NCG240012_Renewal COC Cover Letter_20171006

Energy, Mineral &
Land Resources
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
October 6, 2017
City of Raleigh Solid Waste Services Department
Attn: Ruffin Hall
222 W Hargett St
Raleigh, NC 27602
ROY COOPER
Governor
MICHAEL S. REGAN
Secretary
Subject: NPDES Stormwater Permit Coverage Renewal COC #NCG240012
Dear Permittee:
TRACY DAVIS
Director
For coverage under Stormwater General Permit NCG240000, the Division of Energy,
Mineral, and Land Resources (DEMLR) is forwarding herewith the reissued Certificate of
Coverage (COC). This permit is reissued pursuant to the requirements of North Carolina
General Statute 143-215.1 and the Memorandum of Agreement between the state of North
Carolina and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, dated October 15, 2007 (or as
subsequently amended.) A new Certificate of Coverage (COC) is included with this
letter.
You must print a copy of the new NCG240000 General Permit from our website here:
http: //deq.nc.gov/about f divisions/energy-mineral-land-resources/energy-mineral-land-
permits/stormwater-permits/npdes-industrial-sw. In addition to the full permit, the 2017
print package on the website includes revised Discharge Monitoring Report (DMR) forms,
Annual Discharge Monitoring Report forms, and Qualitative Monitoring Report Forms.
The General Permit authorizes discharges of stormwater and wastewater (if applicable),
and it specifies your obligations with respect to discharge controls, management,
monitoring, and record keeping. Please review the new permit to familiarize yourself with
all changes in the reissued permit. Your facility has six (6) months from receipt of the
permit to update your Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan (SPPP) to reflect any new
permit requirements.
Among the changes, the permittee now reports the sampling analytical results once a year
(by March 1) to the Central Office in an Annual Data Monitoring Report (DMR), as specified
in Part V, Standard Conditions, Section E, until electronic DMR reporting begins. However,
benchmark exceedances or limit violations must be reported to the Regional Office
within 30 days of receiving results. Note some benchmark values have changed.
Nothing Compares�,
SState of North Carolina I Environmental Quality I Energy, Mineral and Land Resources
512 N. Salisbury Street 1 1612 Mail Service Center I Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-1612
919 707 9200

How does the new General Permit affect Tier Status?
The first sample period of your permit begins in the fourth quarter of the year. Tier 3
actions in Part IV of your permit are triggered by benchmark exceedances on four (4)
occasions beginning on the effective date of this permit and do not count prior
exceedances. Likewise, Tier 2 actions are triggered by two consecutive benchmark
exceedances beginning on the effective date of this permit and do not count prior
exceedances. However, if your facility is already in Tier 2 (monitoring stormwater
discharges monthly) or Tier 3, you must continue monthly monitoring until relieved
through conditions of the permit or by DEMLR staff approval.
When does electronic DMR reporting start?
We are setting up our database with final permit parameters and the outfalls that
permittees submitted on-line. All NCG24 Permittees will receive notification when our
eDMR system is ready for these permittees to register and begin reporting
monitoring data electronically. If you have any questions about the status, please
contact Bethany Georgoulias at [phone] or Robert Patterson at [phone]. If
you did not submit outfall information on-line, we have included a form for you to
return to us. (Note: NO FORM IS ATTACHED if we already have your outfall information.)
Your coverage under the General Permit is transferable only through the specific action of
DEMLR. This permit does not affect the legal requirements to obtain other permits which
may be required by the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), nor does it
relieve the permittee from responsibility for compliance with any other applicable federal,
state, or local law, rule, standard, ordinance, order, judgment, or decree.
If you have any questions regarding this permit package please contact the DEMLR
Stormwater Permitting Program at [phone].
cc: Stormwater Program files
Sincerely,
C�P/!�I Pi �4iLGG1f�1'
for Tracy E. Davis, P.E., C.P.M.
Nothing Compares�,
State of North Carolina Environmental Quality Energy, Mineral and Land Resources
512 N. Salisbury Street 1612 Mail Service Center Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-1612
919 707 9200