Applicability of Categorical Pretreatment Standards to Industrial Users of Non-Discharging POTWs Guidance clarifying that industrial users discharging to POTWs that do not discharge are still subject to national categorical pretreatment standards.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
06/27/1985
Applicability of Categorical Pretreatment Standards to Research and Development (R&D) Facilities Letter on EPA's determination that stand alone R&D facilities are not subject to the categorical standards currently promulgated.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
06/26/1987
Applicability of Effluent Guidelines and Categorical Pretreatment Standards to Biodiesel Manufacturing Memorandum to Water Division Directors summarizing the current Clean Water Act regulatory requirements, with regard to effluent limitations guidelines, new source performance standards, pretreatment standards, and/or NPDES stormwater permitting, for the manufacturing process wastewater discharge from biodiesel industry.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
08/11/2008
Application and Use of the Regulatory Definition of Significant Noncompliance for Industrial Users Memorandum to Regional Water Management Division Directors and Approved Pretreatment State Coordinators regarding the application of the significant noncompliance (SNC) definition.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
09/09/1991
Application of RCRA Corrective Action Requirements to POTWs This memorandum outlines the applicability of RCRA to POTWs and contains a model letter, to be sent to POTWs, requiring them to notify EPA whether RCRA "hazardous waste" is received by the POTW.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
09/11/1986
Article by the Texas Water Commission on Slug Discharge Control Plans Letter with enclosed article on slug discharges submitted for Pretreatment Bulletin
Document Type:
Technical and Issue Papers
Date Published:
04/18/1995
Availability of State and Regional Toxics Control Strategies Index of state and regional toxics control strategies.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
02/22/1988
Baseline Monitoring Report Requirements for Pesticide Formulating, Packaging and Repackaging Facilities Guidance on how to prepare a baseline monitoring report required of industrial users of sewer systems when the industry opts to use the pollution prevention option of the pesticide national categorical pretreatment standards.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
04/03/1997
Baseline Monitoring Reports Draft guidance to permit authorities on how to review baseline monitoring reports submitted by local pretreatment authorities.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
07/21/1983
Best Management Practices (BMPs) in NPDES Permits-Informational Memorandum Summary of information and sample permit language for including best management practices in NPDES permits.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
08/19/1988
Checklist: Pretreatment Program Legal Authority Reviews This is a checklist to assist POTW program control authorities who are developing or modifying their local legal authorities. State and EPA Approval Authorities may use this checklist in reviewing POTW legal authorities and may also be used in conjunction with the EPA Model Pretreatment Ordinance. The MS Word version has been provided so a municipality may tailor the checklist to fit its own program (EPA 833-B-07-001).
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
02/01/2007
Clarification of Sampling Procedures for the VOA Fraction The Permits Division has received several inquiries about sampling procedures when data on volatile organic (VOA) toxic pollutants are required.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
07/31/1985
Clarifications Regarding Certain Aspects of EPA's Surface Water Toxics Control Regulations Clarifications of EPA regulations relating to s.304(1) and water quality-based effluent limitations.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
08/14/1992
Clarifications Regarding Toxicity Reduction and Identification Evaluations in the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Program EPA document developed by the Office of Wastewater Management/Water Permits Division to provide additional clarification on conducting toxicity reduction evaluations and toxicity identification evaluations with respect to whole effluent toxicity (WET) testing. The document clarifies for National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit writers and permittees a number of common issues such as: when and under what circumstances a permittee should conduct a TRE and/or a TIE; technical limitations on the TIE process; consideration of persistence and magnitude of toxicity events; ionic imbalances of effluents; the applicability of compliance schedules; and inconclusive TREs/TIEs. The document supplements existing EPA guidance and policies on WET and TREs/TIEs but does not change current policy or legal authority.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
03/27/2001
Control Authority Pretreatment Audit Checklist and Instructions Guidance on pretreatment program elements that should be investigated during a pretreatment audit. Instructions on conducting an audit to assess the Control Authority's program as a whole.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
05/01/1992
Control of Slug Loadings to POTWs: Guidance Manual Guidance on measures to prevent slug loadings from indirect users of sewer systems from impairing treatment by POTWs. [see also Sept. 88]
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
02/01/1991
Coordination Between Regional Enforcement and Water Programs Personnel in Implementing the National Pretreatment Program Outlines the roles of permits and enforcement, and construction grants programs, in supporting the development of local POTW pretreatment programs.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
11/29/1978
Deletions of Local Pretreatment Program Development Requirements Memo regarding decrease in number of POTWs in early stages of pretreatment program. Summary of the regulatory criteria for requiring establishment of a local pretreatment program and the circumstances in which such a requirement may be dropped. [Note: Memorandum supersedes guidance from April 1, 1985.]
