How does a facility document “insignificant” levels of pesticide active ingredient and obtain a waiver for floor wash and outside packaging equipment wipe-down rinsate?
A control authority may grant a waiver that removes the requirement to pretreat certain wastewaters prior to discharge. This waiver may be granted to indirect dischargers for two types of wastewaters: floor wash water or the final rinse of a non-reusable triple rinse (note that under the P2 alternative, exterior equipment cleaning rinsate is not required to be pretreated). The waiver may be granted only when the levels of pesticide active ingredients and priority pollutants are too low to be effectively pretreated and have been shown to neither pass through nor interfere with the operation of the POTW (see footnote 9 on page 57529 of the final rule, located in Appendix A of this guidance manual). The granting of such a waiver is through the best professional judgement of the control authority/POTW; therefore, the facility must work with the control authority/POTW to determine the documentation necessary to demonstrate these items. Click here for an Adobe Acrobat PDF version of this sec
A control authority may grant a waiver that removes the requirement to pretreat certain wastewaters prior to discharge. This waiver may be granted to indirect dischargers for two types of wastewaters: floor wash water or the final rinse of a non-reusable triple rinse (note that under the P2 alternative, exterior equipment cleaning rinsate is not required to be pretreated). The waiver may be granted only when the levels of pesticide active ingredients and priority pollutants are too low to be effectively pretreated and have been shown to neither pass through nor interfere with the operation of the POTW (see footnote 9 on page 57529 of the final rule, located in Appendix A of this guidance manual). The granting of such a waiver is through the best professional judgement of the control authority/POTW; therefore, the facility must work with the control authority/POTW to determine the documentation necessary to demonstrate these items. Click here for an Adobe Acrobat PDF version of this sec
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