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Industrial Pretreatment
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- Pretreatment Program
- NPDES Permit Program Basics
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- Municipal Biosolids
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Pretreatment Program Guidance
Local Limits Spreadsheet
This spreadsheet is used to calculate local limits in conjunction with U.S. EPA's 1987 Local Limits Guidance Manual and Region 5's Local Limits Guidance.
- Local Limits Spreadsheet (Microsoft Excel) (101K) February 2011
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.
Region 3 Guidance on Local Limits (PDF) (25K, 10pp) June 1994
EAP Region 3 guidance for setting local limits
for a pollutant where the domestic loading
exceeds the maximum allowable headworks loading
Mercury
Pollutant Minimization Program (PMP) Guidance (PDF) (116K, 16p) November 2004
Guidance developed with the Region 5
states to address situations where a Pollutant Minimization Program is required in a state-issued NPDES
permit for a Publicly Owned Treatment Works as a condition for receiving a variance from the underlying
water quality standard for mercury.
Categorical Standards Proposal Dates for New Source Determinations