(A) When the Pretreatment Coordinator finds that a user has violated, or continues to violate, any provision of this chapter, a wastewater discharge permit or order issued hereunder, or any other pretreatment standard or requirement, the Pretreatment Coordinator may serve upon that user a written notice of violation. Within 20 working days of the receipt of this notice, an explanation of the violation and a plan for the satisfactory correction and prevention thereof, to include specific required actions, shall be submitted by the user to the Pretreatment Coordinator. Submission of this plan in no way relieves the user of liability for any violations occurring before or after receipt of the notice of violation.
(B) The Pretreatment Coordinator may initiate a pretreatment review for any violation issued under division (A) of this section but most likely for the first violation of any parameter. Upon the issuance of the pretreatment review, the village shall schedule a pretreatment review meeting, normally within 30 calendar days of the determination that a meeting is required. As a result of a pretreatment review meeting, the village may issue a compliance directive stating that the user is in a "corrective action" status. A plan for correction and compliance schedule illustrating milestones may be issued by the village to the user. This plan for correction and compliance schedule may become part of the user's permit. The user is responsible for meeting the permit limits at all times. The plan for correction, compliance schedule and revised permit do not relieve the user of meeting the permit limits and/or ordinance requirements. The user shall take whatever actions are necessary to meet the permit limits and permit conditions.
(C) As a result of a violation, the village may continue to sample the user and inspect the user's progress towards meeting milestones as needed to determine if the user is complying with the conditions of the plan of action, compliance schedule and/or permit. In the event the village detects and documents any violation; a NOV will be issued to the user.
(D) Each detected violation of the plan of action, compliance schedule, and permit, will result in an NOV being issued to the user. Failure to comply with the NOV requirements may result in the issuance of a citation requiring the user to appear in DuPage County Circuit Court.
(E) When the user has met the conditions of the plan of action, compliance schedule, and permit, the village will notify the user in writing that the conditions have been satisfied and they are no longer under a "corrective action" status if such a status was formally issued.
(F) Nothing in this section shall limit the authority of the Pretreatment Coordinator to take any action, including emergency actions or any other enforcement action, without first issuing a votice of violation.
(Ord. 2020-06-18, passed 6-15-2020)