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RIN: 2020-AA47

Publication ID: Fall 2013

Title: NPDES Electronic Reporting Rule
Abstract: The EPA has responsibility to ensure that the Clean Water Act's (CWA) National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) program is effectively and consistently implemented across the country. This regulation would identify the essential information that EPA needs to receive electronically, primarily from NPDES permittees with some data required from NPDES agencies (NPDES-authorized States, territories and tribes) 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. In the past, EPA primarily obtained this information from the Permit Compliance System (PCS). 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. In addition, information technology has advanced significantly so that PCS no longer meets EPA's 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: Previously published in the Unified Agenda	Agenda Stage of Rulemaking: Long-Term Actions
Major: No	Unfunded Mandates: No
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 123, 403, and 501 (To search for a specific CFR, visit the Code of Federal Regulations.)
Legal Authority: 33 USC 1314(i) and 1361(a) CWA sec 304(i) and 501(a)

Legal Deadline: None

Timetable:

Action	Date	FR Cite
Notice	07/01/2010	75 FR 38068
Notice	06/23/2011	76 FR 36919
NPRM	07/30/2013	78 FR 46005
NPRM Comment Period End	10/28/2013
Final Rule	12/00/2014

Additional Information: Docket #:EPA-HQ-OECA-2009-0274
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: No	Government Levels Affected: State
Small Entities Affected: No	Federalism: Yes
Included in the Regulatory Plan: No
RIN Information URL: http://www.regulations.gov/exchange/topic/npdes	Public Comment URL: http://www.regulations.gov/#!documentDetail;D=EPA-HQ-OECA-2009-0274-0097
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 Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance 2222A, Washington, DC 20460 Phone:202 566-0742 Email: dombrowski.john@epa.gov