Cwa Section 402

The npdes permits program is authorized by cwa section 402.

Cwa section 402. Clean water act objective the objective of this chapter is to restore and maintain the the objective of this chapter is to restore and maintain the. Section 402 k provides compliance with a permit issued pursuant to this section shall be deemed compliance for purposes of section 309 and 505 with sections 301 302 306 307 and 403 except any standard imposed under section 307 for a toxic pollutant injurious to human health. Under section 402 of the cwa discharges may be authorized through a national pollutant discharge elimination system npdes permit.

Discharges permitted prior to february 4 1987. Clean water act section 402. Clean water act section 402 national pollutant discharge elimination system npdes permits.

The initial permits issued in the 1970s and early 1980s focused on potws and industrial wastewater typically process wastewater and cooling water where applicable and in some cases industrial stormwater. Discharges associated with industrial activity. The 1987 water quality act wqa added section 402 p to the clean water act requiring that epa issue national pollutant discharge elimination system npdes permits for the following five categories of stormwater discharges.

Section 402 of the clean water act requires that all construction sites on an acre or greater of land as well as municipal industrial and commercial facilities discharging wastewater or stormwater directly from a point source a pipe ditch or channel into a surface water of the united states a lake river and or ocean must obtain permission under the national pollutant discharge. Cwa section 402 rich campbell epa region 9 office of regional counsel epa clean water act tribal workshop august 14 2008.