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
08/05/1985
Determining Industrial User Significant Noncompliance - One Page Summary Memorandum to Regional Pretreatment Coordinators regarding the application of the significant noncompliance (SNC) definition.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
01/17/1992
Electroplating and Metal Finishing PSES: Baseline Monitoring Reports and Compliance Dates Answers to several questions related to Baseline Monitoring Reports and Compliance Dates, for Electroplating and Metal Finishing industrial users.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
08/19/1983
Environmental Regulations and Technology: The National Pretreatment Program This document explains the need for the National Pretreatment Program; describes federal, state, and local roles in the program's implementation; and explores the program's future.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
07/01/1986
EPA Model Pretreatment Ordinance Guidance on municipal ordinances to implement and enforce a pretreatment program consistent with the Clean Water Act requirements. This document supercedes the June 1992 document of the same name. The Model Ordinance is available in 2 formats; the MS Word version contains line numbers and the Adobe Acrobat version does not. A municipality should not adopt this model ordinance verbatim. The MS Word version has been provided so a municipality may tailor the Model Ordinance to fit its own program. The line numbers are included to facilitate cross-referencing throughout the document and can be removed; instructions are enclosed in the introduction (EPA 833-B-06-002).
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
01/01/2007
EPA OWM Pretreatment Bulletin #01 September 1985 Bulletin/newsletter for OWM topics
Document Type:
Factsheets and Outreach Materials
Date Published:
09/03/1985
EPA OWM Pretreatment Bulletin #02 March 1987 Bulletin/newsletter for OWM topics
Document Type:
Factsheets and Outreach Materials
Date Published:
03/06/1987
EPA OWM Pretreatment Bulletin #03 November 1987 Bulletin/newsletter for OWM topics
Document Type:
Factsheets and Outreach Materials
Date Published:
11/06/1987
EPA OWM Pretreatment Bulletin #04 July 1988 Bulletin/newsletter for OWM topics
Document Type:
Factsheets and Outreach Materials
Date Published:
07/01/1988
EPA OWM Pretreatment Bulletin #05 July 1988 Bulletin/newsletter for OWM topics
Document Type:
Factsheets and Outreach Materials
Date Published:
01/01/1989
EPA OWM Pretreatment Bulletin #06 June 1989 Bulletin/newsletter for OWM topics
Document Type:
Factsheets and Outreach Materials
Date Published:
06/01/1989
EPA OWM Pretreatment Bulletin #07 January 1990 Bulletin/newsletter for OWM topics
Document Type:
Factsheets and Outreach Materials
Date Published:
01/01/1990
EPA OWM Pretreatment Bulletin #08 September 1990 Bulletin/newsletter for OWM topics
Document Type:
Factsheets and Outreach Materials
Date Published:
09/01/1990
EPA OWM Pretreatment Bulletin #09 January 1991 Bulletin/newsletter for OWM topics
Document Type:
Factsheets and Outreach Materials
Date Published:
01/01/1991
EPA OWM Pretreatment Bulletin #10 October 1991 Bulletin/newsletter for OWM topics
Document Type:
Factsheets and Outreach Materials
Date Published:
10/01/1991
EPA OWM Pretreatment Bulletin #11 September 1992 Bulletin/newsletter for OWM topics
Document Type:
Factsheets and Outreach Materials
Date Published:
09/01/1992
EPA OWM Pretreatment Bulletin #12 January 1993 Bulletin/newsletter for OWM topics
Document Type:
Factsheets and Outreach Materials
Date Published:
01/01/1993
EPA OWM Pretreatment Bulletin #13 October 1993 Bulletin/newsletter for OWM topics
Document Type:
Factsheets and Outreach Materials
Date Published:
10/01/1993
EPA Procedures for Review and Approval of State Pretreatment Program Submissions Memo regarding EPA approval of state pretreatment program plans.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
04/30/1979
EPA's National Pretreatment Program, 1973-2003: Thirty Years of Protecting the Environment Four-page brochure highlighting 30 years of progress to reduce or eliminate discharges of pollutants to US waters and to POTWs, via the Pretreatment Program (833-F-03-001).
