[Ord. No. 1840, 12-15-2025]
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The Control Authority is authorized to identify and locate all possible Users which might be subject to the Control Authority's approved pretreatment program, any other Federal, State, or Local Regulations, or may be sources of emerging POCs.
B. 
The Control Authority is authorized to prepare forms for this purpose and may periodically require Users to respond to the requested information.
C. 
When requested by the Control Authority, all Users must submit information on the nature, volume, and characteristics of their Wastewater by completing a Wastewater survey prior to commencing their Discharge or at an alternative timeframe specified by the Control Authority.
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The Control Authority may require the User to complete specific analysis of representative discharges associated with the survey request.
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Failure to return the survey as requested by the Control Authority is considered a violation of these Regulations and shall be reasonable grounds for enforcement action pursuant to Article VII, including termination of service.
[Ord. No. 1840, 12-15-2025]
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Any User providing the results of analyses to the Control Authority as part of a survey, application, or report must ensure that such analyses were performed in accordance with the techniques prescribed in 40 CFR Part 136 and amendments thereto, unless otherwise specified in an applicable Categorical Pretreatment Standard or unless an alternative analysis is approved by the Control Authority.
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If 40 CFR Part 136 does not contain sampling or analytical techniques for the Pollutant in question, or where the EPA determines that the Part 136 sampling and analytical techniques are inappropriate for the Pollutant in question, sampling and analyses shall be performed by using validated analytical methods or any other applicable sampling and analytical procedures, including procedures suggested by the Control Authority or other parties approved by the EPA.
C. 
Analyses performed shall be sufficiently sensitive as compared to Federal, State, and Local Regulations, such as Pollutants with established MAILs, Reference Concentrations, Pretreatment Standards, and Emerging Pollutant Water Quality Criteria.
[Ord. No. 1840, 12-15-2025]
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Samples collected to satisfy the requirements of these Regulations including the required Reports must be based on data obtained through appropriate sampling and analysis performed during the period covered by the report.
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All Wastewater samples must be representative of the User's Discharge for the associated reporting period.
C. 
Wastewater monitoring and flow measurement facilities shall be properly operated, kept clean, and maintained in good working order at all times. The failure of a User to keep its monitoring facility in good working order shall not be grounds for the User to claim that sample results are unrepresentative of its Discharge.
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Sample Collection Types.
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Grab Sample is a sample that is taken from a wastestream without regard to the flow in the wastestream and over a period of time not to exceed fifteen (15) minutes.
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Composite Sample means the sample resulting from the combination of individual Wastewater samples taken at selected intervals on an increment of either flow or time.
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Composite Wastewater samples shall be collected using twenty-four-hour flow proportional composite sampling techniques, unless time proportional composite sampling or grab sampling is authorized by the Control Authority.
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Sample collection shall follow procedures (including appropriate preservation) specified in 40 CFR Part 136 and appropriate EPA guidance.
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Samples for oil and grease, temperature, pH, cyanide, total phenols, sulfides, and volatile organic compounds shall be obtained using grab sample collection techniques unless otherwise required by the Control Authority.
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The Control Authority may require the User to install flow and sample monitoring equipment accessible by the Control Authority. The facility's sampling and monitoring equipment shall be maintained at all times in a safe and proper operating condition by the User at its own expense.
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All devices used to measure Wastewater flow and quality shall be calibrated as required by the analysis or as otherwise necessary to ensure their accuracy.
[Ord. No. 1840, 12-15-2025]
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The Control Authority has the authority to ascertain whether the purpose of these Regulations, and any Control Mechanism, or order issued hereunder, is being met and whether the User is complying with all requirements thereof.
B. 
The Control Authority shall have the right to enter the facilities of any User which discharges or otherwise introduces Wastewater to the POTW including facilities generating hauled waste or facilities discharging from outside the jurisdiction.
C. 
The Superintendent and other duly authorized employees of the Control Authority bearing proper credentials and identification shall be permitted to enter all private properties through which the Control Authority holds a duly negotiated easement for the purposes of, but not limited to, inspection, observation, measurement, sampling, repair and maintenance of any portion of the POTW lying within said easement. All entry and subsequent work, if any, on said easement shall be done in full accordance with the terms of the duly negotiated easement pertaining to the private property involved.
