(a) The funds received from the collection of sewer service charges shall be deposited with the Treasurer of the City. The money so deposited shall be kept by the Treasurer in the Sewer Consumer Fund. Collections resulting from the User Charges, Debt Service Charges, and Extra Strength Surcharges shall be kept in the Sewer Rental Fund. The Industrial Cost Recovery Payments when collected shall be kept in the Industrial Cost Recovery Fund. Moneys collected from the Connection Charges shall be kept in the Sewer Plant and Trunk Expansion Fund.
(b) The Sewer Rental Fund shall be used for the payment of the cost of management, maintenance, operation and repair of the sanitary sewer system and wastewater treatment plants, including all costs associated with equipment replacement, and for the debt service required for improvements to the sewerage system by the construction of sanitary sewers and wastewater treatment plants, and the acquisition of necessary land therefor and for sinking fund purposes for the retirement of such debt.
(c) The Industrial Cost Recovery Fund shall be administered and disbursed in accordance with United States Environmental Protection Agency Guidelines (40 CFR 35. 928-2).
(1) The Treasurer shall retain fifty percent (50%) of the amounts recovered from the Industrial Cost Recovery Payments. The remainder, together with any interest charged thereon, shall be returned to the United States Treasury on an annual basis.
(2) A minimum of eighty percent (80%) of the retained amounts, together with the interest thereon, shall be used solely for eligible costs, in accordance with Paragraph 35.940 of the Construction Grants Regulations, of expanding, improving or reconstructing the sewerage works associated with the project and necessary to meet the requirements of the City's discharge permit. The Treasurer shall obtain the approval of the Regional Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency prior to commitment of the retained amounts for any expansion, improvement or reconstruction. The remaining twenty percent (20%) of the retained amounts, together with the interest thereon, shall be transferred to the Equipment Replacement Account of the Sewer Rental Fund.
(3) Pending use, the Treasurer shall invest the retained amounts for reconstruction and expansion in:
A. Obligations of the United States Government; or
B. Obligations guaranteed as to principal and interest by the United States Government or any agency thereof; or
C. Shall deposit such amounts in accounts fully collateralized by obligations of the United States Government or by obligations fully guaranteed as to principal and interest by the United States Government or any agency thereof.
(d) On or before July 1 of 1980, and each year thereafter on or before July 1, the Treasurer shall submit to the Mayor a recommended system of User Charges, Debt Service Charges, Extra Strength Surcharges, Industrial Cost Recovery Charges, and Connection Charges. The Mayor shall submit the schedule of charges with his recommendations to Council at their first regular meeting in October, for ratification. The system shall be in accordance with the following requirements:
(1) The system shall result in the distribution of the costs of operation and maintenance of the sewerage works within the Director's jurisdiction to each user class in proportion to such user's contribution to the total wastewater loading of the treatment works. Factors such as strength, volume and delivery flow rate characteristics shall be considered and included as the basis for the user's contribution to insure a proportional distribution of operation and maintenance, including replacement, costs to each user class.
(2) The system shall be reviewed annually and revised periodically to reflect actual operation, maintenance and replacement costs of the sewerage works.
(3) The system shall generate sufficient revenue to offset the costs of all sewerage works operation and maintenance provided by the Director and such other expenditures authorized by subsection (b) hereof.
(4) The system shall recover that portion of the Federal grant(s) awarded under P. L. 92-500 allocated to the treatment of industrial wastewaters.
(5) The cost of treating and handling the extra constituents of BOD5, suspended solids and phosphorous shall be determined and reported in the Schedule of Extra Strength Surcharges at a cost per pound for each constituent.
(6) In order to establish the Industrial Waste Surveillance Charge, the cost shall be determined by calculating the actual cost of gathering samples, testing, and reporting the results of analysis, and distributing the cost proportionately to the appropriate users.
(e) Funds received from the Industrial Wastewater Surveillance Charge shall be deposited in the Sewer Rental Fund.
(f) In connection with the administering of this chapter reference is made to Section 915.07, specifically those subsections pertaining to Control Manholes, Wastewater Volume Determination, Sampling and Monitoring, and Analyses.
(g) The results of routine sampling and analysis by the owner will be used to determine the Extra Strength Surcharges. However, the Director may, at any period or time and of such duration and in such manner as the Director may elect, determine the strength of the discharge wastewater for purposes of verification. If the owner fails to file the necessary annual reports, the strength determined by the Director's analysis will be used to determine the amount of the surcharges. Similarly the surcharges shall be applied to the total metered water consumption if the owner fails to file the required annual report.
(h) If necessary, the Director shall have the right to enter and set up, on company property, such devices as are necessary to conduct a gauging and sampling operation and to begin such operation without advance notice to the company or owner. While performing the work, the Director or his representatives will observe all safety rules applicable to the premises, established by the company.
(i) Where a company has security measures in force which require proper identification and clearance before entry onto the company's premises is granted, such company shall either make necessary arrangements with their security guards that upon showing proper identification the Director or his representatives will be permitted to enter, without delays, for the purpose of obtaining samples, grab or composite, of wastes being discharged at the various sampling points; or the company shall install suitable gauging and sampling manholes outside the security limits, which manholes will at all times be immediately accessible to the Director or his representatives.
(j) If a person, firm or corporation disagrees with the analysis on which the surcharges are based, he may request, in writing, an additional sampling and analysis which shall be conducted in a manner acceptable to the Director. The requestor shall be billed for twenty-five percent (25%) of an additional Surveillance Charge in order to cover the cost of such additional sampling and analysis.