NPDES definition

NPDES means National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System, the national program for issuing, modifying, revoking and reissuing, terminating, monitoring and enforcing permits . . . under sections 307, 402, 318, and 405 of the CWA.

Examples of NPDES in a sentence

  • The City is required to have a waste pretreatment program through the federal National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permitting process.

  • Compliance inspections and audits are conducted according to EPA’s NPDES Compliance Inspection Manual and targeted in accordance with EPA’s Compliance Monitoring Strategy as specified in the PPA.

  • Compliance assurance and enforcement are key elements of DEQ’s NPDES program.

  • EPA and DEQ collaborate on compliance and enforcement activities and coordinate with permitting to maximize the limited NPDES resources especially while facing important decisions on priorities for needed program improvements.

  • In partnership with the states, EPA met its SNC rate reduction goal, reducing the percent of individual NPDES permittees in SNC to below 10% by FY 2022, and elected not to continue the SNC NCI in the new NECIs for fiscal year 2024.


More Definitions of NPDES

NPDES means National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System, the national program for controlling discharges under the federal Clean Water Act.
NPDES means the federally approved national pollutant discharge elimination system individual and general program for issuing, modifying, revoking, reissuing, terminating, monitoring, and enforcing permits and imposing and enforcing pretreatment requirements under Chapter 6111. of the Revised Code and rules adopted under it.
NPDES means the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System authorized under Section 402 of the CWA, 33 U.S.C. § 1342.
NPDES means the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System for the issuance of permits under section 402 of the federal Clean Water Act and includes the Vermont-administered NPDES program authorized by the federal Environmental Protection Agency.
NPDES means the national pollutant discharge elimi- nation system.