Reducing the Flood of Changes—EPA Issues a More Tempered Final 2021 Multi-Sector General Permit than Originally Proposed | Beveridge & Diamond PC
Key Takeaways What Is Happening? The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized the 2021 National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Multi-Sector General Permit (MSGP) for stormwater discharges associated with industrial activities, which will take effect and supersede the 2015 MSGP on March 1, 2021. Who Is Impacted? Short term: industrial facilities in jurisdictions where EPA is the NPDES permitting authority. Longer-term: industrial facilities in states that model their NPDES stormwater general permits after EPA’s MSGP. What Should I Do? For industrial facilities wit...