| #Q001 | administrative | operational | mandatory | General Permit Compliance | wastewater, other | Comply with General Permit | Applicable to multiple TMDLs without additional specific numeric targets (e.g., Napa River Sediment, Sonoma Creek Sediment, Walker Creek Mercury). | high |
| #Q002 | administrative | operational | mandatory | General Permit Compliance (with period) | wastewater, other | Comply with General Permit. | Santa Monica Bay Debris TMDL | high |
| #Q003 | administrative | operational | mandatory | Sediment Target Exemption and General Compliance | wastewater, other | No additional requirements for sediment-based targets Comply with General Permit | Applicable to TMDLs with specific sediment target exemptions (e.g., Ballona Creek Estuary Toxics, Calleguas Creek Salt, Colorado Lagoon). | high |
| #Q004 | administrative | operational | mandatory | Sediment Target Exemption and General Compliance (Fragment) | wastewater, other | No additional requirements for sediment-based targets Comply with | Los Angeles Area Lakes TMDL - Echo Park Lake (Chlordane, Deildrin) | high |
| #Q005 | monitoring | operational | mandatory | General Compliance and QSE Sampling for NELs (Fragment) | wastewater, other | General Permit In addition to complying with this General Permit, Responsible Dischargers shall take QSE samples in accordance with Section XI.B and shall compare the results to the corresponding TMDL Numeric Effluent Limitations (NELs). Sample, collection, and reporting shall be conducted in accordance with Section XI.B. | Los Angeles Area Lakes TMDL - Echo Park Lake (Nitrogen) | high |
| #Q006 | monitoring | reporting | mandatory | QSE Sampling and Reporting for Plural NELs | wastewater, other | In addition to complying with this General Permit, Responsible Dischargers shall take QSE samples in accordance with Section XI.B and shall compare the results to the corresponding TMDL Numeric Effluent Limitations (NELs). Sample, collection, and reporting shall be conducted in accordance with Section XI.B. | Applies to TMDLs with Numeric Effluent Limitations (NELs) (e.g., Ballona Creek Metals, Calleguas Creek Watershed Metals and Selenium, Los Angeles River Metals). | high |
| #Q007 | monitoring | reporting | mandatory | QSE Sampling and Reporting for Singular NEL | wastewater, other | In addition to complying with this General Permit, Responsible Dischargers shall take QSE samples in accordance with Section XI.B and shall compare the results to the corresponding TMDL Numeric Effluent Limitation (NEL). Sample, collection, and reporting shall be conducted in accordance with Section XI.B. | Applies to specific singular TMDL NELs (e.g., Los Angeles River Nitrogen, San Gabriel River Metals, Upper/Lower Newport Bay Toxics). | high |
| #Q008 | monitoring | reporting | mandatory | QSE Sampling and Reporting for Singular NEL (No TMDL prefix) | wastewater, other | In addition to complying with this General Permit, Responsible Dischargers shall take QSE samples in accordance with Section XI.B and shall compare the results to the corresponding Numeric Effluent Limitation (NEL). Sample, collection, and reporting shall be conducted in accordance with Section XI.B. | San Diego Creek and Newport Bay Toxics TMDL (San Diego Creek Watershed). | high |
| #Q009 | monitoring | reporting | mandatory | QSE Sampling and Reporting for TNALs | wastewater, other | In addition to complying with this General Permit, Responsible Dischargers shall take QSE samples in accordance with Section XI.B and shall compare the results to the corresponding TMDL Numeric Action Level (TNAL). Sample, collection, and reporting shall be conducted in accordance with Section XI.B. | Applies to TMDLs with Numeric Action Levels (TNALs) (e.g., Ballona Creek Bacteria, Calleguas Creek Watershed Metals Interim, Ventura County Harbor Beaches). | high |
| #Q010 | monitoring | reporting | mandatory | Interim and Final Requirements for TNALs | wastewater, other | For interim requirements: comply with General Permit For final requirements: In addition to complying with this General Permit, Responsible Dischargers shall take QSE samples in accordance with Section XI.B and shall compare the results to the corresponding TMDL Numeric Action Level (TNAL). Sample, collection, and reporting shall be conducted in accordance with Section XI.B. | Los Angeles and Long Beach Harbor Waters TMDL (various interim/final limits). | high |
| #Q011 | monitoring | reporting | mandatory | Final Requirements for TNALs | wastewater, other | For final requirements: In addition to complying with this General Permit, Responsible Dischargers shall take QSE samples in accordance with Section XI.B and shall compare the results to the corresponding TMDL Numeric Action Level (TNAL). Sample, collection, and reporting shall be conducted in accordance with Section XI.B. | Los Angeles and Long Beach Harbor Waters TMDL (Consolidated Slip, Fish Harbor). | high |
| #Q012 | monitoring | reporting | mandatory | Final Requirements for TNALs (Variant 1) | wastewater, other | comply with General Permit For final requirements: In addition to complying with this General Permit, Responsible Dischargers shall take QSE samples in accordance with Section XI.B and shall compare the results to the corresponding TMDL Numeric Action Level (TNAL). Sample, collection, and reporting shall be conducted in accordance with Section XI.B. | Los Angeles and Long Beach Harbor Waters TMDL (Dominguez Channel Estuary, Consolidated Slip). | high |
