Permit Program

CWA to establish the minimum level of control to be required by a permit. They are the Best Practicable Control Technology (BPT), Best Available Technology Economically Achievable (BAT), Best Conventional Pollutant Control Technology (BCT), Best Available Demonstrated Technology (BDT), and Best Management Practices (BMPs). Industries that do not discharge directly into surface waters but into publicly operated treatment works (POTWs) are subject to pretreatment standards under Section 307(b) of the CWA. 19.3.1.3 Permit Program 

An NPDES permit can be issued by EPA or by a state that has received EPA permitting approval. As of 1996,40 states and territories had received EPA s approval. States and territories that are not authorized to administer the NPDES program are Alaska, Arizona, District of Columbia, Idaho, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Mexico, the Pacific Territories, Puerto Rico, and Texas. For these states and territories, the 10 EPA Regional Offices will issue and administer the NPDES permits. The permit process is elaborate and requires extensive information and numerous steps. First a number of forms need to be completed to provide information about the facility, its operation, and the nature of the discharges. This is followed by a period of discussion between EPA and the discharging facility, and the draft permit is announced for comments from the public for 30 days. Once the comments are reviewed, responded to, and implemented, then the final NPDES permit is issued. 

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Entry into Confined Spaces. In 1993 OSHA adopted a confined space entry rule (93) requiring employers to evaluate the workplace to (/) determine if it contains any confined spaces, (2) mark or identify such confined spaces, and (2) develop and implement a permit program for entry into such spaces. The program must include a permit system which specifies the steps to be taken to identify, evaluate, control, and monitor possible electrical, mechanical, and chemical ha2ards select and use equipment institute stand-by attendance and estabflsh communications. The reference standard (93) should be studied for details. 

States must submit permit programs to EPA for approval. 

As mentioned, nonattainment areas will have to implement different control measures, depending on their classification. Marginal areas, for example, are the closest to meeting the standard. They will be required to conduct an inventory of their ozone-causing emissions and institute a permit program. Nonattainment areas with more serious air quality problems must implement various control measures. The worse the air quality, the more controls areas will have to implement. 

Each permit issued to a facility will be for a fixed term of up to 5 years. The new law establishes a permit fee whereby the state collects a fee from the permitted facility to cover reasonable direct and indirect costs of the permitting program. 

All sources subject to the permit program must submit a complete permit application within 12 months of the effective date of the program. The state permitting authority must determine whether or not to approve an application within 18 months of the date it receives the application. 

Describe how the EPA permitting system works. Go to www.eap.state.il.us/air/caap/ (this site is maintained by the Illinois EPA Bureau of Air and contains their Clean Air Act Permit Program) and determine the requirements. List the specific information you will need for the different types of air permits. 

Although many limits are implemented at the state level, there are national guidelines that serve as a basis for more specific limits. Sources that are considered major under the CAA are subject to prevention of significant deterioration (PSD) or new source review (NSR). Both PSD and NSR are permit programs for facilities that were constructed or modified after a certain date. 

National Pollutant Discharger Elimination System (NPDES), 9 794 25 917 permit program, 21 582 standards, 6 828... 

EPA. 1983a. EPA administered permit programs The National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Code of Federal Regulations. 40 CFR 122. 

Subsequent testing that included extensive analyses of air emissions revealed no obvious concerns. The tests consistently showed extremely low levels of organic contaminants in all SCWO effluents. Final determinations of safety and environmental acceptability can only be made through a formal risk assessment process that will occur as part of the permitting program. 

State Operating Permit Program, Title V (Revised 8/29/94) Prevention of Significant Deterioration (new sonrces in attainment areas) and New Sonrce Review (new sonrces in nonattainment areas) LAER reqnirements (existing sonrce)... 

EPA Administered Permit Programs The National Pollution Discharge Elimination System—Primary industry category Yes 40 CFR 122, App. A EPA 1983a... 

Title V Operating Permits Title V of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments established a new operating permit program to be administered by state agencies in accordance with federal guidelines. The program basically requires a source to obtain a permit that covers... 

Initially, all major sources of air pollution are required to obtain an operating permit. However, any state permitting authority may extend the applicability of the operating permit to minor sources as well. Once a source is subject to the permit program as a major source for any one pollutant, emissions of every regulated air pollutant must be addressed in the permit application. 

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