2022-23423: Notice of Availability of Draft NPDES Small Wastewater Treatment Facilities General Permits Modification

Summary

The Director of the Water Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency--Region 1 (EPA), is providing a Notice of Availability for the Draft National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Small Wastewater Treatment Facility General Permit (Small WWTF GP) Modification for discharges to certain waters of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the State of New Hampshire. This Draft NPDES Small WWTF GP Modification ("Draft General Permit Modification") establishes effluent limitations and requirements, effluent and ambient monitoring requirements, reporting requirements, and standard conditions for 21 additional eligible facilities currently covered by individual NPDES permits (see Attachment E of the Draft General Permit Modification for a list of WWTFs being added to the General Permit; 11 in Massachusetts, 10 in New Hampshire, and 2 Co-Permittees in New Hampshire). The Draft General Permit Modification is available on EPA Region 1's website at https://www.epa.gov/npdes-permits/region-1-draft- small-wastewater-treatment-facilities-general-permit-modification. The Statement of Basis for the Draft General Permit Modification sets forth principal facts and the significant factual, legal, methodological, and policy questions considered in the development of the Draft General Permit Modification and is also available at this website.

The agency’s own summary, as published.