Regulacje i polityka gospodarcza · 14.11.1997

Final NPDES General Permits for Discharges Resulting From Implementing Corrective Action Plans for Cleanup of Petroleum UST Systems in Texas (TXG830000), Louisiana (LAG830000), Oklahoma (OKG830000) and New Mexico (NMG830000)

EPA Region 6 today issues National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) general permits authorizing discharges resulting from implementing Corrective Action Plans for the cleanup of Petroleum UST Systems in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico and the Pueblos of Santa Clara, San Juan, Pojoaque, Nambe and Picuris. A Petroleum UST System is an underground storage tank system that contains petroleum or a mixture of petroleum with de minimis quantities of other regulated substances. Such systems include those containing motor fuels, jet fuels, distillate fuel oils, residual fuel oils, lubricants, petroleum solvents and used oils. The permits place limits on benzene, Total BTEX and pH for all discharges, as well as limits on polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) for discharges from cleanups of Petroleum UST Systems other than gasoline, jet fuel and kerosene. Additional limits include those on lead and Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons in the Texas permit, lead and TOC in the Louisiana permit, Total Organic Carbon and Total Phenols in the Oklahoma permit, and lead, Chemical Oxygen Demand, No Visible Oil Sheen, as well as a biomonitoring requirement, in the New Mexico permit.