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| 00-10037 | Draft General NPDES Permit for Seafood Processors in Alaska in Waters of the United States; General NPDES Permit No. AK-G52-0000 | Notice | The Director, Office of Water, EPA Region 10, is proposing to reissue general National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit no. AK-G52-0000 for seafood processors in Alaska pursuant to the provisions of the Clean Water Act (CWA) 33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq. The proposed general NPDES permit will authorize discharges from off-shore and near-shore vessels and shore-based facilities engaged in the processing of fresh, frozen, canned, smoked, salted and pickled seafoods. The proposed permit will also authorize discharges from off- shore vessels (operating more than one nautical mile from shore at MLLW) that are engaged in the processing of seafood paste, mince or meal, as well as fresh, frozen, canned, smoked, salted and pickled seafoods. The proposed permit will authorize discharges of processing wastes, process disinfectants, sanitary wastewater and other wastewaters, including domestic wastewater, gray water, cooling water, boiler water, fresh water pressure relief water, refrigeration condensate, water used to transfer seafood to a facility, and live tank water. The proposed permit will authorize discharges to waters of the United States in and contiguous to the State of Alaska, except for receiving waters excluded from coverage as protected, special, at-risk, degraded waters, or as waters adjacent to the City of Kodiak or the Pribilof Islands (and covered by general permits specific to each of these areas). The proposed general NPDES permit for seafood processors in Alaska will not authorize discharges from near-shore or shore-based seafood processors of mince, paste or meal (operating one nautical mile or less from shore at MLLW). The proposed permit will not authorize discharges of petroleum hydrocarbons, toxic pollutants, or other pollutants not specified in the permit. This is the fourth reissuance of a general permit for seafood processors in Alaska. While the general permit for seafood processors issued in 1995 contained numerous substantial changes, the proposed 2000 permit contains one major change. The major new provision in the proposed general permit is a limit on the total annual load of settleable solid seafood processing waste. The total allowable residues of offal for permittees covered under the proposed permit must not exceed eight million pounds per year (based on deposition modeling using EPA's Water Quality Analysis Simulation Program). Other minor changes in the proposed permit clarify requirements of the Notice of Intent to be covered and give specific schedules for submitting seafloor monitoring surveys. EPA anticipates that the State of Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation will certify a 100 foot mixing zone for all discharges and zone of deposit of one acre for near-shore and shore-based dischargers. A draft NPDES permit, fact sheet and other documents of the administrative records are available upon request. | 2000-04-21 | 2000 | 4 | https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2000/04/21/00-10037/draft-general-npdes-permit-for-seafood-processors-in-alaska-in-waters-of-the-united-states-general | https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2000-04-21/pdf/00-10037.pdf | Environmental Protection Agency | 145 | The Director, Office of Water, EPA Region 10, is proposing to reissue general National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit no. AK-G52-0000 for seafood processors in Alaska pursuant to the provisions of the Clean Water Act (CWA) 33... |