National Pretreatment Program: Update from U'S' EPA Headquarters 24th Annual Region VI Pretreatment

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National Pretreatment Program Update from
U.S. EPA Headquarters 24th Annual Region VI
Pretreatment Association Workshop
August 12, 2008Oklahoma City, OK
Jan Marie PickrelU.S. Environmental Protection
Agency Office of Water/Office of Wastewater
Management
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Activities at the National Level in the
Pretreatment Program

• Streamlining Rule Implementation (Guidance
  Update, Tool Development)
• Industry Sectors and Effluent Guidelines
• Program Update
• Pharmaceuticals Personal Care Products (PPCPs)
• Mercury, Prions, Biodiesel, NPE, etc.

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Pretreatment Streamlining Rule Summary of Final
Rule Changes

• POTW Pretreatment Programs cannot be less
  stringent than State regulations
• Revised Local Authorities (ordinances) and
  Program Procedures must be submitted for approval
  

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Pretreatment Streamlining Rule Tool Development

• Fact Sheets http//cfpub.epa.gov/npdes/home.cfm?p
  rogram_id3
• Summary of Changes
• Required Changes
• Equivalent Mass Limits
• Equivalent Concentration Limits
• New Classifications for CIU
• Sampling/Pollutants-Not-Present
• Best Management Practices (BMPs)
• Slug Control Plans
• Significant Non-Compliance (SNC) in review
• General Permits in development

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Pretreatment Streamlining Rule Tool Development

• Guidance Manual Updates/Revisions
• Model Sewer Use Ordinance Word and pdf
• Checklist - Model Sewer Use Ordinance Reviews
  Word and pdf
• Control Authority Pretreatment Audit Checklist
  and Instructions in review
• Introduction to the National Pretreatment
  Program in review
• Industrial User Permitting Guidance Manual in
  review
• http//cfpub.epa.gov/npdes/docs.cfm?document_type_
  id1view1program_id3sortdate_published
• OR Go to http//cfpub.epa.gov/npdes/home.cfm?p
  rogram_id3
• Click on Publications (right column) Click on
  Policy and Guidance Documents

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Process for Effluent Guidelines Pretreatment
Standards Annual Review and Biennial Plan
Solicit Stakeholder Recommendations on revising
existing guidelines and on targeting industries
for new guidelines
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Screening Level Analyses that Review Pollutant
Discharges by Industrial Category
Issue Final 2008 Plan (8/08) Decide Which
Industrial Categories to Identify for
Potential Guidelines Revisions or New Guidelines
Resolve Major Data Quality Questions or Other
Issues
Current Status
X
Publish Preliminary Plan Identifying Industrial
Categories for Detailed Preliminary Study
(10/07)
Conduct Additional Outreach Meetings with
Stakeholders
Perform Detailed and Preliminary Investigations
Collect Public Comments
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Industry Sector and Effluent Guidelines
304(m) Plans Final 2004 Plan 9/2/04

• Ongoing Activities
• Listed two new industries for ELG rulemaking
• Drinking Water Facilities
• Currently gathering data
• Airport Deicing Operations
• Proposal in December 2008?
• Final action in September 2009?
• Identified Existing Categories for possible
  revision
• Vinyl Chloride and Chlor-Alkali manufacturing
  industry
• Facilities in this industry are contained in 2
  current ELGs
• Organic Chemicals, Plastics and Synthetic Fibers
• Inorganic Chemicals
• Ongoing data collection
• http//www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-WATER/2004/Septemb
  er/Day-02/w20040.htm

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Industry Sector and Effluent Guidelines
304(m) Plans Final 2006 Plan 12/21/2006

• Identified 4 Industrial Sectors for Detailed
  Study
• Coalbed Methane (as part of existing Oil Gas
  Extraction)
• Steam Electric Power Generation
• Coal Mining
• Health Services Industry
• Dental Mercury
• Pharmaceuticals
• http//www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-IMPACT/ 2006/
  December/Day-21/i21825.pdf

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Industry Sector and Effluent Guidelines
304(m) Plans 2008 Proposed Plan

• Federal Register Notice - Oct. 30, 2007 - 72 FR
  61335
• http//www.epa.gov/waterscience/guide/304m/index
  .html
• Presented Preliminary category reviews for
• Ore Mining and Dressing
• Centralized Waste Treatment
• Waste Combustors
• Presented Status Updates on 4 detailed studies
  identified in 2006 Final Plan
• Coalbed Methane Extraction
• Steam Electric Power Generation
• Coal Mining
• Health Services Industry
• Requested Public Comment by December 30, 2007

