WAC 463-76-061
Reissuance of NPDES permits. (1) Any
permittee shall make application for reissuance of an NPDES
permit or continuation of discharges after the expiration
date of the NPDES permit by filing with the council an
application for reissuance of the permit at least one hundred eighty days prior to its expiration.
(2) The scope and manner of any review of an application
for reissuance of an NPDES permit by the council shall be
sufficiently detailed as to insure the following:
(a) That the permittee is in compliance with or has
substantially complied with all of the terms, conditions,
requirements and schedules of compliance of the expired NPDES
permit;
(b) That the council has up-to-date information on the
permittee's production levels, permittee's waste treatment
practices, and the nature, content and frequencies of
permittee's discharge, either pursuant to the submission of
new forms and applications or pursuant to monitoring records
and reports submitted to the council by the
permittee and;
(c) That the discharge is consistent with applicable
effluent standards and limitations, water quality standards,
and other legally applicable requirements listed in WAC 463-76-053 (1) and (2), including any additions
to, or revisions or modifications of, such effluent standards
and limitations, water quality standards, or other legally
applicable requirements during the term of the permit.
(3) The notice and procedures specified in WAC 463-76-041 and 463-76-042 are
applicable to each request for reissuance of an NPDES permit.
(4) When a
permittee has made timely and sufficient application for the
renewal of a permit, an expiring permit remains in effect and
enforceable until the application has been denied or a
replacement permit has been issued by the council pursuant to
WAC 463-76-0625 - Permit issuance.
[Statutory Authority: RCW 80.50.040 (1) and (12). 04-21-013,
amended and recodified as § 463-76-061, filed 10/11/04,
effective 11/11/04; Order 114, § 463-38-061, filed 2/4/77. Formerly WAC 463-16-061.]