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WI Stat § 283.41 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 283 - Pollution discharge elimination.|283.41 - Notice to other government agencies.

283.41  Notice to other government agencies. (1) The department shall promulgate by rule procedures for notifying the U.S. environmental protection agency, the U.S. army corps of engineers, other states potentially affected by the proposed discharge, and any other interested agency or unit of government of any complete application or proposed modification thereof for a permit. (2) The department shall provide the U.S. environmental protection agency a period of time not to exceed 90 days to submit to the department its written views, recommendations or objections. All other interested government agencies and affected states shall be given 30 days to submit to the department written views or recommendations. (3) When the department receives an application for a permit for a discharge that would return water transferred from the Great Lakes basin to the source watershed through a stream tributary to one of the Great Lakes, the department shall provide notice of the application to the governing body of each city, village, and town through which the stream flows or that is adjacent to the stream downstream from the point at which the water would enter the stream. History:  1973 c. 74; 1975 c. 349; 1995 a. 227 s. 869; Stats. 1995 s. 283.41; 2007 a. 227.
WI Stat § 283.43 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 283 - Pollution discharge elimination.|283.43 - Public access to information.

283.43  Public access to information. (1) (a) The department shall make available to and provide facilities for the public to inspect and copy completed permit application forms, fact sheets, draft permits, or any public document thereon.(b) The department shall make available to the U.S. environmental protection agency any completed permit application forms, fact sheets, draft permits, or any public comments thereon, and shall also make available any other records, reports, plans or other information obtained by the department under this chapter. (2) The department shall protect as confidential any information, other than effluent data, contained in permit application forms, or in other records, reports or plans, that is found to be confidential under s. 283.55 (2) (c). (3) Any information afforded confidential status may be disclosed by the department to the U.S. environmental protection agency or its authorized representative.History:  1973 c. 74; 1995 a. 227 s. 870; Stats. 1995 s. 283.45.
WI Stat § 283.45 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 283 - Pollution discharge elimination.|283.45 - Fact sheets.

283.45  Fact sheets. (1) For every discharge which has a total volume of more than 500,000 gallons on any day of the year, except a storm water discharge for which a permit is issued under s. 283.33, the department shall, following public notice, prepare and send to any person who so requests, a fact sheet concerning the application described in the public notice. (2) The contents of such fact sheets shall be established by the department by rule and shall include at least the following information:(a) A sketch or detailed description of the location of the discharge described in the application;(b) A quantitative description of the discharges described in the application;(c) A statement of the tentative determination to issue or deny the permit application;(d) If a determination to issue a permit is made, then the following information shall also be included:1. The proposed effluent limitation for those pollutants proposed to be limited;2. A proposed schedule of compliance, including interim dates and requirements, for meeting the proposed effluent limitations;3. A brief description of any other proposed special conditions which will have a significant impact upon the discharge described in the application;(e) A brief description of the uses for which the receiving waters have been classified, of the applicable water quality standards and effluent standards;(f) A more detailed description of the procedures for the formulation of final determinations than that given in the public notice. (3) If the department proposes to include a water quality based effluent limitation in the permit, a fact sheet prepared under this section shall include all of the following:(a) A description of the calculation used by the department to derive the water quality based effluent limitation.(b) A discussion of the rationale used by the department to determine whether or not a compliance schedule for the water quality based effluent limitation shall be included in the proposed permit and the rationale used to develop any such schedule. The discussion shall include a description of treatment technologies or control strategies that may be available to the permittee for achieving compliance with the water quality based effluent limitation.(c) The assumptions and information used by the department to calculate the mixing zone for the discharge.History:  1973 c. 74; 1987 a. 60; 1993 a. 16; 1995 a. 227 s. 867; Stats. 1995 s. 283.45.
WI Stat § 283.47 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 283 - Pollution discharge elimination.|283.47 - Requests for information by permittee.

283.47  Requests for information by permittee. When a permit for which a fact sheet is required to be prepared under s. 283.45 is issued, reissued or modified, if the permittee submits, during the public comment period afforded under s. 283.39, to the department a written request for information on the background levels in the receiving water of substances for which a water quality based effluent limitation under s. 283.13 (5) is included in the proposed permit, the department shall, to the extent the information is available, provide to the permittee no later than the time that the permit is issued, reissued or modified such information or list of documents which present such information. Nothing in this section limits rights under ss. 19.31 to 19.37.History:  1987 a. 60; 1995 a. 227 s. 868; Stats. 1995 s. 283.47.
WI Stat § 283.49 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 283 - Pollution discharge elimination.|283.49 - Public hearing.