Document Type:
Factsheets and Outreach Materials
Date Published:
09/01/2003
Example Language for Modifying NPDES Permits for Pretreatment Approval Guidance to permit authorities on what language to include in NPDES permits to require a POTW to administer a pretreatment program.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
09/22/1983
Final Local Limits Development Guidance This is the final technically-based local limits guidance manual for municipalities that operate pretreatment programs. This manual provides guidance to municipalities on the development and implementation of local controls for discharges of industrial or commercial wastes to sewage treatment facilities. This manual provides technical assistance and guidance on:
Determining pollutants of concern
Collecting and analyzing data
Calculating maximum allowable loadings
Designating and implementing local limits to protect wastewater treatment and collection systems
Performing annual reviews and periodic re-evaluations
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
07/01/2004
FY 1990 Guidance for Reporting and Evaluating POTW Noncompliance with Pretreatment Implementation Requirements Defines criteria for determining which POTWs should be reported on the Quarterly Noncompliance Report (QNCR) for failure to implement pretreatment requirements and criteria for determining which pretreatment violations by POTWs meet the level of significant noncompliance (SNC). This guidance also establishes timely and appropriate criteria for responding to noncompliance for pretreatment implementation violations.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
09/27/1989
Guidance for Developing Control Authority Enforcement Response Plans This manual provides guidance to Control Authority personnel in developing an enforcement response plan to remedy violations of a local pretreatment program.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
09/01/1989
Guidance for Implementing RCRA Permit-by-Rule Requirements at POTWs Assistance for water management division directors in issuing RCRA permits by rule and in implementing RCRA corrective action requirements at POTWs.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
07/21/1987
Guidance for Reporting and Evaluating POTW Noncompliance With Pretreatment Requirements Reportable noncompliance for POTW pretreatment programs establishes criteria to evaluate adequate implementation.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
09/30/1987
Guidance Manual for Battery Manufacturing Pretreatment Standards Guidance to battery manufacturers on how to comply with national pretreatment requirements
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
08/01/1987
Guidance Manual for Conducting RCRA Facility Assessments at Publicly Owned Treatment Works Guidance to EPA regions and states on how to conduct a RCRA facility assessment at POTWs that receive hazardous waste by truck, rail, or dedicated pipe.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
09/01/1987
Guidance Manual for Electroplating and Metal Finishing Pretreatment Standards Guidance to electroplating and metal finishing manufacturers on how to comply with national pretreatment requirements.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
02/01/1984
Guidance Manual for Implementing Total Toxic Organics (TTO) Pretreatment Standards Guidance manual for electroplaters on how to implement the total toxic organics categorical pretreatment standard.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
09/01/1985
Guidance Manual for Iron and Steel Manufacturing Pretreatment Standards Guidance to iron and steel manufacturers on how to comply with national pretreatment requirements.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
09/01/1985
Guidance Manual for Leather Tanning and Finishing Pretreatment Standards Guidance to leather tanners and finishers on how to comply with national pretreatment requirements. Table of contents only.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
09/01/1986
Guidance Manual for POTW Pretreatment Program Development Guidance to POTWs for developing an approvable pretreatment program. Guidance delineates what data and information the POTW must submit to EPA or the authorized state program.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
10/01/1983
Guidance Manual for Preparation and Review of Removal Credit Applications Explanation of final removal credits rule for POTWs in preparation of acceptable removal credits application. Table of Contents Only
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
07/01/1985
Guidance Manual for Preventing Interference at POTWs Aids POTWs in identifying interference episodes caused by discharges, tracking, and mitigating of non-domestic wastes.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
09/01/1987
Guidance Manual for Pulp, Paper and Paperboard and Builders' Paper and Board Mills Pretreatment Standards Guidance to pulp, paper, and paperboard manufacturers on how to comply with national pretreatment requirements.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
07/01/1984
Guidance Manual for the Control of Wastes Hauled to Publicly Owned Treatment Works This guidance is designed to provide information for smaller POTWs, generally those without pretreatment programs, on how to develop and implement hauled waste controls. The guidance discusses collection of information on waste haulers, characterization of hauled waste received, evaluation of potential impacts, and the development and implementation of controls. The guidance also includes case studies of successful waste hauler programs and example forms.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
09/01/1999
Guidance Manual for the Identification of Hazardous Waste Delivered to POTWs by Truck, Rail or Dedicated Pipeline Guidance to EPA regions and states on how to identify POTWs that receive hazardous wastes by truck, rail, or dedicated pipe, and what requirements to impose on those POTWs.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
06/01/1987
Guidance Manual for the Use of Production-Based Pretreatment Standards and the Combined Wastestream Formula How to implement categorical standards and the combined wastestream formula of the national pretreatment program (EPA 833-B-85-201).
