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Pretreatment compliance monitoring and enforcement guidance. Final report

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:6830563
The document is intended to be a comprehensive guide to pretreatment implementation, particularly on-going compliance monitoring and enforcement activities. The Guidance provides a detailed discussion of: establishing monitoring requirements for industrial users; sampling and inspecting industrial users; reviewing industrial user reports; determining industrial user compliance status; setting priorities for enforcement actions; and reporting progress to Approval Authorities. It establishes a definition of Significant Industrial User for use by Control Authorities in targeting primary implementation activities and recommends a definition of Significant Noncompliance to be applied in evaluating industrial user performance in complying with effluent and reporting requirements as well as compliance schedules. The Guidance is intended to assist the Control Authority in translating regulatory requirements into a workable, effective pretreatment program.
Research Organization:
Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC (USA). Office of Water Enforcement and Permits
OSTI ID:
6830563
Report Number(s):
PB-90-185075/XAB; EPA--505/8-90/004
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English