NPDES Permits in New England
EPA Permit Forms & Attachments
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- EPA Permits Application Forms
- EPA Permit Attachments
- Discharge Monitoring Reporting (DMR Reporting) Instructions
- NPDES Best Management Practices Guidance (PDF) (201 pp, 15.4MB)
EPA Permits Application Forms
Permit application forms for permits issued by the EPA New England within the states of Massachusetts and New Hampshire can be obtained below:
- Reassessment of Technically Based Industrial Discharge Limits (PDF) (9 pp, 132K)
- Application Form 1 - General Information (PDF) (15 pp, 741K)
- Application Form 2A - NPDES Form 2A (PDF) (23 pp, 941K)
- Instructions for Form 2A (PDF) (9 pp, 48K)
- Application Form 2B - Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations and Aquatic Animal Production Facilities (PDF) (5 pp, 256K)
- Application Form 2C - Wastewater Discharge Information (PDF) (26 pp, 1.6MB)
- Application Form 2D - New Sources and New Dischargers (PDF) (18 pp, 310K)
- Application Form 2E - Facilities Which Do Not Discharge Process Wastewater (PDF) (8 pp, 265K)
- Application Form 2F - Application for Permit to Discharge Storm Water discharges associated with Industrial Activity (PDF) (17 pp, 437K)
- Application Form 2S - NPDES Form 2S (PDF) (25 pp, 522K)
- Instructions for Form 2S (PDF) (4 pp, 29K)
- Low Erosivity Waiver Certification for Stormwater Discharges Associated with Construction Activity (PDF) (4 pp, 402K)
- Notice of Intent (NOI) for Stormwater Discharges Associated with Construction Activity (PDF) (4 pp, 595K)
- Notice of Termination (NOT) of Coverage Under NPDES General Permit for Stormwater Discharges Associated with Construction Activity (PDF) (2 pp, 442K)
- Notice of Termination (NOT) of Coverage Under NPDES General Permit for Stormwater Discharges Associated with Industrial Activity (PDF) (2 pp, 106K)
- NPDES Discharge Monitoring Report (DMR) Form (PDF) (2 pp, 192K)
- NPDES Form 3510-11: No Exposure Certification for Exclusion from NPDES Stormwater Permitting (PDF) (4 pp, 105K)
- Suggested Format to Submit a Notice of Intent (NOI) Modification for Stormwater Discharges Associated with Construction Activity (PDF) (4 pp, 373K)
- Suggested Format to Submit a Notice of Intent (NOI) Modification for Stormwater Discharges Associated with Industrial Activity (PDF) (4 pp, 304K)
- MA Coastal Zone Management Policies
- NH Coastal Zone Management Policies
- Optimum Minimum Levels (MLs) for Inorganic Priority Pollutants (PDF) (1 pg, 59K)
Permits issued in Connecticut, Maine, Rhode Island and Vermont are issued by the respective state environmental agency (because the state has opted to assume the permit program). Please visit these pages for more information.
Please Note: After you have downloaded the software and filled out the forms you must print, sign (signature must be original not electronic or photocopied) and mail the forms to EPA New England and the state environmental agency - see note below regarding additional state agency forms/requirements.
EPA New England
Mailing Address:
EPA New England
Attention: Olga or Shelly (Mark Massachusetts permits to the attention
of Olga Vergara and New Hampshire permits to the attention of Shelley
Puleo)
5 Post Office Square
Suite 100 (OEP06-3)
Boston, MA 02109
| Massachusetts For Massachusetts Permits you must also mail an identical copy of the EPA application forms to Mass DEP. Please visit the Mass DEP web site for any additional state application forms that you must also
complete.
Mailing Address: Mass Department of Environmental Protection "Attention:" Contact Names Individual Permits: Kathleen Keohane |
New Hampshire For New Hampshire Permits you must also mail an identical copy of the EPA application forms to New Hampshire DES. Mailing Address: New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services |
EPA Permit Attachments
Many of these attachments are routinely referred to in the cover page of individual issued permits
- EPA New England NPDES Permitting Staff (PDF) (1 pg, 40K)
- Freshwater
Acute Toxicity Test Procedure and Protocol (PDF)
(1 pg, 62K)
- Revised Freshwater
Acute Toxicity Test Procedure and Protocol (PDF) (8 pp, 100K)
This revised Freshwater Acute Toxicity Test Procedure and Protocol is effective Feb 2011
- Revised Freshwater
Acute Toxicity Test Procedure and Protocol (PDF) (8 pp, 100K)
- Freshwater
Chronic Toxicity Test Procedure and Protocol (PDF) (1 pg, 47K)
- Revised Freshwater Chronic Toxicity Test Procedure and Protocol (PDF) (7 pp, 58K)
This revised Freshwater Chronic Toxicity Test Procedure and Protocol is effective 1/1/08 - Revised Freshwater
Chronic Toxicity Test Procedure and Protocol (PDF) (7 pp, 81K)
This revised Freshwater Chronic Toxicity Test Procedure and Protocol is effective 4/4/13
- Revised Freshwater Chronic Toxicity Test Procedure and Protocol (PDF) (7 pp, 58K)
- Part II Standard Conditions (PDF) (25 pp, 142K)
- Marine
Acute Toxicity Test Procedure and Protocol (PDF) (1 pg, 60K)
- Revised Marine
Acute Toxicity Test Procedure and Protocol (PDF) (10 pp, 57K)
This revised Marine Acute Toxicity Test Procedure and Protocol is effective July 2012
- Revised Marine
Acute Toxicity Test Procedure and Protocol (PDF) (10 pp, 57K)
- Marine Chronic Toxicity Test Procedure and Protocol (PDF) (11 pp, 25K)
- Priority Pollutants: Part 423 Appendix A–126 (PDF) (1 pg, 9K)
- Procedures for Appealing/Contesting EPA NPDES Permits (PDF) (6 pp, 2.4MB)
- Procedures for Appealing/Contesting MassDEP NPDES Permits (PDF) (1 pg, 13K)
- Self-Implementing Alternate Dilution Water Guidance (PDF) (8 pp, 566K)
- Sludge Compliance Guidance (PDF) (70 pp, 541K)
- Whole Effluent Toxicity (WET) Test Methods; Final Rule (PDF) (82 pp, 280K)
- NPDES Permit Requirement for Industrial Pretreatment Annual Report (PDF) (2 pp, 22K)
- Reassessment of Technically Based Industrial Discharge Limits (PDF) (9 pp, 43K)
Discharge Monitoring Reporting (DMR Reporting) Instructions
These instructions are for the states of Massachusetts and New
Hampshire which are not delegated the authority for the NPDES program.
DMR Reporting Instructions