) shall be removed from Section 2 (b)
and placed under Section 1 (d) and shall read as follows: If your
Company cannot meet the EPA Pretreatment Standards or other applicable
limitations on a consistent basis, please complete the following table
for additional pretreatment and/or operation and maintenance (O & M).
Appendix A--6, Section 2(a) shall be reclassified as Section 2.
Appendix B-2, #8, Partial Listing of Prohibited Discharges,
shall read as follows: Any wastewater having a temperature greater than
150OF (65.60C), or causing, individually or in combination with other
wastewater, the influent at the wastewater treatment plant to have a
temperature exceeding 1040F (400C) or having heat in amounts that will
inhibit biological activity in the POTW resulting in interference.
Adopted this 23rd day of January, 1984.
Arve A. Grimsmo, Mayor
Thomas A. Eidem
City Administrator