N.J.A.C. 7:14A — NEW JERSEY POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM (Subchapter 1 to 25)

(a) The Department shall specify in the NJPDES-DGW permit the compliance period during which the ground water protection standard of N.J.A.C. 7:14A-10.6 applies. The compliance period is the number of years equal to the active life of the hazardous waste management unit in N.J.A.…

(a) The owner or operator shall comply with the following requirements for any ground water monitoring program developed to satisfy N.J.A.C. 7:14A-10.12, 10.13 or 10.14. A ground water monitoring system shall consist of a sufficient number of wells, installed at appropriate locat…

(a) An owner or operator required to establish a leak detection monitoring program under this subchapter shall monitor for indicator parameters (for example, specific conductance, total organic carbon, or total organic halogen), or waste constituents or reaction products that pro…

(a) The owner or operator required to establish a compliance monitoring program under this subchapter shall monitor the ground water at the relevant point(s) of compliance to determine whether hazardous waste facility units are in compliance with the ground water protection stand…

(a) The owner or operator required to establish a compliance monitoring program under this subchapter shall take corrective action to ensure that hazardous waste facility units are in compliance with the ground water protection standards of N.J.A.C. 7:9C. The Department shall spe…

Application requirements for hazardous waste facilities are the same as those listed in N.J.A.C. 7:14A-7.9. Notes N.J. Admin. Code § 7:14A-10.15

Application requirements for hazardous waste facility surface impoundments shall be the same as those listed in N.J.A.C. 7:14A-7.10. Notes N.J. Admin. Code § 7:14A-10.16

Application requirements for hazardous waste facility land discharge by infiltration-percolation lagoons shall be the same as those listed in N.J.A.C. 7:14A-7.13. Notes N.J. Admin. Code § 7:14A-10.17

Application requirements for hazardous waste landfills shall be the same as the requirements for sanitary landfills as described in N.J.A.C. 7:14A-9.12. Notes N.J. Admin. Code § 7:14A-10.18

(a) The requirements in this subchapter apply to: 1. Hazardous waste facilities as defined by N.J.A.C. 7:26G-8 through 7:26G-9. (b) All hazardous waste facilities shall obtain a NJPDES-DGW permit to conduct ground water monitoring and corrective action as specified in this subcha…

(a) The owner or operator of a hazardous waste facility unit or units is not subject to regulation for releases into the uppermost aquifer under this subchapter if: 1. The owner or operator is exempt pursuant to the rules governing hazardous waste facilities in N.J.A.C. 7:26G-8 t…

(a) In addition to monitoring requirements specified elsewhere in this subchapter, all of the following requirements apply to the installation, maintenance, sampling and closure of monitoring wells. 1. Ground water monitoring wells shall be constructed in accordance with the edit…

(a) Any owner or operator subject to this subchapter shall conduct a monitoring program as follows: 1. Whenever any hazardous constituent pursuant N.J.A.C. 7:14A-10.7 from a hazardous waste facility unit is detected at a compliance point established pursuant to N.J.A.C. 7:14A-10.…

The owner or operator shall comply with conditions specified in the NJPDES-DGW permit that are designed to ensure that hazardous constituents under N.J.A.C. 7:14A-10.7 detected in the ground water from a hazardous waste facility unit do not exceed the concentration limits under N…

(a) The Department shall specify in the NJPDES-DGW permit the hazardous constituents to which the ground water protection standard of N.J.A.C. 7:14A-10.6 applies. Hazardous constituents are constituents identified in 40 CFR Part 261 Appendix VIII that have been detected in ground…

(a) The Department shall specify in the NJPDES-DGW permit concentration limits in the ground water for hazardous constituents established under N.J.A.C. 7:14A-10.7. The concentration of a hazardous constituent: 1. Shall not exceed the background level of that constituent in the g…

(a) The Department shall specify in the NJPDES-DGW permit the relevant point of compliance at which the ground water protection standard of N.J.A.C. 7:14A-10.6 applies and at which monitoring shall be conducted. The relevant point of compliance is a vertical surface located at th…

(a) This subchapter sets forth specific conditions and procedures which are applicable only to DSW permits. N.J.A.C. 7:14A-24 and 25 set forth additional specific conditions and procedures which are applicable to DSW or DGW permits for stormwater discharges. (b) The DSW program r…

(a) In addition to the information required under N.J.A.C. 7:14A-15.10(f), public notice of a DSW draft permit for a discharge where a request under section 316(a) of the Federal Act and Section 6 of the State Act has been filed under N.J.A.C. 7:14A-11.7(a)2 shall include: 1. A s…

(a) Except as provided in 40 C.F.R. 124.65, the only issues connected with issuance of a particular permit on which the Department will make a final decision before the final permit decision is issued under N.J.A.C. 7:14A-15.15 are whether alternative effluent limitations would b…

Permits issued for discharges from combined sewer overflows shall include applicable provisions of the Federal Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) Policy (59 Federal Register 18688, published April 19, 1994) incorporated herein at Appendix C. Notes N.J. Admin. Code § 7:14A-11.12

(a) The following conditions apply to any major facility that discharges to a PCB-impaired waterbody segment.1. PCB-impaired waterbody segments are those listed on Sublist 5 of the New Jersey List of Water Quality Limited Waters (also known as the 303(d) List or as the Impaired W…

(a) In addition to the conditions established under N.J.A.C. 7:14A-6.3, the Department shall include in DSW permits one or more conditions which meet the following requirements, as applicable: 1. Pollutants for which the permittee is required to report noncompliance with an efflu…

(a) The following condition, in addition to those set forth in N.J.A.C. 7:14A-11.2 and the general conditions applicable to all permits in N.J.A.C. 7:14A-6.2, applies to all DSW permits for the facilities specified below: 1. In addition to the reporting requirements under N.J.A.C…

(a) If during the comment period for a draft DSW permit, the District Engineer of the Army Corps of Engineers advises the Department in writing that anchorage and navigation of any of the waters of the United States would be substantially impaired by the granting of a point sourc…

Notes N.J. Admin. Code § 7:14A-11.5 Repealed by R.2004 d.47, effective 2/2/2004. See: 35 New Jersey Register 169(a), 35 New Jersey Register 1331(a), 36 New Jersey Register 813(a). Section was "Stormwater discharges".

