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RIN: 2020-AA47

Publication ID: Fall 2008

Title: ●NPDES Program Management Information Rulemaking
Abstract: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has the primary responsibility to ensure that the Clean Water Acts (CWA) National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) program is effectively and consistently implemented across the country, thus ensuring that the human health and environmental protection goals of the CWA are met. This regulation would identify the essential information that EPA needs to receive from NPDES agencies (NPDES-authorized States, territories, and tribes) effectively to manage the national NPDES permitting and enforcement program. Through this regulation, EPA seeks to ensure that such facility-specific information would be readily available, accurate, timely and nationally consistent on the facilities that are regulated by the NPDES program. EPAs business needs for this information include: a) Identifying the universe of facilities covered by the NPDES program; b) Identifying the compliance status of facilities subject to NPDES regulations in a nationally consistent manner; c) Informing and enabling the Office of Water to develop effective water pollution regulations; d) Developing a national picture of the status of implementation of the CWA in watersheds throughout the nation; e) Identifying potential non-compliance problems and their associated environmental impacts so that resources can be effectively targeted; f) Developing effective national strategies for improving compliance and environmental protection; g) Demonstrating results achieved to meet NPDES program goals, including the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) measures reported to Congress, under Goal 2 (Clean and Safe Water) and Goal 5 (Compliance and Environmental Stewardship); h) Informing EPA's national program management responsibilities; i) Responding to frequent inquiries from various Congressional members; and j) Informing the public about the compliance status of facilities in their communities. In the past, EPA primarily obtained this information from the Permit Compliance System (PCS). Since 1985, PCS served as the national data base for the NPDES program and as the primary source of NPDES information for EPA, NPDES-authorized States, Congress, and the public. However, the evolution of the NPDES program since the inception of PCS has created an increasing need to better reflect a more complete picture of the NPDES program and the diverse universe of regulated sources, including smaller and non-traditional sources. In addition, information technology has advanced significantly since the creation of PCS. PCS no longer meets EPAs national needs to manage the full scope of the NPDES program or the needs of individual States that use PCS to implement and enforce the NPDES program.
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency(EPA)	Priority: Other Significant
RIN Status: First time published in the Unified Agenda	Agenda Stage of Rulemaking: Long-Term Actions
Major: No	Unfunded Mandates: Undetermined
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 123, 403, and 501 (To search for a specific CFR, visit the Code of Federal Regulations.)
Legal Authority: CWA sections 304(i) and 501(a), 33 USC 1314(i) and 1361(a)

Legal Deadline:

Action	Source	Description	Date
NPRM	Judicial		08/25/2008

Timetable:

Action	Date	FR Cite
NPRM	11/00/2009
Final Action	08/00/2010

Additional Information: SAN No. 5251
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: No	Government Levels Affected: Federal, State, Tribal
Federalism: Undetermined
Included in the Regulatory Plan: No
RIN Data Printed in the FR: No
Agency Contact: Andrew Hudock Environmental Protection Agency Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance 2222A, Washington, DC 20460 Phone:202 564-6032 Email: hudock.andrew@epamail.epa.gov John Dombrowski Environmental Protection Agency 1200 Pennsylvania Ave, NW., Washington, DC 20460 Phone:202 564-4017 Email: dombrowski.john@epa.gov