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
09/19/1985
Guidance Manual on the Development and Implementation of Local Discharge Limitations Under the Pretreatment Program Comprehensive technical guidance for publicly owned treatment works on the development and implementation of sound local limits.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
12/01/1987
Guidance Manual: Aluminum, Copper, and Nonferrous Metals Forms and Metal Powders Pretreatment Standards This manual provides guidance to POTWs on the implementation and enforcement of the categorical pretreatment standards for the aluminum forming, copper forming, nonferrous metals forming, and metal powders category (EPA-800-B8-9001).
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
12/01/1989
Guidance on Bringing Enforcement Actions Against POTWs for Failure to Implement Pretreatment Programs Guidance on legal and policy considerations involved in deciding whether and how EPA shall pursue enforcement actions against POTWs that have failed to adequately implement their pretreatment programs.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
08/04/1988
Guidance on Preparing Compliance Schedules for Developing POTW Pretreatment Programs Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
11/29/1978
Guidance on the Applicability of Categorical Pretreatment Standards and Industrial User (IU) versus Significant Industrial User (SIU) Guidance concerning the applicability of categorical pretreatment standards and when an industrial user (IU) may be deemed a significant industrial user (SIU) as defined by 40 CFR Part 403.3(t).
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
04/16/1993
Guidance To Protect POTW Workers From Toxic And Reactive Gases And Vapors EPA issued regulations that require POTWs to identify and control potential exposures to substances in industrial wastewater (EPA 812-B-92-001).
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
06/01/1992
Guidance to States on Assessing Existing Abilities to Implement a State Pretreatment Program and Preparing October 10, 1978, Submission to EPA Guidance to states for developing evaluation of their abilities to implement a state pretreatment program.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
09/08/1978
Guides to Pollution Prevention: Municipal Pretreatment Programs This guide provides an overview of pollution prevention concepts, presents a way to identify and prioritize industries as candidates for pollution prevention, and outlines a broadly applicable approach to integrating pollution prevention concepts into existing pretreatment programs (EPA 625-R-93-O06).
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
10/01/1993
Implementation of Organic Chemicals, Plastics and Synthetic Fibers Pretreatment Standards Memo to provide additional guidance on the implementation of organic chemicals, plastics and synthetic fibers pretreatment standards.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
08/08/1988
Implementation of the Organic Chemical Pretreatment Standards Memo on the implementation of the organic chemical pretreatment standards for the Organic Chemicals, Plastics, and Synthetic Fibers (OCPSF) Industry (52 FR 42522).
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
12/30/1987
Incorporation of Pretreatment Program Compliance Schedules Into POTW's Permits Re-emphasizes the importance of incorporating pretreatment compliance schedules into appropriate permits at the earliest possible time.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
06/05/1980
Incorporation of Pretreatment Program Development Compliance Schedules Into POTW NPDES Permits Re-emphasizes the importance of incorporating pretreatment compliance schedules into appropriate permits at the earliest possible time.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
01/28/1980
Industrial User Inspection and Sampling Manual for POTW's This manual is intended to acquaint POTW personnel with the well-established inspection and wastewater sampling procedures which have been used in the NPDES program for many years. The information presented will guide the POTW inspector by providing a framework for conducting inspections and wastewater sampling.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
04/01/1994
Industrial User Permitting Guidance Manual Guidance for POTWs on the development and issuance of effective permits to industrial users of their sewer systems.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
09/01/1989
Introduction to the National Pretreatment Program Local pretreatment programs enforce national pretreatment standards and requirements in addition to any more stringent requirements necessary to protect POTWs.
