WQC Agenda March 2025

NORTH CAROLINA ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT COMMISSION DRAFT March 12, 2025 2:30pm – 4:00pm WATER QUALITY COMMITTEE Steve Keen, Chair Presiding
This meeting will occur in the Ground Floor Hearing Room of the Archdale Building at 512 N. Salisbury St, Raleigh, NC. The public may attend in person or via the state web conferencing links posted online at: https://deq.nc.gov/about/divisions/water- resources/water-resources- commissions/environmental-management-commission/meeting-
information.
In the event the previously scheduled Committee meeting adjourns prior to the estimated adjournment time, the other Committee meeting may be called to order by the Chair, fifteen minutes after the previous meeting adjourned.

I. Preliminary Matters 1. Call to Order and Notice of NCGS 138A-15 ....................................... Chair Keen
North Carolina General Statute 138A-15 mandates that at the beginning of any meeting of a board, the chair shall remind all members of their duty to avoid conflicts of interest under this Subchapter. The chair also shall inquire as to whether there is any known conflict of interest with respect to any matters coming before the board at the time.
2. Approval of draft January 8, 2025 meeting minutes II. Items
1. Action - Request Approval to Proceed to the EMC with Proposed Amendments to Laboratory Certification Rule 15A NCAC 02H .0804 to Add Additional Parameters (Beth Swanson, DWR) ATTACHMENTS Presentation RIA Approval - 15A NCAC 02H .0804 Laboratory Certification
15A NCAC 02H .0804 DRAFT
2. Action – Presentation of Draft PFAS Monitoring and Minimization Rules for Industrial Direct Dischargers and Significant Industrial Users (SIUs) (Julie Grzyb,
DWR Deputy Director) ATTACHMENT PFAS Min Plan Figure
Draft PFAS Rule
3. Action – Presentation on the Management of 1,4 Dioxane Discharges to Surface Water – Pathways Forward Division staff will provide a summary of the statewide monitoring and sampling data for 1,4 Dioxane and recent sampling data on the facilities that are known to discharge 1,4
Dioxane. ATTACHMENTS Presentation
4. Information – SL 2024-44 Section 5.1 Modernized Wastewater Permitting to Support Environmentally Sound Economic Development This legislation provide that DEQ and the EMC “shall develop and submit to the United States Environmental Protection Agency for USEPA's approval draft rules that establish methodologies and permitting requirements for the discharge of treated domestic wastewaters with low risk following site-specific criteria to surface waters of the State, including wetlands,
perennial streams, and unnamed tributaries of named and classified streams and intermittent streams or drainage courses where the 7Q10 flow or 30Q2 flow of the receiving water is estimated to be low flow or zero flow, or under certain conditions non-existent, as determined by the United States Geological Survey (USGS).”
A joint letter from the Division of Water Resources and the Environmental Management Commission with a concept rule was submitted to the EPA Region 4 on July 31, 2024, requesting the review of a draft rule concept as presented in SL 2024-44 Section 5.1. On December 20, 2024, EPA responded. Section 5.1 also required the establishment of Wastewater General Permit Working Group Be established by the NC Collaboratory and DEQ to create a Wastewater Treatment and
Discharge General Permit. The work group is scheduled to submit its final report to the ERC on March 15, 2024. Quarterly reports have been submitted to the ERC and the March 1, 2025, quarterly report is attached.

Staff will provide an update on SL 2024-44 Section 5.1. ATTACHMENTS Session Law 2024-44
EMC/DWR July 31, 2024 letter to E`PA
EPA’s December 20, 2024 Response 5. Information - Flow Rate Study for Schools and Daycares (Karen Preston, NPDES Municipal Unit Supervisor, DWR) The Division of Water Resources will provide an update on the study that was conducted to gather information from other states on flow rates from schools and daycares, and propose recommendations for reduction of North Carolina rates as required by Section
18.2 of SL 2023-137 House Bill 600. ATTACHMENT
Presentation
III. Concluding Remarks By Director (Comments TBD) By Committee Chair
By Committee Members
By Counsel