U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Creates New Code For NetDMR Reporting

On March 31, David A. Hindin, the director of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance, issued a Temporary Advisory for National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Reporting in Response to COVID-19 Pandemic. Referring to the EPA's prior memo on March 26 and as described in the Holland & Knight alert on March 30, this temporary reporting advisory provides further direction to EPA regional offices on how to implement the EPA policy as it relates to National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) reporting requirements that are tracked in the EPA's Integrated Compliance Information System for the NPDES program (ICIS-NPDES). To avoid the automatic generation of non-receipt violations where a permittee is unable to perform required sampling or other conditions exist precluding compliance with permit requirements due to coronavirus (COVID-19) restrictions, EPA has established a new no data indicator