Document Type:
Factsheets and Outreach Materials
Date Published:
02/01/1999
Letter from EPA to Mary Jo M. Aiello, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and Energy: Applicability of pH Waivers to Pretreatment Standards Letter addressing how waivers to pH requirements might be approvable under the pretreatment program.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
05/13/1993
Letter to Joseph M. Polito from James R. Elder, Director of the Office of Water Enforcement and Permits: Applicability of Combined Wastestream Formula for Commercial Waste Treatment Facilities Letter clarifies the applicability of the combined wastestream formula (CWF) in establishing effluent limits for commercial waste treatment facilities (CWTs) that are industrial users of publicly owned treatment works (POTWs) and which treat wastes covered by national categorical pretreatment standards. Note: This memorandum was superseded by promulgation of the Centralized Waste Treatment regulations of 40 CFR 427 on December 22, 2000.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
03/15/1990
Letter to Mr. Robert Bedell Letter to Mr. Robert Bedell, Deputy Administrator, Office of Management and Budget, from Bruce R. Barrett, EPA regarding exemption from review requirements of EO 12291 for NPDES General Permits.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
08/08/1983
Memo from Martha G. Prothro, Permits Division Director, to users of the Guidance Manual for POTW Pretreatment Program Development Memo describes the amendments to the 1983 Guidance Manual on POTW Pretreatment Program Development and reprinting of the manual.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
07/23/1986
Memorandum: Revision of NPDES Significant Noncompliance (SNC) Criteria to Address Violations of Non-Monthly Average Limits Memorandum that addressed NPDES significant non-compliance (SNC) criteria for violations of non-monthly average limits.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
09/21/1995
Memorandum: Information on the Misuse of Sodium Dimethyldithiocarbamate Memo from Michael B. Cook, Director of the Office of Wastewater
Management, alerting users of potential problems that could arise from
the misuse of sodium dimethyldithiocarbamate and associated compounds.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
06/02/2002
Metals Translator: Guidance for Calculating a Total Recoverable Permit Limit from a Dissolved Criterion A tool for environmental scientists and permit writers to use in calculating the amount of a metal that may be discharged from a facility to a surface water body based on how the metal is distributed or partitioned between water and sediments in the receiving stream (EPA 823-B-96-007).
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
06/01/1996
Multijurisdictional Pretreatment Programs Guidance Manual This guidance document is intended to address these multijurisdictional program implementation and enforcement issues and offer some of the options that municipal entities may employ to satisfy federal and state program requirements (EPA-833-B-94-005).
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
06/01/1994
Muni~Bytes, Issue V Policy and regulation updates, training opportunities, ways to access other information sources, Regional Sound Bytes, and opportunities for you to get more involved in the development of guidance and regulations.
Document Type:
Factsheets and Outreach Materials
Date Published:
03/01/1999
National Pretreatment Program (40 CFR 403) Fact Sheet: Controlling Fats, Oils, and Grease Discharges from Food Service Establishments This fact sheet describes how states and local POTW's can use the National Pretreatment Program's regulatory tools to eliminate pollutant discharges caused by the discharge of Fats, Oils, and Grease (FOG) from food service establishments (FSE) (EPA-833-F-07-007).
Document Type:
Factsheets and Outreach Materials
Date Published:
07/01/2007
National Pretreatment Program: Report To Congress Response to Section 519 of the Water Quality Act which requires EPA to study certain elements of the National Pretreatment Program.
Document Type:
Program Status Reports
Date Published:
07/10/1991
New Regulations Governing the Discharge of Toxic and Hazardous Pollutants to POTWs Permitting and compliance monitoring & enforcement implementation activities.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
12/17/1990
New Source Dates for Direct and Indirect Dischargers Memorandum This memorandum summarizes EPA regulatory requirements for determining what sources are new sources. This document includes Appendix A which provides a summary of relevant regulatory criteria for consideration in this determination as well as Appendix B which provides a listing of applicable new source dates used in making new source determinations.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
09/28/2006
Performance Measurement and the National Industrial Wastewater Pretreatment Program: Final Report This report presents the findings and recommendations of a multi-constituency Working Group on measuring the performance of the nation's industrial wastewater pretreatment program.
Document Type:
Program Status Reports
Date Published:
07/11/1994
Permit Implications of Privatization Memo clarifying the NPDES permit and pretreatment implications of transactions that create private interests in municipal wastewater treatment works (i.e. "privatization").
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
04/16/1987
Permitting Guidance for Semiconductor Manufacturing Facilities Guidance document providing an overview of the semiconductor manufacturing process, a discussion of the overlap between Parts 469 and 433, and examining new and emerging manufacturing technologies and how these processes fit into the regulatory framework of Parts 469 and 433.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
04/21/1998
Plan for Resolution of Fundamentally Different Factors and Section 301(g) Variance Requests Memo outlining the plan to resolve FDFs and 301(g) variances
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
09/25/1987
POTW Contract Operations Memo discussing the potential liability of private operators of POTWs as NPDES copermittees.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
10/28/1988
PRELIM Version 3.0 User's Guide Documentation for the EPA Computer Program/Model for Developing Local Limits for Industrial Pretreatment Programs at Publicly Owned Treatment Works
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
01/02/1987
PRELIM Version 4.0 User's Guide User's guide for an EPA computer program that calculates local discharge limitation.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
05/01/1991
PRELIM Version 5.0 Executable Program: Pretreatment Limitations Model Latest version of EPA's PRELIM software for POTWs to calculate local discharge limitations for industrial users. Read the User's Guide [PDF Format] before installing this program.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
Unknown
PRELIM Version 5.0 User's Guide: Pretreatment Limitations Model This User's Guide contains instructions for installing and running PRELIM 5 and should be printed
and consulted before installing PRELIM 5. The PRELIM 5.0 program is designed to be used in conjunction with EPA's 1987 Guidance Manual on the Development and Implementation of Local Discharge Limitations Under the Pretreatment Program (hereafter referred to as EPA's local limits guidance manual) in developing technically based local limits for publicly owned treatment works (POTWs).
