A. Any existing significant industrial user located beyond the Columbus city limits shall submit a wastewater discharge permit application, within thirty days of the effective date of this chapter. New significant industrial users located beyond the city limits shall submit such applications to the utility service board thirty days prior to any proposed discharge into the POTW.
B. Alternately, the utility service board may enter into an agreement with the neighboring jurisdiction in which the significant industrial user is located to provide for the implementation and enforcement of pretreatment program requirements against the industrial user.
C. An interjurisdictional agreement, as required above, shall contain the following conditions:
1. A requirement for the contributing jurisdiction to adopt a sewer use ordinance and local limits which are at least as stringent as those set out in subsection 13.16.030(F) of this chapter. The requirement shall specify that such ordinance and limits must be revised as necessary to reflect changes made to the city’s ordinance or local limits;
2. A requirement for the contributing jurisdiction to submit a revised user inventory on at least an annual basis;
3. A provision specifying which pretreatment implementation activities, including wastewater discharge permit issuance, inspection and sampling, and enforcement, will be conducted by the contributing jurisdiction; which of those activities will be conducted by the utility service board; and which of these activities will be conducted jointly by the contributing jurisdiction and the utility service board;
4. A requirement for the contributing jurisdiction to provide the utility service board with access to all information that the contributing jurisdiction obtains as part of its pretreatment activities;
5. Limits on the nature, quality, and volume of the contributing jurisdiction’s wastewater at the point where it discharges to the POTW;
6. Requirements for monitoring the contributing jurisdiction’s discharge;
7. A provision ensuring the utility service board access to the facilities of users located within the contributing jurisdiction’s boundaries for the purpose of inspection, sampling, and any other duties deemed necessary by the utility service board; and
8. A provision specifying remedies available for breach of the terms of the interjurisdictional agreement.
(Ord. 10-12 (part), 2010; Ord. 04-2 (part), 2004; Ord. 99-16 (part), 1999)