Region 5 Water

General Overview of UIC Permitting Process

The flowchart below shows the main steps that EPA follows to process a permit application from start to finish. The steps identified are:

1. Receive the permit application.
2. Conduct a completeness review and technical evaluation.
3. Make a draft decision, announce the draft decision and public comment period and accept public input by mail and at public hearing.
4. Prepare responses to public comments.
5. Issue final decision and distribute responses to public comments.
6. If the final decision is appealed, process the appeal.

EPA is at step five of this process, as highlighted in the graphic below.

Appeal Process

To appeal a decision to EPA's Environmental Appeals Board, you must have commented on the draft permits and you must submit a petition to the Board which must arrive at the Board's office on or before October 21, 2011. Only issues that were raised during the public comment period are subject to review by the Board. The petition must include:

• a statement of the reasons review is being requested (including a demonstration that the issue or issues being raised for review were raised during the public comment period in writing or orally at the public hearing)
• and when appropriate, a showing that the petition for a review of the permit condition or conditions in question is based on either,
  1. a finding of fact or conclusion of law which is clearly erroneous, or
  2. an exercise of discretion or an important policy demonstration which the Environmental Appeals Board should, in its discretion, review.

If you wish to request an administrative review by the Environmental Appeals Board, you must submit your request in writing. Please use the following addresses:

• By regular mail:
  EPA
  Environmental Appeals Board, (MC 1103B)
  Ariel Rios Building
  1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
  Washington, D.C. 20460-0001.
• By express mail or hand delivered:
  EPA
  Environmental Appeals Board
  Colorado Building
  1341 G. Street, NW, Suite 600
  Washington, D.C. 20005

The request will be timely if received at the Board's office within 30 days of the receipt of the notice of decision by those who have the right to appeal. For your request to be valid, it must conform to the requirements of Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations Section 124.19. This request for review must be made prior to seeking judicial review of any final permit decision.

EGT - UIC Class I Permit Application December 2007 and associated files

• Permit Application (PDF) (62 pp, 3.95MB)
• Waste Analysis Plan (PDF) (53 pp, 2.46MB)
• Well Record 1 (PDF) (65 pp, 4.52MB)
• Well Record 2 (PDF) (60 pp, 3.99MB)
• Well Record 3 (PDF) (50 pp, 3.35MB)
• Well Record 4 (PDF) (67 pp, 6.14MB)
• Completion Report Well #1-12 (PDF) (88 pp, 3.63MB)
• Completion Report Well #2-12 (PDF) (97 pp, 4.05MB)

EGT response for request for additional information July 2008

• Request for Additional Information (PDF) (3 pp, 22KB)
• EGT Response to the Request
• Plain Version (PDF) (176 pp, 11.49MB)
• Optimized OCR version (PDF) (176 pp, 9.38MB)