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Honeywell Groundwater Remediation Industrial Wastewater Discharge Permit page 31 of 39 III. Significant Non-Compliance (SNC) Utilizing the Enforcement Response Plan, Pretreatment Staff will initiate the appropriate response and see that the enforcement tracking files have been updated to show the type of action being taken and the response date. On a quarterly basis the Pretreatment Staff will be responsible for reviewing the compliance file of all Industrial Users for the previous six (6) months to determine significant non-compliance of any industrial user and on an annual basis, the names of all Industrial Users found in significant non-compliance will be published in the South Bend Tribune. A definition of significant non-compliance follows. Instances of Significant Non-Compliance (SNC) are Industrial User Violations which meet one or more of the following criteria: (a) Chronic violations of wastewater Discharge limits, defined here as those in which sixty-six (66) percent or more of all of the measurements taken for the same pollutant parameter during a six-month period exceed (by any magnitude) a numeric Pretreatment Standard or Requirement, including instantaneous limits, as defined by 40 CFR 403.3(l); (b) Technical Review Criteria (TRC) violations, defined here as those in which thirty- three (33) percent or more of all of the measurements taken for the same pollutant parameter during a six-month period equal or exceed the product of the numeric Pretreatment Standard or Requirement including instantaneous limits, multiplied by the applicable TRC (TRC = 1.4 for BOD, TSS, fats, oils and grease, and 1.2 for all other pollutants except pH); (c) Any other violation of a Pretreatment Standard or Requirement that the Director 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); (d) Any discharge of a pollutant that has caused imminent endangerment to human health, welfare, or to the environment, or has resulted in the POTW's exercise of its emergency authority to halt or prevent such a discharge; (e) Failure to meet, within ninety (90) days after the schedule date, a compliance schedule milestone contained in local control mechanism or enforcement order for starting construction, completing construction, or attaining final compliance; (f) Failure to provide, within thirty (30) days after the due date, required reports, such as baseline monitoring reports, ninety (90) day compliance reports, periodic compliance reports, and reports on compliance with compliance schedules;