Wash. Admin. Code § 173-208-030 - Declaration of policy
(1) The department
encourages qualified cities, towns, and other municipal corporations to apply
for a grant of authority to conduct and operate a permit system for the
regulation of commercial and industrial waste discharges into their sewerage
systems in accordance with
RCW
90.48.165.
(2) The department is committed to the policy
of maintaining the highest possible standards of water quality within the state
in compliance with the basic aims expressed in
RCW
90.48.010 and national policies and goals
expressed by the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972,
(FWPCAA). The implementation of a permit issuance program by any city, town, or
municipal corporation shall be continuously evaluated by the department for
compliance with these policies, aims, and goals.
(3) In compliance with the requirements of
the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES), as provided for in
the FWPCAA, the department shall maintain its enforcement of compliance of
effluent limitation standards upon publicly owned or operated treatment works
under their NPDES permits. Under such permit, any municipality granted
authority hereunder to administer a permit program as hereinafter defined shall
continue to be primarily responsible for its effluent quality according to the
terms of such NPDES permit.
Notes
Order DE 75-10, § 173-208-030, filed 4/30/75.
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