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9 <br /> <br />2. Bedroom Additions. A compliance inspection is required prior to issuance of a permit for a bedroom <br />addition. If the system is found to be non-compliant, the owner shall upgrade, repair, or replace the existing <br />system prior to issuance of the permit for the bedroom addition. <br />3. Imminent Threat to Public Health or Safety. A SSTS that is determined to be an imminent threat to <br />public health or safety in accordance with Minnesota Rules, Chapter 7080.1500, Subd. 4A shall be <br />upgraded, repaired, replaced, or abandoned by the owner in accordance with the provisions of this <br />Ordinance within three (3) months of receipt of a Notice of Noncompliance. In the event of an imminent <br />threat to Public Health or Safety, a mitigation plan shall be submitted to the department immediately upon <br />discovery. The mitigation plan shall immediately abate the Imminent Threat to Public Health and safety. If <br />the Department determines that extenuating circumstances exist, this timeframe may be extended to ten <br />(10) months from receipt of a Notice of Noncompliance. <br />4. Failure to Protect Groundwater. A SSTS that is determined to be failing to protect groundwater in <br />accordance with Minnesota Rules, Chapter 7080.1500, Subd. 4B shall by upgraded, repaired, replaced, or <br />abandoned by the owner in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance within three (3) months of <br />receipt of a Notice of Noncompliance. In the event of a system failing to protect groundwater, a mitigation <br />plan shall be submitted to the department immediately upon discovery. If the Department determines that <br />extenuating circumstances exist, this timeframe may be extended to ten (10) months from receipt of a <br />Notice of Noncompliance. <br />5. Abandonment. Any SSTS, or any component thereof, which is no longer intended to be used, must be <br />abandoned in accordance with Minnesota Rules, Chapter 7080.2500. <br />Section 14. SSTS in Floodplains. SSTS shall not be located in a floodplain. <br />Section 15. Class V Injection Wells. All owners of new or replacement SSTS that are considered to be class V <br />injection wells, as defined in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Title 40, Part 144, are required by the Federal <br />Government to submit SSTS inventory information to the Environmental Protection Agency as described in CFR40, <br />Part 144. Further, owners are required to identify all Class V injection wells in property transfer disclosures. <br />Section 16. SSTS Practitioner Licensing. No person shall engage in evaluations, inspection, design, installation, <br />construction, alteration, extension, repair, maintenance, or pumping of SSTS without an appropriate and valid license <br />issued by the MPCA in accordance with Minnesota Rules, Chapter 7083 except as exempted in 7083.0700. <br />Section 17. Prohibitions. <br />1. Occupancy or Use of a Building without a Compliant SSTS. It is unlawful for any person to maintain, <br />occupy, or use any building intended for habitation in an unsewered area that is not provided with a <br />wastewater treatment system that disposes of wastewater in a manner that complies with the provisions of <br />this Ordinance. <br />2. Sewage Discharge to Ground Surface or Surface Water. It is unlawful for any person to construct, <br />maintain, or use any SSTS system regulated under this Ordinance that results in raw or partially treated <br />wastewater seeping to the ground surface or flowing into any surface water. Any surface discharging <br />system must be permitted under the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System program by the <br />MPCA. <br />3. Sewage Discharge to a Well or Boring. It is unlawful for any person to discharge raw or treated <br />wastewater into any well or boring as described in Minnesota Rules, Chapter 4725.2050, or any other <br />excavation in the ground that is not in compliance with this Ordinance. <br />4. Discharge of Hazardous or Deleterious Materials. It is unlawful for any person to discharge into any <br />treatment system regulated under this Ordinance any Industrial Waste, or hazardous or deleterious <br />material that adversely affects the treatment or dispersal performance of the system or groundwater <br />quality.