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Report: EPA Needs to Reinforce Its National Pretreatment Program

Report #2004-P-00030, September 28, 2004

What Was Found

The reductions in industrial waste discharges to the nation’s sewer systems that characterized the early years of the pretreatment program have not endured.

Report Materials

Full Report (pdf) (196.54 KB)

Report: EPA Needs to Reinforce Its National Pretreatment Program

Office of Inspector General