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HomeMy WebLinkAboutNCG200427_Renewal Letter with COC_20100211NDER North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources Beverly Eaves Perdue Governor Cherokee County 75 Peachtree St Murphy, NC 28906 Dear Permittee: Division of Water Quality Coleen H. Sullins Director February 11, 2010 Dee Freeman Secretary Subject: NPDES Stormwater Permit Coverage Renewal Cherokee County Recycling Facility COC Number NCG200427 Cherokee County Your facility was previously granted coverage under stormwater general permit NCG200000. This letter serves as your notification that the Division of Water Quality (DWQ) has reissued the general permit and that your facility's coverage will continue under the conditions of the reissued general permit. Please review the new permit to familiarize yourself with the changes in the reissued permit. 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.) The following information is included with your permit package: • A new Certificate of Coverage • A copy of stormwater General Permit NCG200000 • A copy of a Technical Bulletin for the General Permit • Five copies of the regular and annual summary Discharge Monitoring Report (DMR) Forms • Five copies of the Qualitative Monitoring Report Form The General Permit authorizes discharges of stormwater only, and it specifies your obligations with respect to stormwater discharge controls, management, monitoring, and record keeping. Please review the new permit to familiarize yourself with all the changes in the reissued permit. The more significant changes in the General Permit since your last Certificate of Coverage are as follows: • Semi-annual analytical monitoring with benchmarks replaces annual monitoring with cut-off concentrations • Refinements and clarifications to the SPPP requirements; refer to Part II, Section A • New analytical monitoring parameters including pH, Cu, Fe, Zn and O&G • Tiered response requirements for benchmark exceedences based on analytical results, and direction to notify the DWQ Regional Office in the event of four benchmark exceedances (Fe not included); benchmarks are not limits • Semi-annual qualitative monitoring during a representative storm event • Semi-annual (instead of annual) vehicle maintenance analytical monitoring with benchmarks (if required) • Requirement to use forms provided by the Division to record qualitative monitoring results • Requirement to submit an annual monitoring summary to the DWQ Regional Office by March 1 of each year Wetlands and Stormwater Branch 1617 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-1617 Location: 512 N. Salisbury St. Raleigh, North Carolina 27604 Phone: 919-807-63001 FAX: 919-807-64941 Customer Service: 1-877-623-6748 Internet: www.ncwaterquality.org An Equal Opportunity 1 Affirmative Action Employer I h Carol i nay 7tura d Permit Reissuance — Permit Number NCG200427 February 11, 2010 Page 2 Your coverage under the General Permit is transferable only through the specific action of DWQ. This permit does not affect the legal requirements to obtain other permits which may be required by DENR, 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 Bill Diuguid of the Stormwater Permitting Unit at (919) 807-6369. Sincerely, for Coleen H. Sullins cc: DWQ Central Files Stormwater Permitting Unit Files Asheville Regional Office STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES DIVISION OF WATER QUALITY GENERAL PERMIT NO. NCG200000 CERTIFICATE OF COVERAGE No. NCG200427 STORMWATER, MINE DEWATERING WATER AND/OR PROCESS WASTEWATER 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, Cherokee County is hereby authorized to operate approved wastewater treatment system(s) and discharge stormwater and/or wastewater, as approved in the original permit/application or subsequent permit modification, from a facility located at: Cherokee County Recycling Facility 10160 US Hwy 19 Marble Cherokee County to receiving waters designated as Valley River, a class C;Tr waterbody in the Hiwassee River Basin in accordance with the effluent limitations, monitoring requirements, and other conditions set forth in Parts I, II, III, IV, V, and VI of General Permit No. NCG020000 as attached. This certificate of coverage shall become effective February 11, 2010. This Certificate of Coverage shall remain in effect for the duration of the General Permit. Signed this 11th day of February, 2010. for Coleen H. Sullins, Director Division of Water Quality By Authority of the Environmental Management Commission