API 4756 : 2006

Table of Contents

Abstract
Executive Summary
PART 1: STANDARDS AND LISTING
Water Quality Standards
 Designated Uses
 Existing Uses
 Use Attainability Analyses (UAAs)
 Criteria to Support Designated Uses
The Listing Process
 Assessing Water Quality
 Identifying Impaired Waters
 Integrated Water Quality Monitoring and Assessment Reports
 EPA Approval
 TMDL Development
Listing Issues
 Narrative Listings
 Fish Consumption Advisories
 "Expected To Meet"
 Challenging a Listing Determination
PART 2: PERMITTING
The Permitting Process
 Water Quality-Based Effluent Limitations
 Fact Sheets
Permitting Issues
 Timing
 Watershed Permitting Approach
 Verification of Impairment Determination
 Other Controls
 Reasonable Potential Calculations
 When Reductions in Your Discharge Are Required
 Antidegradation Issues on Impaired Waters
 Backsliding (and Antidegradation) Issues
 Stormwater Permits
Relief from Permit Limits
 Variances
 Site-Specific Criteria
 Use Attainability Analyses (UAAs)

Abstract

Discusses water quality standards and the listing process, in order to provide a basic understanding of how a water becomes labeled as "impaired."

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Published
Document Type	Standard
Status	Current
Publisher	American Petroleum Institute
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