California Stormwater Quality Association
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Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System General Permit Remand Rule

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California Stormwater Quality Association filed 1 comment on this docket between Mar 22, 2016 and Mar 22, 2016. 24 other organizations filed here. The comment window closed 3781d ago.

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Mar 22, 2016· Comment submitted by Jill Bicknell, Chair, California Stormwater Quality Association (CASQA)· EPA-HQ-OW-2015-0671-0089

Please accept these comments from the California Stormwater Quality Association (CASQA).

Abstract

EPA is proposing changes to the regulations governing small municipal separate storm sewer system (MS4) permits to respond to a remand from the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Environmental Defense Center, et al. v. EPA, 344 F.3d 832 (9th Cir. 2003). In that decision, the court determined that the regulations for providing coverage under small MS4 general permits did not provide for adequate public notice and opportunity to request a hearing. Additionally, the court found that EPA failed to require permitting authority review of the best management practices (BMPs) to be used at a particular MS4 to ensure that the small MS4 permittee reduces pollutants in the discharge from their systems to the “maximum extent practicable,” the standard established by the Clean Water Act for such permits.

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