(a) At least once a year, the director shall inspect and sample each significant industrial user. However, the director may inspect and sample each SIU as frequently as needed during the pretreatment year. The director shall evaluate and determine whether each SIU needs a plan to control slug discharges. The director shall make the determination within a year from the evaluation.
(b) Users must allow the director ready access to all parts of the premises for the purposes of inspection, sampling, records examination and copying, and the performance of any additional duties. Users shall also comply with all applicable provisions of federal and state law allowing authorized representatives of the EPA and TCEQ access to all parts of the premises and records for the purposes of inspection, sampling, records examination and copying, and the performance of other authorized functions.
(c) User shall provide ample room in or near the monitoring facility to allow accurate sampling and preparation of samples and analysis and whether constructed on public or private property, the monitoring facilities should be provided in accordance with the city’s requirements and all applicable local construction standards and specifications, and such facilities shall be constructed and maintained in such manner so as to enable the city to perform independent monitoring activities.
(d) The director shall have the right to set up on the user’s property, or require installation of, such devices as are necessary to conduct sampling and/or metering of the user’s operations.
(e) The director may require the user to install monitoring equipment as necessary. The facility’s sampling and monitoring equipment shall be maintained at all times in a safe and proper operating condition at the user’s expense. All devices used to measure wastewater flow and quality shall be calibrated as determined by the director to ensure their accuracy.
(f) Any temporary or permanent obstruction to safe and easy access to the facility to be inspected and/or sampled shall be promptly removed by the user at the written or verbal request of the director and shall not be replaced. The costs of clearing such access shall be born by the user.
(g) Unreasonable delays in allowing the director, or authorized representatives of the EPA and TCEQ, access to the user’s premises shall be a violation of a wastewater discharge permit and of this article.
(Ord. 12274, § 1, passed 11-28-1995; Ord. 17074, § 10, passed 7-25-2006; Ord. 20043-01-2012, § 12, passed 1-10-2012)