HomeMy WebLinkAbout04. Quarterly Regulatory UpdateItem No.
SIGNIFICANT
REGULATORY UPDATES
November 12, 2015
Real Estate, Environmental and Planning
Committee Meeting
Lori Schectel
Environmental and Regulatory Compliance Division Manager
Central Contra Costa Sanitary District
Significant Regulatory Issues
• Air
• Wastewater
• Household Hazardous Waste
• Recycled Water
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Air - Related Issues
• Clean Air Act Section 129: 40 -CFR -60 Sewage Sludge Incinerator Regulations
- Effective March 2016
- New emissions limits, minimum operating limits, enhanced visible
emissions from ash handling, Plant Operator training
- Compliance demonstration and annual source testing
- Modify Ash Loading Station to reduce fugitive emissions
- Caustic Injection System to comply with pH and HCI limits
• Title V
- Title V Permit renewed 2015
- BAAQMD annual Permit -to- Operate
- BAAQMD routine inspections
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Air - Related Issues
• Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006
- AB 32 requires California to reduce its GHG emissions to 1990 levels by 2020
- Annual GHG reporting and verification
- Cap and Trade Program (District below Cap and Trade inclusion threshold)
- Additional costs if over Cap and Trade trigger
• Portable Diesel En®ne Regulation
- CARB Air Toxics Control Measure
- Compliance: Five engines to be replaced by 2017; additional five engines to be
replaced by 2020
Soil Cron Enforceable Agreement with DISC
- Maintain integrity of soil caps (Basin A South; Surcharge Fill Area)
- DTSC inspections one per year
- Reporting: Semi - annual and five - years; notice and reporting on excavation projects
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Wastewater - Related Issues
• Treatment Plant NPDES Discharge Permlt
- Expires March 2017; renewal application (ROWD) due September 2016
- Developing internal strategy for renewal
• Nutrient Watershed Permit
- Meet regional permit expectations (monitoring, reporting, evaluation)
- Collaborate- BACWA, SFEI, RWQCB, consultants
- First annual report November 2015
- Expires June 2019; renew December 2018
• North San Francisco Bay Selenium TMDL
- WLA for CCCSD
- No enforceable limit; potential for future WQBEL
- CCCSD commented September 2015; Public Hearing November 18,2U5
Wastewater - Related Issues
• Test of Significant Toxicity (Draft State Pollcy)
- Numeric limits for chronic toxicity
- Statistical method to determine chronic toxicity
- RWQCB discretion test frequency increase
- CCCSD and BACWA to petition for reduced testing
• San Francisco Bay Basin Plan Triennial Review
- CCCSD and BACWA submitted comments August 2015
- RWQCB issued staff report October 2015; comments November 2015; Public
Hearing December 2015
• PCB and Hg Watershed Permlt
- Monitor and reduce discharges of PCB and Hg to watershed
- First Hg TMDL allocation reached within the first five years of implementation
- PCB aggregate allocation was met as of last renewal
- Expires December 2017
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Wastewater - Related Issues
• Federal Dental Amalgam Rule (Proposed l
- CCCSD developed program based on Regulation 2 Mercury Watershed Permit
- New category - Dental Industrial User
- Additional sampling and administrative requirements
- BACWA commented on proposed rule February 2015; target issue date 2016
• Draft Municipal Regional Stormwater Permit (MRP) (Revised)
- RWQCB Public Hearing November 18, 2015
- Impacts fall primarily with Contra Costa Clean Water and the cities
- CCCSD to continue to provide support through inspection program
Wastewater - Related Issues
• Microplastics
- California Comprehensive Microbead Ban on consumer products
- Manufacturers must comply by 2020
- BACWA meeting with Senator Feinstein's Office and SFEI
- CCCSD participates in studies
• Pesticides
- Fipronil and Pyrethroids are detected in CCCSD's influent and effluent
- Coordination with BACWA, BAPPG, NACWA, and scientists
- CCCSD participates in studies
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Household Hazardous Waste-
Related Issues
ReQmling - Batteries and Sharps
- AB 1159 establishes Product Stewardship Pilot Program
- Failed; may be heard again in 2016
- Producers of home generated sharps and household batteries must implement
a product steward plan
- Shifts focus of management to manufacturers
• Household Hazardous Waste Collection
- AB 45 would require household hazardous waste programs to develop
diversion rates similar to solid waste
- Failed; may be heard again in 2016
- Unspecified goals and requirements that divert responsibilities from producers
to local government
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Recycled Water - Related Issue
• 9611 Permit
- Regional Recycled Water Permit for the Bay Area
- Encompasses Treatment Plant, Filter Plant, and Zone 1
- Residential fill station
- Truck fill stations
- Future 0.5 MGD Refinery Project with CCWD
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