Current through Register Vol. 24-06, March 15, 2024
(1) Lead agency responsibilities.
(a) Coordinate with the nonlead agency,
including:
(i) Preplanning meeting and
scoping of project.
(ii) Review of
required documents including, but not limited to, all project or permit
applications, reports, plans, specifications, and draft and final permits and
fact sheets.
(iii) Incorporation of
nonlead agency permit requirements as directed in this chapter.
(b) Monitor reclaimed water permit
compliance, including conducting inspections of a permitted reclaimed water
facility.
(c) Enforce reclaimed
water permit terms and conditions as provided for in WAC 173-219-270.
(d) Notify nonlead agency of violations,
compliance, and enforcement actions.
(e) Assess and collect fees as authorized in
chapter 173-224 WAC for ecology as lead agency and chapter 246-272 WAC for
health as lead agency.
(f) Respond
to appeals brought pursuant to this chapter.
(2) Nonlead agency responsibilities.
(a) Participate in meetings convened by the
lead agency.
(b) Determine scope
for review of project or permit applications, reports, documents, and permit
monitoring and renewal.
(c) Submit
and review comments and provide any reclaimed water permit conditions to the
lead agency within thirty days of receipt of documents.
(d) Assess and collect fees as authorized in
chapter 173-224 WAC for ecology as nonlead agency and chapter 246-272 WAC for
health as nonlead agency.
(e)
Assist the lead agency with appeals brought pursuant to this chapter.
(3) Ecology responsibilities. As
the lead agency or non-lead agency, ecology will:
(a) Develop reclaimed water permit
requirements necessary to protect waters of the state and to regulate facility
upgrades, modifications, and operation of all sewer systems and associated
water pollution control facilities that collect or treat wastewater to generate
reclaimed water, except as exempted under
RCW
90.48.110.
(b) Issue all regulatory decisions related to
compliance with
RCW
90.46.130.
(c) Incorporate health conditions required by
health into the reclaimed water permits.
Ecology may issue a wastewater discharge permit that
incorporates terms and conditions for the generation of reclaimed water into a
permit issued under chapter 90.48 RCW, and if applicable, the Federal Water
Pollution Control Act, or issue these permits concurrently with a reclaimed
water permit.
(4) Health responsibilities. As the lead
agency or the nonlead agency, health will:
(a) Develop reclaimed water permit
requirements as necessary to ensure adequate public health protection in the
generation, storage, delivery, and use of reclaimed water and to regulate
facility upgrades, modifications, and operation of all sewer systems and
associated on-site sewage system facilities that collect or treat wastewater,
generate, and, if applicable, deliver reclaimed water.
(b) Incorporate ecology permit conditions
required by ecology for environmental protection of waters of the state into
permits.
Health may issue a large on-site sewage system permit that
incorporates terms and conditions for generation of reclaimed water or issue
the permit concurrently with a reclaimed water permit.
