Notice of Availability of Draft National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) General Permit for Residually Designated Discharges in Milford, Bellingham and Franklin, MA; and Notice of Availability of Proposed Amendments to the Preliminary Residual Designation Issued by EPA on November 12, 2008

概要

The Director of the Office of Ecosystem Protection, Environmental Protection Agency-Region 1 (EPA), is issuing this Notice of Availability of a draft NPDES general permit for storm water discharges in the Charles River watershed within Milford, Bellingham, and Franklin, Massachusetts, from sites that are proposed for final designation for NPDES permitting pursuant to EPA's residual designation authority, so called, provided by Section 402(p)(2)(E) and (6) of the Clean Water Act (CWA) as implemented through regulatory provisions at 40 CFR 122.26(a)(9)(i)(C) and (D). Those sections provide that in states where there is no approved state program, the EPA Regional Administrator may designate a storm water discharge as requiring an NPDES permit where he determines that: "* * * (C) storm water controls are needed for the discharge based on wasteload allocations that are part of total maximum daily loads that address the pollutants of concern, or (D) the discharge, or category of discharges within a geographic area, contributes to a violation of a water quality standard or is a significant contributor of pollutants to waters of the United States." The storm water discharges subject to the