NC0035904_NPDES Draft Permit_20140521

Pat McCrory
Governor
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North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources
May 21, 2014
Mr. Kenneth G. Hart, Facility Engineering Specialist
Central Engineering
NC Department of Public Safety
4216 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699-4216
John E. Skvarla, III
Secretary
Subject: Draft NPDES Permit
Permit Number NC0035904
N. C. Department of Public Safety — McCain Correctional Hospital WWTP
Facility Rating: WW-2
Hoke County
Dear Mr. Hart:
Enclosed with this letter is a copy of the draft permit for your facility. Please review the draft very
carefully to ensure thorough understanding of the conditions and requirements it contains. The draft
permit contains a number of changes in its terms from those found in your current permit. A summary
of those changes follows:
• The effluent monitoring requirement for Specific Conductance has been removed from the permit.
• Instream monitoring requirements for Fecal Coliform and Specific Conductance have been removed
from the permit.
• Mercury has been given an annual average limit of 17.9 ngTL. The monitoring frequency remains as
quarterly. Sampling and analysis should be conducted using EPA Method 1631 (low level analysis).
With the inclusion of this limit, the mercury reopener condition has been removed
• A new condition requiring electronic reporting of data collected pursuant to the terms of this permit
has been added.
Proposed federal regulations require electronic submittal of all discharge monitoring reports (DMRs)
and specify that, if a state does not establish a system to receive such submittals, then permittees
must submit DMRs electronically to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The Division
anticipates that these regulations will be adopted and is beginning implementation.
1617 Mall Service Center, Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-1617
Phone: [phone] lintemet: www.ncwaterquality.org
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Mr. Kenneth G. Hart
NC0035904 Draft Permit 2014
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The requirement to begin reporting discharge monitoring data electronically using the NC DWR's
Electronic Discharge Monitoring Report (eDMR) internet application has been added to your
NPDES permit. [See Condition A. (3.)] For information on eDMR, registering for eDMR and
obtaining an eDMR user account, please visit the following web page:
http://portal.ncdenr.org/web/wq/admin/bog/ipu/edmr.
For information on EPA's proposed NPDES Electronic Reporting Rule, please visit the following
web site:
http://www2.epa. gov/compliance/proposed-npdes-electronic-reporting-rule.
Please submit any comments to me no later than thirty days following your receipt of the draft.
Comments should be sent to the address listed at the bottom of this page. If no adverse comments are
received from the public or from you, this permit will likely be issued in July 2014, with an effective
date of September 1, 2014.
If you have any questions or comments concerning this draft permit, call me at [phone], or via e-
mail at [e-mail].
ncdenr.gov.
Sincerely,
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Bob Sledge
Compliance & Expedited Permitting Unit
Division of Water Resources
cc: NPDES Files
ec: Fayetteville Regional Office
Aquatic Toxicology Unit
Steve Reid

Permit NC0035904
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES
DIVISION OF WATER RESOURCES
PERMIT
TO DISCHARGE WASTEWATER UNDER THE
NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM
In compliance with the provision of North Carolina General Statute 143-215.1, other lawful standards
and regulations promulgated and adopted by the North Carolina Environmental Management
Commission, and the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended, the
N.C. Department of Public Safety
is hereby authorized to discharge wastewater from a facility located at the
McCain Correctional Hospital WWTP
NC Highway 211
South of McCain
Hoke County
to receiving waters designated as an unnamed tributary to Mountain Creek in the Lumber River Basin
in accordance with effluent limits, monitoring requirements, and other conditions set forth in Parts I, II,
III and IV hereof.
This permit shall become effective
This permit and authorization to discharge shall expire at midnight on July 31, 2019.
Signed this day
DRAFT
Thomas A. Reeder, Director
Division of Water Resources
By Authority of the Environmental Management Commission
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Permit NC0035904
SUPPLEMENT TO PERMIT COVER SHEET
All previous NPDES Permits issued to this facility, whether for operation or discharge are hereby
revoked. As of this permit issuance, any previously issued permit bearing this number is no longer
effective. Therefore, the exclusive authority to operate and discharge from this facility arises under the
permit conditions, requirements, terms, and provisions included herein.
The N.C. Department of Public Safety
is hereby authorized to:
1. Continue to operate an existing 0.200 MGD wastewater treatment facility with the following
components:
♦ Manual and mechanical bar screens
♦ 296,000-gallon aeration basin with 3 floating aerators
♦ 40,500-gallon clarifier
• 72,000-gallon clarifier -
♦ 99,000-gallon aerobic sludge digester with 2 diffused aerators
♦ 7500 ft2 drying bed
♦ Ultraviolet disinfection equipment
• Backup disinfection equipment — chlorine tablets
♦ Effluent flow measurement
• Standby power — emergency generator
This facility is located at the McCain Correctional Hospital WWTP, off NC Highway 211, south of
McCain, in Hoke County.
2. Discharge from said treatment works at the location specified on the attached map into an unnamed
tributary to Mountain Creek, currently classified C waters in the Lumber River Basin.
