The purpose of this article is to impose an
industrial cost recovery charge, as hereinafter defined, on all industrial
users of the Joint Meeting system and to provide for the collection
of said charges.
The Joint Meeting, at its option, may require
an industry to install metering and monitoring facilities at the expense
of the industry involved for the purpose of obtaining representative
samples of an industry's wastewater contribution to the Joint Meeting
system.
Industries whose sole flow consists of the discharge
from sanitary conveniences are exempt from industrial cost recovery
charges upon satisfactorily demonstrating to the Joint Meeting that
they qualify as a non-process dry industry.
New industrial users which commence operations
after the start of the industrial cost recovery system shall also
be subject to industrial cost recovery charges, reduced by the ratio
of the capacity used, multiplied by the ratio of its period of use
remaining, to the total cost recovery period of 30 years.
Discontinuance by an industry of its use of
the treatment works shall relieve said industry of further industrial
cost recovery charges, unless use thereof is thereafter resumed. The
remaining industries shall not be required to assume the portion of
the industrial cost recovery charge unrecovered due to said discontinuance.
Appeal from the industrial cost recovery charge
involving the reasonableness of the allocations and cost recovery
assessments shall be made in writing by an industry affected, by notice
to the Executive Director of the Joint Meeting, by sending said notice
by certified mail, return receipt requested. The Joint Meeting shall
give said industry notice of a hearing on said appeal at least 10
days before the date thereof. The Joint Meeting shall determine said
appeal within 90 days after the date of said hearing. Notice of said
determination shall be forwarded to said industry by certified mail,
return receipt requested.
In the event that the sewage collection system
or the treatment works of the Joint Meeting are expanded in the future,
the respective industrial users' share for such expansion shall be
subject to a cost recovery charge for the cost of said expansion,
to be calculated both as herein provided and as provided in the Water
Pollution Act of 1972. The total industrial cost recovery charge shall
thereupon be adjusted for each industrial user.
For the purpose of enforcing the provisions
of this article and the rules and regulations of the Joint Meeting
relating thereto, the Joint Meeting operating said public sewage treatment
plant shall:
A. Require that any person, corporation or municipality
desiring to make any sewage connection or discharge or continue to
discharge sewage which includes or consists of industrial wastes into
such public sewage treatment plant make application therefor in writing
on forms provided by said Joint Meeting.
B. Adopt rules and regulations setting forth the information
required to be stated in the application therefor, in order to provide
full information as to the quantity, character and composition of
any sewage which may be discharged into the public sewage treatment
plant, and establishing requirements and procedures for prompt amendment
of said application in the event of significant changes in the quantity,
character or composition of such sewage.
C. Make or cause to be made inspection of the discharging
facilities of any person, corporation or municipality who may be discharging
sewage or permitting sewage to be discharged into sewerage systems
under the jurisdiction of the Joint Meeting.