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(3) Within thirty days from the date of the hearing, the City Service Director shall render his decision in writing, supported by conclusions of fact supporting his decision, to all parties. The City Service Director may order any appropriate relief including dismissal of the City Engineer's citation or termination of wastewater treatment services to the discharger. The decision of the 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 or authorized representative 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