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City Service Director shall be a final administrative order and any discharger adversely affected by such decision may appeal to the common pleas court according to law. (d) Emergency Suspension of Service. The City may for good cause shown suspend the wastewater treatment service to a discharger when it appears to the City that an actual or threatened discharge presents or threatens an imminent or substantial danger to the health or welfare of persons, substantial danger to the environment, interference with the operation of the POTW, or violation of any pretreatment limits imposed by this chapter. Any discharger notified of the suspension of the City's wastewater treatment service shall within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the City, cease all discharges. In the event of failure of the discharger to comply voluntarily with the suspension order within the specified time, the City shall commence judicial proceedings immediately thereafter to compel the discharger's compliance with such order. The City shall reinstate the wastewater treatment service and terminate judicial proceedings pending proof by the discharger of the elimination of the noncomplying discharge or conditions creating the threat of imminent or substantial danger as set forth above. (e) Revocation of Treatment Services. The City may seek to terminate the wastewater treatment services to any discharger which fails to: factually report the wastewater constituents and characteristics of its discharge; report significant changes in wastewater constituents or characteristics; give reasonable access to the discharger's premises by representatives of the City for the purpose of inspection or monitoring; or comply with the conditions of this chapter, or any final judicial order entered with respect thereto. (Ord. 84-40. Passed 8-20-91.) (f) At least annually, the Service Director shall publish a list of all industrial users which at any time during the previous twelve months were in significant noncompliance with applicable pretreatment requirements. For the purpose of this provision, an industrial user is in significant noncompliance if its violations meet one or more of the following criteria: (1) Chronic violations of wastewater discharge limits, defined here as those in which sixty- six percent (66%) or more of all of the measurements taken during a six-month period exceed (by any magnitude) the daily maximum limit or the average limit for the same pollutant parameter; (2) Technical Review Criteria (TRC) violations, defined here as those in which thirty-three percent (33%) or more of all of the measurements for each pollutant parameter taken during a six-month period equal or exceed the product of the daily maximum limit or the average limit multiplied by the applicable TRC (TRC=1.4 for BOD, TSS, fats, oil and grease, and 1.2 for all other pollutants except pH), both Chronic and Technical review criteria are Applicable to any permitted monitoring points for a SIU and apply to instantaneous limits; (3) Any other violation of a pretreatment effluent limit (daily maximum or longer term average) that the Service Director determines has caused, alone or in combination with other discharges, interference or pass through (including endangering the health of POTW personnel or the general public); (4) Any discharge of a pollutant that has caused imminent endangerment of human health, welfare or to the environment or has resulted in the POTW's exercise of emergency authority to halt or prevent such a discharge; (5) Failure to meet, within ninety days after the schedule date, a compliance schedule milestone contained in a wastewater discharge permit or enforcement order for starting construction, completing construction or attaining final compliance;