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This document will describe the enforcement procedures that are used in controlling industrial discharges to the <br />South Bend Publicly Owned Treatment Works. <br />I. Management Plan <br />The pretreatment program for the City of South Bend is administered by the Division of Environmental Services. <br />The responsibilities of the pretreatment program are: <br />1. Collect and verify industrial discharge data through laboratory analyses. <br />2. Make recommendations to the Board of Public Works concerning the issuance of discharge permits. <br />3. Review user discharge monitoring reports. <br />4. Determine the status of user compliance with federal, state, and local regulations. <br />5. Write federal, state, and local mandated pretreatment reports. <br />6. Make recommendations for enforcement actions. <br />Enforcement procedures such as letters of violation, administrative fines, and administrative orders are issued by a <br />Pretreatment Coordinator. Pretreatment Coordinators recommend more serious enforcement responses to the <br />Environmental Compliance Manager and the Director of Environmental Services. Severe violations are reported <br />to the Board of Public Works witli recommendations from the Director of Environmental Services. <br />The following information describes in more detail d1e management procedures which are used in enforcement <br />of the program. <br />A. Permit Application and Classification <br />Lists of Industrial Users (IUs) are evaluated based on operations performed, water usage and discharge, and <br />chemical inventory, among other factors. Industries identified as belonging to one of the following groups are <br />issued industrial wastewater discharge permits, and categorized as either an Industrial User, or a Significant <br />Industrial User. <br />1. IT.Js subject to federal categorical standards - SIU <br />2. IUs that have process wastewater discharge exceeding 25,000 gallons per day - SIU <br />3. IUs that contribute process wastewater discharge exceeding 596 of the POTW's dry weather hydraulic or organic <br />loading capacity.- SIU <br />4. IUs that have a reasonable potential to adversely affect PO'1 VV workers, the POTW itself, and the receiving <br />stream. - SIU <br />5. IUs that have non -significant waste water discharge streams may or may not be issued an industrial wastewater <br />discharge permit. - IU/SIU <br />