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NON-COMPLIANCE INVESTIGATION The Director shall monitor industrial wastes discharged into the sanitary sewer to ensure their quality meets the requirements of the Ordinance including the National Pretreatment Standards. The Director shall review Industrial Waste Discharge Permit applications and self-monitoring reports, and shall collect samples and analyze them to ensure industrial waste discharges are not exceeding the quality limits established in the Ordinance. The frequency of self reporting and the frequency of samples taken by the City shall be established by the Director. Anyone found discharging or depositing an industrial waste into the sewer that is not in compliance with the limits of the Ordinance may be charged an additional fee to cover the sampling and testing costs incurred by the City. The Director may collect as many samples as is deemed necessary to ensure a discharge has been returned to compliance. If a discharge is found in violation of the Ordinance and the discharges was not accidental as defined in Section 30-64 (10) of the Industrial Waste Ordinance the Director may immediately discontinue utility service to the discharger provided: 1. 2. The discharge will disrupt the treatment process and may cause the City to violate the NPDES permit, or, CaU3ß enough damage to the collection system that it will not function as designed or, Cause a threat to public health by passing into a receiving stream untreated. 3. If the discharge is found in violation of the Ordinance, but is not an emergency then the Director shall establish a compliance schedule for the discharger as to when the illegal discharge will cease. The Director may accept a compliance schedule from the discharger in lieu of deriving one for him. If a discharger does not meet the compliance schedule established by the Director, the Director may terminate utility service to the discharger pursuant to Section 30-64 (5) of the Industrial Waste Ordinance. -66-