(a) The Director shall inspect the facilities and the process and operation records of any user to determine compliance with the requirements of these regulations. The user shall allow the Director or its representatives, upon presentation of credentials of identification, access to all process and operation documents and to enter upon the premises of the user at all reasonable hours for the purposes of inspection, sampling, or records examination. Reasonable hours, at a minimum, shall include any time an industrial user has employees on the premises.
(b) Where the user has security measures in force which require proper identification and clearance before entry into its premises, the user shall make necessary arrangements with its security guards so that, upon presentation of suitable identification, the Director shall be permitted to enter without delay for the purposes of performing specific responsibilities.
(c) The Director shall have the right to set up on the user's property such devices as are necessary to conduct sampling, inspection, compliance, monitoring and/or metering operations. The Director shall, at all times, have free access to the premises and process and operation records of any user, and free access to the premises and process and operation records of any person reasonably believed by the Director to be a user or possible user, for the purpose of inspecting, sampling, or testing the discharge emanating therefrom, or any discharge which may emanate therefrom in order to determine whether such discharge, or potential discharge is acceptable or unacceptable to the City.
(d) 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 borne by the user.
(e) Unreasonable delays in allowing the Director access to the user's premises shall be a violation of these regulations.
(f) The Director shall evaluate the need for a plan, device or structure to control a potential slug discharge, as defined in 915.010(46), at least once during the term of each significant industrial user's wastewater discharge permit. Additional significant industrial users shall be evaluated within one year of being identified a significant industrial user. If the Director decides a slug control plan is needed, the plan shall be developed in accordance with Section 915.107(b). (Ord. 30-14. Passed 3-3-14.)