The Department of Environmental Protection published final policy documents on combined sewer overflows and CSO control plans (details below).

Final DEP ID: 385-2000-011. Pennsylvania Combined Sewer Overflow Policy. On March 1, 2002, the Department published a Combined Sewer Overflow Policy to assist in meeting the goals of controlling and eliminating CSO discharges, as practical, as well as to facilitate compliance among all CSO system permittees with State water quality standards through the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permitting program. Substantive revisions were made to the policy to further enhance and support compliance with CSO and NPDES permit conditions among the regulated community.

Final DEP ID: 362-5512-004. Recognition of Cost Items Associated with Concurrent Act 537 and Combined Sewer Overflow Long Term Control Plan (LTCP) Planning. This document describes the treatment of costs in the calculation of Act 537 sewage facilities planning assistance grant when a LTCP has been made part of an Act 537 Official plan revision. It confirms that a LTCP, whose content responds to regulations enforced under the Federal Clean Water Act, may be part of a comprehensive Act 537 update revision document.

For copies of Draft Technical Guidance (DEP website)

For copies of Final Technical Guidance (DEP website)

9/5/2008