MIL-HDBK-1138
Section 2:
REGULATORY COMPLIANCE AND MONITORING
2.
biosolids
2.1
Federally Owned Treatment Works (FOTWs).
Generally, FOTWs are operated and administered under the same
permitting and operational provisions set forth for publicly
owned treatment works (POTWs). That is, these facilities usually
comply with the construction permitting, operational permitting,
and effluent discharge and residuals handling permitting
requirements as administered by individual states and/or the EPA.
Operations and management staff at FOTWs are expected
to understand and comply with these requirements and to keep the
installation's environmental office informed of any problems that
may affect compliance. A review of the general requirements for
permitting, monitoring, and reporting appears below in par. 2.2.
Operator training and certification needs are covered in
par. 2.3. Trends that affect plant operations are discussed in
par. 2.4, including a description of water quality-based effluent
limits, wastewater reuse, the Part 503 sludge regulations and
beneficial reuse of sludge, and operations certification
programs.
2.1.1
FOTW Provisions. One area in which FOTWs are
administered differently from POTWs is the pretreatment program
requirements and a limited provision to exclude POTW hazardous
waste from some regulation under the Resource Conservation and
Recovery Act (RCRA). These differences are discussed in the
following subparagraphs.
2.1.1.1
Hazardous Waste Exclusion Requirements. It is unlawful
to introduce into an FOTW any pollutant that is a hazardous
waste. POTWs are excluded from this hazardous waste restriction
because of special provisions for POTWs in the RCRA regulations.
POTWs must comply with pretreatment programs to ensure that
commercial and industrial contributors to the collection system
do not deposit excess hazardous or toxic materials/waste into the
sewer system. Such pretreatment program standards are not
required for FOTWs, although military FOTWs have generally
followed them.
2.1.1.2
Special Provisions. A military wastewater treatment
works qualifies for FOTW status and the potential for exclusion
under RCRA Section 3023, 42 USC Section 6939e, if the treatment
works is owned or operated by the DoD, if the majority of the
influent received at the treatment works is domestic wastewater,
and if the effluent of the treatment works is discharged to a
surface water under a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination
System (NPDES) permit. There are additional hazardous waste
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