Sea-Tac NPDES Fact Sheet Addendum – 2005

of Seattle (Port) on September 4, 2003. The permit was appealed and, following a hearing, the Pollution Control Hearings Board (PCHB or Board) issued its Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law and Order (Order) on October 18, 2004. In the Order, the PCHB remanded the permit and required the Department to address several shortcomings in the permit. This Fact Sheet Addendum contains the basis for the changes proposed to be made in the permit as a result of the PCHB’s Order. REQUIREMENTS SET FORTH BY POLLUTION CONTROL HEARINGS BOARD The Board required the Department to address the following aspects of the permit on remand: • Department must include AKART requirements in permit and incorporate interim limitations on wastewater from Industrial Wastewater System: The PCHB directed the Department to evaluate two alternatives for compliance with the AKART requirement set forth under state law for contaminated wastewater collected in the Port’s Industrial Wastewater System (IWS): o Discharge of all of deicing contaminated wastewater to King County’s Publicly Owned Treatment Works (POTW), and o Separation of high strength glycol streams, combined lagoon aeration. The PCHB stated that the AKART analysis should also incorporate consideration of whether the permit should contain a limit on total pounds of BOD discharged into Puget Sound. The PCHB’s Order requires the Department to require the Port to implement AKART as soon as possible, and to include interim limits for BOD in the permit, as well as any other nonconstruction measures to achieve water quality criteria. • Department must…

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