NC0000396_Electronic Reporting Requirements_20160331

Water Resources
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
March 31, 2016
Paula Sims
Duke Energy Progress Inc
PO Box 1551
Peb 8
Raleigh, NC 27602
PAT MCCRORY
Governor
DONALD R. VAN DER VAART
Subject: NPDES Electronic Reporting Requirements and
Sixty Day Notice of Minor Modification of the NPDES Permit
Asheville Steam Electric Power Plant
NPDES Permit Number: NC0000396
Dear NPDES Permittee:
secre(ary
S. JAY ZIMMERMAN
Director
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently published the National Pollutant Discharge
Elimination System (NPDES) Electronic Reporting Rule. The rule requires NPDES regulated facilities to
report information electronically, instead of filing written paper reports. The rule does not change what
information is required from facilities. It only changes the method by which information is provided (i.e.,
electronic rather than paper-based).
EPA is phasing in the requirements of the rule over a 5 -year period. The two phases of the rule, and their
key milestones, are:
• Phase 1—Starting on December 21, 2016, regulated entities that are required to submit Discharge
Monitoring Reports (DMRs) will begin submitting these reports electronically, instead of on
paper. If you are currently reporting your DMR data electronically using eDMR, then you simply
need to continue reporting in the same way as you are now. The key change is that, starting on
December 21, 2016, electronic reporting of DMRs will be required, instead of voluntary.
• Phase 2—Starting on December2l, 2020, regulated entities that are required to submit certain
other NPDES reports will begin submitting these reports electronically, instead of on paper.
Reports covered in the second phase include Notices of Intent to discharge in compliance with an
NPDES general permit, Sewer Overflow/Bypass Event Reports, and a number of other NPDES
program reports.
For more information on EPA's NPDES Electronic Reporting Rule, visit
http://www2.epa.gov/compliance/final-national-pollutant-discharge-elimination-system-npdes-
electronic-reporting-rule. For more information on electronic reporting to NC DWR, visit
http://deg.nc.gov/about/divisions/water-resources/edmr/npdes-electronic-reporting or contact Vanessa
Manuel at 919-807-6392 or via email at [e-mail].
State ofNorth Carolina I Environmental Quality I Water Resources
1611 Mail service Center I Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-1611
919 707 9000

Sixty Days' Notice of Minor Mo
The NPDES Electronic Reporting Rule requir,
reporting requirements into NPDES permits
electronic reporting process supersedes the
bring your permit up-to-date with the new r
sixty days your NPDES permit will be modifiE
The modification will require electronic rept
will be required beginning as indicated abov
NPDES Permit Standard Conditions Part
effective on July 1, 2016.
cation of the Subject NPDES Permit
authorized NPDES programs to incorporate electronic
eginning December 21, 2015. Under the new rule, the
raper reporting process outlined in your existing permit. To
porting requirements, this letter serves to notify you that in
I to incorporate the new electronic reporting requirements.
ting in place of paper-based reporting. Electronic reporting
for Phases 1 and 2 reporting. Please attach the enclosed
fdendum to your permit. This permit modification becomes
All other terms and conditions in the originapermit remain unchanged and in full effect. This
modification is issued pursuant to the requi dements of North Carolina General Statute 143-215.1 and the
Memorandum of Agreement between North Carolina and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
dated October 15, 2007.
If any parts contained in this modification arae unacceptable to you, then you have the right to file a
petition for. a contested case with the Offic�j of Administrative Hearings within thirty (30) days following
receipt of this letter. This petition must con5orm to the requirements of Chapter 150B of the North
Carolina General Statutes. Petitions must be timely filed with the Office of Administrative Hearings, Post
Office Drawer 11666, Raleigh, North Carolinlla 27604. If you do not file a petition within the required time,
the agency decision shall be final and bindir7g. If you have questions concerning this permit modification,
please contact Tom Belnick at telephone number 919-807-6390.
Sincerely,
ieffre4j o. PovV_.
for S. Jay Zimmerman, P.G.
Enclosure: NPDES-Permit Standard Conditipns.Part III -Addendum
Cc: NPDES File
Central Files
Asheville Regional Office/ Water C�uality Program