283.49  Public hearing. (1) (a) The department shall provide an opportunity for the applicant, any affected state, the U.S. environmental protection agency, any interested state or federal agency, person or group of persons to request a public hearing with respect to a permit application. Such request for a public hearing shall be filed with the department within 30 days after the public notice of the complete permit application is provided and shall indicate the interest of the party filing the request and the reasons why a hearing is warranted.(b) The department shall hold a public hearing on a permit application or a group of applications if requested by the U.S. environmental protection agency, any affected state, on the petition of 5 or more persons or if the department deems that there is a significant public interest in holding such a hearing.(c) The department shall promulgate by rule procedures for the conduct of public hearings held under this section. Hearings held under this section are not contested cases under s. 227.01 (3). (2) (a) Public notice of any hearing held under this section shall be provided in accordance with the requirements of s. 283.39 (1) and the public notice shall be considered to be provided on the date specified in s. 283.39 (1m).(b) The form and content of such public notice shall be established by departmental rule.History:  1973 c. 74; 1985 a. 182 s. 57; 1995 a. 227 s. 871; Stats. 1995 s. 283.49; 2011 a. 167.
WI Stat § 283.51 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 283 - Pollution discharge elimination.|283.51 - Mining hearing.

283.51  Mining hearing. If a hearing on the permit application is conducted as a part of a hearing under s. 293.43, the notice, comment and hearing provisions in that section supersede the notice, comment and hearing provisions of ss. 283.39, 283.41 and 283.49.History:  1979 c. 221; 1995 a. 227 s. 872; Stats. 1995 s. 283.51.
WI Stat § 283.57 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 283 - Pollution discharge elimination.|283.57 - Waste treatment service charges.

283.57  Waste treatment service charges. No permit shall be issued to any publicly owned treatment works any part of which was constructed with the aid of federal grants made after March 1, 1973, unless it has adopted or will adopt a system of charges to assure that: (1) Each recipient of waste treatment services shall pay its proportionate share of the cost of operation and maintenance, including replacement, of any waste treatment services provided by such treatment works; (2) Each industrial user of the treatment works shall pay that portion of the cost of construction of the treatment works paid by the federal government allocable to the treatment of its industrial waste.History:  1973 c. 74; 1995 a. 227 s. 874; Stats. 1995 s. 283.57.
WI Stat § 283.59 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 283 - Pollution discharge elimination.|283.59 - Reporting of new discharges.

283.59  Reporting of new discharges. (1) Any permittee discharging pollutants into the waters of the state shall report to the department any facility expansion, production increases, or process modifications which result in new or increased discharges of pollutants exceeding the terms of the permit. Such report shall be by submission of a new permit application or, if the new or increased discharge does not violate the effluent limitations specified in the permit, by submission of notice to the department of the nature of such new or increased discharge. The form and content of such notice shall be prescribed by departmental rule. (2) Any person discharging, or intending to begin discharging, into a publicly owned treatment works who is or will become subject to the discharge reporting requirements of s. 283.37 (4), shall give notice to the department and the owner or operator of such works the following:(a) Any introduction of pollutants into such treatment works from any new source; or(b) Any types or volumes of pollutants being introduced into such treatment works which were not described in the report submitted under s. 283.37 (4). (3) The owner or operator of a publicly owned treatment works receiving a notice under sub. (2) is subject to sub. (1), and shall also include information on the quality and quantity of effluent to be introduced into such treatment works and any anticipated impact of such pollutants on the quantity or quality of effluent to be discharged from such works. (4) Notice of a new or increased discharge submitted to the department under this section shall be given at least 180 days prior to the date such new or increased discharge shall commence. The department, through the department of justice as provided under s. 283.89, may enforce violations of this section directly against persons subject to s. 283.37 (4).History:  1973 c. 74; 1995 a. 227 s. 873; Stats. 1995 s. 283.59.
WI Stat § 283.60 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 283 - Pollution discharge elimination.|283.60 - Waiver for certain nutrient management research projects.

283.60  Waiver for certain nutrient management research projects. (1) The department may waive compliance with any requirement of this chapter or of a permit issued under this chapter for a research project for the purpose of evaluating advanced agricultural nutrient management tools and precision agricultural technology, if all of the following conditions are met:(a) The department determines that the project is unlikely to have a negative impact on, or to threaten, the environment or public health.(b) The department reviews and approves the project before the project begins.(c) The person who will operate the project agrees to take necessary actions to maintain compliance with surface water and groundwater requirements under ch. 281 and this chapter, other than a requirement waived under this section, and to take necessary actions to regain compliance with those requirements if a violation occurs in the course of the project. (2) A person seeking a waiver under sub. (1) shall apply to the department in writing. The department shall approve or deny an application in writing no more than 45 days after receiving a complete application. The department may approve an application with conditions, including requirements for reporting project activities to the department and limitations on the duration of the project or the waiver for the project. (3) A project for which the department grants a waiver under sub. (1) is an agricultural practice for the purposes of s. 823.08.History:  2011 a. 32, 188.
WI Stat § 283.61 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 283 - Pollution discharge elimination.|283.61 - Exemption for certain alcohol fuel production systems.

