Record · Enforcement
correspondence
edoc-3170357
Fields
agency
Ohio EPA
instrument
correspondence
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respondent
City of Lima, Ohio
facility
City of Lima Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP)
permit_no
2PE00000*ND
issued_date
2016-05-23
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summary
This is a May 23, 2016 comment letter from Stephen P. Samuels of Frost Brown Todd LLC, counsel for the City of Lima, Ohio, submitted to Ohio EPA's Division of Surface Water and Northwest District Office regarding NPDES Draft Permit No. 2PE00000*ND for the City of Lima Wastewater Treatment Plant. The letter transmits 23 detailed preliminary comments and objections to specific terms and conditions in the draft permit, including limits for phosphorus, mercury, toxicity, and various priority pollutants, as well as requests for STORET data and a meeting with OEPA to discuss the issues raised.
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obligations
- requirement Delete concentration and weekly limits for phosphorus; only monthly limits required under Ohio Admin. Code 3745-33-06(C)
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- requirement Reduce monitoring frequency for Alpha-BHC to 1/yr; remove from Tracking of Group 4 Parameters (Part II, Paragraph M, p. 47)
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- requirement Retain mercury effluent limits from currently effective (*MD) permit rather than reducing; continue mercury reduction program; address mercury variance language in Section EE
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- requirement Discontinue monitoring for free cyanide (detected only once in 65 samples); remove from Tracking of Group 4 Parameters
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- requirement Meet with OEPA for comprehensive discussion of legal/technical justification and economic feasibility of acute and chronic toxicity limits
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- requirement Discontinue monitoring and effluent limits for bis(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate; correct apparent transposition of monthly and maximum limits
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- requirement Discontinue monitoring and effluent limits for hexavalent chromium (no detections in 3+ years, 30+ samples)
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- requirement Correct CSO Monitoring introductory text typo in Part I.B.1 (p. 14): 'sludge sampling' should read 'outfall sampling'
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- requirement Revise biosolids section (p. 23) to reflect that City submitted and OEPA accepted testing showing no pathogen regrowth; update subsection '1' per *MD permit language
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- requirement Add note on p. 24 allowing scum dewatered and landfilled to be excluded from monitoring/reporting requirements, as in *MD permit
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- requirement Revise Note 'a' on p. 25 to add 'or a facility with an Ohio EPA-approved sludge management plan', consistent with *MD permit and Ohio Admin. Code 3745-40-03
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- requirement Change upstream Dissolved Oxygen monitoring from daily to monthly (p. 28), consistent with *MD permit and other upstream parameters
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- requirement Revise Part d.vii (p. 31) to read 'Complete construction as soon as possible, but no later than 66 months from the effective date of the previous permit'
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- requirement Add language from *MD permit to Part I.C, Section D.1 (p. 34) regarding reasonable potential for water quality violations and local limits
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- requirement Correct Tracking of Group 4 Parameters (Part II, M, p. 47): remove Free Cyanide, Alpha-BHC, and Selenium; revise third paragraph per City's proposed language
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- requirement Provide basis for revisions to waste load allocation values in Part II, AA.5 local limits (p. 52)
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- requirement Correct mercury variance application date in Part II, EE.1.3 (p. 57) from July 15, 2016 to July 15, 2015
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- requirement Remove stormwater Parts IV, V, and VI (pp. 73-94) or limit applicability to WWTP site only, not entire collection system
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- requirement Provide flow data and methodology used to distribute Ottawa River assimilative capacity and develop City of Lima's wasteload allocation (Fact Sheet, p. 12)
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- requirement Provide basis for flow and background data used to calculate WLA, which differ significantly from previous permit basis (Fact Sheet, p. 37)
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- requirement Request entire relevant STORET database for City of Lima and Ottawa River; request meeting with OEPA to discuss permit comments
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⚠ Gaps in the record
- This is a comment/correspondence letter, not an enforcement order or DFFO; it is submitted BY the regulated party (City of Lima) TO Ohio EPA commenting on a draft NPDES permit.
- Permit number reads '2PE00000*ND' in the letter header and 'POOOOOOxND' in the attached comments — OCR unreliable; image confirms '2PE00000*ND'.
- No case number, civil penalty, or stipulated penalty terms are present — this is a pre-enforcement permit comment letter.
- No issued/effective dates for obligations — all items are requests/objections directed to OEPA for action in the final permit.
Where it connects
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