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Effluent Guidelines Biennial Plan

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Clean Water Act Section 304(m)

Final Effluent Guidelines Plan for 2004/2005

EPA is publishing a plan and schedule to consider developing and revising effluent guidelines.

Fact Sheet (summary/1-pager)
Federal register notice publication of the plan (September 2, 2004)
This notice describes EPA's 2004 annual review of existing effluent guidelines under Clean Water Act section 304(b) and presents EPA's final 2004 Effluent Guidelines Program Plan under Clean Water Act Section 304(m).
Technical Support Document (PDF, 4.6mb, 559 pages, about this format)
View other support documents using e-dockets. Click on "Quick Search" and type in OW-2003-0074 into the search field.

Preliminary Effluent Guidelines Plan for 2004/2005

Record Index for the Preliminary Effluent Guidelines Program Plan for 2004/2005 (PDF, 336KB) This document lists all the record items for the preliminary plan and will help you identify those documents of interest to you so that you can efficiently use E-Dockets.
Extension of Comment period to March 18, 2004
- Federal Register Notice (February 12, 2004)
- Fact Sheet (summary/1-pager)
Slide presentations from the January 28, 2004 Public Meeting (PDF, 3.1MB)
(February 3, 2004)
Fact Sheet (summary/1-pager)
Federal Register Notice (December 31, 2003)
Support Documents
- Factor 1 Analysis: Human Health and Environmental Impacts (PDF, 555KB)
  This report discusses the status of the EPA’s initial screening level review phase for Factor 1, Human Health and Environmental Impacts. This factor considers the extent to which the pollutants discharged by industry categories pose adverse impacts, and more specifically, potential risk to human health or the environment.
- Factor 2 Analysis: Technology Advances and Process Changes - Status of Screening Level Review Phase (PDF, 192KB). This draft summarizes the Factor 2 screening level information gathered on some of the twenty industries identified for further data collection.
- Factor 4 Analysis: Implementation and Efficiency Considerations, Status of Screening Level Review Phase (PDF, 370KB). This report documents the efforts made and discusses the status of screening level analysis for Factor 4, Implementation and Efficiency.
- Description and Results of EPA Methodology to Synthesize Screening Level Results for the Effluent Guidelines Program Plan for 2004/2005 (PDF, 347KB). Memorandum regarding methodology EPA used to synthesize screening level data used for the Clean Water Act (CWA) preliminary Effluent Guidelines Program Plan for 2004/2005. This memorandum will also describe initial results.
- View other support documents at Edockets. Look under Docket ID# OW-2003-0074

Draft Strategy for National Clean Water Industrial Regulations (November 2002)
EPA published a draft Strategy that describes a process EPA may use to identify industries for which effluent guidelines need to be revised or developed, in compliance with Section 304(m) of the Clean Water Act.