New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 7 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › Chapter 14A - NEW JERSEY POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM › Subchapter 25 - MUNICIPAL STORMWATER REGULATION PROGRAM › Section 7:14A-25.6 - Content of NJPDES permits for small MS4s

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
(a) The NJPDES
				small MS4 permit shall require at a minimum that the permittee develop,
				implement, and enforce a stormwater program designed to reduce the discharge of
				pollutants from the permittee's small MS4 to the maximum extent practicable, to
				protect water quality, and to satisfy the appropriate water quality
				requirements of the Federal Act and the State Act. The stormwater program
				required under a general permit shall include the Statewide Basic Requirements
				(SBRs) that are listed under (b)1 and (b)3 through 8 below (and that may be set
				forth in more detail in the NJPDES permit). The stormwater program shall also
				include any additional measures (AMs) required under (e) below, and any other
				control or evaluation measures specified in the NJPDES permit. At the
				permittee's discretion, the stormwater program may also include optional
				measures (OMs) in accordance with (i) below. Except as provided in
				N.J.A.C.
				7:14A-25.8(e)1 and (g), this
				section and
				N.J.A.C.
				7:14A-25.7 do not apply to the Tier B
				Municipal Stormwater General Permit.
1. Best
				management practice (BMP) requirements are generally the most appropriate form
				of effluent limitations when designed to satisfy technology-based requirements
				(including reductions of pollutants to the maximum extent practicable) and to
				protect water quality. Implementation of BMPs (other than OMs) consistent with
				the provisions of the stormwater program required pursuant to this section and
				the provisions of the NJPDES permit required pursuant to
				N.J.A.C.
				7:14A-25.2(a)  constitutes
				compliance with the standard of reducing pollutants to the maximum extent
				practicable.
2. The NJPDES permit
				shall specify (for the permittee's first permit term) a time period of up to
				five years from the date of notification of general permit authorization (or
				the date of individual permit issuance) for the permittee to fully develop and
				implement its stormwater program for SBRs, and for any other measures specified
				in the NJPDES permit. For an AM required under (e) below, the areawide or
				Statewide water quality management plan will specify a time period for the
				permittee to fully develop and implement its stormwater program for that AM,
				and that time period will be listed in the permit when the permit is issued or
				in a minor modification to the permit.
3. The permittee shall prepare and implement
				a written stormwater pollution prevention plan (SPPP) that describes the
				permittee's stormwater program, and identifies the person or persons
				responsible for implementing or coordinating that program (including, at the
				permittee's discretion, OMs). If the permittee wants to share responsibilities
				for implementing one or more control measures (other than OMs) with one or more
				other entities pursuant to
				N.J.A.C.
				7:14A-25.7(a), the SPPP must
				describe which measure(s) the permittee will implement, and identify the
				entity(ies) that will implement the other measure(s) within the area served by
				the permittee's small MS4.
4. The
				Department shall include the requirements in
				N.J.A.C.
				7:14A-25.4 through 25.7 in any NJPDES permit
				issued for small MS4s, or develop limits in an individual NJPDES permit based
				on a permit application submitted for a small MS4 under
				N.J.A.C.
				7:14A-25.5 and 25.9.
5. The Department shall issue under
				N.J.A.C.
				7:14A-6.13 one or more general NJPDES permits
				for stormwater discharges from small MS4s. The Department shall make guidance
				available to assist permittees in the design and implementation of stormwater
				programs.