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
06/01/1996
Pretreatment Bytes, Edition II Policy and regulation updates, training opportunities, ways to access other information sources, Regional Sound Bytes, and opportunities for you to get more involved in the development of guidance and regulations.
Document Type:
Factsheets and Outreach Materials
Date Published:
04/01/1998
Pretreatment Bytes, Edition III Policy and regulation updates, training opportunities, ways to access other information sources, Regional Sound Bytes, and opportunities for you to get more involved in the development of guidance and regulations.
Document Type:
Factsheets and Outreach Materials
Date Published:
07/01/1998
Pretreatment Bytes, Edition IV Policy and regulation updates, training opportunities, ways to access other information sources, Regional Sound Bytes, and opportunities for you to get more involved in the development of guidance and regulations.
Document Type:
Factsheets and Outreach Materials
Date Published:
10/01/1998
Pretreatment Bytes, Issue 1 Policy and regulation updates, training opportunities, ways to access other information sources, Regional Sound Bytes, and opportunities for you to get more involved in the development of guidance and regulations.
Document Type:
Factsheets and Outreach Materials
Date Published:
02/01/1998
Pretreatment Compliance Inspection and Audit Manual for Approval Authorities Approval for authorities' information on audits and inspections of approved local POTW pretreatment programs (EPA 833-B86-100).
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
07/01/1986
Pretreatment Compliance Monitoring and Enforcement Guidance (for Publicly Owned Treatment Works) New activities POTWs must undertake to operate their approved pretreatment programs.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
07/25/1986
Pretreatment Documents List Listing of nearly 100 pretreatment documents, with title and date only
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
06/01/1994
Pretreatment Implementation Review Task (PIRT) Force: Final Report to the Administrator Report of the Pretreatment Implementation Review Task Force, including many recommended improvements to the pretreatment program.
Document Type:
Program Status Reports
Date Published:
01/30/1985
Pretreatment Program Guidance Procedures for EPA Regions and approved states to review local POTW pretreatment program submissions.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
10/05/1983
Pretreatment Program Modifications - Guidance for 40 CFR 403.18 Guidance on the implementation of 40 CFR 403.18 procedures for approving changes to Approved Pretreatment Programs. It provides suggestions on how state and EPA Approval Authorities might reduce the effort necessary to comply with 40 CFR 403.18, especially its public notice requirements.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
07/22/1993
Pretreatment Streamlining Rule Fact Sheet 1.0: Summary of Changes Made Under the Streamlining Rule This fact sheet outlines the changes made to the Pretreatment Program at 40 CFR Part 403 under the Pretreatment Streamlining Rule. The fact sheet describes the general changes that were designed to reduce the overall regulatory burden on both Industrial Users and Control Authorities. Other fact sheets address specific changes and required program revisions in greater detail (EPA 833-F-06-006).
Document Type:
Factsheets and Outreach Materials
Date Published:
07/01/2006
Pretreatment Streamlining Rule Fact Sheet 2.0: Required Changes This fact sheet describes 13 Pretreatment Streamlining Rule changes that are more stringent than the pre-streamlining provisions in 40 CFR Part 403. These specific changes may require revisions to the appropriate state or POTW legal authorities or program documents. A general description of each change is included, along with a summary of what state or POTW follow-up actions are needed (EPA-833-F-06-005).
Document Type:
Factsheets and Outreach Materials
Date Published:
02/01/2006
Pretreatment Streamlining Rule Fact Sheet 3.0: Equivalent Mass Limits for Concentration Limits This fact sheet describes the oversight actions Control Authorities must take for allowing facilities the conditional use of equivalent mass limits in lieu of concentration-based limits to facilitate adoption of water-saving technologies. The fact sheet specifies who might be affected by these provisions, provides definitions for key terms, and outlines the qualification and implementation processes for allowing the use of equivalent mass limits (EPA-833-F-06-008).
Document Type:
Factsheets and Outreach Materials
Date Published:
12/01/2006
Pretreatment Streamlining Rule Fact Sheet 4.0: Equivalent Concentration-Based Limits for Flow-Based Standards This fact sheet describes the oversight actions Control Authorities must
take for allowing facilities the conditional use of equivalent
concentration-based limits in lieu of flow-based mass limits. The fact
sheet specifies who might be affected by these provisions, provides
definitions for key terms, and outlines the qualification and
implementation processes for allowing the use of equivalent
concentration limits (EPA-833-F-08-002).
