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flow measurement of each sewer discharge to the City. Each monitoring facility shall be situated on the discharger's premises. Except where such a location would be impractical or cause undue hardship on the discharger, the City may concur with the facility being constructed in the public street or sidewalk area providing the facility is located so it will not be obstructed by landscaping or parked vehicles. There shall be ample room in or near such sampling facility to allow accurate sampling and preparation of samples for analysis. The facility, sampling and measuring equipment shall be maintained at all times in a safe and proper operating condition at the expense of the discharger. All monitoring facilities shall be constructed and maintained in accordance with all applicable local construction standards and specifications. Construction shall be completed within 120 days of receipt of written notice from the City directing the discharger to construct the facilities. All sanitary sewers requiring monitoring shall have an inspection and sampling manhole or structure with an opening of no less than twenty-four inches diameter and an internal diameter of no less than forty-eight inches containing such flow measuring, recording, and sampling equipment as may be required by the City to ensure compliance with the Codified Ordinances. Such structure may be utilized by the discharger for his monitoring program if approved by the City. D. Inspection and sampling. The City may inspect the monitoring facilities of any discharger to determine compliance with the requirements of the Codified Ordinances. The discharger shall allow the City or its representatives to enter upon the premises of the discharger at all reasonable hours, for the purposes of inspection, sampling, observation, measurement, testing, records examination or in the performance of any of their duties. The City shall have the right to set up on the discharger's property necessary devices to conduct sampling, inspection, compliance monitoring, metering operations or all of these. The City shall have the right to copy the discharger's records relevant to determining compliance with the requirements of the Codified Ordinances. Results of sampling, inspection, monitoring and metering done by the City will be available to the discharger. If a violation occurs where the control authority has performed the sampling and analysis in lieu of the industrial user, the control authority shall perform the repeat sampling and analysis unless it notifies the user of the violation and requires the user to perform the repeat analysis. If the control authority does the sampling, they shall perform the repeat sampling within 30 days of violation unless notifying the user and require user to perform the repeat sampling and analysis. E. Confidential information. Information and data furnished to the City with respect to the nature and frequency of discharge shall be available to the public or other government agency without restriction unless the discharger specifically requests and is able to demonstrate to the satisfaction of the City that the release of such information would divulge information, processes or methods of production entitled to protection as trade secrets or proprietary information of the discharger. When requested by a discharger furnishing a report, the portions of a report which may disclose trade secrets or secret processes shall not be made available for inspection by the public but shall be made available upon written request to governmental agencies for use related to this chapter, the national pollutant discharge elimination system (NPDES) permit, State disposal system permit, the pretreatment programs or all of these, provided however, that such portions of a report shall be available for use by the State or any State agency in judicial review or enforcement proceedings involving the discharger furnishing the report. Wastewater constituents and characteristics will not be recognized as confidential