Upload
kevin-perry
View
393
Download
0
Embed Size (px)
Citation preview
Don’t Expose Yourself! Can you be excluded from stormwater
permitting?
Bill Lindsey, P.E.
•General Permits
•No SWPPP
•No Quarterly Sampling
• Fees - $300 for 5 years = $60 per year
Old Stormwater Permits = Fun!
• SWPPP & Monthly Inspections
• Quarterly Sampling - # of Outfalls?
• Benchmarks/Limits
• BMP’s – Tweaking/Repairing
• Fees = $200 year
• Losing Stream = Individual Permit! (old fees - $1,350 Yr, new - $1,800)
New SW Permits = Not Fun!
• EPA Conditional No Exposure Exclusion for Industrial Activity – January 2000
• Who can qualify?
• Conditions?
• Definitions and Details?
• Industrial Materials
• No Exposure/Cover
Can you be excluded for a stormwater permit?
• EPA Guidance – All industrial categories
• Excluded:
• “Construction Sites”
• “Junk cars & stockpiled train rails”
• MDNR – 28 MOG General Permits – Process Water = Difficult - None really eligible.
• MOG49 - Quarries, Asphalt, Redi-Mix
• MDNR – 17 MOR General Stormwater Permits
• Facility Wide – Not Outfall Specific
Who Can Qualify?
• MOR13 – Textiles & Printing
• MOR203 Fab. Metal & Light Industry
• MOR80C–Motor Freight Transportation
• Individual Permit -due to Losing Stream
MDNR General Stormwater Permits Potentially Eligible – YES!
• MO-RA – Land Disturbance
• MO-R04 – MS4
• MOR100 – City Land Disturbance
• MOR22 – Wood & Lumber
• MOR23 – Chemicals, Plastics, Biodiesel
• MOR240, 241 – Agrichemicals
• MOR60 – Vehicle Salvage
• MOR80 – Airports & Trans. Stations
MDNR General Stormwater Permits Probably Not!
• No Exposure – All industrial materials and activities are protected by a storm resistant shelter to prevent exposure to rain, snow, snowmelt, and/or runoff.
Conditions to be Excluded
• Material handling equipment or activities
• Industrial machinery
• Raw materials
• Intermediate products
• By-products & waste products
• Final products
Industrial Materials?
• Completely roofed and walled buildings or structures
• Structures with a top but no sides – providing not subject to run-on /run-off of stormwater
• Temporary cover = tarpaulins
Storm-Resistant Shelter?
• Drums, barrels, tanks and containers that are “sealed.”
• Above Ground Tanks (AST’s)
• Lidded Dumpsters – waste materials
• Plant Vehicles – not leaking
• Final products – intended for outdoor use (i.e. “new cars”)
• Containers, racks, pallets to store or move final products – if clean.
No Shelter Required!
• Drums - valves that are used in field
• Containers & materials – open, deteriorated, leaking
• Outdoor vehicle & equipment maintenance
• Leaking pipes and pumps
• Open dumpsters
• Mobilized by rain – rock salt
• Particles or residue – roof stacks or vents
• Particles or residue – track out
Stuff that won’t fly!
• Final products that are “intermediate” products
• Intermediate products:
• Used in the composition of another product
• Sheet metal, tubing, and paint
• Chemically treated or not impervious to weathering
More stuff that won’t fly!
• EPA NPDES Form 3510-11
• 11 Questions – answer No!
• Submit to MDNR
• Good for 5 years
• Maintain all conditions of no exposure
How do you apply to be excluded for a stormwater permit?