Section 33-16-01.1-03 - Local limits1. Each publicly owned treatment works developing an approved pretreatment program shall develop and enforce specific limits to implement the prohibitions of section 33-16-01.1-02. Each publicly owned treatment works with an approved pretreatment program shall continue to develop these limits as necessary and effectively enforce such limits.2. All other publicly owned treatment works shall, if pollutants contributed by a user or users result in interference or passthrough and such violation is likely to recur, develop and enforce specific effluent limits for indirect discharges which, together with appropriate changes in the publicly owned treatment works treatment plant facilities or operation, are necessary to ensure renewed and continued compliance with the publicly owned treatment works North Dakota pollutant discharge elimination system permit or sludge use or disposal practices.3. Specific effluent limits shall not be developed and enforced without individual notice to persons or groups that have requested such notice and an opportunity to respond.4. Publicly owned treatment works may develop best management practices to implement subsections 1 and 2 of this section. Such best management practices shall be considered local limits and pretreatment standards for the purposes of this chapter and section 307(d) of the Act.5. When specific prohibitions or limits on pollutants are developed by a publicly owned treatment works in accordance with this section, the limits shall be deemed pretreatment standards.N.D. Admin Code 33-16-01.1-03
Effective October 1, 2002.Amended by Administrative Rules Supplement 370, October 2018, effective 10/1/2018.General Authority: NDCC 61-28-04, 61-28-05
Law Implemented: NDCC 61-28-04, 61-28-06