D. 
Users shall allow the Control Authority ready access to all parts of the premises for the purposes of inspection, sampling, records examination and copying, audio and visual documentation, and the performance of any additional duties.
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Where a User has security measures in force which require proper identification and clearance before entry into its premises, the Industrial User shall make necessary arrangements with its security guards so that, upon presentation of suitable identification, personnel from the Control Authority, State, and EPA will be permitted to enter without delay, for the purposes of performing their specific responsibilities.
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While performing the necessary work on private properties described above, the Superintendent or duly authorized employees of the Control Authority shall observe all safety rules applicable to the premises established by the company and the company shall be held harmless for injury or death to the Control Authority employees and the Control Authority shall indemnify the company against loss or damage to its property by Control Authority employees and against liability claims and demands for personal injury or property damage asserted against the company and growing out of the gauging and sampling operation, except as such may be caused by negligence or failure of the company to maintain safe conditions as required in Section 710.660 of this Chapter.
G. 
The Control Authority, State, and EPA shall have the right to set up on the Industrial User's property or require installation of the devices as are necessary to conduct compliance monitoring and flow monitoring of the User's Discharge.
H. 
Any temporary or permanent obstruction to safe and easy access to the industrial facility to be inspected or sampled shall be promptly removed by the Industrial User at the written or verbal request of the Control Authority and shall not be replaced. The costs of clearing the access shall be borne by the Industrial User.
I. 
Unreasonable delays in allowing Control Authority personnel access to the Industrial User's premises during reasonable times shall be a violation of these Regulations.
[Ord. No. 1840, 12-15-2025]
If the Control Authority has been refused access to a building, structure or property, or any part thereof, and if the Control Authority has demonstrated probable cause to believe that there may be a violation of these Regulations or that there is a need to inspect as part of a routine inspection program of the Control Authority designed to verify compliance with these Regulations or any Control Mechanism or order issued hereunder, or to protect the overall public health, safety and welfare of the community, the Control Authority may seek issuance of a search warrant from the appropriate court having jurisdiction.
[Ord. No. 1840, 12-15-2025]
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Users subject to the reporting requirements of these Regulations shall retain, and make available for inspection and copying, all records of information obtained pursuant to these Regulations;
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Records shall include any monitoring activities required and any additional records of information obtained pursuant to monitoring activities undertaken by the User;
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Records shall include documentation associated with Best Management Practices established under Article II, Section 710.280(A)(2);
D. 
The period that records shall be maintained and made available to the Control Authority is at least three (3) years;
E. 
The record requirement of three (3) years shall be automatically extended for the duration of any litigation concerning the User or the Control Authority or where the User has been specifically notified of a longer retention period by the Control Authority, State, or EPA;
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Records of analytical results shall include the date, exact place, method, and time of sampling, and the name of the person(s) taking the samples; the dates analyses were performed; who performed the analyses; the analytical techniques or methods used; and the results of such analyses.
[Ord. No. 1840, 12-15-2025]
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Information and data on a User obtained from reports, surveys, applications, Permits, other Control Mechanisms, and monitoring programs, and from the Control Authority's inspection and sampling activities, shall be available to the public without restriction, unless the User specifically requests, and is able to demonstrate to the satisfaction of the Control Authority, that the release of such information would divulge information, processes, or methods of production entitled to protection as trade secrets under applicable State law (see Missouri Sunshine Law Chapter 610, RSMo.; Section 644.026.1(21), (24), RSMo.; 10 SR 20-6.020(3)). Any such request must be asserted at the time of submission of the information or data [10 CSR 20-6.100(11)].
B. 
When requested and demonstrated by the User furnishing a report that such information should be held confidential, the portions of a report which might disclose trade secrets or secret processes shall not be made available for inspection by the public, but shall be made available immediately (i.e., without delay) 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. Wastewater constituents and characteristics and other effluent data, as defined at 40 CFR 2.302, shall not be recognized as confidential information and shall be available to the public without restriction [see Section 644.026.1(21), (24), RSMo.; 10 CSR 20-6.020(3)].