Section 309.150  Authority to Ensure Compliance by Industrial Users with Sections 204(b), 307, and 308 of the Clean Water Act

a)         Any NPDES Permit issued to a publicly owned or publicly regulated treatment works must include a condition requiring that the permittee require any industrial user of the treatment works to comply with federal requirements concerning:

1)         User charges and recovery of construction costs under section 204(b) of the CWA and applicable regulations in 40 CFR 35;

2)         Toxic pollutant effluent standards and pretreatment standards under section 307 of the CWA; and

3)         Inspection, monitoring, and entry under section 308 of the CWA.

b)         To ensure compliance, the permittee must require each industrial user subject to section 307 of the CWA to comply with this Section.  The permittee must send to the Agency periodic notice (over intervals not to exceed 9 months) of progress toward full compliance with section 307 of the CWA.

(Source:  Amended at 47 Ill. Reg. 5017, effective March 23, 2023)