Document Type:
Factsheets and Outreach Materials
Date Published:
03/01/2008
Pretreatment Streamlining Rule Fact Sheet 5.0: New Classifications for Categorical Industrial Users This fact sheet describes the oversight actions Control Authorities must take for newly established classes of indirect dischargers, including the “non-significant categorical Industrial User” (NSCIU) and the “Middle Tier” Categorical Industrial User (CIU). The fact sheet specifies who might be affected by these provisions, provides definitions for key terms, and outlines reporting, inspection, and sampling requirements for NSCIUs and Middle Tier CIUs (EPA 833-F-06-011).
Document Type:
Factsheets and Outreach Materials
Date Published:
07/01/2006
Pretreatment Streamlining Rule Fact Sheet 6.0: Optional Sampling Waiver for Pollutants Not Present This fact sheet describes changes to the General Pretreatment Regulations that allow approved publicly owned treatment works (POTW) pretreatment programs, or Control Authorities (CAs), to reduce or waive certain monitoring requirements that apply to Industrial User (IU) discharges subject to categorical Pretreatment Standards (EPA 833-F-08-003).
Document Type:
Factsheets and Outreach Materials
Date Published:
04/01/2008
Pretreatment Streamlining Rule Fact Sheet 7.0: Best Management Practices This fact sheet describes how publicly owned treatment works (POTWs) may use best management practices (BMPs) as an alternative to numeric limits that are developed to protect the POTW, water quality, and sewage sludge. The fact sheet specifies what limits might be affected by these provisions, provides definitions for key terms, and outlines the qualification and implementation processes for using BMPs in place of numeric limits (EPA-833-F-06-013).
Document Type:
Factsheets and Outreach Materials
Date Published:
01/01/2007
Pretreatment Streamlining Rule Fact Sheet 8.0: Slug Control Plans This fact sheet describes the oversight actions Control Authorities must take for implementing provisions to prevent the discharge of non-routine, episodic discharges (not limited to accidental spills or batch discharges) from industrial users. This fact sheet specifies Control Authority evaluation frequencies and control mechanism requirements, as well as reporting requirements for IUs (EPA 833-F-07-004).
Document Type:
Factsheets and Outreach Materials
Date Published:
06/01/2007
Procedures for Processing Fundamentally Different Factor Variances Questions have recently been raised concerning the procedures for processing fundamentally different factors (FDF) variances. The NPDES regulations at 40 CFR 124.62-124.63 contain the procedures for processing variances. A copy of these provisions is attached.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
06/01/1983
Procedures Manual for Reviewing a POTW Pretreatment Program Submission Guidance to EPA Regions and states on how to review local POTWs pretreatment program submissions.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
10/01/1983
Procuring Analytical Services: Guidance for Industrial Pretreatment Programs This document is intended to provide pretreatment authorities and industrial users (IUs) with guidance for procuring analytical services necessary to support Clean Water Act programs.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
10/01/1998
Protecting the Nation's Waters Through Effective NPDES Permits: A Strategic Plan FY 2001 and Beyond The Water Permits Division's Strategic Plan discusses the background of the Water Permits Division, their organization and resources, current implementation activities, and the Division's vision, mission, challenges, strategic issues, goals, and key actions from FY 2001 and beyond. EPA-833-R-01-001.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
06/01/2001
RCRA Information on Hazardous Wastes for Publicly Owned Treatment Works This manual provides guidance to municipal personnel in understanding hazardous waste requirements of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) and the implications of these RCRA requirements for the wastewater treatment plant operated by your municipality, for your local pretreatment program, and for local industries served by the treatment plant.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
09/01/1985
Redraft of Model Letter to be Sent to POTWs Revised draft of an example letter to be sent to all POTWs to determine whether they are subject to RCRA corrective action requirements.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
10/21/1986
Region III Guidance for Setting Local Limits for a Pollutant Where the Domestic Loading Exceeds the Maximum Allowable Headworks Loading The following is intended to provide POTWs with approaches to addressing situations where the allowable industrial loading is calculated to be negative, as well as establishing some guidelines on what the Region expects the POTWs to undertake.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
06/09/1994
Regulatory Determination for the "PreKote" Surface Preparation Process Memorandum clarifying whether the use of a particular metal surface painting preparation operation, a chemical marketed as "PreKote" and a liquid epoxy primer, conducted on aircraft aluminum surfaces prior to painting is regulated as a core operation under the Metal Finishing Effluent Guidelines (40 CFR 433).
