Background/Purpose of Request:
On November 21, 2011, the Board of Commissioners added the pretreatment Enforcement Response Plan (ERP) to the Sewer Use Ordinance to meet a requirement of the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (NCDEQ) pretreatment program. The purpose of the ERP is to provide fair and equitable treatment for all users regarding meeting pretreatment standards. Periodically, NCDEQ requests staff to add additional language to the existing ERP to comply with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) mandates. NCDEQ has recently requested an additional table (Appendix D Enforcement Chart) be added regarding the Dental Office Point Source Category (dental amalgam rule - 40 CFR Part 441).
The proposed ordinance revision provides the management entity, the Brunswick County Pretreatment Coordinator, the authority to require a one-time compliance report and further defines the associated enforcement plan for those providers not meeting the requirements as defined in 40 CFR Part 441. Further, the original ERP was developed with language specific to the Northeast Brunswick Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP). As the county has developed and additional treatment facilities have been constructed, the ERP language needed to reflect incorporation of the entire wastewater treatment and collection system instead of just the Northeast Brunswick Regional WWTP.
The ERP revision once adopted, will need to be updated in Municode - Section 1-13-505. |