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"(3) Discharges a process wastestream of five (5) percent or more of the of the average dry weather hydraulic or organic capacity in the City's wastewater treatment facility. "(4) Is found by the City, TCEQ, or the EPA to have significant impact, or the potential for, either singly or in combination with other contributing industries, on the wastewater treatment system, the quality of sludge, the system effluent quality or air emissions generated by the system. "(5) Upon finding that an industrial user meeting the criteria in paragraphs (2) through (4) above, has no reasonable potential for adversely affecting the POTW's operation or for violating any pretreatment standard or requirement, the City of Paris may at any time, on it own initiative or in response to a petition from the industrial user, and in accordance with 40 CFR 403.8(f)(6), determine that such industrial user is not a significant industrial user. "Significant noncompliance. An industrial user is in significant noncompliance with pretreatment standards as defined in 40 CFR 403.8(f)(2)(vii)(A-H) if found in violation of one or more of the following: "(1) Chronic violations of wastewater discharge limits, defined here as those in which sixty-six percent (66%) or more of all measurements taken during a six-month period exceed (by any magnitude) the daily maximum or the average limit for the same pollutant parameter; "(2) Technical Review Criteria (TRC) violations, defined here as those in which thirty-three percent (33%) or more of all measurements for each pollutant parameter taken during a six-month period equal or exceed the product of the daily maximum limit or average limit multiplied by the applicable TRC (TRC= 1.4 for fats, oil and grease, and 1.2 for all other pollutants except pH) NOTE: BOD and TSS controlled by surcharge and TRC is not applicable; "(3) Any other violation of a pretreatment effluent limit (daily maximum or longer-term average) that the City determines has caused, alone or in combination with other discharges, interference or pass-through including endangering the health of POTW personnel or the general public; "(4) Any discharge of a pollutant that has caused imminent endangerment to the public or the environment, or has resulted in the City's exercise of its emergency authority to halt or prevent such discharge; "(5) Failure to meet within ninety (90) days of the scheduled date, a compliance schedule milestone contained in a wastewater discharge permit or enforcement order for starting construction, completing 12