Best Professional Judgment definition

Best Professional Judgment means the highest quality technical opinion forming the basis for the terms and conditions of the treatment level required after consideration of all reasonably available and pertinent data. The treatment levels shall be established by the division under §§ 301 and 402 of the federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 USC §§ 1311 and 1342).

Best Professional Judgment or “BPJ” means the Secretary’s highest quality technical opinion forming the basis for the terms and conditions of the treatment level required after consideration of all reasonably available and pertinent data, including background water quality data. The treatment levels shall be established by the Secretary under the Clean Water Act (CWA) Sections 301 and 402.

Best Professional Judgment or “BPJ” means the method used by permit writers to develop technology-based NPDES permit conditions, in those circumstances where there is no applicable effluent limitation guideline, on a case-by-case basis using all reasonably available and relevant data

Examples of Best Professional Judgment in a sentence

• Best Professional Judgment (BPJ) means a case-by-case determination of Best Practicable Treatment (BPT), Best Available Treatment (BAT), or other appropriate technology-based standard based on an evaluation of the available technology to achieve a particular pollutant reduction and other factors set forth in 40 CFR §125.3 (d).

• Regulations promulgated at 40 CFR Part 122.44 (a) require technology-based effluent limitations to be placed in NPDES permits based on effluent limitations guidelines where applicable, on Best Professional Judgment (BPJ) in the absence of guidelines, or on a combination of the two.

• Therefore, using Best Professional Judgment to develop case-by-case technology-based limits as authorized by 327 IAC 5-2-10, 327 IAC 5-5, and 327 IAC 5-9 (see also 40 CFR 122.44, 125.3, and Section 402(a)(1) of the Clean Water Act (CWA)), IDEM has developed stormwater requirements for individual permits that are consistent with the EPA 2008 NPDES Multi-Sector General Permit for Stormwater Discharges Associated with Industrial Activity.

• Monitoring and reporting requirements for Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons will be proposed based on Best Professional Judgment, BPJ.

• DEEP may also apply additional or more stringent effluent limitations based on Best Professional Judgment pursuant to RCSA Section 22a-430-4(m), including local limits if such local limits were technically based, to mitigate the risk for a pollutant discharge to negatively impact receiving waters and/or the POTW’s operations, including sludge handling or disposal, worker health or safety, or otherwise interfere with the POTW’s ability to comply with its own NPDES permit.

• It is the Department’s Best Professional Judgment (BPJ) that the incidental discharge of these chemicals will not cause or contribute to non-attainment of applicable water quality standards.

• The DEP has made a Best Professional Judgment (BPJ) determination that BPT for hydro project cooling water is no treatment.

• If the category for which credit is being sought is not defined in the Projected Flow Criteria, estimated volumes shall be determined using PVSC Best Professional Judgment.

• Subpart A of 40 C.F.R. Part 125 establishes criteria and standards for the imposition of technology-based treatment requirements in permits under Section 301(b) of the CWA, including the application of EPA promulgated effluent limitations and, in the absence of promulgated technology-based effluent guidelines, Best Professional Judgment (BPJ) for case-by-case determinations of effluent limitations under Section 402(a)(1)(B) of the CWA.

• As such, the BOD and TSS limits in the permit are more stringent than secondary treatment requirements and are based on Best Professional Judgment (BPJ).

More Definitions of Best Professional Judgment

Best Professional Judgment or "BPJ" means the technical opinion developed by a permit drafter after consideration of all reasonably available and pertinent data or information which forms the basis for the terms and conditions of a discharge permit, and the use of sound engineering analysis of the industry, the nature and quantity of potential pollutants which may be produced and of the proposed treatment plant.

Best Professional Judgment means the judgment of the architect or consultant, which is the most prudent and diligent in light of all facts and conditions which are known or reasonably should be known or foreseen by the person making that judgment, based upon the training, experience, and skill exercised by reputable persons in the same profession under similar circumstances.

Best Professional Judgment. (BPJ) shall mean the highest quality technical opinion developed by a permit writer after consideration of all reasonable available and pertinent data or information that forms the basis for the terms and conditions of a permit.

Best Professional Judgment means engineering judgment based on the application of scientific and mathematical principles to the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of pipeline systems, with such judgment exercised by a suitably qualified person.