Wastewater
Compliance and Enforcement
The compliance strategy is to pursue sustained compliance and promote
pollution prevention by appropriate state actions which address adequate
operation and maintenance of facilities, sound local fiscal and timely
comprehensive planning for future facilities. The achievement and maintenance
of compliance is supported by a response process that provides for timely
and appropriate follow-up to violations in relation to the nature and
severity of the violation and the overall degree of non-compliance.
Reporting to the public on compliance with environmental requirements
is not only necessary to maintain credibility with the public but also
is important in maintenance of sustained compliance from the regulated
facilities.
Compliance maintenance is promoted using several program elements that
encourage and assist facility operators and officials to plan for preventative
and corrective actions on a timely basis. Key program elements include
a facility self monitoring system, other systems for early identification
of potential compliance problems, and the initiation of actions to achieve
or sustain compliance. Self-monitoring is required under the conditions
of facility discharge permits that set limits on pollutants and stipulate
the frequency and type of sampling requirements as well as flow monitoring,
analytical, and data reporting requirements. The information obtained
by the permittee's self-monitoring program is required to be reported
to the Illinois EPA through the submission of a discharge monitoring
report. An objective of the self-monitoring and reporting requirements
is to produce the data necessary for the Illinois EPA to determine facility
compliance with permit effluent limitations. Compliance monitoring is
conducted in accordance with U.S. EPA technical review criteria for the
determination of significant noncompliance and includes the preparation
of Quarterly Noncompliance Reports.
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