High Priority NPDES Permit Performance Measures for Section 106 under the Program Assessment and Rating Tool (PART)
EPA's Permitting for Environmental Results (PER) strategy is an action plan to ensure effective management of NPDES programs. One of the key tools to ensuring environmental results is to identify the most environmentally significant permits and prioritize them for reissuance.
Annually, regions and states develop a list of environmentally significant priority permits and establish a commitment to issue these permits. Selection criteria include impacts to TMDL-listed impaired waters, drinking water sources, endangered species, and integration of new water quality standards into permits. Combined with the long-standing GPRA goals to achieve and maintain a 90% overall permit issuance rate, achieving a 95% permit issuance rate for priority permits will contribute to the EPA Surface Water Program's long term goals of restoring and maintaining the health of water bodies and watersheds.
This measure was designed as a national performance indicator of High Priority NPDES permits. EPA has committed to maintaining a national priority permit issuance rate of 95%. Although the information is presented on a state-by-state basis for informational purposes, the user should be cautioned that annual performance in a given state for a specific year may vary year-to-year. The information cannot be used as a strict comparison between state performance in any given year.
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NPDES High Priority Permits
Issued by States - FY 2007 Performance
(October 1, 2006
- September 30, 2007)
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State
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Region
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Percentage of high priority state NPDES permits that are on schedule to be reissued
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AK |
10 |
* |
AL |
4 |
100.0% |
AR |
6 |
n/a |
AZ |
9 |
100.0% |
CA |
9 |
126.7% |
CO |
8 |
100.0% |
CT |
1 |
33.3% |
DC |
3 |
* |
DE |
3 |
100.0% |
FL |
4 |
100.0% |
GA |
4 |
# |
HI |
9 |
n/a |
IA |
7 |
85.7% |
ID |
10 |
* |
IL |
5 |
112.2% |
IN |
5 |
200.0% |
KS |
7 |
200.0% |
KY |
4 |
154.3% |
LA |
6 |
123.8% |
MA |
1 |
* |
MD |
3 |
200.0% |
ME |
1 |
100.0% |
MI |
5 |
# |
MN |
5 |
53.8% |
MO |
7 |
69.4% |
MS |
4 |
# |
MT |
8 |
122.7% |
NC |
4 |
125.0% |
ND |
8 |
n/a |
NE |
7 |
121.1% |
NH |
1 |
* |
NJ |
2 |
121.1% |
NM |
6 |
* |
NV |
9 |
100.0% |
NY |
2 |
140.0% |
OH |
5 |
80.0% |
OK |
6 |
100.0% |
OR |
10 |
100.0% |
PA |
3 |
100.0% |
PR |
2 |
* |
RI |
1 |
100.0% |
SC |
4 |
n/a |
SD |
8 |
111.1% |
TN |
4 |
60.0% |
TX |
6 |
81.8% |
UT |
8 |
n/a |
VA |
3 |
100.0% |
VI |
2 |
40.0% |
VT |
1 |
n/a |
WA |
10 |
87.5% |
WI |
5 |
250.0% |
WV |
3 |
150.0% |
WY |
8 |
n/a |
* - EPA is the permitting authority; the state does not issue permits.
# - State did not have a 2007 target for priority permits, but issued 2008 priority permits in advance.
Values exceeding 100% indicate priority permits scheduled for future issuance were issued in the current fiscal year.
For additional information about the Performance Measures for the NPDES High Priority Permits, please contact the Water Permits Division at (202) 564-9545.
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