Publicly owned treatment works reporting requirements

1. Publicly owned treatment works with approved pretreatment programs shall submit to the department on an annual basis a report describing the program activities. Reports shall be due March twenty-eighth. Each report shall include, at a minimum: a. An updated list of the publicly owned treatment works industrial users, including the name and address of each user, and identifying the categorical standards applicable to each user. The list shall indicate which users are subject to local standards that are more stringent than the categorical pretreatment standards and shall also include users that are subject only to local requirements. The list must also identify industrial users subject to categorical pretreatment standards that are subject to reduced reporting requirements under paragraph 3 of subdivision a of subsection 4 of section 33.1-16-01.1-12, and identify which industrial users are nonsignificant categorical industrial users. The publicly owned treatment works shall provide an explanation for each deletion from the previous list; b. A summary of the status of industrial user compliance over the reporting period; c. A summary of compliance and enforcement activities, including inspections, conducted by the publicly owned treatment works during the reporting period; d. A summary of changes to the publicly owned treatment works pretreatment program that have not been previously reported to the department; and e. Any other relevant information requested by the department. 2. If a publicly owned treatment works is under a compliance schedule for pretreatment program development, the publicly owned treatment works shall submit compliance schedule progress reports to the department. The schedule shall contain increments of progress in the form of dates for the commencement and completion of major events leading to the development and implementation of a publicly owned treatment works pretreatment program (e.g., acquiring required authorities, developing funding mechanisms, acquiring equipment); a. Each compliance schedule progress report shall be due fourteen days after the applicable progress date in the compliance schedule. b. Each compliance schedule progress report shall include: (1) A statement whether the publicly owned treatment works achieved the scheduled action on the applicable date; and (2) If the publicly owned treatment works has not achieved the scheduled action, the date on which the publicly owned treatment works expects to achieve the action, the reason for delay, and the steps being taken to return to the established schedule. c. In no case shall more than nine months elapse between compliance schedule progress report submittals. 3. Signatory requirements for publicly owned treatment works reports. Reports submitted to the department by the publicly owned treatment works in accordance with this section shall be signed by a principal executive officer, ranking elected official or other duly authorized employee. The duly authorized employee must be an individual or position having responsibility for the overall operation of the facility or the pretreatment program. This authorization must be made in writing by the principal executive officer or ranking elected official, and submitted to the approval authority prior to or together with the report being submitted.