sewage sludge disposal

• Public Notice of Proposed Reissuance of the NPDES General Permits for Facilities/Operations That Generate, Treat, and/or Use/Dispose of Sewage Sludge by Means of Land Application, Landfill, and Surface Disposal in the EPA Region 8

Region 8 of the EPA is hereby giving notice of its tentative determination to reissue National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) general permits for facilities or operations that generate, treat, and/or use/dispose of sewage sludge by means of land application, landfill, and surface disposal in the States of CO, MT, ND, and WY and in Indian country in the States of CO, MT, ND, SD, WY and UT (except for the Goshute Indian Reservation and the Navajo Indian Reservation).

• Federal Register Nbr. 78 FR 727, January 04, 2013
• Notices
• Environmental Protection Agency

• 33 USC 1345 - Sec. 1345. Disposal or use of sewage sludge

• US Code - Title 33: Navigation and Navigable Waters

• Reissuance of Final NPDES General Permits for Facilities/Operations That Generate, Treat, and/or Use/Dispose of Sewage Sludge by Means of Land Application, Landfill, and Surface Disposal in EPA Region 8

Region 8 of the EPA is hereby giving notice of its reissuance of the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) general permits for facilities or operations that generate, treat, and/or use/ dispose of sewage sludge by means of land application, landfill, and surface disposal in the States of CO, MT, ND, and WY and in Indian country in the States of CO, MT, ND, SD, WY and UT (except for the Goshute Indian Reservation and the Navajo Indian Reservation). The effective date of the general permits is May 13, 2013.

• Federal Register Nbr. 78 FR 25081, April 29, 2013
• Notices
• Environmental Protection Agency

• Michelle Obama, How Does Your Garden Grow?

A number of potentially harmful nonmetallic toxins commonly found in sewage sludge are not regulated by the EPA. The typical soil report tests only for some biological pathogens and heavy metals. "It's fair to say that EPA rules in general are out of date," says Murray McBride, director of the Cornell Waste Management Institute. What's more, EPA rules have failed to take into account the surface water runoff from sludge application sites. That runoff is thought to contribute to the sudden appearance of intersexed fish in the Potomac River. EPA regulations on sewage sludge have collected dust since 199$, when current standards for sewage sludge disposal were first implemented. In 2001, the EPA revisited the standards for a biennial review required by the Clean Water Act, and concluded th...

• In These Times
• October 15, 2009

• Sewage sludge; use or disposal standards: Decision not to regulate dioxins in land-applied sewage sludge,

• FR, October 24, 2003
• Notices
• Environmental Protection Agency

• Water pollution control: Clean Water Act— Sewage sludge; use or disposal standards; regulatory review,

• FR, December 31, 2003
• Notices
• Environmental Protection Agency

• Water pollution control: Clean Water Act— Sewage sludge; use and disposal; regulatory review; comment request,

• FR, April 09, 2003
• Notices
• Environmental Protection Agency

• Sewage sludge; use or disposal standards: like compounds; numeric concentration limits,

• FR, December 23, 1999
• Proposed rules
• Environmental Protection Agency

• 40 CFR 122.2 - Definitions.

... and limitations to which a ?discharge,? a ?sewage sludge use or disposal practice,? or a related act...

• Code of Federal Regulations - Title 40: Protection of Environment

• Water pollution control: National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES)— Sewage sludge; use or disposal standards,

• FR, August 04, 1999
• Rules
• Environmental Protection Agency