Attachment 4
Expanded ICIS-NPDES Steering Committee Meeting
U.S. EPA – East Building, Room 1133A
1201 Constitution Ave, NW
Washington, DC
February 13 and 14, 2006
Next Steps/Action Items
Action Item
Who
By When
ASIWPCA Meeting –
EPA
March 121.
Flag issues, outline
representative,
14, 2006
process, make sure
Sean Rolland,
ASIWPCA members
Chuck Haugh,
know about their role
William Purcell
2.
White Paper outlining
and explaining how EPA
defines EPA
Headquarters’, Regions’,
and authorized state
management of NPDES
program. Also, given
what management means
for the program, outline
what information is
needed to manage it.
OW
OECA
OEI
March 17,
2006
1. Clarify what EPA HQ
means by “managing
the national NPDES
program”?
2. Clarify what EPA
regions mean by
‘managing” the regional
NPDES program.
3. Clarify what an
approved state NPDES
program means by
implementing and
managing the program
in its state.
4. Given above, what
information does EPA
HQ and regions need to
satisfy management
needs?
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3.
ECOS Meeting - Flag
issues, outline process,
make sure ECOS
members know about
their role
EPA
Representative,
Irene Kropp,
Robert
Zimmerman,
Melanie
March 2022, 2006
Notes
Identify how frequently
information is needed,
immediate access versus
longer time frames.
Identify which
information must be
public and which does
not.
Attachment 4
Morris, Shellie
ChardMcClary, Mike
Linder, John
Sandoval
State
Representatives
on Expanding
Steering
Committee,
ECOS and
ASWPICA to
convene and
manage
4.
Written Report Which
Outlines Other
Approaches for States to
Provide EPA with
NPDES Information To
Manage the Program
March 31,
2006
5.
Background paper on
previous proposed
categories framework
EPA: David
Hindin and
staff
Week of
April 3-7
6.
Expanded Steering
Committee meeting
Expanded
Steering
Committee
2 days,
week of
April 10-14
or April 2428, 2006
7.
Write and Send April
Meeting Report
Summary of meeting
EPA
w/Expanded
Steering
Last two
weeks in
April
1. Define in detail what the is. The
approaches are.
2. Detail how these
approaches to flowing
data meet NPDES
management needs.
3. Detail how these
approaches to flowing
data produce nationally
consistent quality, and
complete data?
4. Review examples of
how these models or
approaches work in
other contexts. What is
similar or different
form the other contexts
and NPDES?
5. Suggest costs these
approaches might take
to implement.
6. Use 5 purposes on page
1 of the current draft
ICIS-NPDES Policy
Statement to frame
document.
Look at previous proposals
from Steering Committee,
present what the proposed
approaches were and what the
steering committee identified
as the strengths and
weaknesses of them.
Purpose: Move toward
resolution; narrow areas of
disagreement on issues,
discuss white papers, and
categories, resource, pacing
issues.
Attachment 4
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
14.
discussions – document
decisions and open
issues.
Send to ECOS,
ASIWPCA, PCS user
group
Expanded Steering
Committee meeting or
call
Committee
review
Draft Policy Statement
distributed for comment
to EPA and State
Managers, ECOS,
ASIWPCA, PCS user
group
Expanded Steering
Committee Call or
meeting
EPA
Incorporate July Input
from Expanded Steering
committee into revised
Draft Policy Statement
and send revised Draft
Policy Statement to
ECOS, ASIWPCA, PCS
user group
ASIWPCA Annual
Meeting-review draft
ECOS Annual Meetingreview draft
Final Changes to ICIS
Policy
ICIS-NPDES Policy
Statement published in
Federal Register
Expanded
Steering
Committee
Meeting
Expanded
Steering
Committee
Meeting
EPA
EPA
EPA
1 Day
meeting/call
week of
May 8-12
or
May 15-18
June 1,
2006
Narrow areas of disagreement
and develop recommendations
to overcome areas of
disagreement
Week of
July 24-28
Review Comments and
Suggest Changes
August 1315, 2006
August 2729, 2006
Review Draft and Suggest
Changes
Review Draft and Suggest
Changes
September
8, 2006
September
29, 2006