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monitoring facility. 6.2 Authority to Inspect and Sample (a) WSACC will inspect the facilities of any uses` to ascertain if the user is complying with all requirements of this ordinance, the Act, other applicable law regulating the discharge of wastewater into the POTW, a compliance agreement to which the user is a party and which is authorized by this ordinance, any order issued to the user - pursuant to this ordinance and any permit issued to the user pursuant to this ordinance. (b) Any person who owns, occupies or otherwise controls any premises where wastewater is created or discharged shall provide WSACC, Approval Authority and EPA or their representative ready access at all reasonable times to all parts of the premises for the purposes of inspection, sampling, records examination and copying or in the performance of any of their duties. WSACC, Approval Authority and EPA shall have the right to set up on the user's premises such devices as are reasonably necessary to conduct sampling, inspection, compliance monitoring and/or metering operations. If a user has security measures in force which would require identification and clearance before entry into the user's premises, the user shall make necessary arrangements with their security personnel so that upon presentation of identification (Identification being defined as the piece(s) of identification supplied by WSACC, Approval Authority or EPA to their respective, authorized representatives) authorized representatives fi WSACC, Approval Authority and EPA will be permitted to enter, without delay, for [lie purposes of performing their specific responsibilities. Denial of access to WSACC, Approval Authority or EPA to the users premises shall be a violation of this ordinance. Denial of access may also occur if a user fails to provide without delay such facilities, equipment, or devices as are reasonably necessary to permit authorized representatives of WSACC, approval authority and EPA to perform their duties in a safe manner. Unreasonable delays may constitute denial of access. A WSACC representative may enter upon the property at any hour under emergency circumstances. (c) The time of access to a user's premsses will be reasonable if, at the time ready access is requested, the user's facility at the premises is in operation or wastewater is being discharged from the user's premises into the POTW. At such time as the user's facilities at the premises is in operation or wastewater is being discharged from the user's premises into the POTW, the user shall have at least one person present at the premises who is readily available and is authorized to permit immediate access to the user's premises to WSACC, the Approval Authority, and the EPA. (d) At all times WSACC shall retain the authority to inspect the user and to sample and analyze the discharge of wastewater into the POTW for airy purpose. 6.3 Search Warrants If the WSACC Executive Dire , Approval Authority, or EPA has been refused access to a building, structure, or property, or any part thereof, and is able to demonstrate probable cause to believe that there may be a violation of this ordinance, or that there is a need to inspect and/or sample as part of a routine inspection and sampling program of WSACC designed to verify compliance with this ordinance or any permit or order issued hereunder, or to protect the overall public health, safety and welfare of the community, then the WSACC, Approval Authority, or EPA may seek issuance of a search warrant from the Superior Court of Cabarrus County. SECTION 7 - CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION (a) To the extent permitted by applicable law and except as otherwise provided herein, information and data on a user obtained from reports, questionnaires, permit applications, permits and monitoring programs and from inspections shall be available to the public or other governmental agencies without restriction unless the user 44 Attachment number 7 H -3 Page 299