| #Q013 | monitoring | reporting | mandatory | Final Requirements for TNALs (Variant 2) | wastewater, other | General Permit For final requirements: In addition to complying with this General Permit, Responsible Dischargers shall take QSE samples in accordance with Section XI.B and shall compare the results to the corresponding TMDL Numeric Action Level (TNAL). Sample, collection, and reporting shall be conducted in accordance with Section XI.B. | Los Angeles and Long Beach Harbor Waters TMDL (Dominguez Channel Estuary, Consolidated Slip, Fish Harbor). | high |
| #Q014 | treatment | treatment | mandatory | Peck Road Park Trash BMPs | wastewater, other | Responsible Dischargers shall comply with this General Permit and install minimum and advanced BMPs meet the TMDL target of 0 (zero) trash in or on the water and on the shoreline. | Los Angeles Area Lakes TMDL - Peck Road Park | high |
| #Q015 | treatment | treatment | mandatory | Echo Park Lake Trash BMPs | wastewater, other | Responsible Dischargers shall comply with this General Permit and install minimum and advanced BMPs to meet the TMDL target of 0 (zero) trash in or on the water and on the shoreline. | Los Angeles Area Lakes TMDL - Echo Park Lake | high |
| #Q016 | reporting | reporting | mandatory | Estimate of Representative Flow Rate | wastewater, other | Responsible Dischargers shall comply with General Permit and provide an estimate of the representative flow rate from their industrial facility for one Qualifying Storm Event (QSE) each reporting year. | Los Peñasquitos Lagoon Sediment TMDL | high |
| #Q017 | reporting | reporting | mandatory | Submission of Flow Estimate | wastewater, other | The Responsible Discharger shall submit the representative flow estimate as a PDF attachment to the Annual Report (due in SMARTS no later than July 15 th of each reporting year). | Los Peñasquitos Lagoon Sediment TMDL | high |
| #Q018 | prohibition | operational | mandatory | Discharge Prohibition | wastewater, aquatic life, other | Except as in compliance with this section and sections 302, 306, 307, 318, 402, and 404 of this Act, the discharge of any pollutant by any person shall be unlawful. | | high |
| #Q019 | monitoring | reporting | mandatory | Recordkeeping and Monitoring Requirements | wastewater, other | the Administrator shall require the owner or operator of any point source to (i) establish and maintain such records, (ii) make such reports, (iii) install, use, and maintain such monitoring equipment or methods (including where appropriate, biological monitoring methods), (iv) sample such effluents (in accordance with such methods, at such locations, at such intervals, and in such manner as the Administrator shall prescribe), and (v) provide such other information as he may reasonably require | Whenever required to carry out the objective of this Act | high |
| #Q020 | reporting | reporting | mandatory | Oil and Hazardous Substance Discharge Notification | wastewater, aquatic life, other | Any person in charge of a vessel or of an onshore facility or an offshore facility shall, as soon as he has knowledge of any discharge of oil or a hazardous substance from such vessel or facility in violation of paragraph (3) of this subsection, immediately notify the appropriate agency of the United States Government of such discharge. | Upon knowledge of discharge of oil or hazardous substance in violation of paragraph (3) | high |
| #Q021 | administrative | reporting | mandatory | State Water Quality Certification | wastewater, other | Any applicant for a Federal license or permit to conduct any activity including, but not limited to, the construction or operation of facilities, which may result in any discharge into the navigable waters, shall provide the licensing or permitting agency a certification from the State in which the discharge originates or will originate... that any such discharge will comply with the applicable provisions of sections 301, 302, 303, 306, and 307 of this Act. | Applying for Federal license or permit for activity that may result in discharge into navigable waters | high |
| #Q022 | design | operational | mandatory | Use of American Iron and Steel | wastewater, other | Funds made available from a State water pollution control revolving fund established under this title may not be used for a project for the construction, alteration, maintenance, or repair of treatment works unless all of the iron and steel products used in the project are produced in the United States. | Projects using funds from a State water pollution control revolving fund (SRF) | high |
| #Q023 | prohibition | health | mandatory | Prohibition of Warfare Agents and Radioactive Waste | wastewater, aquatic life | Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Act it shall be unlawful to discharge any radiological, chemical, or biological warfare agent, any high-level radioactive waste, or any medical waste, into the navigable waters. | | high |
