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~3} Standards. The amount or rate of any charge for sanitary sewer service, storm sewer service or regional sanitary sewage treatment shat] be based on the following: ~a} The amount charged for such service in the past; fib} The recommendation, if any, of the Metropolitan Waste- water Management Commission, or any successor agency; ~c} Applicable federal or state regulations or conditions imposed as part of a federal or state grant or financial assist- ance agreement; ~d} The amounts charged or proposed to be charged by the city of Springfield and other providers of storm or sanitary sewer services for comparable services; fie} The revenue needed to pay for the direct and indirect expected casts of constructing, operating, maintaining, and re- placing local and regional sewerage facilities based on the adopted budgets of the city of Eugene and the Metropolitan Wastewater Man- agement Commission or its successor, the debt obligations of the city or other entities for construction of the facilities, adopted capital improvement plans of the council, and the expected need far financial reserves and contingencies; ~f} other relevant adopted policies of the council; fig} The terms of any applicable intergovernmental agreement relating to sewer services or regional wastewater treatment; and ~h} The obtaining of equity between different classes of ratepayers so that one class of ratepayer does not pay more than Tts propart~onate share of the expenses of operating the facilities. ~4} Limitations. The following limitations apply to charges set by the city manager for sanitary sewer service, storm sewer service and regional wastewater treatment service; ~a} Charges shall be imposed on a monthly basis. Each custo- mer shall be notified, in at least one annual billing for the ser- vice, of the rate or the amount of the charge and the allocation of revenue expected from application of the charge. . ,fib}. The charges far regional sanitary sewage treatment shall distinguish between the following classes of users: single dwe11- ~ng units, dwelling units within a duplex, and general customer use based on law, medium, and high or industrial loading strengths and may impose a surcharge on high strength industrial users based on biochemical oxygen demand and suspended solids concentrations in excess of domestic strength leve] s, ~c} The charges for local sanitary sewer service may, but need not, dist~ngu~sh between classes of customers. . ~d} The monthly charge for sanitary sewer service and regional sanitary sewage treatment shall be a fixed fee together with a fee based on volume of use of water partial flow-based rate}. fie} The charges for storm sewer service shall be a fixed charge far single family dwelling units and each dwelling unit within a.duplex. Dther storm sewer users shall pay a charge based on the size of their water meter, ~f} When the sanitary sewer rate is based on volume, the volume shat 1 be calculated by actual measurement of the sewage di s- charged the costs of measurement to be borne by the user} or by an estimate based on the sanitary sewer user's average monthly water Ordinance - 4