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ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 43 OF DULUTH CITY CODE TO CONFORM TO REQUIREMENTS OF WLSSD I & I ORDINANCE AND TO DELETE REFERENCES TO THE CONSENT DECREE, AMENDING SECTIONS 43-11.1, 43-31, 43-33.1 AND 43-31.2 AND BY REPEALING SECTION 43-34 OF THE CODE.
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CITY PROPOSAL:
The city of Duluth does ordain:
Section 1. That Section 43-11.1 of the Duluth City Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
Sec. 43-11.1. Clean water surcharge.
(a) In order to protect the public health and the environment, the city, under order from the United States environmental protection agency and Minnesota pollution control agency must improve its wastewater collection system. Therefore, upon the effective date of this ordinance, the Duluth public utilities commission shall be authorized to create a clean water surcharge upon each customer and user. There is also created in the city accounting system a fund known as the clean water fund. Into the fund shall be deposited the following amounts:
(1) The amounts collected as the clean water surcharge under this Section;
(2) Any amount allocated to it by action of the city council or city administration;
(3) Any amounts received as penalties for violation of Chapter 43, Article IV;
(4) Any amount received as fees or surcharge under Section 43-33.4;
(5) Any amount received as the surcharge authorized by Section 43-12.1;
(6) Any interest earned by the fund;
(7) Any loans, loan payments or grants received by the city for the purpose of designing, constructing, repairing, maintaining, or replacing structures or facilities, including structures used for sanitary sewage overflow storage or for repayment of loans made pursuant to the private sewer service program established pursuant to Section 43-33.1(c)(2) below, for the purpose of attaining compliance with federal, or state, or local I&I standards, or any consent decree for that purpose which is binding on the city;
(b) The money in the clean water fund shall b...
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