(A) Annual invoice. The Industrial Wastewater Permit required by the city is issued for a five-year period. The Wastewater Department will invoice each permitted industry by December 1 of each year for the permit for the following year. Payment in full is due by December 31 of each year for the following year for the permittee’s industrial wastewater permit.
(B) Permit fees. Permit fees shall be divided into three categories.
(1) Category 1. For those permitted industrial users whose combined process and sanitary discharge to the wastewater system comprises more than 25% of the total wastewater flow received by the wastewater system or constitutes greater than 25% of the total pollutant loading to the wastewater system and annual industrial wastewater permit fee of $1,500 will be assessed.
(2) Category 2. For those permitted industrial users whose combined process and sanitary discharge to the wastewater system comprises more than 10% but less than 25% of the total wastewater flow received by the wastewater system or constitutes greater than 10% but less than 25% of the total pollutant loading to the wastewater system an annual industrial wastewater permit fee of $1,000 will be assessed.
(3) Category 3. For those permitted industrial users whose combined process and sanitary discharge to the wastewater system comprises less than 10% of the total wastewater flow received by the wastewater system or constitutes less than 10% of the total pollutant loading to the wastewater system an annual industrial wastewater permit fee of $500 will be assessed.
(C) Miscellaneous activities.
(1) Extraordinary costs for miscellaneous activities which may include but are not limited to surveillance inspections, noncompliance monitoring and inspection, review of construction plans, appeals, whole effluent toxicity tests, special studies and priority pollutant analyses, and the like, shall be billed directly to the industry involved per the following:
(2) Surveillance inspections at all Category I, Category II and Category III permitted industries shall be billed on a quarterly basis at a rate of $300 per calendar quarter.
(3) All other extraordinary costs associated with noncompliance monitoring and inspection, review of construction plans, appeals, special studies, discharge evaluations, toxicity studies, priority pollutant analyses, and the like will be billed upon completion of the identified activity, per the rates in the following activity charge table.
ACTIVITY CHARGE TABLE |
ACTIVITY CHARGE TABLE | |
Superintendent | $45/hour |
Assistant Superintendent | $35/hour |
Wastewater Operator | $28/hour |
Technician | $23.50/hour |
Clerical | $18/hour |
Consultant(s) | Actual Cost |
Legal | Actual Cost |
Butler WWTP Laboratory Analysis | Technician time plus actual cost of supplies |
Contract Laboratory Analyses | Actual Cost |
Sewer Camera Truck | $80/hour |
Sewer Vactor | $80/hour |
Vehicle Mileage | $0.60/mile |
(Ord. 1320, passed 12-22-98; Am. Ord. 1459, passed 6-5-06; Am. Ord. 1489, passed 5-5-08; Am. Ord. 1584, passed 8-19-13; Am. Ord. 1639, passed 12-19-16)