EPA’s Tentative Denial of Secondary Treatment Waiver

EPA’s Tentative Denial National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Secondary Treatment Plant 301(h) Waiver Links and Documents

1. EPA’s Tentative Decision Document (PDF)
2. EPA Fact Sheet (PDF) on Tentative Denial

The following are the City of Gloucester’s Responses to the EPA’s Tentative Denial of the Secondary Treatment Plant Waiver:

1. Mayor Kirk’s Comment Cover Letter (PDF) to the EPA
2. Gloucester’s Comments (PDF) to the EPA
3. Attachment A (PDF) Comments to the EPA

Link to EPA’s web page with All Draft Permits including Gloucester.

Link to Gloucester’s Draft of National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Permit (NPDES Permit (PDF)).

EPA’s Attachments

1. EPA’s Press Release (PDF) on Denial of Secondary Treatment Waiver October 2010
2. Current Gloucester NPDES Permit (PDF) August 1, 2001
3. EPA Draft Secondary NPDES Permit (PDF)
4. NPDES Standard Conditions (PDF)

EPA Draft NPDES Permit

City of Gloucester’s Response Cover Letter (PDF)
City of Gloucester’s Response to EPA’s Draft NPDES Permit (PDF)