| #Q024 | design | operational | mandatory | Grant Application Submission Requirements | wastewater | Each applicant for a grant shall submit to the Administrator for his approval, plans, specifications, and estimates for each proposed project for the construction of treatment works for which a grant is applied for under section 201(g)(1) from funds allotted to the State under section 205 and which otherwise meets the requirements of this Act. | Applies when submitting a grant application under section 201(g)(1) | high |
| #Q025 | monitoring | operational | mandatory | Treatment Works Performance Certification | wastewater | On the date one year after the completion of construction and initial operation of such treatment works, the owner and operator of such treatment works shall certify to the Administrator whether or not such treatment works meet the design specifications and effluent limitations contained in the grant agreement and permit pursuant to section 402 of the Act for such works. | One year after completion of construction and initial operation | high |
| #Q026 | prohibition | operational | mandatory | Sewage Sludge Disposal Compliance | wastewater | the determination of the manner of disposal or use of sludge is a local determination, except that it shall be unlawful for any person to dispose of sludge from a publicly owned treatment works or any other treatment works treating domestic sewage for any use for which regulations have been established pursuant to subsection (d) of this section, except in accordance with such regulations. | Applies to any person disposing of sludge from a treatment works | high |
| #Q027 | design | operational | mandatory | SRF Funding Efficiency Certification | wastewater | beginning in fiscal year 2016, the State will require as a condition of providing assistance to a municipality or intermunicipal, interstate, or State agency that the recipient of such assistance certify, in a manner determined by the Governor of the State, that the recipient- (A) has studied and evaluated the cost and effectiveness of the processes, materials, techniques, and technologies for carrying out the proposed project... and (B) has selected, to the maximum extent practicable, a project or activity that maximizes the potential for efficient water use, reuse, recapture, and conservation, and energy conservation | Condition of providing assistance from a State water pollution control revolving fund | high |
| #Q028 | administrative | operational | mandatory | Triennial Water Quality Standards Review | other | The Governor of a State or the State water pollution control agency of such State shall from time to time (but at least once each three year period beginning with the date of enactment of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972) hold public hearings for the purpose of reviewing applicable water quality standards and, as appropriate, modifying and adopting standards. | Periodic review every three years | high |
| #Q029 | prohibition | operational | mandatory | Compliance with Toxic and Pretreatment Standards | wastewater | After the effective date of any effluent standard or prohibition or pretreatment standard promulgated under this section, it shall be unlawful for any owner or operator of any source to operate any source in violation of any such effluent standard or prohibition or pretreatment standard. | After effective date of standards | high |
| #Q030 | reporting | operational | mandatory | Tank Vessel and Facility Response Plans | other | The President shall issue regulations which require an owner or operator of a tank vessel or facility described in subparagraph (C) to prepare and submit to the President a plan for responding, to the maximum extent practicable, to a worst case discharge, and to a substantial threat of such a discharge, of oil or a hazardous substance. | Owners or operators of tank vessels, offshore facilities, or designated onshore facilities | high |
| #Q031 | administrative | operational | mandatory | Wages and Labor Standards | other | The Administrator shall take such action as may be necessary to insure that all laborers and mechanics employed by contractors or subcontractors on treatment works for which grants are made under this Act shall be paid wages at rates not less than those prevailing for the same type of work on similar construction in the immediate locality, as determined by the Secretary of Labor, in accordance with the Act of March 3, 1931, as amended, known as the Davis-Bacon Act | Contractors or subcontractors on treatment works for which grants are made under this Act | high |
| #Q032 | design | operational | mandatory | Requirement for American Materials | wastewater | no grant for which application is made after February 1, 1978, shall be made under this title for any treatment works unless only such unmanufactured articles, materials, and supplies as have been mined or produced in the United States, and only such manufactured articles, materials, and supplies as have been manufactured in the United States, substantially all from articles, materials, or supplies mined, produced, or manufactured, as the case may be, in the United States will be used in such treatment works. | Grants for construction of treatment works after Feb 1, 1978 | high |
