NCG030224_Renewal Notification Letter_20171212

Energy, Mineral &
Land Resources
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
December 12, 2017
Ray Dudley
Johnson Controls Battery Group
719 Pegg Road
Greensboro, NC 274099672
ROY COOPER
Governor
MICHAEL S. REGAN
secretary
Subject: NPDES General Permit Renewal and Electronic Reporting Requirements
Johnson Controls Battery Group
NPDES Permit Certificate of Coverage (COC) Number: NCG030224
Dear NPDES Permittee:
TRACY DAVIS
Direclor
The General Permit this facility is covered under was re -issued on November 16, 2017 for a year
(expiration October 31, 2018). Our records indicate that your annual fees are up to date; therefore,
your coverage has been renewed. There were no changes to the General Permit, and semi-annual
monitoring (if it applies to your site) should continue during the next year. We are attaching the General
Permit cover page with revised effective and expiration dates. Please maintain your original COC along
with this cover page for your records.
Although your COC has been renewed successfully, the following item requires your action: You must
submit outfall information on-line for this site no later than December 31, 2017 — if you have not
already. This action is necessary to prepare for electronic data monitoring report (eDMR) requirements.
To submit outfall information to DEQ: Go to the following website and enter the discharge outfall
number, type of discharge, receiving water information, representative outfall status information, and
other details no later than December 31, 2017. The website will walk you through all steps.
The website is: https://deg.nc.gov/about/stormwater-program/stormwater-outfall-collection
Submitting Outfall Information for E -Reporting
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination
System (NPDES) Electronic Reporting Rule in December 2015. The rule requires NPDES regulated
facilities to report certain information electronically, instead of filing written paper reports. EPA is
phasing in the requirements of the rule over a 5 -year period. The first phase required regulated entities
to submit Data Monitoring Reports (DMRs) electronically starting on December 21, 2016; however, our
system is not yet ready for stormwater permittees. While that deadline has passed, EPA is aware that
NC is working on expanding the State's eDMR System to include Stormwater Program DMR reporting.
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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 92 00

Currently eDMR is only available to NPDES wastewater permit holders. As soon as eDMR is available for
your permit, we will notify you (please do not try to register your stormwater permit for eDMR yet). In
the meantime, we must collect information about the discharge outfalls at your facility to prepare the
system to flow data to EPA as the new federal rule mandates. Thank you for assisting us with this
process by submitting your outfall point locations.
TIPS FOR ENTERING OUTFALLS
Do NOT submit outfalls that are not covered by your NPDES Stormwater Permit (for example, outfalls
from employee parking lots that have NO industrial activity).
DO submit outfalls that are represented by other outfalls with Representative Outfall Status (ROS), even
though that means these outfalls are not currently sampled. If this applies to your site, you should have
a letter from DEQ about approved ROS.
DO submit outfalls that discharge stormwater with industrial activity, even if they require visual
monitoring only (no analytical sampling). While electronic reporting does not apply to visual monitoring,
we do need outfall information. Noting "visual only" in the outfall Description field is helpful.
For questions or assistance with submitting your outfalls on-line, please contact Bethany Georgoulias at
[phone] or via email at [e-mail], or Robert Patterson at [phone]
or via email at [e-mail]. For more information on electronic reporting to NC
DEMLR, visit http://deg.nc.gov/about/divisions/energy-mineral-land-resources/stormwater/ereporting-
rule.
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, 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.
cc: Stormwater Program Permit File
Sincerely,
Annette Lucas, P.E.
Supervisor, DEMLR Stormwater Program
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State 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