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Regulatory Update: Pretreatment and User Charge Issues

Regulatory Update: Pretreatment and User Charge Issues Louis Kollias, Director of Monitoring and Research Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago Industrial Water, Waste & Sewage Group Chicago, Illinois Wednesday, November 18, 2009. TOPICS • Pretreatment Update

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Regulatory Update: Pretreatment and User Charge Issues

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  1. Regulatory Update: Pretreatment and User Charge Issues Louis Kollias, Director of Monitoring and Research Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago Industrial Water, Waste & Sewage Group Chicago, Illinois Wednesday, November 18, 2009

  2. TOPICS • Pretreatment Update • User Charge Update • District Title and Personnel Changes • Contact Information 2

  3. PRETREATMENT UPDATE • Compliance Performance • Noncompliance Enforcement Charges 3

  4. SIU COMPLIANCE PERFORMANCE Compliance Year 20042005200620072008 • SIUs 445 447 423 407 394 • Exemplary 246 244 253 267 283 • SNC 53 39 43 36 36 4

  5. SIGNIFICANT NONCOMPLIANCE TRENDS Compliance Year 20042005200620072008 • No. of companies 63 50 43 36 36 • Effluent limits 11 12 10 10 13 • Reporting 56 44 35 25 25 • Total violations 67 56 49 36 40 5

  6. NONCOMPLIANCE ENFORCEMENT (NCE) CHARGE • Reflect administrative cost and sampling charge incurred by the District for enforcement actions. • Change in OM&R cost impacts NCE charges. • 2010 NCE charges* – increased 5% from 2009 charges. Beginning January 1, 2010, the NCE charges are: Sampling Charge Administrative Charge Enforcement Level20092010*20092010* Notice of Noncompliance $770 $809 $912 $958 Cease and Desist Order (C&D) $1,778 $1,867 $912 $958 (Single-sample SNC) C&D (Chronic/Acute) or $4,500 $4,725 $912 $958 C&D (Recurring) Show Cause/Legal Action To be addressed in resolution of the enforcement action * Subject to Board Approval 6

  7. USER CHARGE UPDATE • User Charge Rates for 2010 • Appeals • User Charge Ordinance Amendments 7

  8. OPERATION, MAINTENANCE ANDREPLACEMENT (OM&R) COST 20082009 Total OM&R Cost $404,568,566 $425,444,642 OM&R Cost Recovered $ 242,729,000 $280,538,000 by User Charge 8

  9. WATER RECLAMATION PLANT LOADINGSFROM LARGE COMMERCIAL-INDUSTRIAL USERS 20072008 Volume (MG) 20,328 19,067 BOD (Klbs) 117,659 116,192 SS (Klbs) 40,041 35,574 9

  10. DETERMINATION OF TOTAL OM&R COST ADJUSTED FOR REVENUES FROM OTHER SOURCES AND FOR ADMINISTRATIVE COST For 2009 From For 2010 From % Revenue/Cost Item 2008 Budget2009 BudgetDifferenceChange Total OM&R Cost 404,568,566 $425,444,642 $20,876,076 5.2% Less: Net Assets Appropriable (105,741,361) (90,572,842) $15,168,519 -14.3% Revenue from Investments, Land Rentals, (22,175,500) (20,025,000) $2,150,500 -9.7% Sewer Permit Fees, Service Agreements and Electricity Generation Revenue from Personal Property Replacement Tax (26,002,200) (25,780,000) $222,200 -0.9% Revenue from Miscellaneous Sources of Administrative (1,624,000) (1,624,000) $0 0.0% Penalties but not Including Village of Glenview Payment Village of Glenview Payment (225,000) (225,000) $0 0.0% Subtotals of Revenues from Other Sources (155,768,061) (138,226,842) $17,541,219 -11.3% Administrative Costs to be Recovered through (6,071,457) (6,679,716) ($608,259) 10.0% Charges Under the UCS Revenues from Other Sources & Administrative Costs (161,839,518) (144,906,558) $16,932,960 -10.5% Adjusted Total OM&R Cost 242,729,048 280,538,084 $37,809,036 15.6% Rounded Off Figure 242,729,000 280,538,000 $37,809,000 15.6% 10

  11. USER CHARGE RATESLarge Commercial-Industrial User Classification Percent 20092010 Change Flow $ 229.37 per $ 262.44 per +14.42 million gallons million gallons BOD $ 231.90 per $ 270.68 per +16.72 thousand thousand pounds of BOD pounds of BOD SS $ 174.25 per $ 200.33 per +14.97 thousand thousand pounds of SS pounds of SS OM&RC 0.504 0.557 +10.45 11

  12. USER CHARGE RATESTax Exempt Classification Percent 20092010Change Flow $ 235.96 per $ 269.25per +14.11 million gallons million gallons BOD $ 238.56 per $ 277.70 per +16.72 thousand thousand pounds of BOD pounds of BOD SS $ 179.25 per $ 205.53 per +14.66 thousand thousand pounds of SS pounds of SS 12

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  15. NUMBER OF APPEALS REQUESTED PER YEAR YearDirector AppealsBoard Appeals 2002 39 6 2003 23 2 2004 20 1 2005 26 1 2006 7 1 2007 21 2 2008 9 1 2009* 21 0 *Through November 16, 2009 15

  16. Other User Charge Ordinance Amendments • Clarification of MWRD titles as Executive Director, Director of Monitoring and Research and Supervisor of User Charge and Technical Services • Authority for MWRD to assign UCO Reporting Options under Sections 7f, 7g and 7h where appropriate • Authority for MWRD to estimate NUC owed and initiate collection immediately if facility closes mid-year • Define various water losses as “Deductible Quantities” • Increase MWRD response time to reseal meters after notification from two days to five days • Clarification of technical proposal acceptance vs. methodology approval and effective reporting year • Revised ACR Rates (MPR, UCV) equate to a 5% increase • Clarification of MPR charge for discharge verification as per sample pointlisted in the Discharge Authorization 16

  17. Coming Soon to www.mwrd.org… • Revised RD-925 and RD-920 .PDF Forms (Nov ’09) • User Charge Ordinance as Amended November 5, 2009 (Jan ’10) • Fillable Self-Monitoring Report Forms: RD-920, RD-925, RD-112, RD-114 and RD115 (Jan ’10) • Direct Discharge flow meter malfunction/replacement reporting forms– faster acknowledgement, on-site verification and approval to use temporary Direct Discharge flow meters, with confirmation (Jan ’10) • Electronic submittal of Self-Monitoring Reports (pending USEPA CROMERR approval and software validation– late 2010) 17

  18. Key Personnel • Louis Kollias, P.E., BCEE, • Director • Monitoring and Research Department •   • Thomas Granato, Ph. D. • Deputy Director • Monitoring and Research Department • Industrial Waste Division/Administration • Industrial Waste Division • Enforcement Section - Mathew Joseph, P.E. • User Charge and Technical Services Section - Patricia Kalinowski • Field Services Section, North Area - Gregory Yarnik • Field Services Section, South Area - Robert Renaud 18

  19. CONTACT INFORMATION • Enforcement/Pretreatment Questions (312) 751-3044 • User Charge Questions (312) 751-3000 • Website www.mwrd.org 19

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