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Industrial Pretreatment
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National Pretreatment Program
The National Pretreatment Program controls and minimizes the loading of pollutants to publicly owned treatment works from industrial, non-domestic sources to protect against operational, water quality, biosolids quality and worker health and safety problems.Pretreatment Program Guidance
Local Limits Spreadsheet file
used to calculate local limits in conjunction with U.S. EPA's 1987
Local Limits Guidance Manual and Region 5's Local Limits Guidance.
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U.S. EPA Region 5 Local Limits Guidance Narrative guidance which complements U.S. EPA's 1987 Local Limits Guidance Manual. Developed for use by POTWs in Illinois and Indiana to develop technically based local limits submittals for review and approval by Region 5.
Mercury
Pollutant Minimization Program (PMP) Guidance
This Guidance has been developed in conjunction with the Region 5
states, to address situations where a PMP is required in a state-issued NPDES
permit for a POTW as a condition for receiving a variance from the underlying
water quality standard for mercury.
Categorical Standards Proposal Dates for New Source Determinations