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Industry Sector and Effluent Guidelines
304(m) Plans 2008 Proposed Plan

• Received 30 public comments from
• State Government (4)
• Municipalities and POTWs (11)
• Environmental Groups (1)
• Private Citizens (1)
• Industry and Related Trade Associations (13)
• Federal Register Notice - Oct. 30, 2007 - 72 FR
  61335
• Comments provided significant data on specific
  industries and EPA methodology for estimating
  pollutant discharges and toxicity
• Section IX ( 72 FR 61353 - 61355 )

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Industry Sector and Effluent Guidelines
304(m) Plans 2008 Final Plan

• Anticipate Publication in Aug./Sept. 2008
• Present 2008 Annual Reviews of existing effluent
  guidelines and pretreatment standards for all 56
  point source categories
• Review pollutant discharges from TRI database
• Status updates and findings on 4 Studies
• Coalbed Methane Extraction
• Steam Electric Power Generating Detailed Study
  (Interim Study)
• Coal Mining
• Health Services Sector
• Dental Amalgam Management and Best Practices
• Unused Pharmaceuticals Mgmt and Best Practices
  (Interim Study)
• Solicit Public Comment for 2009 Annual Reviews

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Pretreatment Tools Tool / Guidance Development

• New Source Dates for Direct and Indirect
  Dischargers
• memorandum dated Sept. 28, 2006
• http//www.epa.gov/npdes/pubs/newsource_dates.pdf
  
• Fact Sheet Controlling Fats, Oils, and Grease
  Discharges from Food Service Establishments
• EPA-833-F-07-007, July 2007
• http//www.epa.gov/npdes/pubs/pretreatment_foodse
  rvice_fs.pdf

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Industry Sector and Effluent Guidelines Health
Services Sector Dental Amalgam

• Summaries of State Mercury Medical/Dental Waste
  Programs
• http//www.epa.gov/epaoswer/hazwaste/mercury/medi
  cal.htm
• From the Naval Institute for Dental and
  Biomedical Research
• Mercury Removal Technologies
• http//amalgamrecycling.org/publications.html
• Link to Publications on Mercury Removal
  Technologies from Dental-Unit Wastewater
• http//amalgamrecycling.org/publications.html
• June 3, 2008 -- Questions and Answers on Dental
  Amalgam from USFDA Center for Devices and
  Radiological Health
• http//www.fda.gov/cdrh/consumer/amalgams.html
• October 2, 2007 American Dental Association
  (ADA) amended its Best Management Practices to
  include use of Amalgam Separators
• http//www.ada.org/public/media/releases/0710_rel
  ease01.asp

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Industry Sector and Effluent Guidelines Health
Services Sector - Pharmaceuticals

• Interim Report
• Unused Pharmaceuticals in the Health Care
  Industry http//www.epa.gov/waterscience/guide/3
  04m/2008/hsi-PRELIM-study-200808.pdf
• Supporting Statement for ICR
• Study of Unused Pharmaceuticals from Medical and
  Veterinary Facilities Information Collection
  Request (ICR)
• http//www.epa.gov/waterscience/guide/304m/2008/h
  si-supporting-200807.pdf
• Expect Federal Register Notice on this any day
  now
• Focus
• Hospitals
• Long-term Care Facilities, and
• Veterinary Hospitals

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Miscellaneous TopicsPharmaceuticals Personal
Care Products (PPCP)

• Contaminant Candidate List 2 (CCL2)
• Final Regulatory Determinations for Priority
  Contaminants on the Second Drinking Water
  Contaminant Candidate List
• February 2005 51 contaminants listed
• May 11, 2007 Preliminary Regulatory
  Determinations on 11 of 51
• http//www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-WATER/2008/July/Da
  y-30/w17463.pdf
• Contaminant Candidate List 3 (CCL 3)
• http//www.epa.gov/ogwdw/ccl/ccl3.html
• Considered 287 chemicals idd as PPCPs
• Only 1 included on Draft CCL 3
• Draft Notice for Public Review and Comment
  February 21, 2008 73 FR 9628-54
• http//www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-WATER/
  2008/February/Day-21/w3114.pdf
• EPAs Website w/ Frequent Questions
  http//epa.gov/ppcp/faq.html

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Miscellaneous Topics Pharmaceuticals in the
Nations Water Assessing Potential Risks and
Actions to Address the Issue

