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Chapter 463-76 WAC:
WACs > Title 463 > Chapter 463-76
Chapter 463-76 WAC
HTMLPDF 463-76-005 Purpose.
HTMLPDF 463-76-010 Definitions.
HTMLPDF 463-76-025 Authorization required.
HTMLPDF 463-76-031 Application filing with the council.
HTMLPDF 463-76-032 Signature form.
HTMLPDF 463-76-033 Tentative determination on NPDES permits.
HTMLPDF 463-76-034 Fact sheets.
HTMLPDF 463-76-041 Public notice.
HTMLPDF 463-76-042 Public hearings.
HTMLPDF 463-76-043 Public access to information.
HTMLPDF 463-76-051 General conditions.
HTMLPDF 463-76-052 Prohibited discharges.
HTMLPDF 463-76-053 Effluent limitations, water quality standards and other requirements for NPDES permits.
HTMLPDF 463-76-054 Schedules of compliance.
HTMLPDF 463-76-055 Other terms and conditions.
HTMLPDF 463-76-061 Reissuance of NPDES permits.
HTMLPDF 463-76-062 Modification of NPDES permit.
HTMLPDF 463-76-0625 Permit issuance.
HTMLPDF 463-76-063 Appeal.
HTMLPDF 463-76-064 Transmission to regional administrator of proposed NPDES permit.
HTMLPDF 463-76-065 Monitoring and enforcement.
HTMLPDF 463-76-080 Transmittal of data to regional administrator.
HTMLPDF 463-76-090 Conflict of interest.
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(3) "Applicable water quality standards" means all water quality standards of the state of Washington to which a discharge is subject under state and federal law including, but not limited to, those which are codified in chapters 173-200, 173-201A, and 173-204 WAC, and 40 C.F.R. 131.36.
(27) "Permit" means an authorization, license, or equivalent control document issued by the council to implement this chapter. "Permit" includes issuance of coverage under a stormwater general permit issued by the department of ecology. "Permit" does not include any permit which has not yet been the subject of final council action, such as a "draft permit" or a "proposed permit."
(29) "Point source" means any discernible, confined and discrete conveyance, including, but not limited to, any pipe, ditch, channel, tunnel, conduit, well, discrete fissure, container, rolling stock, concentrated animal feeding operation, landfill leachate collection system, or vessel or other floating craft, from which pollutants are or may be discharged. This term does not include return flows from irrigated agriculture or agricultural stormwater runoff.
(33) "Stormwater discharge associated with industrial activity" means the discharge from any conveyance that is used for collecting and conveying stormwater and that is directly related to manufacturing, processing or raw materials storage areas at an industrial facility. For energy facilities, the term includes, but is not limited to, stormwater discharges from industrial facility yards; immediate access roads and rail lines used or traveled by carriers of raw materials, manufactured products, waste material, or by-products used or created by the facility; material handling sites; refuse sites; sites used for the application or disposal of process waste waters (as defined in 40 C.F.R. 401); sites used for the storage and maintenance of material handling equipment; sites used for residual treatment, storage, or disposal; shipping and receiving areas; manufacturing buildings; storage areas (including tank farms) for raw materials, and intermediate and final products; and areas where industrial activity has taken place in the past and significant materials remain and are exposed to stormwater. For the purposes of this subsection, material handling activities include storage, loading and unloading, transportation, or conveyance of any raw material, intermediate product, final product, by-product or waste product. The term excludes areas located on facility lands separate from the facility's industrial activities, such as office buildings and accompanying parking lots as long as the drainage from the excluded areas is not mixed with stormwater drained from the above described areas. The following additional categories of facilities are considered to be engaging in "industrial activity":
(a) Facilities subject to stormwater effluent limitations guidelines, new source performance standards, or toxic pollutant effluent standards under 40 C.F.R. subchapter N;
[Statutory Authority: RCW 90.48.262(2) and 80.50.040. WSR 15-24-041, § 463-76-010, filed 11/23/15, effective 12/24/15. Statutory Authority: RCW 80.50.040 (1) and (12). WSR 04-21-013, amended and recodified as § 463-76-010, filed 10/11/04, effective 11/11/04; Order 114, § 463-38-010, filed 2/4/77. Formerly WAC 463-16-010.]
