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Newport News MS4 stormwater discharge permit VA0088641 — 2024–2029

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Permit No. VA0088641 Page 10 of 42 private entities within the permittee’s jurisdiction. SPECIFIC REPORTING REQUIREMENTS:  Each annual report shall include a list of spills, the source (identified to the best of the permittee’s ability), and a description of follow-up activities taken. g) Industrial & High Risk Runoff The permittee shall implement a program to identify and control pollutants in stormwater discharges to the MS4 from industrial and high risk runoff facilities (e.g., municipal landfills; other treatment, storage, or disposal facilities for municipal waste; hazardous waste treatment, storage, disposal and recovery facilities; facilities that are subject to EPCRA Title III, Section 313). Facilities with individual industrial VPDES stormwater permits or coverage under the industrial stormwater general permit may be included in the program at the discretion of the permittee. 1) The permittee shall maintain, and update as necessary, a list of all known industrial and high-risk dischargers to the MS4. 2) The permittee shall maintain a list of any industrial and/or commercial stormwater discharges not permitted by the Department that it determines have the potential to contribute a significant pollutant loading to the MS4. This list may be individual discharges or categories of discharges. (a) The list shall include, but shall not be limited to, major automotive facilities such as repair shops, body shops, auto detailers, tire repair shops and service stations. (b) Visual inspections of exposed areas and points of connections to the MS4 or outfalls at these facilities shall be conducted, in accordance with the schedule outlined in the MS4 Program Plan, to identify potential sources of pollutants that could enter the MS4 and surface waters. (c) The permittee shall require control measures as necessary and/or appropriate for stormwater discharges from these dischargers to the MS4. 3) The permittee may conduct monitoring or may require the facility to conduct monitoring, of any stormwater discharges it believes may be a source of significant pollutant loadings to the MS4. 4) The permittee shall coordinate with the Department to report any non-VPDES permitted industrial or commercial facility from which the permittee has evidence that a significant pollutant load is entering the MS4 system. Inspections of facilities for which the permittee has evidence of significant pollutant loading may be carried out in conjunction with other permittee programs. 5) The permittee shall refer to the Department of Environmental Quality, Tidewater Regional Office, for Department compliance review under the Virginia State Water Control Law any industrial or commercial facility, if the permittee becomes aware of a violation of any industrial stormwater management requirement contained in an individual or general VPDES permit issued to the facility by the Department. SPECIFIC REPORTING REQUIREMENTS:  Each annual report shall include a list of all known industrial and high risk dischargers including any non-VPDES regulated industrial and commercial stormwater dischargers determined by the permittee as having the potential to contribute a significant pollutant load and that discharge to the MS4 system, a schedule of inspections and procedures for inspecting points of connection or outfalls, whichever occurs first, to the permittee’s MS4.  Each annual report shall include a report on implementation of the inspection schedule and
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