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Page 12 2 .5 City's Right of Revision Batesville, Arkansas reserves the right to establish, by ordinance or in wastewater discharge permits, more stringent standards or requirements on discharges to the POTW if deemed necessary to comply with the objectives presented in Section 1 . 1 of this ordinance or the general and specific prohibitions in Section 2 . 1 of this ordinance. 2 . 6 Special Agreement Batesville Utilities Commission reserves the right to enter into special agreements with industrial users setting out special terms under which they may discharge to the POTW. In no case will a special agreement waive compliance with a pretreatment standard or requirement. However, the industrial user may request a net gross adjustment to a categorical standard in accordance with 40 CFR 403 . 15 . They may also request a variance from the categorical pretreatment standard from EPA. Such a request will be approved only if the industrial user can prove that factors relating to its discharge are fundamentally different from the factors considered by EPA when establishing that pretreatment standard. An industrial user requesting a fundamentally different factor variance must comply with the procedural and substantive provisions in 40 CFR 403 . 13 . 2 . 7 Dilution No industrial user shall ever increase the use of process water, or in any way attempt to dilute a discharge, as a partial or complete substitute for adequate treatment to achieve compliance with a discharge limitation unless expressly authorized by an applicable pretreatment standard or requirement. The Batesville Utilities Commission may impose mass limitations on industrial users which are using dilution to meet applicable pretreatment standards or requirements, or in other cases when the imposition of mass limitations is appropriate. SECTION 3 - PRETREATMENT OF WASTEWATER 3 . 1 Pretreatment Facilities Industrial users shall provide necessary wastewater treatment as required to comply with this ordinance and shall achieve compliance with all categorical pretreatment standards, local limits and the prohibitions set out in Section 2 above within the time limitations specified by the EPA, the State, or the Batesville Utilities Commission, whichever is more stringent. Any facilities required to pretreat wastewater to a level acceptable to the Batesville Utilities Commission shall be provided, operated, and maintained at the industrial user's expense. Detailed plans showing the pretreatment facilities and operating procedures shall be submitted to the Batesville Utilities Commission for review, and shall be acceptable to the Batesville Utilities Commission before construction of the facility. The review of such plans and operating procedures will in no way relieve the industrial user from the responsibility of modifying the facility as necessary to produce a discharge acceptable to the Batesville Utilities Commission under the provisions of this ordinance.