The Department of Environmental Protection this week published nine new draft policy documents for comment and finalized at tenth.

NOTE: comments are due June 6 for each of the draft guidance documents.

Draft: DEP ID: 250-4000-001. Citing Inspection Violations. This guidance establishes a uniform methodology across all Department regions for citing violations within municipal, residual and hazardous waste programs.

Draft: DEP ID: 250-4000-002. Enforcement Actions. This document provides guidelines for Department staff to implement a uniform methodology across all Department regions for enforcement actions within municipal, residual and hazardous waste programs.

Draft: DEP ID: 250-4000-003. Violations Requiring and Extended Time Period to Correct. This document provides consistent guidelines across all Department regions to ensure that violations within municipal, residual and hazardous waste programs are corrected with 180 days from the date that the Department determined that a violation occurred.

Draft: DEP ID: 250-4000-004. Program Implementation Guidance. This document provides a formal methodology by which the Bureau of Land Recycling and Waste Management will implement a compliance and enforcement program throughout this Commonwealth.

Draft: DEP ID: 250-4110-001. Notices of Violation (NOVs). This document provides a formal methodology by which the Bureau of Land Recycling and Waste Management will cite similar violations in a similar manner.

Draft: DEP ID: 251-3120-001. Performing Hazardous Waste Facility Inspections. This document establishes a formal methodology for conducting hazardous waste facility inspections in a similar fashion across all six regions of the Department.

Draft: DEP ID: 254-3120-001. Performing Municipal and Residual Waste Facility Inspections. This document provides a formal methodology for conducting municipal and residual waste facility inspections in a similar fashion across all six regions of the Department.

Draft: DEP ID: 257-3120-001Storage Tank Program Internal Policy on Inspections and On-Site Visits. This document establishes uniform procedures for Storage Tank Program inspections.

Draft: DEP ID: 257-4000-001. Guidelines for Identifying, Tracking, and Resolving Violations for Storage Tanks. This document establishes guidance for the Storage Tank Program ''Corrective Action Process for Owners and Operators of Storage Tanks and Storage Tank Facilities and other Responsible Parties.''

Final: DEP ID: 362-2192-003. Guidelines for Agricultural Utilization of Sewage Sludge. This is a minor modification to existing guidance that provides a coordinated and consistent Statewide process for determining compliance with requirements contained in permits issued under 25 Pa. Code Chapter 275 (relating to land application of sewage sludge).

For copies of Draft Technical Guidance

For copies of Final Technical Guidance

5/6/2005