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Industrial General Permit Fact Sheet

Compliance Group requirements in this General Permit reduces the administrative
burden on both the Compliance Group Leaders and Water Board staff.

The State Water Board’s intent for the effluent data, BMP selection, cost, and
performance information, and other industry specific information provided in Compliance
Group reports is for evaluation of sector-specific permitting approaches and the use of
NALs in the next reissuance of this General Permit.

N. Annual Evaluation

Federal regulations require NPDES industrial storm water Dischargers to evaluate their
facility and SWPPP annually. Typically this requires an inspection of the facility to
ensure: (1) the SWPPP site map is up to date, (2) control of all potential pollutant
sources is included in the SWPPP, and (3) sampling data and visual observation
records are used to evaluate if the proper BMPs are being implemented. As
Dischargers are required to conduct monthly visual observation that partially overlap
with the actions required by the annual evaluation requirements, Dischargers may
perform the annual evaluation inspection concurrent with a monthly visual observation.

O. Annual Report

All Dischargers shall certify and submit via SMARTS an Annual Report no later than
July 15 following each reporting year. The reporting requirements for this General
Permit’s Annual Report are streamlined in comparison to the previous permit. The
Annual Report now consists of two primary parts: (1) a compliance checklist indicating
which permit requirements were completed and which were not (e.g., a Discharger who
completes the required sampling of four QSEs during the reporting year, versus a
Discharger who is only able to sample two QSEs during the reporting year), and (2) an
explanation for items on the compliance checklist that were determined incomplete by
the Discharger. Unlike the previous permit, the Annual Report does not require
Dischargers to provide the details of each visual observation (such as name of
observer, time of observation, observation summary, corrective actions, etc.) or provide
the details of the Annual Comprehensive Site Evaluation. Dischargers, however,
continue to be required to retain those records and have them available upon request.
The Annual Report is further simplified through the immediate electronic reporting via
SMARTS of sampling data and copies of the original laboratory reports instead of such
information being included in the Annual Report.

P. Conditional Exclusion - No Exposure Certification (NEC) Requirements

This General Permit’s conditional exclusion requirements are similar to the
requirements provided in 40 C.F.R. section 122.26(g)(3). Clarifications were added in
this General Permit, however, to the types of “storm resistant shelters” and the periods
when “temporary shelters” may be used in order to avert regulatory confusion.
California does not have operating coal power plants, which are a major contributor to
acid rain elsewhere in the United States. California does have nonpoint sources or
atmospheric deposition that may locally impact the pH of the rain water, however this is

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