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No waste materials or pollutants may be discharged from any energy facility as defined in WAC 463-76-010 into surface waters of the state, except as authorized pursuant to this chapter or as authorized by the council pursuant to its authority under chapter 80.50 RCW for coverage under a general permit issued by the department of ecology. In administering this chapter, the council will seek maximum coordination and avoid duplication between the council and the department of ecology pursuant to RCW 90.48.262(2).
[Statutory Authority: RCW 90.48.262(2) and 80.50.040. WSR 15-24-041, § 463-76-025, filed 11/23/15, effective 12/24/15. WSR 04-23-003, recodified as § 463-76-025, filed 11/4/04, effective 11/11/04. Statutory Authority: RCW 80.50.040 (1) and (12). WSR 04-21-013, § 463-38-025, filed 10/11/04, effective 11/11/04.]
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(1) Any NPDES permit shall be issued for a period of not longer than five years, which period shall start on the date of issuance of said permit. Review and reissuance of this authorization per WAC 463-76-061 to discharge wastewater, stormwater, and sanitary sewer wastes and any related changes to the site certification agreement shall not require approval of the governor. However, the permittee shall inform the council at least one hundred eighty days prior to any initiation of such a discharge.
(2) The decision to approve or reject, and on what conditions an NPDES permit shall be issued, shall be in conformance with the requirements of this chapter. A majority vote of council members shall resolve any dispute and shall determine the approval or rejection of an NPDES application.
[Statutory Authority: RCW 80.50.040 (1) and (12). WSR 04-21-013, amended and recodified as § 463-76-051, filed 10/11/04, effective 11/11/04. Statutory Authority: RCW 80.50.040(1). WSR 87-01-065 (Order 86-1), § 463-38-051, filed 12/17/86; Order 114, § 463-38-051, filed 2/4/77. Formerly WAC 463-16-051.]
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(1) No discharge regulated under the act shall be made by energy facilities subject to the jurisdiction of the council unless authorized by an NPDES permit issued pursuant to these regulations.
(2) No NPDES permit may be issued by the council:
(a) When the conditions of the permit do not provide for compliance with the applicable requirements of the act, or regulations promulgated under the act;
(b) When the applicant is required to obtain a state certification under section 401 of the act and 40 C.F.R. 124.53 and that certification has not been obtained or waived;
(c) When the imposition of conditions cannot ensure compliance with the applicable water quality requirements of Washington state;
(d) For the discharge of any radiological, chemical or biological warfare agent or high-level radioactive waste into surface waters of the state;
(e) For the discharge of any pollutants which the secretary of the Army acting through the chief, Corps of Engineers, finds would substantially impair anchorage and navigation in waters subject to the jurisdiction of the Corps of Engineers;
(f) For the discharge of any pollutant to which the regional administrator has objected in writing pursuant to any right to object provided the administrator in section 402(d) of the act;
(g) For discharge from a point source any pollutant which is in conflict with the plan or amendment thereto approved pursuant to section 208(b) of the act;
(h) For the discharge of any pollutant subject to a toxic pollutant discharge prohibition under section 307 of the act;
(i) For any discharge to the territorial sea, the waters of the contiguous zone, or the oceans in the following circumstances:
(i) Before the promulgation of guidelines under section 403(c) of the act, unless the council determines permit issuance to be in the public interest;
(ii) After promulgation of guidelines under section 403(c) of the act, when insufficient information exists to make a reasonable judgment whether the discharge complies with them;
(j) To a new source or a new discharger, if the discharge from its construction or operation will cause or contribute to a violation of water quality standards. The owner or operator of a new source or new discharger proposing to discharge into a water segment which does not meet applicable water quality standards or is not expected to meet those standards even after the application of effluent limitations required by sections 301 (b)(1)(A) and 301 (b)(1)(B) of the act, and for which the state has performed a pollutants load allocation for the pollutant to be discharged, must demonstrate, before the close of comment period, that:
(i) There are sufficient remaining pollutant load allocations to allow for the discharge; and
(ii) The existing dischargers into that segment are subject to compliance schedules designed to bring the segment into compliance with applicable water quality standards. The council may waive the submission of information by the new source or new discharger required by (j) of this subsection if the council determines that the council already has adequate information to evaluate the request. An explanation of the development of limitations to meet the criteria of this paragraph is to be included in the fact sheet;
(k) Discharge any dangerous waste as defined in the Dangerous waste regulations, chapter 173-303 WAC, into a subsurface disposal system such as a well or drainfield.
