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CED-77-46 1 (1977-04-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaabtp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: CONTINUING NEED FOR IMPROVED CED-77-46 OPERATION ANDIMAINTENANCE OF MUNICIPAL WASTE TREATMENT PLANTS/ 4-11-77 ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY/ To assist States and municipalities in meeting water pollution abatement requirements, the Federal Water Pollution Control Act authorizes grants for constructing publicly owned waste treatment facilities to prevent the discharge of untreated or inadequately treated sewage or other waste into waterways. The act's 1972 amend- ments established a national permit program for controlling the discharge of pollutants into navigable waters and required that each discharger of pollutants obtain a permit from EPA or a State with an EPA-approved permit program. We reported that: -Operation and maintenance problems at municipal waste treatment plants constructed with Federal grant assistance have been wide- spread for many years and have led to inefficient plant opera- tions and the discharging of unnecessarily high pollution loads into the Nation's wasterways. -Until EPA, States, and local communities place a higher priority on operation and maintenance, the problems noted in the report will continue to adversely affect plant performance, pollution abatement, and the high capital investment in waste treatment. We recommended that the Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency: -Develop and publish guidance for the regional offices which specifies the operation and maintenance considerations which should be discussed with municipalities during preapplication conferences. -Instruct the regional offices and the States that, whenever discharge permits are to be issued or revised for waste treat- ment plants with major operation and maintenance problems, such permits should be appropriately tailored on the basis of actual operating data obtained from sources such as inspection and discharge monitoring reports to help correct the problems.

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