CHAPTER 19. NPDES PERMITS
IC 13-18-19
Chapter 19. NPDES Permits
IC 13-18-19-1
Application
Sec. 1. When the department receives an application for an
original National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES)
permit required for discharge into a stream, the department shall do
the following:
(1) Send a list in writing, on a monthly basis, of original
applications received during the month to the county surveyor
of the affected county, not later than thirty (30) days after
receipt of the application.
(2) Advise the applicant in writing that if the stream is a
regulated drain under IC 36-9-27, the county drainage board
must also review the application for approval under IC 36-9-27.
As added by P.L.1-1996, SEC.8.
IC 13-18-19-2
Issuance of NPDES permits
Sec. 2. (a) The department may issue National Pollutant
Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permits containing
conditions that include alternate water quality based effluent limits
that:
(1) are based on receiving water flows associated with, or
characteristic of:
(A) wet weather events of various degrees of duration and
intensity; or
(B) low flow stream conditions derived on a monthly,
quarterly, or annual basis;
(2) provide increased mass limitations, concentration
limitations, or mass and concentration limitations, for publicly
owned treatment works (POTW) that:
(A) are capable of treating wastewater flows that exceed the
design flow used to calculate normal water quality based
effluent limitations; and
(B) as a result of the increased limitations, can reduce the
volume of discharge of wastewater from plant bypasses or
combined sewer overflows; or
(3) include any factor or combination of factors described in
subdivisions (1) and (2).
(b) The department may require an applicant for an NPDES
permit containing at least one (1) of the conditions described in
subsection (a) to document, in a reasonable manner, stream
conditions and local controls that are germane to a condition
described in subsection (a) before the department issues the NPDES
permit.
As added by P.L.140-2000, SEC.22.