(A) Employees of the municipal utilities duly authorized by the Director and bearing proper credentials and identification shall be permitted to enter all properties for the purposes of inspection, observation, measurement, sampling, and testing pertinent to discharge to the wastewater treatment works in accordance with the provisions of this subchapter.
(B) The authorized employees of the municipal utilities are authorized to obtain information concerning industrial or commercial process information which have a direct bearing on the kind and source of discharge to the wastewater treatment works. A user may withhold process information considered confidential but shall be made available immediately upon request to governmental agencies for uses related to the NPDES program or pretreatment program, and in enforcement proceedings involving the person furnishing the report. A user must establish that the revelation to the public of the information in question might result in an advantage to competitors.
(1980 Code, § 50.24) (Ord. 3928, passed 12-17-1979; Am. Ord. 7520, passed 2-6-2006; Am. Ord. 8840, passed 4-20-2020)