The City Engineer and other authorized employees
of the Department and employees of the EPA and DEC bearing proper
credentials and identification shall be permitted to enter all properties
at all reasonable times for the purpose of inspection, observation,
sampling, flow measurement and testing to ascertain compliance with
the rules and regulations. The Department shall have the right to
set up on the user's property such devices as are necessary to conduct
sampling or flow measurement. Where a user has security measures in
force which would require proper identification and clearance before
entry into the premises, the user shall make necessary arrangements
so that, upon presentation of suitable identification, personnel from
the Department will be permitted to enter without delay for the purposes
of performing their specific responsibilities.
[Amended 3-20-1995 by L.L. No. 2-1995]
Where necessary, in the opinion of the City Engineer, users shall make wastewater acceptable under the limitations established by this Part
3 and by Section 307 of the Federal Act before discharging into the City sewer system. By specific reference, compliance obligations with applicable pretreatment standards and requirements, including national categorical pretreatment standards established by the USEPA which are given in 40 CFR, Chapter I, Subchapter N, Parts 405 through 471, are incorporated herein. Any facilities required to pretreat wastewater to a level acceptable to the Department shall be provided and maintained at the user's expense. Detailed plans showing pretreatment facilities and operating procedures shall be submitted to the City Engineer for review and shall be approved by the City Engineer before construction of the facility. The review and approval of such plans and operating procedures will in no way relieve the user from the responsibility of modifying the facility as necessary to produce an effluent complying with the provisions of this Part
3. Any subsequent changes in the pretreatment facilities or method of operation shall be reported to and be approved by the Department. When pretreatment regulations are adopted by EPA or DEC for any industry, then that industry must immediately conform to the EPA or DEC timetable for adherence to federal or state pretreatment requirements and any other applicable requirements promulgated by USEPA or NYSDEC in accordance with Section 307 of PL 92-217. Additionally, such industries shall comply with any other more stringent standards necessitated by local conditions as determined by the City Engineer.
No statement in this Part
3 shall be construed as preventing any special agreement between the City Engineer and any industrial concern, whereby an industrial waste of unusual constituents or characteristics may be accepted by the Commissioner for treatment, subject to the proper payment by the industrial user, except that no such agreement shall violate federal standards or requirements and cause or contribute to pass through or interfere as described in §
253-31 of this Part
3.
In order that employees of the users be informed
of department requirements, users should make available to their employees
copies of this Part 3, together with such other wastewater information
and notices which may be furnished by the Department from time to
time directed toward more effective water pollution control. A notice
shall be furnished and permanently posted on the user's bulletin board
advising employees whom to call in case of an accidental discharge
in violation of this Part 3.
All measurements, tests and analyses of the
constituents and characteristics of waters and wastes to which reference
is made in this Part 3 shall be determined in accordance with the
latest editions of Standard Methods For the Examination of Water and
Wastewater and the Methods For Chemical Analysis of Water and Waste
and the latest version of 40 CFR 136, Analysis of Pollutants.