NR 220.13 Establishment of limitations based upon federal regulations.
NR 220.14 Establishment of effluent guideline limitations in the Wisconsin administrative code.
NR 220.15 Disposal of pollutants into publicly owned treatment works, land treatment systems, or land application of wastewater.
Subchapter III — Best Professional Judgment Effluent Limitations for Point Sources
NR 220.21 Application of effluent limitations.
Subchapter IV — Variances to Effluent Limitation Guidelines
NR 220.31 Fundamentally different factors variances.
NR 220.32 Criteria for fundamentally different factors variances.
NR 220.33 Variance application process.
NR 220.01
NR 220.01 Purpose. The purpose of this subchapter is to establish pursuant to s.
283.13 (1), Stats., a list of categories and classes of point sources other than publicly owned treatment works for which effluent limitations, standards of performance, pretreatment standards, standards for toxic substances, and other standards have been or are to be established.
NR 220.01 History
History: Cr.
Register, June, 1977, No. 258, eff. 7-1-77; am.
Register, September, 1988, No. 393, eff. 10-1-88.
NR 220.02
NR 220.02 Categories and classes of point sources. NR 220.02(9)
(9) Clay, gypsum, refractory, and ceramic products
NR 220.02(31)
(31) Machinery and mechanical products manufacturing
NR 220.02(40)
(40) Pesticides and agricultural chemicals industry
NR 220.02 History
History: Cr.
Register, June, 1977, No. 258, eff. 7-1-77;
CR 21-063: cr. (13m) Register April 2022 No. 796, eff. 5-1-22. NR 220.10
NR 220.10 Purpose. The purpose of this subchapter is to provide for the incorporation of effluent limitations into discharge permits required under s.
283.31, Stats., as soon as possible after the promulgation of regulations establishing effluent limitation guidelines.
NR 220.10 History
History: Cr.
Register, July, 1981, No. 307, eff. 8-1-81; renum. from NR 207.01 and am.
Register, September, 1988, No. 393, eff. 10-1-88;
CR 17-002: am.
Register April 2018 No. 748, eff. 5-1-18.
NR 220.11
NR 220.11 Applicability. This subchapter is applicable to discharge permits issued for all categories and classes of point sources listed in s.
NR 220.02.
NR 220.11 History
History: Cr.
Register, July, 1981, No. 307, eff. 8-1-81; am.
Register, April, 1983, No. 328, eff. 5-1-83; renum. from NR 207.02 and am.
Register, September, 1988, No. 393, eff. 10-1-88.
NR 220.12
NR 220.12 Definitions. Terms used in this subchapter are defined in s.
NR 205.03. Abbreviations used in this chapter are defined in s.
NR 205.04. Other terms for this chapter are defined as follows:
NR 220.12(1)
(1) “Effluent Limitation Guidelines” or “ELGs” are federal or state technology based guidelines or standards that are used to establish effluent limitations for industrial categories or classes of dischargers. They include federal guidelines, standards, and limitations that are established under
33 USC 1311,
1314,
1316,
1318,
1342 and
1361 and state promulgated guidelines, standards, and limitations in chs.
NR 221 to
297.
NR 220.12(2)
(2) “Fundamentally different factors variance” or “FDFV” means a variance or an adjustment to an effluent limitation when data specific to a permittee indicates the presence of factors that are fundamentally different from the factors considered by EPA in development of the effluent limitation guidelines
33 USC 1311 and
1314.
NR 220.12 History
History: Cr.
Register, July, 1981, No. 307, eff. 8-1-81; renum. from NR 207.03 and am.
Register, September, 1988, No. 393, eff. 10-1-88;
CR17-002: renum. 220.12 to (intro.) and am., cr. (1), (2)
Register April 2018 No. 748, eff. 5-1-18; correction in (1) under s.
13.92 (4) (b) 7., Stats.,
Register April 2018 No. 748.
NR 220.13
NR 220.13 Establishment of limitations based upon federal regulations. NR 220.13(1)(1)
Listed industrial categories. In the event that the EPA promulgates an effluent limitation guideline for a category or class of point sources listed in s.
NR 220.02 that is more stringent than the promulgated effluent limitation guideline for that category or class, the department shall include an effluent limitation based on the EPA-promulgated effluent limitation guideline in an issued, reissued, or modified WPDES permit for a point source that belongs to the federal category or class of point sources in accordance with the federally required compliance date.
