All significant users proposing to connect to or to contribute to the POTW shall obtain a wastewater contribution contract before connecting to or contributing to the POTW. All existing significant users connected to or contributing to the POTW shall obtain a wastewater contribution contract within one hundred eighty (180) days after the effective date of this chapter, and shall submit a plan showing facilities and operating procedures to provide for accidental discharge protection to the city's director of public utilities at the same time the wastewater contribution contract is signed.

A. Industrial users are required to make application for a wastewater contribution contract within thirty (30) days after the effective date of this article; and proposed new users shall make application for a contract at least ninety (90) days prior to connecting to or contributing to the POTW. In support of the contract application, the user shall submit the following information:

1. Name, address, location (if different from address);

2. SIC number according to Standard Industrial Classification Manual, Bureau of Budget, 1972, as amended;

3. Wastewater constituents and characteristics including, but not limited to those mentioned in Sections 13.16.060 and 13.16.070 of this chapter as determined by a certified analytical laboratory; sampling and analysis shall be performed in accordance with procedures established by the EPA pursuant to Section 304(g) of the act and contained in 40 CFR, Part 136, as amended;

4. Time and duration of contribution;

5. Average daily and thirty-minute peak wastewater flow rates, including daily, monthly and seasonable variations if any; plans and details to show all sewers, connections and appurtenances by the size, location and elevation;

6. Site plans, floor plans, mechanical and plumbing plans and details to show all sewer, connections and appurtenances by the size, location and elevation;

7. Description of activities, facilities and plant processes on the premises including all materials which are or could be discharged;

8. Where known, the nature and concentration of any pollutants in the discharge which are limited by any city, state or federal pretreatment standards, and a statement regarding whether or not the pretreatment standards are being met on a consistent basis and if not, whether additional operation and maintenance and/or additional pretreatment is required for the user to meet applicable pretreatment standards;

9. If additional pretreatment and/or operation and maintenance will be required to meet the pretreatment standards, the shortest schedule by which the user will provide such additional pretreatment. The completion date of the user's schedule shall not be later than the compliance date established for the applicable pretreatment standard. The following conditions shall apply to this schedule:

a. The schedule shall contain increments of progress in the form of dates for commencement and completion of major events leading to construction and operation of additional pretreatment required for the user to meet the applicable pretreatment standards (e.g. hiring an engineer, completing design plans, completing final plans, executing contract for installation, commencing construction, completing construction, completing inspection, etc.),

b. No time increment referred to in paragraph (a) of this subdivision above shall exceed nine months,

c. Not later than fourteen (14) days following each date in the schedule and final date for compliance, the user shall submit a progress report to the director of public utilities including, as a minimum, whether or not it complied with the increment of progress to be met on such date and, if not, the date on which it expects to comply. In no event shall more than nine months elapse between progress reports to the director;

10. Each product produced by type, amount, process or processes and rate of production;

11. Type and amount of raw materials processed (average and maximum per day);

12. Number and type of employees, and hours of operation of plant and proposed or actual hours of operation of pretreatment system; and

13. Any other information as may be deemed by the city to be necessary to evaluate the contract application.

B. The director of public utilities will evaluate data furnished by the user and may require additional information. After evaluation and acceptance of data furnished, the city may issue a wastewater contribution contract subject to terms and conditions provided national categorical pretreatment standard, the water-herein. Within nine months of the promulgation of water contribution contract of users subject to such standards shall be revised to require compliance with such standards within the time frame prescribed by such standard.

Where user, subject to a national categorical pretreatment standard, has not previously submitted an application for a wastewater contribution contract as required by subsection (A) of this section the user shall apply for a wastewater contribution contract within one hundred eighty (180) days after promulgation of the applicable national categorical pretreatment standards. In addition, the user with an existing wastewater contribution contract shall submit to the director of public utilities within one hundred eighty (180) days after the promulgation of an applicable federal categorical pretreatment standard the information required by subdivisions (8) and (9) of subsection (A) of this section.

C. Wastewater contribution contracts shall be expressly subject to all provisions of this chapter and all other applicable regulations, user charges and fees established by the city. Contracts may contain the following provisions:

1. The unit charge or schedule of charges and fee for the wastewater to be discharged to a public sewer;

2. Limits on average and maximum wastewater constituents and characteristics;

3. Limits on average and maximum rate and time of discharge or requirements for flow regulations and equalization;

4. Requirements for installation and maintenance of inspection and sampling facilities;

5. Specifications for monitoring programs which may include sampling locations, frequency of sampling, number, types and standards for tests and reporting schedules and that such specifications shall comply with Section 13.16.090 of this chapter;

6. Compliance schedules;

7. Requirements for submission of technical reports or discharge reports such as those identified in Section 13.16.090 of this chapter;

8. Requirements for maintaining and retaining plant records relating to waste-water discharges and affording city access thereto;

9. Requirements for notification to the city of any new introduction of wastewater constituents or any substantial change in volume or character of discharge being introduced into the POTW system;

10. Requirements for notification of slug discharges as per Sections 13.16.060 and 13.16.070 of this chapter;

11. Other conditions as deemed appropriate by the city to insure compliance with this chapter.

D. Duration of contracts shall be for a specified time period as designated by the director of public utilities. A contract may be issued for a period less than a year or may be stated to expire on a specific date exceeding one year. The user shall apply for contract reissuance a minimum of ninety (90) days prior to the expiration of the user's existing contract as limitations or requirements as identified in Sections 13.16.060 and 13.16.070 of this chapter are modified or other just cause exists. The user shall be informed of any proposed changes in his or her contract at least thirty (30) days prior to the effective date of change. Any changes or new conditions in the contract shall include reasonable times for a compliance schedule.

E. A wastewater contribution contract shall not be reassigned or transferred or sold to a new owner, new user, different premises, or new or changed operation without approval of the director of public utilities. Any succeeding owner or user shall also comply with terms and conditions of the existing contract. Wastewater contribution contracts are issued to a specific user for a specific operation. (Prior code § 9-308)