283.61  Exemption for certain alcohol fuel production systems. (1) Definitions. As used in this section:(a) “Distillate waste product" has the meaning designated under s. 289.44 (1) (a).(b) “Environmentally sound storage facility" has the meaning designated under s. 289.44 (1) (b).(c) “Private alcohol fuel production system" has the meaning designated under s. 289.44 (1) (c). (2)  Exemption. No permit is required under this chapter for the owner of a private alcohol fuel production system to discharge or dispose of any distillate waste product if the waste product is stored in an environmentally sound storage facility and disposed of using an environmentally safe land spreading technique and the discharge or disposal is confined to the property of the owner.History:  1979 c. 221; 1995 a. 227 s. 848; Stats. 1995 s. 283.61.
WI Stat § 283.62 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 283 - Pollution discharge elimination.|283.62 - Exemption for certain fruit and vegetable washing facilities.

283.62  Exemption for certain fruit and vegetable washing facilities. (1) Definitions. As used in this section:(b) “Washing station" means a facility where fruits or vegetables are washed or cleaned after harvesting and before further processing.(c) “Wash water" means water that has been used at a washing station to wash or clean fruits or vegetables and that may contain dirt or other substances removed from the fruits or vegetables during the washing process or biodegradable additives used during the washing process.(d) “Wash water storage facility" means a facility, including a settling pond or lagoon, that is used to store wash water. (2)  Exemption. The owner of a washing station may discharge or dispose of wash water, and may land spread or compost plant parts separated from the wash water, without a permit under this chapter if all of the following requirements are met:(a) The washing station is not adjacent to or operated as part of a food processing plant, as defined in s. 97.29 (1) (h).(b) All wash water is either stored in a sealed wash water storage facility or is dispersed on land owned or leased by the owner of the washing station in a manner which avoids ponding, runoff and nuisance conditions and in accordance with acceptable agricultural practices or acceptable practices for the land spreading of waste.(c) All plant parts that are separated from the wash water are either composted or stored in a plant parts storage facility and disposed of using an environmentally safe land spreading technique. The disposal or composting must be confined to property owned or leased by the owner of the washing station.(d) For a washing station that anticipates operating at least 100 days per year or that operated at least 100 days during the immediately preceding year, do all of the following:1. Register annually with the department as a washing station.2. Submit annually an operating plan that implements best management practices and that is approved by the department.3. Operate only in accordance with the approved operating plan.History:  1995 a. 99; 1995 a. 227 s. 849; Stats. 1995 s. 283.62.
WI Stat § 283.81 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 283 - Pollution discharge elimination.|283.81 - Waiver.

283.81  Waiver. The department may waive compliance with any requirement of this chapter or shorten the time periods under this chapter to the extent necessary to prevent an emergency condition threatening public health, safety or welfare.History:  1983 a. 410; 1995 a. 227 s. 850; Stats. 1995 s. 283.81.
WI Stat § 283.82 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 283 - Pollution discharge elimination.|283.82 - Land application of sewage sludge.

283.82  Land application of sewage sludge. (1) The department shall oversee, set technical standards for, and regulate the application of sewage sludge to land. (2) No city, village, town, or county may prohibit, through zoning or any other means, the application of sewage sludge to land if that application complies with this section and rules promulgated under this section. (3) A city, village, town, or county may regulate the application of sewage sludge to land if the regulation is identical to regulations of the department under sub. (1).History:  2005 a. 347.
WI Stat § 283.85 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 283 - Pollution discharge elimination.|283.85 - Design of publicly owned treatment facilities.

283.85  Design of publicly owned treatment facilities. (1) The department shall encourage the design of publicly owned treatment works which provide for:(a) The recycling of sewage pollutants by using them in agriculture, silviculture or aquaculture;(b) The confined and contained disposal of those pollutants not recycled;(c) The reclamation of wastewater;(d) The ultimate disposal of sludge in a manner not resulting in environmental hazards; and(e) The integration of facilities for sewage disposal with other facilities designed to dispose of solid waste and thermal pollution, for the purpose of producing revenues in excess of cost in the operation of the integrated facility. (2) All plans submitted under s. 281.41 after July 22, 1973, for new treatment works, or modifications of treatment works, which will be eligible for construction grants or loans under s. 281.55 or 281.57 or under ss. 281.58 and 281.59, shall contain:(a) Adequate analysis and data establishing that the works or modification is the most cost efficient method of meeting limitations and standards required of the facility; and(b) A feasibility plan on using ultimate disposal of pollutants to land rather than to air or the waters of the state.History:  1973 c. 74; 1979 c. 34 s. 2102 (39) (d); 1987 a. 399; 1989 a. 366; 1995 a. 227 s. 879; Stats. 1995 s. 283.85.
WI Stat § 283.87 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 283 - Pollution discharge elimination.|283.87 - Liability for water pollution.

