Resources: NPDES

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Helpful NPDES Web pages

• NPDES
• Clean Water Indian Program
• LRT Viewer
• NPDES Permit Program Basics
• NPDES Permit Writers’ Course PowerPoint Slides
• NPDES Publications
• NPDES State and Tribal Program Authorization Status
• NPDES Topics
• Permit Applications and Forms
• Wastewater in Tribal Communities

Helpful NPDES Documents/Guidance

• Water Quality Trading Toolkit for Permit Writers
  (EPA 833-R-07-004, August 2007)
• Watershed-based Permitting Guidance
  (EPA 833-B-07-004, July 2007)
• Watershed-Based National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Permitting Implementation Guidance (PDF) (93 pp, 1.66MB)
  (EPA 833-B-03-004, December 2003)
• U.S. EPA NPDES Permit Writers Manual (PDF) (292 pp, 22.12MB)
  (EPA 833-B-96-003, December 1996)
• Technical Support Document for Water Quality-based Toxics Control (PDF) (335 pp, 26.55MB)
  (EPA/505/2-90-001, March 1991)