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A. Financial records will be maintained by the City for the proper distribution of sewer environmental charge revenue.

B. Sewer environmental charge revenue will be utilized by the City for the purposes below:

1. Operations, maintenance, and replacement costs for advanced sewage treatment processes required to meet environmental regulations; these processes include biological nutrient removal (nitrification-denitrification), water reclamation, air stripping, air contaminant and odor control, granular activated carbon treatment, dichlorination, and other similar processes as deemed necessary by the Director;

2. Additional water quality programs required by a NPDES permit or AZPDES permit, and surface water quality standards such as the industrial pretreatment enforcement and monitoring program, customer education, and plant laboratory analysis and monitoring;

3. Debt service, direct capital costs, and in lieu of property tax payments incurred for advanced sewage treatment facilities required because of environmental regulations; such facilities are those listed in subsection (B)(1) of this section and other similar projects as deemed necessary by the Director as part of advanced sewage treatment facilities; and

4. Administrative allocation of functions that support direct advanced sewage treatment operations. Administrative functions include Department and division indirect costs, central service costs from other City departments, and computer billing implementation costs. (Ord. No. G-3585, § 1; Ord. No. G-6740, § 1, 2020)