N.J. Admin. Code § 7:14A-6.8

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 21, November 4, 2024

Section 7:14A-6.8 - Reporting monitoring results

(a) The permittee shall report monitoring results in accordance with Department instructions and/or guidance documents, on the MRFs provided by the Department and/or the Baseline Reports (BR) required by the permit or the Department for the specific monitoring period at the intervals specified in the permit. The results submitted for the specific monitoring period shall be for samples taken during the specific monitoring period.

(b) All permittees with effluent limits expressed as daily maxima or minima without a monthly average for a particular parameter shall report, in addition to all other applicable reporting requirements, the average value obtained during the reporting month. However, for pH and WET, the reporting requirements of the permit shall govern.

(c) Any permittee required to adjust its effluent monitoring to monthly under 7:14A-6.5(d) shall also automatically adjust its reporting frequency to monthly.

(d) Monitoring results may be submitted to the Department electronically, provided:

1. The permittee executes and submits to the Department the NJPDES EDI Agreement, which requires:

i. Contact information for the facility and the facility administrator;

ii. The signature of the responsible official, certified in accordance with 7:14A-4.9; and

iii. The permittee's agreement to comply with the NJPDES rules, including timely submission of a paper monitoring report form if submission electronically is not possible.

2. The Department notifies the permittee that it is approved for participation in the NJPDES EDI program.

3. The permittee agrees to submit a monitoring report form on paper, rather than electronically, if the Department determines:

i. The permittee is not in compliance with the terms of the EDI Agreement;

ii. The data that the permittee submits to the Department electronically are not correct, as a result of input or transmission errors, or otherwise; or

iii. The data submitted electronically have compromised, or have the potential to compromise the Department's database system (for example, a virus is transmitted).

(e) All monitoring requirements of the permit are minimum requirements. However, if a permittee monitors any pollutant more frequently than required by the permit in accordance with the permit requirements for sample type, location, and analysis and using test procedures approved under 40 C.F.R. 136 or, in the case of residual use or disposal, approved under 40 C.F.R. 136, unless otherwise specified in 40 C.F.R. 503 or as specified in the permit, the results of this monitoring shall be included in the calculation and reported on the form specified by the Department.

(f) Calculations for all limitations which require averaging of measurements shall utilize an arithmetic mean unless otherwise specified in the permit by the Department.

(g) When subject to limitations based on a measure of production, the permittee shall submit with the report the level of production that actually occurred during the reporting month and the limitations, standards, or prohibitions applicable to that level of production.

(h) The permittee shall report all instances of noncompliance not reported under 7:14A-6.10 at the time MRFs are submitted. The reports shall contain the information required in the written submission listed in 7:14A-6.10(e) if not already submitted to the Department.

(i) All SIUs, DSW major industrial facilities, DGWs, and DSW local agencies, other than those discharging only stormwater or non-contact cooling water, required to submit MRFs to the Department shall submit the required reporting forms to the Department on a monthly basis when sampling is required on a monthly basis for one or more parameters.

N.J. Admin. Code § 7:14A-6.8

Amended by R.2009 d.7, effective 1/5/2009.
See: 40 N.J.R. 1478(a), 41 N.J.R. 142(a).
Rewrote (a) and the introductory paragraph of (d); added (d)1 through (d)3; in (h) and (i), substituted "MRFs" for "DMRs"; and in (i), deleted the former last sentence.