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
04/01/2003
Response to inquiry on applicability to Kaiser Aluminum Response from EPA to Mr Suchyta regarding his letter on Kaiser Aluminum's responsibilities for pretreatment
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
12/22/1994
Response to LA County inquiry on applicability to Arias Research Response from EPA to Mr Kilgore regarding pretreatment applicability to Arias Research
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
01/03/1995
Review of Memorandum Regarding Draft Procedures for Processing Fundamentally Different Factors Variances for Direct and Indirect Dischargers Proposed procedures on variances and time extensions available under the Clean Water Act.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
10/11/1983
Search General Permits EPA is gathering PDF copies of NPDES general permits and fact sheets for major facilities issued after November 1, 2002. Click here to search and view general permits issued by permit category, state, permit title, or permit number.
Document Type:
Example and General Permits
Date Published:
11/01/2002
Sharing The Load: Effluent Trading For Indirect Dischargers Case study of pretreatment local limits trading in the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners area, reported by EPA's Office of Policy, Planning and Evaluation, EPA Region 2, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, and a stakeholder group (EPA 231-R-98-003).
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
05/01/1998
Spanish Version: Publicanciones Sobre el Uso Y Eliminación de Lodo Residual Cloacal y Biosólidos, 1/1/96 Lista de documentos
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
01/01/1996
State Pretreatment Programs Memo regarding implementation of pretreatment programs by EPA and the states
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
04/12/1979
Status of Textile Mills Pretreatment Standards Memorandum stating some of the federal requirements for textile mills, and EPA's expectations of local and state control authorities.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
05/31/1984
Statutory Deadlines for Compliance by Publicly Owned Treatment Works under the Clean Water Act Memo regarding statutory deadlines affected by the amendments to the CWA
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
03/04/1983
Stay Granted in Star-Kist Caribe Stay of order on petition for reconsideration.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
09/21/1990
Strategy for Implementing RCRA Permit-By-Rule Requirements at POTWs that Accept Hazardous Waste by Truck, Rail, or Dedicated Pipe This memo summarizes the results of a survey and outlines a strategy for implementing RCRA at POTWs that receive hazardous waste by truck, rail, or dedicated pipe.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
09/21/1987
Supplemental Manual on the Development And Implementation of Local Discharge Limitations Under the Pretreatment Program: Residential and Commercial Toxic Pollutant Loadings and POTW Removal This document provides guidance to assist in development of local limits. It specifically provides information related to residential and commercial sources of toxic pollutants, and estimated removal efficiencies of municipal treatment processes.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
05/01/1991
Toxicity Reduction Evaluation Guidance for Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants Guidance document to permittees, permit writers and consultants on the general approach and procedures for conducting toxicity reduction evaluations (TREs) at municipal wastewater treatment plants. Provides new updates and additional case study discussions on issues for identifying whole effluent toxicity at municipal wastewater treatment plants. It addresses many issues that stakeholders have raised since the earlier April 1989 edition. It is intended to be a guide to the approaches that have been successfully used in municipal TREs (EPA 833-B-99-022).
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
08/01/1999
Training Videos - Pretreatment and Collection System Operator List of available training videos for pretreatment and collection system operators
Document Type:
Factsheets and Outreach Materials
Date Published:
Unknown
Use of Construction Grant Funds for Pretreatment Program Publication is not available electronically. For more information on ordering publications, go to http://www.epa.gov/owm/inpub.htm.
Explains what part of pretreatment programs can be funded through construction grants.
Document Type:
Policy and Guidance Documents
Date Published:
12/31/1985
(This file is not currently available for download)
WEF/AMSA Pretreatment Streamlining Workshop: Final Report The Water Environment Federation and Association of Metropolitan Sewerage Agencies held a Pretreatment Streamlining Workshop in August 1996 with representatives from POTWs, Industry, EPA, and Environmental groups. The workshop ended with recommendations for streamlining the pretreatment program. The 8-page Executive Summary is included.
Document Type:
Technical and Issue Papers
Date Published:
09/01/1996
What Wastewater Utilities Can Do Now to Guard Against Terrorist and Security Threats Recommends many straightforward, commonsense actions to increase security and reduce threats from terrorism. Many of these actions are recommended by the Association of Metropolitan Sewer Agencies, the Water Environment Federation, and other leading professional organizations.
Document Type:
Factsheets and Outreach Materials
Date Published:
10/01/2001
