30 TAC § 305.531. Establishing and Calculating Additional Conditions and Limitations for TPDES Permits

The following regulations contained in 40 Code of Federal Regulations, Part 122, Subpart C, Permit Conditions, and Part 124, Subpart D, Specific Procedures Applicable to Texas Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (TPDES) Permits, which are in effect as of the date TPDES program authorization, as amended, are adopted by reference.

(1) §122.41(a)(1)--Conditions applicable to all permits. Section 122.41(a)(1) relates to the duty of a permittee to comply with standards or prohibitions for toxic pollutants and sewage sludge use and disposal established under Clean Water Act (CWA), §307(a) and §405(d).

(2) §122.42--Additional conditions applicable to specified categories of NPDES permits. Section 122.42 provides additional conditions for existing manufacturing, commercial, mining, and silvicultural dischargers, and for publicly owned treatment works (POTWs).

(3) §122.43(a) and (b)--Establishing

permit conditions. Section 122.43 relates to conditions assuring compliance with all applicable requirements of the CWA and regulations.

(4) §122.44--Establishing limitations, standards, and other permit conditions applicable to state NPDES programs. Section 122.44 relates to technology-based effluent limitations and standards, other effluent limitations and standards, reopener clauses, water quality standards and state requirements, toxic pollutants, notification levels, 24-hour reporting, durations for permits, monitoring requirements, pretreatment programs for POTWs, best management practices, reissued permits, privately owned treatment works, grants, sewage sludge, Coast Guard, and navigation.

(5) §122.45--Calculating NPDES permit conditions. Section 122.45 relates to outfalls and discharge points, production-based limitations, metals, continuous discharges, noncontinuous discharges, mass limitations, pollutants in intake water,

internal waste streams, and disposal of pollutants in intake water, internal waste streams, and disposal of pollutants into wells, into POTWs, or by land application.

(6) §122.50--Disposal of pollutants into wells, into POTWs, or by land application.

(7) §124.59--Conditions requested by the United States Army Corps of Engineers and other government agencies.