Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC)
EPARulemakingEPA-HQ-OW-2009-0819

Rulemaking for the Steam Electric Power Generating Effluent Limitations Guidelines

RIN
2040-AG41
Last modified
Jun 23, 2026
Comment window
closed 41d ago
Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) filings
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Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) filed 4 comments on this docket between Jul 13, 2017 and Jan 10, 2024. 141 other organizations filed here. The comment window closed 41d ago.

What Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) filed (4)

Jan 10, 2024· Comment submitted by Southern Environmental Law Center· EPA-HQ-OW-2009-0819-10166

Filed on regulations.gov — full text not in the inline record.

Jan 27, 2020· Comment submitted by Megan Kimball, Southern Environmental Law Center et al.· EPA-HQ-OW-2009-0819-8465

See attached comment letter and attachments 1-60 out of 116.

Jan 27, 2020· Comment submitted by Megan Kimball, Southern Environmental Law Center et al.· EPA-HQ-OW-2009-0819-8466

Attachments 61-116 of 116. See tracking number 1k4-9ekm-d61j for comment letter and attachments 1-60 of 116.

Jul 13, 2017· Comment submitted by Kurt D. Ebersbach, Senior Attorney, Southern Environmental Law Center et al.· EPA-HQ-OW-2009-0819-7076

Please see attached comments and supporting documentation submitted by the Southern Environmental Law Center and twenty-eight partner organizations.

Abstract

EPA announced on September 15, 2009 the start of a rulemaking process to revise the effluent limitations guidelines and standards for the steam electric power generating point source category (i.e., steam electric power plants). EPA’s decision to proceed with a rulemaking was made upon reviewing the findings from a multi-year study of wastewater discharges from power plants.EPA’s review of wastewater discharges from power plants, and the treatment technologies available to reduce pollutant discharges, has demonstrated the need to update the current national effluent guidelines regulations. The current regulations, which were last updated in 1982, do not adequately address the pollutants being discharged and have not kept pace with changes that have occurred in the electric power industry over the last three decades.

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