A. Fees for wastewater discharge permits, including the cost of processing the permit applications, public noticing, issuing and administering the permit, and reviewing monitoring reports submitted by users;

B. Fees for modifying or transferring permits;

C. Fees for monitoring, inspection, surveillance and enforcement procedures including the cost of collection and analyzing a user’s discharge;

D. Fees for reviewing and responding to accidental discharge procedures and construction;

E. Fees for preparing and executing enforcement action;

F. Fees for filing appeals;

G. Fees for high-strength waste and industrial process flow; and

H. Other fees as the city may deem necessary to carry out the requirements contained herein.

I. Permit Fees.

J. Permit transfer fee: five hundred dollars.

K. Permit modification fee: five hundred dollars. Permit modification fees will only be charged in a case where changes in the user’s operation require the modification, or when the user requests a modification.

L. Monitoring Fees. Fees for semi-annual inspections and semi-annual sampling events of categorical users and significant industrial users are set at five hundred fifty dollars per visit.

Any user establishing a pattern of noncompliance, or having a history of noncompliance, or suspected of being in noncompliance, may require additional monitoring visits as deemed appropriate by the director. Any additional inspections, sampling, surveillance monitoring activities, and analysis performed which detect noncompliance will be billed directly to the user.

M. Enforcement Actions. All expenses in preparing enforcement actions will be billed directly to the user.

N. High-Strength Waste Fees. Users having effluent concentrations of BOD and/or TSS in excess of two hundred fifty mg/L, and/or FOG concentrations in excess of fifty mg/L, may be billed a high-strength waste surcharge. Surcharge rates will be established by the director, and based on cost of conveyance and treatment in the POTW.

O. Industrial Flow Surcharge. An industrial flow surcharge will be billed to significant industrial users and categorical users (and may be billed to other users where deemed appropriate by the director) and based upon the amount of industrial waste flow. The surcharge rate is nineteen cents per one thousand gallons industrial waste flow. The director may establish new rates based upon the cost of administering the pretreatment program.

P. Cost Recovery. The city may recover any expenses incurred due to noncompliance by a user, including, but not limited to, costs of opening a plugged sewer, costs of repairing a damaged sewer, costs of determining the cause of an SSO or CSO, and costs of cleaning up and mitigating an SSO or CSO.

All fees or charges will be collected by direct billing. Unless the director has been made aware of extenuating circumstances that would prevent prompt payment, all fees are payable within thirty days of the billing. Fees past due will be considered a violation of this chapter. Users not paying fees within sixty days of the billing period will be subject to termination of service. The director may change existing or adopt new fees. (Ord. 3070-08 § 13.1, 2008.)