(a) Where additional pretreatment and/or operation and maintenance activities shall be required to comply with this chapter, the City may require as a binding and enforceable agreement a declaration of the shortest schedule by which the discharger shall provide such additional pretreatment and/or implementation of additional operational and maintenance activities. The completion date in the schedule shall not be later than the compliance date established for the applicable pretreatment standard.
(b) The following conditions shall apply to this schedule:
(1) The schedule shall contain dates for the commencement and completion of major events leading to the construction and operation of additional pretreatment required for the discharger to comply with the requirements of this chapter. For example, dates relating to hiring an engineer, hiring other appropriate personnel, completing preliminary plans, completing final plans, executing contracts for major components and the commencement and completion of construction.
(2) Under no circumstances shall the Director permit a time increment in excess of nine months for any single step directed toward compliance.
(3) No later than fourteen days following each completion date in the schedule and the final date for compliance, the discharger shall submit a progress report to the Director, including no less than a statement as to whether or not it complied with the increment of progress represented by that completion date and, if not, the date on which it expects to comply with this increment of progress, the reason for delay and the steps being taken by the discharger to return to the approved construction schedule. However, in no event shall more than nine months elapse between such progress reports to the Director.
(Ord. 4-2012. Passed 2-6-12.)