Subject:
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Resolution for the updated Enforcement Response Plan for the Utilities Department Industrial Pretreatment Program.
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Recommended Action:
Recommended Action
Approval of a resolution for the updated Enforcement Response Plan (ERP) for the Utilities Department Industrial Pretreatment Program (UDIPP).
• Updates reflect current rules and regulations of Florida Administrative Code.
• ERP updates include laboratory procedures, documentation, forms, documents, and tracking tools used by Department.
• Update allows UDIPP greater flexibility with issuing enforcement and increased penalty schedule reflecting cost of doing business.
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Strategic Priorities:
Healthy and Safe Communities
2.2 Enhance community safety
Smart Service Delivery
4.3 Improve efficiency of service delivery through technology.
4.4 Pursue continuous improvement
Summary:
Summary
Adoption of the Resolution updates the ERP for the UDIPP. The updates reflect current rules and regulations of Florida Administrative Code. The updates also include laboratory procedures, documentation, forms, documents, and tracking tools used by Department. Furthermore, Update allows UDIPP greater flexibility with issuing enforcement and increased penalty schedule reflecting cost of doing business.
The Department will be better able to consider the good and bad faith efforts of compliance, historical and present, when selecting an appropriate enforcement action following a violation. Businesses that are good stewards to the County will benefit from the new language with slower escalation of enforcement. The ERP is necessary to remain in compliance with Utilities industrial pretreatment permit requirements.
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Background Information:
The Department has been required to administer an Industrial Pretreatment Program since the late 1980s. As a result, the Department has a good working relationship with its significant industrial users. Any potential fiscal impact of the updated ERP will only be felt by the County’s significant industrial users, of which there are around eighteen (18) to twenty (20) at any given time and are familiar with Department enforcement remedies.
Fiscal Impact:
N/A
Staff Member Responsible:
Jeremy Waugh, PE, Director of Utilities
Partners:
N/A
Attachments:
Resolution
ERP