[Statutory Authority: RCW 80.50.040 (1) and (12). WSR 04-21-013, amended and recodified as § 463-76-052, filed 10/11/04, effective 11/11/04; Order 114, § 463-38-052, filed 2/4/77. Formerly WAC 463-16-052.]
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(1) With respect to any discharge which is found by the council not to be in compliance with applicable effluent standards and limitations, applicable water quality standards, or other legally applicable requirements listed in WAC 463-76-053 (1)(b) and (c), the permittee shall be required to take specific steps to achieve compliance with the following:
(a) Any legally applicable schedule of compliance contained in:
(i) Applicable effluent standards and limitations;
(ii) Water quality standards; or
(iii) Legally applicable requirements listed in WAC 463-76-053; or
(b) In the absence of any legally applicable schedule of compliance, the permittee shall take the required steps in a reasonable period of time, such period to be consistent with the guidelines and requirements of the act.
(2) In any case where the period of time for compliance specified in paragraph (1)(a) of this section exceed nine months, a schedule of compliance shall be specified in the permit which will set forth interim requirements and the dates for their achievement; however, in no event shall more than nine months elapse between interim dates. If the time necessary for completion of the interim requirement (such as construction of a treatment facility) is more than nine months and is not readily divided into stages of completion, interim dates shall be specified for the submission of reports of progress toward completion of the interim requirement. For each NPDES permit schedule of compliance, interim dates and the final date of compliance shall, to the extent practicable, fall on the last day of the months of March, June, September and December.
(3) Either before or up to fourteen days following each interim date and the final date of compliance, the permittee shall provide the council with written notice of the permittee's compliance or noncompliance with the interim or final requirement.
(4) If a permittee fails or refuses to comply with an interim or final requirement in a permit, such noncompliance shall constitute a violation of the permit for which the council may modify or revoke the permit or take direct enforcement action.
[Statutory Authority: RCW 80.50.040 (1) and (12). WSR 04-21-013, amended and recodified as § 463-76-054, filed 10/11/04, effective 11/11/04; Order 114, § 463-38-054, filed 2/4/77. Formerly WAC 463-16-054.]
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Any permit issued by the council pursuant to this chapter shall become an attachment to a site certification agreement. For an energy facility proposal requiring the execution of a governor-approved site certification agreement, the permit shall be effective upon the governor's approval and execution of the site certification agreement. For existing facilities under the jurisdiction of the council, revisions, modifications or reissuance of the NPDES permit shall be effective when approved by the council and signed by the chair.
[WSR 04-23-003, recodified as § 463-76-0625, filed 11/4/04, effective 11/11/04. Statutory Authority: RCW 80.50.040 (1) and (12). WSR 04-21-013, § 463-38-0625, filed 10/11/04, effective 11/11/04.]
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(1) The approval, rejection, or modification of an NPDES permit shall be subject to judicial review pursuant to the provisions of chapter 34.05 RCW.
(2) No appeal shall be taken under paragraph (1) until such time as the council makes its recommendations to the governor pursuant to RCW 80.50.100(2).
[Statutory Authority: RCW 80.50.040 (1) and (12). WSR 04-21-013, recodified as § 463-76-063, filed 10/11/04, effective 11/11/04. Statutory Authority: RCW 80.50.040. WSR 91-03-090, § 463-38-063, filed 1/18/91, effective 2/18/91; Order 114, § 463-38-063, filed 2/4/77. Formerly WAC 463-16-063.]
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