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--- e Noting that property owners have been given a sufficient opportunity to par- ticipate already, Mr. Boles said that they should not be asked further. Ms. Ehrman said that one of the goals of the revised parking program was to make it difficult for downtown employees to abuse the parking system by park- ing in the three-hour lots. She asked for an estimate of the number of em- ployees working downtown and the number of those who pay for monthly parking. Responding to a question from Ms. Bascom, Mr. Bowers said that downtown em- ployees are prohibited from parking in the three-hour free parking spaces; parking control officers monitor those spaces. However, staff estimates that there is a core of individuals who abuse the system. Mr. MacDonald asked for a report on how aggressive and effective the enforcement of abusers has been. (At 9:40, the council took a two-minute break.) IV. ORDINANCE CONCERNING INDUSTRIAL WASTE PRETREATMENT City Manager Mike Gleason introduced the topic. James Ollerenshaw, Public Works Wastewater Division, gave the staff presentation. He said that indus- trial pretreatment programs have their origin in the Clean Water Act of 1972. The four major objectives of the industrial pretreatment program are to pre- vent discharges to the sanitary sewer which will interfere with the biologi- cal treatment process, contaminate the resulting sewage sludge rendering it unsuitable for reuse, pass through the treatment plant into the Willamette e River and exceed water quality standards, and jeopardize the health and safe- ty of employees who work in and around the sewerage system. Mr. Ollerenshaw said that amendments and additions to the Eugene Code are necessary to bring the industrial pretreatment program regulations into agreement with the Metropolitan Wastewater Management Commission (MWMC) Model Pretreatment Ordinance, and into compliance with Federal regulations. The ordinance is identical to the MWMC Model Ordinance, which was recently ap- proved by MWMC following public hearings. An intergovernmental agreement requires the City to adopt, as a minimum, the standards in the MWMC Model Pretreatment Ordinance. Mr. Ollerenshaw said that the major ordinance changes include the following: I} a new section regarding permits and requirements for mobile waste haulers; 2} authorization of administrative penalties for permit non-compliance; 3} additions to the prohibited discharges list; 4) requirements for prior approval and reporting of hazardous waste discharges to the sewer system; 5) a revised list of local pollutant discharge limits; 6) changes to the crite- ria which resulted in an industry being publicly noticed in the newspaper for permit non-compliance; and 7) an increase in the minimum civil or criminal penalty from $500 to $1,000 per day. An emergency charge is present because of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) requirements for compliance and the need to reissue expired discharge permits to industrial users. e MINUTES--Eugene City Council July 8, 1991 Page 7