City of Pleasant Valley, MO Miscellaneous Provisions

[Ord. No. 2206 §§1 — 2, 6-5-2000]

Information and data about an industrial user obtained from reports, surveys, wastewater discharge permit applications, wastewater discharge permits, monitoring programs, and from inspection and sampling activities, shall be available to the public unless the industrial user specifically requests otherwise and is able to demonstrate to the satisfaction of the Director that the information is not required to be disclosed under Missouri or Federal law. When the industrial user has demonstrated that such information should be held confidential, the portions of a report which might disclose the confidential information shall not be made available for inspection by the public but shall be made available upon request to governmental agencies for uses related to the NPDES program or pretreatment program and in enforcement proceedings involving the person furnishing the report. The City shall be permitted to introduce any admissible evidence it deems necessary in any criminal prosecution without regard to the request for confidentiality under this Section. Wastewater constituents and characteristics and other "effluent data" as defined by 40 C.F.R. §2.302 shall not be recognized as confidential information and shall be available to the public.