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A. No significant industrial user (SIU) shall discharge wastewater into the POTW without first obtaining a statement from the director that the POTW has the hydraulic and/or loading capacity to accept the discharge. Each SIU must also comply with the state requirements listed in MMC 13.10.070, and in particular, apply for and receive a wastewater discharge permit from the department which authorizes the discharge. The director may require proof of application as a condition of new or continued discharge. Obtaining a wastewater discharge permit does not relieve an SIU of their obligation to comply with all federal and state pretreatment standards or requirements or with any other requirements of federal, state, and local regulation including the requirement for applying AKART.

B. The director may require other users, including liquid waste haulers, to apply for, and obtain, applicable wastewater discharge permits as necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter.

C. The director may also establish, and require users by letter, permit, or rule, to implement those best management practices determined by the director to be representative of AKART, or following violation to discontinue use of any substance which has caused such violation and for which an effective substitute is available which will either (1) lessen the potential for violating this chapter or any water quality standard, or (2) may represent a significant decrease either singly, or in combination with other similar users, in the toxicity of pollutant loadings to the POTW.

D. The city encourages all users seeking authorization to discharge to the POTW to complete a pollution prevention review before submitting their request to discharge to the director. The city may require users who must submit a pollution prevention plan under the state’s Hazardous Waste Reduction Act to provide this plan to the director as a condition of initial or continued discharge.

E. Whenever a moratorium has been imposed upon the POTW preventing the addition of new users, the director may require any or all users of the POTW to develop plans to reduce their discharges through water reuse, recycling, reclamation or other applicable management practices and to implement such plans or other measures deemed appropriate by the director to preserve the availability of public sewage treatment services. (Ord. 016/2021 § 2; Ord. 011/2004)