General New Source NPDES (National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System) Permit for Oil and Gas Extractions in the Territorial Seas of the Gulf of Mexico Off Texas and Louisiana [TX,LA]
Title | General New Source NPDES (National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System) Permit for Oil and Gas Extractions in the Territorial Seas of the Gulf of Mexico Off Texas and Louisiana [TX,LA] PDF eBook |
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Total Pages | 136 |
Release | 1996 |
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General New Source National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Permit for Discharges from the Offshore Subcategory of the Oil and Gas Extraction Point Source Category to the Territorial Seas of Texas
Title | General New Source National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Permit for Discharges from the Offshore Subcategory of the Oil and Gas Extraction Point Source Category to the Territorial Seas of Texas PDF eBook |
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Total Pages | 320 |
Release | 2004 |
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General New Source NPDES (National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System) Permit for the Gulf of Mexico, Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Region, Oil and Gas Extraction, EPA Region 6
Title | General New Source NPDES (National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System) Permit for the Gulf of Mexico, Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Region, Oil and Gas Extraction, EPA Region 6 PDF eBook |
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Total Pages | 78 |
Release | 1994 |
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National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Permitting for Eastern Gulf of Mexico Offshore Oil and Gas Extraction [MS,FL,AL,]
Title | National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Permitting for Eastern Gulf of Mexico Offshore Oil and Gas Extraction [MS,FL,AL,] PDF eBook |
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Total Pages | 498 |
Release | 1998 |
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General NPDES Permit for Discharges from Oil and Gas Extraction Point Source Category to the Territorial Seas of Louisiana
Title | General NPDES Permit for Discharges from Oil and Gas Extraction Point Source Category to the Territorial Seas of Louisiana PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Environmental Protection Agency |
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Release | 1996 |
Genre | Gas industry |
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Increased Emphasis on Toxics Control in Oil and Gas Industry NPDES Permits
Title | Increased Emphasis on Toxics Control in Oil and Gas Industry NPDES Permits PDF eBook |
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Total Pages | 12 |
Release | 1996 |
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The 1987 amendments to the Clean Water Act emphasized stricter control of toxics in wastewater discharges. Although state and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency permit writers have had the authority to incorporate strict water quality-based controls in permits, they did not widely use this authority in the past. However, general permits proposed in the past year by Region VI for discharges into the territorial seas of Louisiana and by Region X for coastal and offshore discharges in Alaska are much stricter than their predecessors. The Region VI permit requires numerical produced water limits on arsenic, lead, benzene, total phenols, radium, and whole effluent toxicity. The Region X permit requires numerical produced water limits on copper, arsenic, zinc, total aromatic hydrocarbons, total aqueous hydrocarbons, and whole effluent toxicity. The additional requirements increase the cost of complying with the permit, present more opportunities for exceeding one of the permit limits, and serve as a precedent for future permits. The industry should be prepared to accept the additional costs of these requirements or develop data to convince the regulatory agencies that the increased level of monitoring and permit limits is not necessary to protect water quality. Regulatory agencies should be receptive to new data provided by the industry and flexible in setting additional toxics controls.
A Guide to New Regulations for the NPDES Permit Program
Title | A Guide to New Regulations for the NPDES Permit Program PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Water Enforcement |
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Total Pages | 32 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | Factory and trade waste |
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