Industrial Discharge Permit - St. Joseph Energy Center

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(b) Technical Review Criteria (TRC) violations, defined here as those in which thirty-three (33) percent or more of all of the measurements taken for tine same pollutant parameter during a six-month period equal or exceed the product of the numeric Pretreatment Standard or Requirement including instantaneous limits, multiplied by the applicable TRC (TRC = 1.4 for BOD, TSS, fats, oils and grease, and 1.2 for all other pollutants except pH); (c) Any other violation of a Pretreatment Standard or Requirement that the Director determines has caused, alone or in combination with other Discharges, Interference or Pass Through (including endangering the health ofPOTW personnel or the general public); (d) Any discharge of a pollutant that has caused imminent endangerment to human health, welfare, or to the environment, or has resulted in the POTW's exercise of its emergency authority to halt or prevent such a discharge; (e) Failure to meet, within nunety (90) days after the schedule date, a compliance schedule milestone contained in local control mechanism or enforcement order for starting construction, completing construction, or attaining final compliance; (h Failure to provide, within thirty (30) days after the due date, required reports, such as baseline monitoring reports, ninety (90) day compliance reports, periodic compliance reports, and reports on compliance with compliance schedules; (g) Failure to accurately report noncompliance; (h) Any other violation or group of violations, which may include a violation of Best Management Practices, which tine Director determines will adversely affect the operation or implementation of the local Pretreatment program. Note: A determination of Significant Non -Compliance will not be made if the non-compliance events triggering SNC occurred only in the first 3 month period of any 6 month period being evaluated, and if the events caused the user to be in SNC for the previous 6 month period, If a user is found to be in SNC and continuing violations of the same type occur in the following 6 month period, tine events from the previous quarter may be used in determining SNC in the following period. IV. Enforcement Response Plan Examples A. Sampling, Monitoring, and Reporting Non -Compliance Circumstances Failure to sample, monitor or report Failure to sample, monitor, report, and notify Control Authority Failure to sample, monitor, report, and notify Control Authority Isolated., or infrequent Isolated or infrequent Frequent, or IU does not respond to LOV Range of Response LOV requiring correction within 14 days, AF, AO LOV requiring correction within 14 days, Escalated AF, AO LOV, AF, AO, SNC