New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 7 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Chapter 14A - NEW JERSEY POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM
Subchapter 11 - PROCEDURES AND CONDITIONS APPLICABLE TO NJPDES-DSW PERMITS
Section 7:14A-11.8 - Decisions on variances

Universal Citation: NJ Admin Code 7:14A-11.8

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 18, September 16, 2024

(a) The Department may grant or deny a request for a variance for the thermal component of a discharge under Section 316(a) of the Federal Act.

(b) The Department may deny, forward to the Regional Administrator with a written concurrence, or submit to USEPA without recommendation a completed request for:

1. A variance based on the economic capability of the applicant under Section 301(c) of the Federal Act; and

2. A variance based on water quality related effluent limitations under Section 302(b)(2) of the Federal Act.

(c) The Department may deny or forward to the Regional Administrator with a written concurrence a completed request for:

1. A variance based on the presence of "fundamentally different factors" from those on which an effluent limitation guideline was based; and

2. A variance based on certain water quality factors under section 301(g) of the Federal Act.

(d) The Department shall reopen or revoke and reissue a permit, after final action by the USEPA, for a variance from water quality based effluent limitations under 7:9B-1.8 or 1.9.

(e) If the USEPA approves the variance, the Department shall prepare a draft permit incorporating the variance. Any public notice of a draft permit for which a variance or modification has been approved or denied shall identify the applicable procedures for appealing that determination under 40 C.F.R. 124.64, or under 7:14A-17.2 if the variance was denied or partially denied by the Department.

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