6.576 Industrial Pretreatment Program – Public Notification of Significant Noncompliance.
The city shall publish in a daily newspaper with the largest daily circulation in the metropolitan area, not less than annually, a list of those industrial users which during the previous 12 months were in significant noncompliance with sections 6.501 to 6.596 of this code or their discharge permits. This notification will summarize enforcement action by the city during the same 12 months. For purposes of this section, an industrial user is in significant noncompliance if its violation meets one or more of the following criteria.
(a) Chronic violations of wastewater discharge limits, defined herein as those in which 66 percent or more of all of the measurements taken during a six month period exceed (by any magnitude) the daily maximum limit or the average limit for the same pollutant parameter;
(b) Technical review criteria (TRC) violations, defined herein as those in which 33 percent or more of all of the measurements for each pollutant parameter taken during a six month period equal or exceed the product of the daily maximum limit or the average limit multiplied by the applicable TRC (TRC=1.4 for BOD, TSS, fats, oil and grease, and 1.2 for all other pollutants except pH);
(c) Any other violation of a pretreatment effluent limit (daily maximum or longer-term average) that the city manager determines has caused, alone or in combination with other discharges, interference or pass through (including endangering the health of city personnel or the general public);
(d) Any discharge of a pollutant that has caused imminent endangerment to human health, welfare or to the environment or has resulted in the city’s exercise of its emergency authority under section 6.561 of this code to halt or prevent such a discharge;
(e) Failure to meet, within 90 days after the schedule date, a compliance schedule milestone for starting construction, completing construction, or attaining final compliance;
(f) Failure to provide, within 30 days after the due date, required reports such as baseline monitoring reports, 90-day compliance reports, periodic self-monitoring reports, and reports on compliance with compliance schedules;
(g) Failure to accurately report noncompliance;
(h) Any other violation or group of violations which the city manager determines will adversely affect the operation or implementation of the local pretreatment program.