### FW: Working Draft EPA's NPDES Pesticides General Permit Kubit, Robert (DEP) to: Jack Faulk 01/25/2010 02:41 PM

Hi Jack,

The following comments relate to the aquatic weed control section of the Pesticides General Permit working draft.

1. Section 1.1.1: ADD LANGUAGE. "management of weeds and algae in SURFACE

water......" Insure there is no confusion with groundwater.

2. Section 1.2: Here is the definition of who needs to file for a license to apply herbicides for aquatic weed control currently used by Massachusetts: http://www.mass.gov/dep/water/approvals/wm04.pdf

2. Who must apply? Anyone wishing to apply chemicals to bodies of water except under the following conditions: a. When treatment is undertaken by employees and agents of the Departments of Environmental Protection, Environmental Management, and Fisheries, Wildlife and Environmental Law Enforcement, or of the Reclamation Board, or of related Federal agencies, while in the conduct of their official duties;

OR b. When treatment is undertaken with algicide approved by MassDEP and used by legally established water supply agencies to control taste and odors;

OR c. When treatment is undertaken in privately owned (single owner) ponds from which there are no flowing outlets.

N.B. Water supply reservoirs are exempt from licensing requirements!

3. I recommend some more explicit language that says the Pesticide General Permit does not supplant state regulations or laws and that states can administer their current herbicide license programs in addition to PGP requirements.

Thanks for the opportunity to comment.

Robert Kubit, P.E.

MassDEP Division of Watershed Management 627 Main Street
Worcester MA 01608 Telephone: (508) 767-2854 Email: robert.kubit@state.ma.us Fax: (508) 791-4131

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All,

Attached is a copy of EPA's current working draft NPDES Pesticides General Permit (PGP) for your review and comment. First, we ask that you not share this draft, either electronically or in paper form, with others. This permit, by nature of the discharge, is not a typical NPDES permit and, as you know, we are working through some challenging issues. Until we feel comfortable with our approach, we'd prefer not to have to discuss the details of our working drafts with entities outside of ourco-regulator family. We hope to receive that input from you directl y ! We will be public noticing the draft permit around the end of April 2010 at which point anybody and everybody, including states, will have an opportunity to review and comment on that version of the permit. We do not have a copy of the permit fact sheet to share with you. The permit writing has been quite a dynamic process and trying to keep up with a fact sheet has not been so successful. We hope, although cannot guarantee, to be able to share a copy of a draft fact sheet with you at some point before issuance of the permit. Thanks for your understanding.

Tomorrow, January 14, from 1-3 pm eastern time, we will be discussing this permit on a free webcast, to prepare folks for reviewing the permit and for participating in our two-day face-to-face meeting in Dallas On January 20-21. If you have not yet done so, you can register to participate in the webcast (must be done in advance) at http://event.on24.com/r.htm?e=183080&s=1&k= 17604CA8BF94523AA10DE0009E2B2EFF . You can register for the meeting in Dallas at http://www.tetratech-ffx.com/npdes_pesticides/.

We would like your comments on this working draft but ask that you submit those comments electronically no later than close of business Monday, January 25, 2010. Please send those comments to me at faulk.jack@epa.gov. We plan to read and consider all comments we receive from you by that time. We will also be documenting the discussion in Dallas and considering those comments as well.

One additional item to consider. This permit includes several comments asking for your specific input on certain permit language. If you have limited time for which to review the permit, we would ask that you at least take a look at those few comments and provide your thoughts on
those.

Thanks for your patience and understanding and enjoy your reading.

(See attached file: PGP working draft 011310 pm.doc)

Jack

Water Permits Division US Environmental Protection Agency EPA East (4203M) 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20460

Telephone (202) 564-0768
Fax (202) 564-6431