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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Subject: Working Draft EPA's NPDES Pesticides General Permit

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 our
co-regulator family. We hope to receive that input from you directly!

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