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PART 1', ._ <br />Page No. 16 <br />Permit No. COG-850000 <br />A. NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS (continued) <br />d. The Division may approve an anticipated bypass, a8er considering adverse effects, if the Division determines that the bypass will <br />meet the conditions specified in paragraph a. above. <br />14. Reduction. Loss, or Failure of Treatment Facility <br />The pemtittee has the duty to halt or reduce any activity if necessary to maintain compliance with the effluent limitations of the permit. <br />Upon reduction, loss, or failure of the treatment facility, the pemtittee shall, to the extent necessary to maintain compliance with its <br />pemit, control production, control sotuces of wastewater, or all discharges, until the facility is restored or an alternative method of <br />treatment is provided. This provision also applies to power faihues, unless an alternative power source sufficient to operate the <br />wastewater control facilities is provided. <br />It shall not be a defense for a permittee in an enforcement action that it would be necessary to halt or reduce the permitted activity in <br />order to maintain compliance with the conditions of this pemtit. <br />B. RESPONSIBILITIES <br />1. Insnections and Rieht to Entry <br />The petmittee shall allow the Division and/or the authorized representative, upon the presentation of credentials: <br />a. To enter upon the perrnittee's premises where a regulated facility or activity is located or in which any records aze required to be kept <br />under the terms and conditions of this permit; <br />b. At reasonable times to have access to and copy any records required to be kept under the terms and conditions of this permit and to <br />inspect any monitoring equipment or monitoring method required in the permit; and <br />o. To enter upon the pemtittee's premises in a reasonable manner and at a reasonable time to inspect and/or investigate, any actual, <br />suspected, or potential source of water pollution, or to ascertain compliance or non compliance with the Colorado Water Quality <br />Control Act or any other applicable state or federal statute or regulation or any order promulgated by the Division. The investigation <br />may include, but is not limited to, the following: sampling of any discharge and/or process waters, the taking of photographs, <br />interviewing of any person having knowledge related to the dischazge permit or alleged violation, access to any and all facilities or <br />areas within the permittee's premises that may have any affect on the discharge, permit, or alleged violation. Such entry is also <br />authorized for inspecting and copying records required to be kept concerning any effluent sotuce. <br />d. The permittee shall provide access to the Division to sample the dischazge at a point afrer the final treatment process but before the <br />dischazge mixing with state waters upon presentation of proper credentials. <br />In the making of such inspections, investigations, and determinations, the Division, insofaz as practicable, may designate as its authorized <br />representatives any qualified personnel of the Deparhnent ofAgriculture. The Division may also request assistance from any other state <br />or local agency or institution. <br />2. Du[v to Provide Information <br />The petmittee shall famish to the Division, within a reasonable time, any information which the Division may request to determine <br />whether cause exists for modifying, revoking and reissuing, or terminating this pemtit, or to determine compliance with this permit. The <br />permittee shall also furnish to the Division, upon request, copies of records required to be kept by this permit. <br />3. Transfer of Ownershio or Control <br />a. Except as provided in paragraph b. of this section, a pemrit may be transferred by a perntittee only if the permit has been modified or <br />revoked and reissued as provided in Section 61.8(8) of the Colorado Discharge Permit System Regulations, [o identify the new <br />permittee and to incorporate such other requirements as may be necessary under the Federal ACt . <br />b. A permit maybe automatically transferred to a new pemrittee if: <br />i. The current permittee notifies the Division in writing 30 days in advance of the proposed transfer date; and <br />ii. The notice includes a written agreement between the existing and new pemtittee(s) containing a specific date for transfer of <br />permit responsibility, coverage and liability between them; and <br />