Water Quality Permits

• NPDES Program Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between DEQ and EPA - April 2010
• Antidegradation Policy for Point Sources
• Indirect Discharge to Surface Water via Groundwater or Hyporheic Water
• DEQ Service Quality Pledge to Oregon Wastewater Permit Holders
• Template for LID Stormwater Manual for Western Oregon

Community wastewater systems

• Preparing Hauled-Waste Acceptance Plans
  Prepared jointly by ACWA and DEQ's Industrial Pretreatment Advisory Committee, October 2015
• Natural Treatment Systems - A Water Quality Match for Oregon's Cities and Towns
  Prepared jointly by ACWA and DEQ's Natural Treatment System Advisory Committee, July 2014repared jointly by ACWA and DEQ's Natural Treatment System Advisory Committee, July 2014
• Engineering Design Review Exemption Process Fact Sheet
• Regulatory Requirements for Common Sewer System Owners Fact Sheet
• Quality Assurance Guidelines for Self-Monitoring Laboratories - September 2017
  Updated to reflect EPA's 2017 Method Update Rule

Guidance for disposal of chlorinated water discharges

• Swimming Pools and Hot Tubs
• Other Chlorinated Water Discharges

Land application

• Guidelines for Land Application of Industrial Solid Wastes - August 1993
• Operations, Monitoring and Management Plans for Land Application of Non-Sanitary Wastewater - November 2002
• Land Application Laws and DEQ's Procedure for Proposals to Land Apply on EFU Lands - 2001

Marinas and shipyards

• Best Management Practices for Oregon Marinas - May 2002      
• Best Management Practices for Oregon Shipyards - October 2000

Monitoring and reporting

• Electronic Data Delivery of Toxic Data
• Quality Assurance Guidelines for Self-Monitoring Laboratories
• Small Laboratory Quality Manual Template, February 2014
  • Introduction to the Quality Manual Template
• Discharge monitoring report forms for domestic individual permits

Permit issuance plans

• Water Quality Statewide Permit Issuance Plan for Federal Fiscal Year 2018
• Water Quality Statewide Permit Issuance Plan for Federal Fiscal Year 2017
• Water Quality Statewide Permit Issuance Plan for Federal Fiscal Year 2016
• Water Quality Statewide Permit Issuance Plan for Federal Fiscal Year 2015

Program improvements

• WQ Permitting Program Review - Read more about DEQ's work to improve the NPDES permitting program and the recommendations contained in a 2016 independent consultant's report.
• Report to the Legislature: Wastewater Permitting Program Improvements and Measures - January 2013
  

Vehicle or equipment wash water

• Recommended Best Management Practices for Washing Activities - March 1998