(a) Whenever any source or source operation is found to be in violation of the provisions of this Code and the Commissioner determines that compliance with the emission limitations, as established in the applicable sections of this Code, necessitates the installation of control equipment of complex design, or operational change of a complex nature, involving technological ingenuity or advances of considerable magnitude, the Commissioner may upon the approval of the Director of the Department of Public Health and Welfare, modify any of the emission limitations, as established in this Code, and enter into a consent agreement with the person owning, operating or in charge of such source or source operation to bring about compliance with the emission limitations or such modifications thereto, at the earliest possible date, based upon technical feasibility and economical reasonableness and their relation to the benefits to the people of the State to be derived from such compliance. The Commissioner may also enter into a consent agreement with the person owning, operating or in charge of any source or source operation to bring about compliance with the emission limitations, as established in the applicable sections of this Code, in lieu of issuing an abatement order.
(b) No person entering into such a consent agreement with the Commissioner shall fail to comply with the terms and conditions of the consent agreement without prior written approval of the Commissioner.
(c) The Commissioner shall give public notice of any consent agreement entered into with any person owning, operating or in charge of any source operation. Public notice shall consist of publication in the City Record and a daily newspaper of general circulation in the metropolitan area.
(Ord. No. 857-A-76. Passed 6-27-77, eff. 6-30-77)