National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (Various)

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-018180",
  "term": "National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (Various)",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. National program for issuing, modifying, revoking and reissuing, terminating, monitoring and enforcing permits, and imposing and enforcing pretreatment requirements, under sections 307, 402, 318, and 405 of CWA. The term includes an “approved program.”\n\n2. National program for issuing, modifying, revoking, and reissuing, terminating, monitoring, and enforcing discharge permits from point sources to waters of the United States, and imposing and enforcing pretreatment requirements, under CWA sections 307, 402, 318, and 405.\n\n3. National system for the issuance of permits under section 402 of the Act and includes any State or interstate program which has been approved by the Administrator, in whole or in part, pursuant to section 402 of the Act.\n\n4. National program for issuing, modifying, revoking and reissuing, terminating, monitoring and enforcing permits, and imposing and enforcing pretreatment requirements, under sections 307, 402, 318, and 405 of the CWA. The term includes an approved program.\n\n5. National program under Section 402 of the Clean Water Act for regulation of discharges of pollutants from point sources to waters of the United States. Discharges are illegal unless authorized by an NPDES permit.",
  "abbreviation": "NPDES",
  "references": [
    "40 CFR 122.2 (CFR 2013)",
    "Pretreatment Acronyms and Glossary",
    "40 CFR 136.2 (CFR 2018)",
    "40 CFR 270.2 (CFR 2018)",
    "Septic Systems Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/national-pollutant-discharge-elimination-system-various/"
}