Implementing storm water plans

Journal Article · Sat May 15 04:00:00 EDT 1993 · Pollution Engineering; (United States)

OSTI ID:6525074

Perrich, J R ^[1]

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1. Environmental Science and Engineering Inc., Centerville, OH (United States)

The emphasis in storm water discharge permits has changed from how to apply for a permit to how to comply with a permit. By far the most common approach in acquiring a permit is through general permits, which should be available in all states by the end of 1993. General permits will be issued because states and US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regions do not have the manpower to address individual permitting. In the 20 years the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) has been active, about 72,000 discharge permits have been issued, yet about 250,000 storm water permits are expected to be issued this year under the storm water discharge program. One result of the many delays in the storm water permitting program over the last two years is that states with general permitting authority prepared and issued their own storm water general permits without an official federal permit upon which to base their permits. Typically, state NPDES programs must be as strict or stricter than the EPA program. However, in the absence of an EPA general permit to use as a guideline states made their best efforts to devise storm water general permit requirements similar to the anticipated EPA general permit. The result is numerous differences in state general permits for storm water discharges. This article discusses these differences in the preparation/implementation of Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plans (SWP3) and monitoring plans.

• OSTI ID: 6525074
• Journal Information: Pollution Engineering; (United States), Journal Name: Pollution Engineering; (United States) Vol. 25:10; ISSN PLENBW; ISSN 0032-3640
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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