Pretreatment Guidance

The Final U.S. EPA Region 5 Mercury Pollutant Minimization Program Guidance is now available.
(mercury_pmp_nov_04_guidance.pdf, 16 pages, 120Kb)
This Guidance has been developed in conjunction with the Region 5 states, to address situations where a Pollutant Minimization Program (PMP) is required in a state-issued National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit for a Publicly Owned Treatment Works (POTW) as a condition for receiving a variance from the underlying water quality standard for mercury. Many of the specific recommendations are drawn from existing guidance and practices of the Region 5 states.

U.S. EPA Region 5 Local Limits Guidance Narrative guidance which complements U.S. EPA's 1987 Local Limits Guidance Manual. Developed for use by POTWs in Illinois and Indiana to develop technically based local limits submittals for review and approval by Region 5.

Sludge Criteria
Select Part 503.13 (Sludge Pollutant Limits) used to calculate local limits based on sludge application limits.

Centralized Waste Treatment (CWT) Permitting Workshop Presentations and handouts from U.S. EPA Region 5's CWT Permitting Workshop, held on February 20, 2003

Discharge Screening Levels based upon gas/vapor toxicity, from Guidance to Protect POTW Workers From Toxic And Reactive Gases And Vapors used to calculate local limits for substances which may harm POTW workers. Also available as owm0256.pdf

Local Limits Spreadsheet file used to calculate local limits in conjunction with U.S. EPA's 1987 Local Limits Guidance Manual and Region 5's Local Limits Guidance.
Download MS Excel Version (locallmt.xls, 101Kb)
Download Lotus 123 Version (locallmt.123, 89Kb)
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US EPA Region III Guidance for Setting Local Limits for a Pollutant Where the Domestic Loading Exceeds the Maximum Allowable Headworks Loading
[Click here to view in WORDPERFECT format - 34KB ]

Memo to POTWs regarding Baseline Monitoring Reporting Requirements for Facilities Subject to the Transportation Equipment Cleaning Pretreatment Standards.

Memo to POTWs regarding Baseline Monitoring Reporting Requirements for Facilties Subject to Centralized Waste Treatment Categorical Pretreatment Standards.

Memo fromg Michael B. Cook, Director, Office of Wastewater Management, regarding Information on the Misuse of Sodium Dimethyldithiocarbamate, which is used to aid the precipitation of metals in industrial wastewater treatment and pretreatment systems [Click here to view in PDF format - 38KB ]

Guidance Manual for the Control of Wastes Hauled to Publicly Owned Treatment Works [Click here to view in PDF format - 253KB ]

Order Pretreatment Facility Inspection Training Videos On-line from the California State University Water Program

U.S. EPA Model Sewer Use Ordinance [Click here to view in PDF format - 3,346KB ]

View, print, or download (in pdf format)
or download (in text format) the Control Authority Pretreatment Audit Checklist used by Region 5 in conducting audits of POTW Pretreatment Programs. Save (download) the self-uncompressing file, then run it (double-click or use File|Run or Start|Run) to generate the files which comprise the complete checklist.

See U.S. EPA's Office of Wastewater Management Industrial Pretreatment for more information regarding the National Pretreatment Program