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Permit NC0035904
PART I
A. (1.)EFFLUENT LIMITS AND MONITORING REQUIREMENTS — DRAFT
During the period beginning on the effective date of this permit and lasting until expiration, the
permittee is authorized to discharge treated wastewater from outfall 001. Such discharges shall be
limited and monitored) by the permittee as specified below:
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Total Suspended Solids C0530
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45.0 mg/L
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Ammonia Nitrogen C0610
Monitor & Report
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Total Residual Chlorine3 50060
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2/Week
Grab
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Fecal Coliform (geometric mean) 31616
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Weekly
Grab
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Temperature °C 00010
5/Week
Grab
Effluent
Dissolved Oxygen 00300
Daily Average z 5.0 mg/L
• Weekly
Grab
Effluent
Oil & Grease 00556
30 mg/L
60 mg/L
2/Month
Grab
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Total Phosphorous C0665
Monitor & Report
Quarterly
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Effluent
Total Nitrogen C0600
Monitor & Report
Quarterly
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Effluent
Total Mercury4 COMER
Annual Average 17.9 nglL
Quarterly
Grab
Effluent
pH 00400
> 6.0 and < 9.0 standard units
Weekly
Grab
Effluent
Whole Effluent Toxicity5 TGP3B
Monitor & Report
Quarterly
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Temperature °CB 00010
Monitor & Report
Weekly
Grab
Upstream &
Downstream
Dissolved Oxygen 00300
Monitor & Report
Weekly
Grab
Upstream &
Downstream
Footnotes:
1. No later than 270 days from the effective date of this permit, begin submitting discharge monitoring
reports electronically using NC DWR's eDMR application system. See Condition A. (3.).
2. Upstream: at least 100 feet upstream from the outfall. Downstream: Downstream approximately 2.1 miles
at NCSR 1214.
3. The Total Residual Chlorine (TRC) monitoring and limit requirements apply only if chlorine or chlorine
derivative is used for disinfection. The Division shall consider all effluent TRC values reported below 50
µg/L to be in compliance with the permit. However, the permittee shall continue to record and submit all
values reported by a North Carolina certified lab (including field certified), even if these values fall below
50 µg/L.
4. Samples collected must be analyzed by EPA Method 1631.
5. Chronic Toxicity (Ceriodaphnia) P/F at 67%: January, April, July, October (see Part I. A. (2.) below).
6. The temperature of the effluent shall not cause an increase in temperature of the receiving stream of more
than 2.8°C. In no case shall the temperature of the effluent cause the ambient water temperature to exceed
32°C.
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Permit NC0035904
A. (2.) CHRONIC TOXICITY PERMIT LIMIT (Quarterly)
The effluent discharge shall at no time exhibit observable inhibition of reproduction or significant
mortality to Ceriodaphnia dubia at an effluent concentration of 67 %.
The permit holder shall perform at a minimum, quarterly monitoring using test procedures outlined in
the "North Carolina Ceriodaphnia Chronic Effluent Bioassay Procedure," Revised December 2010, or
subsequent versions or "North Carolina Phase II Chronic Whole Effluent Toxicity Test Procedure"
(Revised- December 2010) or subsequent versions. The tests will be performed during the months of
January, April, July and October. These months signify the first month of each three-month
toxicity testing quarter assigned to the facility. Effluent sampling for this testing must be obtained
during representative effluent discharge and shall be performed at the NPDES permitted final effluent
discharge below all treatment processes.
If the test procedure performed as the first test of any single quarter results in a failure or ChV
below the permit limit, then multiple -concentration testing shall be performed at a minimum, in
each of the two following months as described in "North Carolina Phase II Chronic Whole
Effluent Toxicity Test Procedure" (Revised -December 2010) or subsequent versions.
All toxicity testing results required as part of this permit condition will be entered on the Effluent
Discharge Monitoring Form (MR-1) for the months in which tests were performed, using the parameter
code TGP3B for the pass/fail results and TI P3B for the Chronic Value. Additionally, DWR Form
AT-3 (original) is to be sent to the following address:
Attention: North Carolina Division of Water Resources
Water Sciences Section/Aquatic Toxicology Branch
1621 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-1621
Completed Aquatic Toxicity Test Forms shall be filed with the Water Sciences Section no later than 30
days after the end of the reporting period for which the report is made.
Test data shall be complete, accurate, include all supporting chemical/physical measurements and all
concentration/response data, and be certified by laboratory supervisor and ORC or approved designate
signature. Total residual chlorine of the effluent toxicity sample must be measured and reported if
chlorine is employed for disinfection of the waste stream.
Should there be no discharge of flow from the facility during a month in which toxicity monitoring is
required, the permittee will complete the information located at the top of the aquatic toxicity (AT) test
form indicating the facility name, permit number, pipe number, county, and the month/year of the
report with the notation of "No Flow" in the comment area of the form. The report shall be submitted
to the Water Sciences Section at the address cited above.
Should the permittee fail to monitor during a month in which toxicity monitoring is required,
monitoring will be required during the following month. Assessment of toxicity compliance is based on
the toxicity testing quarter, which is the three month time interval that begins on the first day of the
month in which toxicity testing is required by this permit and continues until the final day of the third
month.