283.87  Liability for water pollution. (1) Department may recover costs. In an action against any person who violates this chapter or any provision of s. 29.601 or chs. 30, 31, 281, 285 or 289 to 299 relating to water quality the department may recover the cost of removing, terminating or remedying the adverse effects upon the water environment resulting from the unlawful discharge or deposit of pollutants into the waters of the state, including the cost of replacing fish or other wildlife destroyed by the discharge or deposit. All moneys recovered under this section shall be deposited into the environmental fund. (2)  Adverse effects. The department may introduce evidence of the environmental pollution that resulted from the unlawful discharge or deposit and evidence of the potential of the water environment for public use if the unlawful discharge or deposit had not occurred in order to assist the court in determining the adverse effects upon the water environment resulting from the unlawful discharge or deposit and in determining the amount of liability under sub. (1). (3)  Administration of award. The court shall administer an award made under this section. An award made under this section may be used to remove, terminate or remedy the adverse effects of the discharge or deposit, to restore or develop the water environment for public use or to provide grants to municipalities consistent with any court order. (4)  Aids to municipalities; environmental damage compensation. The department may make grants to any county, city, village, or town for the acquisition or development of recreational lands and facilities from moneys appropriated under s. 20.370 (4) (dv). Use and administration of the grant shall be consistent with any court order issued under sub. (3). A county, city, village, or town which receives a grant under this section is not required to share in the cost of a project under this section.History:  1973 c. 74; 1979 c. 221; 1995 a. 27; 1997 a. 248; 1999 a. 150 s. 375; 2005 a. 347; 2017 a. 59.Note:  2005 Wis. Act 347, which affected this section, contains extensive explanatory notes.
WI Stat § 283.89 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 283 - Pollution discharge elimination.|283.89 - Enforcement.

283.89  Enforcement. (1) Except as provided in sub. (2m), whenever on the basis of any information available to it the department finds that any person is violating this chapter, any rule adopted thereunder or any term or condition of any permit issued pursuant to this chapter, including general permits issued under s. 283.35, the department shall refer the matter to the department of justice for enforcement under s. 283.91. (2) The department of justice shall initiate the legal action requested by the department under sub. (1). In any action commenced by it under this subsection, the department of justice shall, prior to stipulation, consent order, judgment or other final disposition of the case, consult with the department for the purpose of determining the department's views on final disposition. The department of justice shall not enter into a final disposition different than that previously discussed without first informing the department. (2m) If the department finds a violation of s. 283.33 (1) to (8) for which a person is subject to a forfeiture under s. 283.91 (2), the department may issue a citation and, if the department does issue a citation, the procedures in ss. 23.50 to 23.99 apply. (3) In any criminal action commenced under s. 283.91, the department of justice may request the assistance of the district attorney of any county in which the violation occurred, and the district attorney shall provide the requested assistance. (4) Any civil action on a violation shall be commenced in the circuit court for the county in which the violation occurred in whole or in part, unless all the parties consent to the commencement of the action in the circuit court for Dane County. Any criminal action on a violation shall be commenced in the circuit court for the county in which the violation occurred.History:  1973 c. 74; 1979 c. 34; 1993 a. 16; 1995 a. 227 s. 881; Stats. 1995 s. 283.89; 1997 a. 193; 2001 a. 16.
WI Stat § 283.93 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 283 - Pollution discharge elimination.|283.93 - Environmental pollution.

283.93  Environmental pollution. Regulatory actions taken by the department to eliminate or control environmental pollution shall be exempt from the provisions of s. 1.11, other than: (1) Involvement in federal financial assistance grants for the construction of publicly owned treatment works; (2) Financial assistance under s. 281.55 or 281.57 or under ss. 281.58 and 281.59; and (3) Issuance of permits or approvals for new sources of environmental pollution.History:  1973 c. 74; 1979 c. 34 s. 2102 (39) (d); 1987 a. 399; 1989 a. 366; 1995 a. 227 s. 882; Stats. 1995 s. 283.93.
WI Stat § 283.95 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 283 - Pollution discharge elimination.|283.95 - Savings clause.

283.95  Savings clause. Except as provided in this chapter, nothing in this chapter shall be deemed to supersede any other statute or session law.History:  1973 c. 74; 1995 a. 227 s. 880; Stats. 1995 s. 283.95.