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CO-PERMITTEES

Ensure that MWRA member communities are not named as “co-permittees” on the Authority’s NPDES permit with EPA for the Deer Island Treatment Plant to avoid changing the relationship between the MWRA and its communities from “partner” to “enforcer”.

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• Ensure MWRA Board of Directors receives a detailed update of the impacts co-permittee language would have on MWRA and member communities.
• Prepare to appeal final NPDES permits issued to Clinton Wastewater Treatment Plant and/or Deer Island Treatment Plant.

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• No new activity.

[/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=”Prior Activity”] May 2015

• Advisory Board approves recommendation for MWRA staff to present the issues and impacts of including co-permittee language in the pending NPDES permits.

February 2015

• Environmental Appeals Board denies appeal of Charles River Pollutant Control District’s NPDES permit.
• Decided not to pursue further legal action on CRPDC permit.

September 2014

• Advisory Board sent a check to Bowditch-Dewey to aid in the legal costs of the CRPCD’s appeal of the NPDES permit issued to them by the EPA in July, 2014.

August 2014

• The Advisory Board’s Executive Committee voted to approve $5,000.00 towards the legal costs of CRPCD’s appeal of the NPES permit issued to them by the EPA in July, 2014.

2008

• Advisory Board’s Executive Committee approves putting legal counsel on retainer in anticipation of a NPDES permit being issued to the Deer Island Treatment Plant in which co-permittees were named. Seven years later, EPA has not yet issued the permit.

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• The Advisory Board recommends that Authority staff draft an informational staff summary and provide a detailed presentation to the full MWRA Board of Directors in July 2015 on the history and the significance of the issues at stake with regard to co-permittee language in the Deer Island NPDES permit. (page 96; #24)

FY 2015 (printed May 2014)

• The Advisory Board recommended reducing budgeted amounts related to costs of a new NPDES permit, as EPA has failed to issue the permit for a number of years. (page 68; #17) and (page 72; #19)

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