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Permit NC003 5904
A. (2.) CHRONIC TOXICITY PERMIT LIMIT (Quarterly), continued
Should any test data from this monitoring requirement or tests performed by the North Carolina
Division of Water Resources indicate potential impacts to the receiving stream, this permit may be re-
opened and modified to include alternate monitoring requirements or limits.
NOTE: Failure to achieve test conditions as specified in the cited document, such as minimum control
organism survival, minimum control organism reproduction, and appropriate environmental controls,
shall constitute an invalid test and will require immediate follow-up testing to be completed no later
than the last day of the month following the month of the initial monitoring.
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Permit NC0035904
A. (3.) ELECTRONIC REPORTING OF DISCHARGE MONITORING REPORTS
Proposed federal regulations require electronic submittal of all discharge monitoring reports (DMRs)
and specify that, if a state does not establish a system to receive such submittals, then permittees must
submit DMRs electronically to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The Division anticipates
that these regulations will be adopted and is beginning implementation in late 2013.
NOTE: This special condition supplements or supersedes the following sections within Part II of this
permit (Standard Conditions for NPDES Permits):
• Section B. (11.)
• Section D. (2.)
• Section D. (6.)
• Section E. (5.)
Signatory Requirements
Reporting
Records Retention
Monitoring Reports
1. Reporting [Supersedes Section D. (2.) and Section E. (5.) (a)1
Beginning no later than 270 days from the effective date of this permit, the permittee shall begin
reporting discharge monitoring data electronically using the NC DWR's Electronic Discharge
Monitoring Report (eDMR) intermet application.
Monitoring results obtained during the previous month(s) shall be summarized for each month and
submitted electronically using eDMR. The eDMR system allows permitted facilities to enter
monitoring data and submit DMRs electronically using the internet. Until such time that the state's
eDMR application is compliant with EPA's Cross -Media Electronic Reporting Regulation
(CROMERR), permittees will be required to submit all discharge monitoring data to the state
electronically using eDMR and will be required to complete the eDMR submission by printing,
signing, and submitting one signed original and a copy of the computer printed eDMR to the
following address:
NC DENR / DWR / Information Processing Unit
ATTENTION: Central Files / eDMR
1617 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-1617
If a permittee is unable to use the eDMR system due to a demonstrated hardship or due to the
facility being physically located in an area where less than 10 percent of the households have
broadband access, then a temporary waiver from the NPDES electronic reporting requirements may
be granted and discharge monitoring data may be submitted on paper DMR forms (MR 1, 1.1, 2, 3)
or alternative forms approved by the Director. Duplicate signed copies shall be submitted to the
mailing address above.
Requests for temporary waivers from the NPDES electronic reporting requirements must be
submitted in writing to the Division for written approval at least sixty (60) days prior to the date the
facility would be required under this permit to begin using eDMR. Temporary waivers shall be
valid for twelve (12) months and shall thereupon expire. At such time, DMRs shall be submitted
electronically to the Division unless the permittee re -applies for and is granted a new temporary
waiver by the Division.
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Permit NC0035904
A. (3.) ELECTRONIC REPORTING OF DISCHARGE MONITORING REPORTS, continued
Information on eDMR and application for a temporary waiver from the NPDES electronic reporting
requirements is found on the following web page:
http://portal.ncdenr.org/web/wq/admin/bog/ipu/edmr
Regardless of the submission method, the first DMR is due on the last day of the month following
the issuance of the permit or in the case of a new facility, on the last day of the month following the
commencement of discharge.
2. Signatory Requirements [Supplements Section B. (11.) (b) and supersedes Section B. (11.) (d)1
All eDMRs submitted to the permit issuing authority shall be signed by a person described in Part
II, Section B. (11.)(a) or by a duly authorized representative of that person as described in Part II,
Section B. (11.)(b). A person, and not a position, must be delegated signatory authority for eDMR
reporting purposes.
For eDMR submissions, the person signing and submitting the DMR must obtain an eDMR user
account and login credentials to access the eDMR system. For more information. on North
Carolina's eDMR system, registering for eDMR and obtaining an eDMR user account, please visit
the following web page:
http://portal.ncdenr.org/web/wq/admin/bog/ipu/edmr
Certification. Any person submitting an electronic DMR using the state's eDMR system shall
make the following certification [40 CFR 122.22]. NO OTHER STATEMENTS OF
CERTIFICATION WILL BE ACCEPTED:
"I certify, under penalty of law, that this document and all attachments were prepared under my
direction or supervision in accordance with a system designed to assure that qualified personnel
properly gather and evaluate the information submitted. Based on my inquiry of the person or
persons who manage the system, or those persons directly responsible for gathering the
information, the information submitted is, to the best of my knowledge and belief true, accurate,
and complete. I am aware that there are significant penalties for submitting false information,
including the possibility of fines and imprisonment for knowing violations."
3. Records Retention [Supplements Section D. (6.)l
The permittee shall retain records of all Discharge Monitoring Reports, including eDMR submissions.
These records or copies shall be maintained for a period of at least 3 years from the date of the report. This
period may be extended by request of the Director at any time [40 CFR 122.41].
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