• April 15, 2008 Testimony to
• Transportation Safety, Infrastructure Security
  and Water Quality Subcommittee of the
• U.S. Senate Environment Public Works Committee
• http//epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction
  
• Hearings.HearingHearing_ID30641a14-802a-23ad4b51
  a10dd439793f
• USGS Studies (and others) of Occurrence in Stream
  Water, Well Water, Stream Sediment, and Soil
  (amended with manure and biosolids)
  http//toxics.usgs.gov/bib/bib-Emerging.html

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Miscellaneous TopicsPharmaceuticals Personal
Care Products (PPCP)

• Goals of 4-Pronged Strategy
• Improve Science
• Improve Public Understanding
• Identify Partnership and Stewardship
  Opportunities
• Take Regulatory Action as appropriate

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Miscellaneous TopicsMercury, Prions, Biodiesel
and Ethanol, etc.

• Mercury
• March 2007 - Memorandum on Listing Waters
  Impaired by
• Atmospheric Mercury Under Clean Water Act
  Section 303(d) Voluntary Subcategory 5m (140
  KB 20 pg)
• http//www.epa.gov/owow/tmdl/mercury5m/
• August 2006 Draft Methylmercury Fish Tissue
  Criterion
• Implementation Guidance http//www.epa.gov/water
  science/criteria/methylmercury/
• Prions
• Fate and Transport of Chronic Wasting Disease
  Prions in a
• Landfill Environment Study Univ. of Wisconsin
  June 2007
• http//www.epa.gov/future_of_science/promote/cwd
  .html
• Determination of Prions as pest April 29,
  2004 Memorandum http//www.epa.gov/oppad001/record
  s_of_decision_on_prions.pdf

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Miscellaneous TopicsMercury, Prions, Biodiesel
and Ethanol, etc.

• Biodiesel Manufacturing - Applicability Guidance
  regarding Wastewater Discharges from
• Ethanol Manufacturing
• http//www.epa.gov/region07/priorities/agricultur
  e/ethanol_plants_manual.pdf
• Antimicrobials multiple EPA and inter-Agency
  groups
• Update of U.S. EPA NPDES Permit Writers Manual
  (December 1996) expected to be issued in FY09

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Miscellaneous TopicsSafer Detergents Stewardship
Initiative

• EPAs Design for the Environment Program
  identifies safer alternative surfactants that
  are
• Comparable in cost, and
• Readily available.
• Alternatives for
• Non-ionic surfactants
• Builders and Chelators
• Solvents
• Recognition program
• On-line resource
• http//www.cleangredients.org/

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Miscellaneous TopicsSafer Detergents Stewardship
Initiative

• Cintas Corp. will stop using
• Nonlyphenolic Ethoxylate (NPE)-based detergents
  by the end of 2008 in its North American
  facilities
• announced July 28, 2008
• More than 175 facilities nationwide
• On-line resource for DfEs efforts to scope out
  alternatives
• http//www.epa.gov/dfe/pubs/projects/formulat/fin
  dings.htm
• On-line resource
• http//www.cleangredients.org/

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Other Activities at the National Level in the
Office of Wastewater Management

• Sanitary Sewer Overflows (Guidance)
• Draft Model NPDES Permit Requirements for
  Municipal Sanitary Sewer Collection Systems and
  SSOs Aug. 20, 07
• http//www.epa.gov/npdes/pubs/sso_fact_sheet_model
  _permit_cond.pdf
• http//www.epa.gov/npdes/pubs/sso_model_permit_con
  ditions.pdf
• Green Infrastructure (Managing Wet Weather with
  Green Infrastructure)
• http//cfpub.epa.gov/npdes/home.cfm?program_id298
  
• Water Transfers Rule June 13, 2008
• 73 FR 33697-33708
• http//www.epa.gov/npdes/regulations/water_transfe
  rs_finalrule.pdf
• Water Sense Program
• http//www.epa.gov/owm/water-efficiency/
• National Water Program Strategy Response to
  Climate Change
• http//www.epa.gov/water/climatechange/

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More Information

• Pretreatment Program
• Jan Pickrel(202) 564-7904pickrel.jan_at_epa.gov
• Effluent Guidelines Program
• Carey Johnston
• [phone]
• Johnston.carey_at_epa.gov
• Pharmaceuticals
• Meghan Hessenauer
• [phone]
• Hessenauer.meghan_at_epa.gov