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Setting Priorities for Addressing Discharges from Separate Sanitary Sewers

This is the policy for setting priorities for addressing discharges from separate sanitary sewers before treatment. (The Enforcement Management System, National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System, (Clean Water Act (CWA)) Chapter 10.) Issued 1996.

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EPA - Setting Priorities for Addressing Discharges from Separate Sanitary Sewers (PDF)(12 pp, 464 K)