Pretreatment Program Form

Instructions and help about Pretreatment Program

the national pre-treatment program is a program established under the Clean Water Act CWA to regulate discharges of pollutants from Industrial and Commercial sources into publicly owned treatment works potws wastewater treatment plants owned and operated by Municipal governments the program aims to prevent the introduction of harmful pollutants into potws that may interfere with their operations are passed through and contaminate receiving Waters such as rivers and streams under the national pre-treatment program Industrial and Commercial facilities are required to obtain permits from their local potws and comply with specific effluent limitations monitoring requirements and other conditions designed to control the discharge of pollutants potws are responsible for enforcing these requirements and monitoring the quality of their incoming Wastewater to ensure compliance with federal and state water quality standards the program is administered by the Environmental Protection Agency EPA i