Water Effluent Limitation Guidelines and Standards

Agenda

Technology-Based Limitations

• Defining Each Direct Discharge Standard
• Best Practicable Control Technology
• Best Conventional Pollutant Control Technology
• Best Available Technology Economically Achievable
• New Source Performance Standards
• Maximum Extent Practicable
• Indirect Discharge Standards Comparable to Direct Discharge Standards

Developing Industry-Specific Effluent Limitations Guidelines

• EPA History of Developing ELGs
• Current ELGs Under Study or Development
• Wet-Weather ELGs

Special Storm Water and Wet Weather Considerations

• Industrial, Construction and Municipal Storm Water Permitting
• Green Infrastructure

Water Quality-Based Effluent Limitations

• Process for Considering WQBELs
• Water Quality Standards

Total Maximum Daily Loads

• Impaired Waters
• Developing TMDLs
• Applying TMDLs to Permits

Anti-Degradation

Anti-Backsliding

Variances

Credits

Faculty

Jeffrey S. Longsworth

Barnes & Thornburg LLP

• Partner with Barnes & Thornburg LLP
• Serves as special environmental counsel to numerous national trade associations, Fortune 500 companies, industries, coalitions, airports, state and municipal government agencies, and other regulated parties before federal and state regulatory and enforcement authorities; he works closely within the federal rulemaking process with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Energy, Small Business Administration, and White House Office of Management and Budget, among others; he also advises clients and the firm’s legislative team on environmental issues arising under federal and state legislation
• Focuses his practice at the cutting-edge of Clean Water Act (CWA) issues and its application to regulated entities across the country; after decades of practical experience in this specific and complex area of the law, he has seen, experienced and resolved the critical challenges his clients and their constituents face from both the individual business and industrywide perspectives; he has a specific focus on industrial, construction, and municipal stormwater permitting, enforcement defense, and litigation, as well as extensive experience addressing emerging contaminants such as PFAS
• Teaches numerous courses for continuing legal education and environmental compliance strategies
• Regularly authors articles for trade publications, client alerts, and blogs - https://btlaw.com/en/people/jeffrey-longsworth#?section=insights-and-events
• Member of various national and state bar associations; he also was appointed to EPA’s Wet Weather Flows Federal Advisory Committee and has been selected as a small entity representative in numerous Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act regulatory review panels administered by the White House Office of Management and Budget
• J.D. degree, Catholic University of America; Amherst College
• Can be contacted at 202-408-6918, 301-807-9685 or [email protected]

Robert A. Weinstock

Barnes & Thornburg LLP

• Attorney in Barnes & Thornburg LLP’s Chicago office and a member of the firm’s Environmental Department
• Focuses his practice on environmental litigation, site remediation, brownfields redevelopment, responding to government environmental inquiries, hazardous waste and recycling regulatory compliance, and Clean Water Act (CWA) permitting enforcement and rulemaking disputes
• Named to the Illinois Super Lawyers magazine Rising Stars list in 2016
• Experience includes representation of industrial, commercial and municipal clients in matters involving Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), CWA, Great Lakes Legacy Act (GLLA) and various state laws and regulatory regimes
• J.D. degree, Columbia University School of Law; B.A. degree, with honors, Wesleyan University