(A) Users shall provide necessary wastewater treatment as required to comply with this chapter and shall achieve compliance with all federal categorical pretreatment standards within the time limitations as specified by the federal pretreatment regulations. Any facilities required to pretreat wastewater to a level acceptable to YCWSD and the POTW shall be provided, operated and maintained at the user's expense. Detailed plans showing the pretreatment facilities and operating procedures shall be submitted to YCWSD and the POTW for review and shall be acceptable to YCWSD and the POTW before construction of the facilities. The review of the plans and operating procedures will in no way relieve the user from the responsibility of modifying the facilities as necessary to produce an effluent acceptable to YCWSD and the POTW under the provisions of this section. Any subsequent changes in the pretreatment facilities or method of operation shall be reported and be acceptable to YCWSD and the POTW prior to the user's initiation of the changes.
(B) If additional pretreatment and/or operation and maintenance will be required to meet the pretreatment standards, the user shall submit the shortest schedule by which he or she will provide additional pretreatment. The completion date in this schedule shall not be later than the compliance date established for the applicable pretreatment standard. The following conditions shall apply to this schedule:
(1) The schedule shall contain increments of progress in the form of dates for the commencement and completion of major events leading to the construction and operation of additional pretreatment required for the user to meet the applicable pretreatment standards (such as, hiring an engineer, completing preliminary plans, completing final plans, executing contract for major components, commencing construction, completing construction, and the like);
(2) No increment referred to in division (B)(1) above shall exceed nine months;
(3) No later than 14 days following each date in the schedule and the final date for compliance, the user shall submit a progress report to YCWSD and the POTW including, as a minimum, whether or not it complied with the increment of progress to be met on the date and, if not, the date on which it expects to comply with this increment of progress, the reason for delay, and the steps being taken by the user to return the construction to the schedule established. In no event shall more than nine months elapse between progress reports to YCWSD.
(C) The POTW shall annually publish in the largest daily newspaper published in the City of Rock Hill, a list of the significant industrial users which were in significant noncompliance with their pretreatment permits at least once during the 12 previous months. The notification shall also summarize any enforcement actions taken against the user(s) during the same 12 months, except for information construed to be confidential as set forth in § 52.70.
(D) All records relating to compliance with pretreatment standards shall be made available to officials of the EPA or approval authority upon request.
(‘77 Code, § 7-117) (Ord. 1585, passed 10-21-85; Am. Ord. 102, passed 1-21-02)