Key Takeaways
What Is Happening? The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized the 2021 National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Multi-Sector General Permit (MSGP) for stormwater discharges associated with industrial activities, which will take effect and supersede the 2015 MSGP on March 1, 2021.
Who Is Impacted? Short term: industrial facilities in jurisdictions where EPA is the NPDES permitting authority. Longer-term: industrial facilities in states that model their NPDES stormwater general permits after EPA’s MSGP.
What Should I Do? For industrial facilities with current coverage under the 2015 MSGP, prompt attention to permit requirement changes is prudent to ensure that all necessary updates to facilities’ Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plans (SWPPPs), a prerequisite of coverage renewal, are made and implemented prior to the May 30, 2021 coverage renewal deadline.
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Reducing the Flood of Changes EPA Issues a More Tempered Final 2021 Multi-Sector General Permit than Originally Proposed Friday, February 26, 2021
Key Takeaways
What Is Happening? The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized the 2021 National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Multi-Sector General Permit (MSGP) for stormwater discharges associated with industrial activities, which will take effect and supersede the 2015 MSGP on March 1, 2021.
Who Is Impacted? Short term: industrial facilities in jurisdictions where EPA is the NPDES permitting authority. Longer-term: industrial facilities in states that model their NPDES stormwater general permits after EPA’s MSGP.
What Should I Do? For industrial facilities with current coverage under the 2015 MSGP, prompt attention to permit requirement changes is prudent to ensure that all necessary updates to facilities’ Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plans (SWPPPs), a prerequisite of
Highlights
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has published its National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) 2021 Issuance of the Multi-Sector General Permit for Stormwater Discharges Associated with Industrial Activity (MSGP).
Several items from the proposed 2020 MSGP were not adopted in the final version, including a coal-tar sealcoat prohibition, expansion beyond the 2015 MSGP provisions for permitted discharges to CERCLA/Superfund sites, automatic delays to new discharger authorization due to enforcement, universal benchmark monitoring for all dischargers (as opposed to sector-specific requirements) and requiring sector-specific control measure fact sheet checklists.
The permit s effective date is March 1, 2021. Operators with permit coverage under the 2015 MSGP (which has been administratively continued) have until May 30, 2021, to submit a new Notice of Intent (NOI). Eligible new dischargers are required to submit an NOI for permit coverage at least 30