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Priority Area 5:
Compliance Reporting Under the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES)
- FY2002: OECA began an effort to modernize PCS by creating ICIS-NPDES.
- 2006: An ICIS-NPDES Expanded Steering Committee (ESC) was launched with involvement from the Environmental Council of the States (ECOS), Association of State and Interstate Water Pollution Control Administrators (ASIWPCA), and other state representatives. The ESC held three face-to-face meetings and many conference calls in 2006 to discuss the architecture and data requirements for ICIS-NPDES.
- 04/30/2007: A draft ICIS-NPDES Policy Statement was sent to the states for review. The Policy Statement identified the minimum data reporting that EPA needed to manage the national NPDES program.
- 09/12/2007: In a letter to ECOS, OECA conveyed that EPA had decided to proceed with a rulemaking rather than a final ICIS-NPDES Policy Statement in order to collect more formalized comments on the design of the database.
- 04/22/2008: EPA’s Regulatory Policy Officer approved commencement of the ICIS-NPDES rulemaking.
- As of May 2008: 22 states, 2 tribes and 9 territories are successfully using ICIS-NPDES.
- 08/30/2008: Region 6 expects to send a letter to all of the Region 6 states confirming to each that the RECAP report is not required.
- 10/14/2008: OECA held a public listening session to aid in writing the rule.
- Fall/Winter 2009: EPA expects to publish the proposed NPDES Program Management Information Rule (to collect data in ICIS-NPDES) and open a formal comment period.
- Fall/Winter 2010 : EPA expects to publish the final NPDES Program Management Information Rule.
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