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Chapter Two Inspection Procedures Requirements, Regulations, and Limitations • Copies of existing permits, regulations, requirements, and restrictions placed on permittee discharges • Monitoring and reporting requirements and available monitoring stations • Special exemptions and waivers, if any • Receiving stream water quality standards • Information concerning sludge, air, solid, and hazardous waste treatment and disposal. Facility Compliance and Enforcement History • Previous inspection reports • Correspondence among facility, local, State, and Federal agencies • Complaints and reports, follow-up studies, findings, and remedial action • Documentation on past compliance violations, exceedences, status of requested regulatory corrective action, if any • Enforcement actions such as compliance schedules and consent orders • Status of current and pending litigation against facility • Self-monitoring data and reports • Previous Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), State, or consultant studies and reports • Previous deficiency notices issued to facility • Laboratory capabilities and analytical methods used by the facility • Name(s) of contract laboratories, if applicable • Previous Discharge Monitoring Report (DMR)—Quality Assurance (QA) files and reports • Permit Compliance System (PCS) information • Reports from special studies (e.g., stream monitoring, internal audits) or compliance schedules. Pollution Control and Treatment Systems • Description and design data for pollution control system and process operation, if available 2-2
Chapter Two Inspection Procedures • Sources and characterization of discharge • Type and amount of wastes discharged • Spill prevention contingency plans, if available • Available routes for bypasses or diversions, and spill containment facilities • Pollution control units, treatment methods, and monitoring systems. Pretreatment Information • Information concerning compliance schedule to install technologies (industrial facilities) or develop a pretreatment program (Publicly Owned Treatment Works [POTWs]) • Pretreatment reports as required by the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit and the General Pretreatment Regulations, regional, State, or local requirements • The POTW's enforcement response plan and sewer use ordinance, including local discharge limits • Information concerning industrial discharges to POTWs, such as: - Industrial monitoring and reporting requirements - POTW monitoring and inspection program - Waste contribution to the POTW - Compliance status of industry with pretreatment requirements - POTW enforcement initiatives. Chapter Nine of this manual discusses pretreatment program requirements in greater detail. 2-3
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