| #Q033 | operational | operational | mandatory | Marine Sanitation Device Operability | other | it shall be unlawful... for a vessel subject to such standards and regulations to operate on the navigable waters of the United States, if such vessel is not equipped with an operable marine sanitation device certified pursuant to this section. | Vessels subject to marine sanitation standards on navigable waters | high |
| #Q034 | reporting | reporting | mandatory | State Nonpoint Source Assessment Reports | other | The Governor of each State shall, after notice and opportunity for public comment, prepare and submit to the Administrator for approval, a report which (A) identifies those navigable waters within the State which, without additional action to control nonpoint sources of pollution, cannot reasonably be expected to attain or maintain applicable water quality standards or the goals and requirements of this Act | Requirement for State Governors | high |
| #Q035 | administrative | operational | mandatory | State Matching Funds for SRF | wastewater | the State will deposit in the fund from State moneys an amount equal to at least 20 percent of the total amount of all capitalization grants which will be made to the State with funds to be made available under this title and section 205(m) of this Act on or before the date on which each quarterly grant payment will be made to the State under this title | Agreement for receiving SRF capitalization grants | high |
| #Q036 | prohibition | operational | mandatory | Federal Procurement Prohibition for Violators | other | No Federal agency may enter into any contract with any person, who has been convicted of any offense under section 309(c) of this Act, for the procurement of goods, materials, and services if such contract is to be performed at any facility at which the violation which gave rise to such conviction occurred, and if such facility is owned, leased, or supervised by such person. | Conviction under Section 309(c) | high |
| #Q037 | operational | operational | mandatory | New Source Performance Compliance | wastewater | After the effective date of standards of performance promulgated under this section, it shall be unlawful for any owner or operator of any new source to operate such source in violation of any standard of performance applicable to such source. | After the effective date of standards of performance promulgated under Section 306 | high |
| #Q038 | administrative | operational | mandatory | Permit for Non-exempt Dredge or Fill Discharge | other | Any discharge of dredged or fill material into the navigable waters incidental to any activity having as its purpose bringing an area of the navigable waters into a use to which it was not previously subject, where the flow or circulation of navigable waters may be impaired or the reach of such waters be reduced, shall be required to have a permit under this section. | Activities intended to bring navigable waters into a new use where flow or reach is affected | high |
| #Q039 | prohibition | operational | mandatory | Sewage Sludge Discharge Permit Requirement | wastewater | Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act or of any other law, in the case where the disposal of sewage sludge resulting from the operation of a treatment works as defined in section 212 of this Act (including the removal of in-place sewage sludge from one location and its deposit at another location) would result in any pollutant from such sewage sludge entering the navigable waters, such disposal is prohibited except in accordance with a permit issued by the Administrator under section 402 of this Act. | Sludge disposal resulting in pollutants entering navigable waters | high |
| #Q040 | prohibition | operational | mandatory | Employee Whistleblower Protection | other | No person shall fire, or in any other way discriminate against, or cause to be fired or discriminated against, any employee or any authorized representative or employees by reason of the fact that such employee or representative has filed, instituted, or caused to be filed or instituted any proceeding under this Act, or has testified or is about to testify in any proceeding resulting from the administration or enforcement of the provisions of this Act. | Applies to any employee participating in Act proceedings | high |
| #Q041 | reporting | reporting | mandatory | Biennial Water Quality Inventory Submission | other | Each State shall prepare and submit to the Administrator by April 1, 1975, and shall bring up to date by April 1, 1976, and biennially thereafter, a report which shall include- (A) a description of the water quality of all navigable waters in such State during the preceding year, with appropriate supplemental descriptions as shall be required to take into account seasonal, tidal, and other variations, correlated with the quality of water required by the objective of this Act (as identified by the Administrator pursuant to criteria published under section 304(a) of this Act) and the water quality described in subparagraph (B) of this paragraph; | Requirement for States | high |