Common use of Enhanced Oversight of Pennsylvania NPDES Permits Clause in Contracts

Enhanced Oversight of Pennsylvania NPDES Permits. a. Within sixty (60) days after the Effective Date of this Agreement, and annually thereafter until December 31, 2025, EPA will determine whether there are any PADEP-issued general NPDES permits or individual NPDES permits within the Pennsylvania portion of the Bay watershed that have been administratively extended and make the list of any such permits publicly available on its website at xxxxx://xxx.xxx.xxx/chesapeake-bay-tmdl/key-developments-chesapeake-bay- watershed. Should any such permits be identified, EPA will request in writing that Pennsylvania develop, in consultation with EPA, a permit reissuance strategy designed to significantly reduce the number of administratively extended permits, and EPA will make any such strategy publicly available on EPA’s website at xxxxx://xxx.xxx.xxx/chesapeake-bay-tmdl/key-developments-chesapeake-bay- watershed. b. Within one hundred and twenty (120) days after the Effective Date of this Agreement, EPA will complete its update of the Agency’s MS4 permitting guide for the Bay watershed, called the Urban Stormwater Approach for the Mid- Atlantic Region and the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, last issued in July 2010. In updating the permitting guide, EPA will consider incorporating ideas for climate resiliency.