§ 82-342. Maintenance of records and reports.

All industrial users shall retain, preserve, and make available to the POTW for inspection and copying, records, including, without limitation, all books, documents, memoranda, reports, correspondence and similar materials, related to matters regulated by this division as provided by this section.

(1)

Any industrial user subject to the sampling, analysis, or reporting requirements of this division shall maintain copies of the reports and records pertaining to those reports. For all samples, the records shall include the date, exact place, method and time of sampling and the names of the person(s) taking the samples; the dates the analyses were performed; who performed the analyses; the analytical techniques and methods used; and the results of the analyses. The reports and records shall be retained by the user for at least three years. This retention period shall be extended during the course of any unresolved administrative action or litigation regarding the discharges of the user or the POTW, or if requested by the superintendent, the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, or the U.S. EPA.

(2)

All industrial users who have records regarding their generation, treatment, storage, or disposal of hazardous waste or solid waste shall maintain those records for at least three years and shall make them available to the city for inspection and copying, subject to the provisions of this division regarding confidential information. (The term "hazardous waste" and "solid waste" shall have the same definition as provided in the State Hazardous Waste Management Act, Part III of Act 451 of the Public Acts of Michigan of 1994, MCLA 324.11101 et seq., as amended, and the rules of promulgated under that act.)

(Ord. No. 346, § 2, 4-22-02)