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'2(" , u TUESDAY JANUARY 22, 1974 parties hereto expressly agree that the limitations may be extended or enlarged should the City, as the owner and operator of the sewage treatment plant, be required to upgrade the sewage treatment process or be hereafter ordered or compelled by higher authority to increase the quality of effluent discharged by its treatment plant into the waters of Smith River, and should the City apply and enforce the same limitations on the strength or quality of wastes permitted to be introduced into its sewer system within the corporate limits of the City. C. The City may accept at any point of delivery for transmission and treatment at its sewage treatment plant, certain industrial wastes, other than those materials specifically excluded in Paragraph A., hereinabove, with strength exceeding normal sewage. Such wastes shall not exceed an absolute maximum of 1,000 p.p.m. B.O.D. or 1,000 p.p.m. suspended solids. The Authority shall pay to the City an amount sufficient to cover the additional expense of handling such wastes, beyond the base rate cost for normal sewage, as provided in Sections IV and IX, infra. D. The Authority expressly covenants and agrees to adopt, maintain and enforce within the AREA hereinabove provided compulsory rules and regulations, no less regulatory or restrictive than ordinances effective within the City, regulating, limiting or prohibiting the introduction into the sewer distribution or collector lines in said AREA, of excluded or objectionable substances, matter or materials, either as to quality or quantity thereof. IV. EXISTING FACILITIES - CHARGES FOR SEWAGE TRANSMISSION AND TREATMENT SERVICE: The Authority agrees to pay the City the following charges for transmitting and treating all normal wastes of the kind, strength, B.O.D. and suspended solids content herein contemplated, delivered to the City by the Authority from the AREA, such wastes to be measured at each point of delivery to the City; no part of which charges shall constitute or create ownership or title by the Authority in the City's existing joint- use sewage treatment plant or sewerage system. However, such payments shall guarantee to the Authority its share and use of those existing joint-use facilities in perpetuity, so long as all other provisions as required under this contract are met. A. From the date of this contract and through the 30th day of June, 1974, the base rate of the monthly charge to the Authority by the City for transporting and treating normal wastes from said AREA shall be THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($300.00) per one million gallons of normal wastes accepted by the City for transmission and treatment. B. On the first day of July, 1974, and on July 1st each year thereafter, the base rate of monthly charges to the Authority, per one million gallons, for each succeeding l2-month period for accepting, transporting and treating normal wastes from said AREA shall be the amount of the total audited cost to the City, as hereinafter set out, for all sewage transmission and treatment on joint-use facilities for that fiscal year divided by total sewage flow in millions of gallons of all sewage or wastes into the City's sewage treatment plant during the same l2-month period, as recorded at said treatment plant. C. For the purpose of the foregoing determination of rate of charge and as may apply in other sections of this contract, the following definitions are to apply: Total Audited Cost: Actual cost of operation and maintenance of the City's sewage treatment and interceptor facilities, including the following items of general expense: personal services, stationery and office supplies, postage, telephone and