NC0026913_approval_19960306

State of North Carolina
Department of Environment,
Health and Natural Resources Division of Environmental Management
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James B. Hunt, Jr„ Governor
Jonathan B. Howes, Secretary ri
A. Preston Howard, Jr., P.E., Director
March 6, 1996
CERTIFIED MAIL
RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED
Mr. Tom Douglas
Town Manager
P.O. Box 99
Sparta, North Carolina 28675
Subject: Final Approval of Pretreatment Program
Town of Sparta
NPDES Permit Number NC0026913
Alleghany County
Dear Mr. Douglas:
The Town of Sparta has successfully completed the required activities cited in the Town of
Sparta's Wastewater Treatment Plant NPDES permit Part III. (B). for the development of a
Division of Environmental Management approved pretreatment program. With
consideration of the successful completion of the required activities and the public
comments received on the delegation request, the Pretreatment Program for the
Town of Sparta is approved as of March 6, 1996.
The Town of Sparta's Wastewater Treatment Plant NPDES permit will be the Division of
Environmental Management's primary instrument for Pretreatment Program enforcement.
This permit was issued 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
US Environmental Protection Agency. The Division of Environmental Management will
retain the authority to require changes in your local pretreatment program, as appropriate.
If any part of the approval is unacceptable to you, you have the right to an adjudicatory
hearing upon written request within thirty (30) days following receipt of this letter. This
request must be in the form of a written petition, conforming to Chapter 150B of the North
Carolina General Statutes, and be filed with the Office of Administrative Hearings, Post
Office Drawer 27447, Raleigh, North Carolina 27611-7447. Unless such demand is
made, this approval shall be final and binding.
This program approval does not affect the legal requirements to obtain other permits which
may be required by the Division or any other Federal, State or Local Agency.
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Mr. Tom Douglas, Town Manager
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The Town of Sparta's Pretreatment Program is considered to be a Modified Pretreatment
Program. As such, per Part III, B, 10, of the NPDES permit, the Town shall attend
periodic meetings with the Division to review enforcement of pretreatment requirements
and other pretreatment issues. The compliance status for each industrial user must be
judged for each six-month period (January 1-June 30 and July 1-December 31), and
appropriate enforcement actions initiated in accordance with the Enforcement Response
Plan submitted to the Division.
We look forward to working with the Town of Sparta in its role as a local control authority
of the pretreatment program. Should the Town require assistance or information regarding
the modification or implementation of its pretreatment program, then please feel free to call
Bo McMinn of the Division's Central Office Pretreatment Staff at
[phone] extension 539, or Jim Johnston of the Winston-Salem Regional Office at
[phone].
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. Preston Howard, Jr., .E.
JBM/Spar_Prg_Apv/NPDES .001
Jim Johnston, Winston-Salem Regional Office
Bobby Shaw, Town of Sparta
Central Files
Permits & Engineering
Mr. Roosevelt Childress, EPA