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This page intentionally left blank. Background The Office of Wastewater Management of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's). Office of Water prepared this guidance document to assist municipalities that own or operate publicly owned treatment works (POTWs) in developing and implementing local pretreatment programs. Section 402(b) of the Clean Water Act (CWA) provides for EPA to authorize a State to administer its own National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit program. In order to be authorized, a State program must include adequate authority to issue permits that ensure compliance with the CWA including section 307(b) pretreatment standards. The program must ensure that permits issued to POTWs include a program to assure compliance with pretreatment standards by significant sources introducing pollutants subject to such standards to the POTW.
approach to implementing pretreatment standards or to clarify and update text. To determine whether the Agency has revised this guidance and/or to obtain copies, contact the Water Permits Division at (202) 564-9545. You can also determine whether EPA has revised or supplemented the information in
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