(a) The following Federal criteria and standards apply to DSW permits: 1. The criteria and standards for the imposition of technology-based treatment requirements in DSW permits shall be as set forth in 40 C.F.R. 125, Subpart A; 2. The criteria for issuance of a permit to aquacul…

(a) Any discharger may request a variance from effluent limitations by filing a request by the close of the public comment period established pursuant to N.J.A.C. 7:14A-15.10, as follows: 1. Modifications for achieving water quality-based effluent limitations must follow the proc…

(a) The Department may grant or deny a request for a variance for the thermal component of a discharge under Section 316(a) of the Federal Act. (b) The Department may deny, forward to the Regional Administrator with a written concurrence, or submit to USEPA without recommendation…

(a) A request for a variance filed under N.J.A.C. 7:14A-11.7 shall be processed as follows: 1. If, at the time that a request for a variance is submitted, the Department has received an application for issuance or renewal of a permit but has not yet prepared a draft permit, the D…

(a) This subchapter specifies Federal and State effluent standards which may be incorporated into a permit as an effluent limitation for direct discharges to surface water including those discharges conveyed to surface water via storm sewers and indirect discharges to DTWs. (b) T…

(a) Indirect users shall be exempted from the petroleum hydrocarbon standards specified at N.J.A.C. 7:14A-12.8(d), provided the following requirements are met: 1. The DTW into which the indirect user discharges submits a request for the exemption indicating it meets all of the fo…

(a) (Reserved) (b) (Reserved) (c) (Reserved) (d) For discharges to surface water from site remediation projects, the chemical specific toxic pollutant effluent standards are set forth in N.J.A.C. 7:14A-12 Appendix B, incorporated herein by reference. (e) For new sources, new disc…

(a) The requirements of this section shall apply to all direct discharges to surface water from publicly or privately owned domestic treatment works included in a NJPDES permit. (b) The minimum level of effluent quality attainable by secondary treatment in terms of the parameter …

(a) This section identifies special considerations applicable to effluent limitations for BOD[5] or CBOD[5] and TSS percentage removal or, for facilities receiving waste from certain industrial categories, relief in terms of less stringent BOD[5] or CBOD[5] and TSS concentration …

(a) For direct discharges to surface water for which BOD[5] or CBOD[5] water quality based effluent limitations based upon water quality studies acceptable to the Department have not been developed but are required under N.J.A.C. 7:9B-1.5 or 1.6, the minimum treatment requirement…

(a) All wastewater that could contain pathogenic organisms such as fecal coliform and/or enterococci organisms shall be subject to continuous year round disinfection prior to discharge into surface waters. (b) The State effluent standard for fecal coliform organisms is as follows…

(a) DSW dischargers are prohibited from discharging foam or causing foaming of the receiving water that: 1. Forms objectionable deposits on the receiving water; 2. Forms floating masses producing a nuisance; 3. Produces objectionable color or odor; or 4. Interferes with a designa…

The effluent standard for phosphorus discharged to a freshwater lake, pond or reservoir, or tributaries to these waterbodies is that, at a minimum, no effluent shall contain more than 1.0 mg/l total phosphorus (as P), as a monthly average, unless the discharger(s) to such a water…

(a) The requirements of this section, N.J.A.C. 7:14A-12.9 and 12.10 apply to direct discharges of oil and grease to surface water, and indirect discharges of petroleum based oil and grease to a domestic treatment works, except as specifically exempted in N.J.A.C. 7:14A-12.10. Ind…

Notes N.J. Admin. Code § 7:14A-12.9

This subchapter sets forth the procedures the Department will use in imposing numeric or non-numeric effluent limitations in DSW permits. Notes N.J. Admin. Code § 7:14A-13.1

(a) Surrogate limitations may be included in a discharge permit in accordance with the following: 1. The permittee shall submit a written request to the Department which includes the specific parameter(s) to be used as a surrogate and specifically lists the base parameter(s) for …

(a) Interim limits may be established for any pollutant or pollutant parameter where a final limit is required in accordance with N.J.A.C. 7:14A-13.6 and where a compliance schedule is included in the discharge permit to allow the permittee to come into compliance with the efflue…

(a) An applicant or permittee may request effluent limitations less stringent than those required by N.J.A.C. 7:14A-13.3, 13.4 or 13.6, which are applicable only during periods of excessive effluent flow due to precipitation events, provided one or more of the following criteria …

(a) Effluent flows used for the determination of effluent limitations, standards, or prohibitions shall be established as described below: 1. Permit limitations for continuous discharges shall be determined as follows: i. For DTWs, the design flow for the facility shall be used w…

(a) Effluent limitations shall be expressed as described below: 1. Water quality based effluent limitations shall be expressed as both concentration and mass loading, except as listed in (a)1i through iv below: i. For parameters such as pH, temperature, radiation, or other pollut…