Sam McCollough, Superintendent 

Waynesburg Borough 

90 East High Street 

Waynesburg, PA 15370 

Subject: Clean Water Act Section 308 Request for Information 

Dear Mr. McCollough: 

The enclosed Request for Information is issued this date pursuant to Section 308 of the Clean 

Water Act (CWA), 33 U.S.C. § 1318, and requires, among other things, that the Waynesburg 

Borough provides information regarding oil and gas wastewater that is accepted by the 

Waynesburg wastewater treatment plant. It is mandatory that the Wayn~sburg Borough 

provides this information. You must respond in accordance with the instructions and deadlines 

set forth in the Request for Information. 

If you have any questions about this Request for Information, you may contact 

Mr. Chad Harsh at (215) 814-2633, or your counsel may contact Ms. Judith Hykel, Senior 

Assistant Regional Counsel, at (215) 814-2646. 

Enclosure 

cc: Lisa Daniels, P ADEP 

Bureau of Water Quality Management 

Sam Harper, Chief Operations, 

PADEP South West Regional Office 

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Associate Director . ~ Office ofNPDES Permit and Enforcement 

Water Protection Division 

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Waynesburg Borough 

90 East High Street 

Waynesburg, PA 15370 

Under Section 308 of the 

Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. § 1318 

I. STATUTORY AUTHORITY 

1. This Request for Information is issued to Waynesburg Borough ("Waynesburg") under 

the authority vested in the United States Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") by 

Section 308 ofthe Clean Water Act ("CWA" or "Act"), 33 U.S.C. § 1318. 

2. EPA is authorized under Section 308 ofthe CWA 33 U.S.C. § 1318, to require owners 

and operators of point sources to establish records and make such reports as may be 

nec~ssary to carry out the purpose of the Act, including but not limited to: 

(a) Developing or assisting in the development of any effluent limitation, or other 

limitation, prohibition, effluent standard, pretreatment standard, or standard of 

performance under the Clean Water Act; 

(b) Determining whether any person is in violation of any such effluent limitation, or 

other limitation, prohibition or effluent standard, pretreatment standard, or 

standard of performance; 

(c) Any requirements under Section 308 of the Clean Water Act; and 

(d) Carrying out Sections 305, 311, 402, 404, and 504 of the Clean Water Act. 

3. Failure to provide the requested information or providing misleading or false information 

may subject you to civil and/or criminal sanctions pursuant to Section 309 of the Act, 

33 u.s.c. § 1319. 
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computer format, memory, or storage device, or in hard copy, including any form or 

format of these types. If in computer format or memory, each such document shall be 

provided in a translated form useable and readable by EPA, with all necessary 

documentation and support. All documents in hard copy should also include: (a) a copy 

of each document which is not an exact duplicate of a document which is provided; 

(b) each copy which has any writing, notation, or the like on it; c) drafts; (d) attachments 

to or enclosures with any document; and (e) every other document referred to or 

incorporated into each document. 

"Day'' shall mean a calendar day. In computing any period of time under this 308 

request, where the last day would fall on a Saturday, Sunday, federal or state holiday, the 

period shall run until the close of the next business day. 

"Plant" refers to the Waynesburg Borough waste water treatment plant. 

The "Permit" shall refer to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection 

("PADEP") NPDES Permit No. PA0020613. 

"DMRs" shall refer to discharge monitoring reports. 

"Waste haulers" shall refer to any person or entity that transports waste to Waynesburg 

for the purpose of treatment. 

"Brine" shall refer to any fluid generated by drilling process. 

III. INSTRUCTIONS 

· 12. Provide a separate narrative response for each question and for each subpart of each 

question set forth below. Precede each answer with the corresponding number of the 

question to which it responds. 

13. Identify each person responding to any question contained in this Information Request on 

your behalf, as well as each person consulted in the preparation of the response. 

14. For each question, identify each document consulted, examined, or referred to in the 

preparation of the response or that contains information responsive to the question, and 

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If requested information or documents are not known or are not available at the time of 

your response to this Information Request, but later become known or available, you must supplement its response to EPA. Moreover, should you find at any time after submission 

of your response that any portion is or becomes false, incomplete, or misrepresents the facts; you must provide EPA with a corrected response as soon as possible. 

The following certification must accompany each submission provided pursuant to this 

request and must be ~igned by a person authorized to respond on behalf of Waynesburg: 

"I certify that the information contained in or accompanying this submission is true, 

accurate, and complete. As to the identified portion(s) of this submission for which I 

cannot personally verify its truth and accuracy, I certify as the company official having supervisory responsibility for the person(s) who, acting under my direct instructions, made the verification, that this information is true, accurate, and complete. I am 

aware that there are significant penalties for submitting false information, including the possibility of fine and imprisonment for knowing violations. 

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19. Provide your responses within thirty (30) days from the date you receive this request. 

20. Submit your response to: 

Chad Harsh (3WP10) 

NPDES Enforcement Branch 

Water Protection Division 

U. S. Environmental Protection Agency 

1650 Arch Street 

Philadelphia, PA 19103 

21. If you have questions regarding this Information Request, you may contact Chad Harsh of 

the Water Protection Division at (215) 814-2633, or your counsel may contact 

Judith Hykel, Senior Assistant Regional Counsel, at (215) 814-2646. 

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23. Describe in detail all policies and/or practices for accepting and characterizing hauled 

wastewater generated from oil and gas exploration, including sampling and analytic 

methods employed. Provide all documentation of such policies and practices. 

24. Describe in detail all policies and procedures u~ed in determining your charges to haulers 

for accepting hauled wastewater. Provide 11:ll documentation of such policies and 

practices. 

25. Provide an electronic spreadsheet, for the period June 2006 to present, with the following 

information concerning all instances of your acceptance of oil and gas wastewater: 

a. Date of acceptance; 

b. Volume of oil and gas wastewater accepted; 

c. Waste water treatment plant ("WWTP") flow volume for that day; 

d. Name of the hauler; 

e. Site location of the well where the wastewater originated; 

f. Owner or operator or the well that produced the wastewater; and 

g. Charge levied for accepting the waste. 

26. Provide the address and telephone number of each hauler identified in response to 

Paragraph 25 above. 

27. Provide copies of all manifests and/or other documents concerning the transportation or 

acceptance of oil and gas wastewater identified in response to Paragraph 25. Include 

agreements with oil and gas companies and/or haulers from June 2006 to present day. 

28. Identify alllocation(s) of the discharge point(s) of oil and gas wastewater into the 

Waynesburg wastewater treatment system. 

29. Provide all WWTP influent monitoring data associated with accepting of oil and gas 

wastewater, identified in response to Paragraph 25 above for the period of time from June 

2006 to present day. Identify every location where the samples were collected. 

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31. Provide DMRs for the period of time from June 2006 to present day. 

32. Submit all monitoring data for the period of time from June 2006 to present that are not reported on the DMRs. 

33. Provide a copy of all past and future submittals to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection in response to its order issued on October 23, 2008 related to 

oil and gas wastewater received by you. 

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