Program for Industrial Activity -
Who's Covered
Florida's NPDES stormwater program regulates all industrial
activities that:
The eleven categories
are defined using both narrative descriptions of the activities
and
Standard
Industrial Classification (SIC) codes. (Note: The North
American Industry Classification System (NAICS) will eventually
replace the SIC system. The U.S. Bureau of the Census has a
conversion
table to bridge the two systems.) General descriptions of
the types of activity within each category follow:
|
Category |
Description |
| Category
(i) |
Facilities
subject to federal effluent limitations or new source
performance standards |
| Category
(ii) |
Heavy
manufacturing (e.g., ship building and repair, chemical
manufacturing, wood products manufacturing) |
| Category
(iii) |
Mining/oil and gas exploration |
| Category
(iv) |
Hazardous waste facilities |
| Category
(v) |
Landfills or open dumps |
| Category
(vi) |
Recycling facilities (e.g., salvage yards, auto junk
yards, battery reclaimers) |
| Category
(vii) |
Steam electric power generation facilities |
| Category
(viii) |
Transportation facilities (e.g., trucking, airports,
marinas) |
| Category
(ix) |
Treatment
works (e.g., domestic wastewater treatment plants) |
| Category
(x) |
Large
construction activity (i.e., disturbing 5 or more acres
of land ). This category is regulated and permitted
separately under the NPDES
Stormwater Program for Construction Activity. |
| Category
(xi) |
Light
industry (e.g., printing, warehousing) |
A
detailed description of the eleven categories of "stormwater
discharges associated with industrial activity" (12.3KB)
is available. This one-page reference sheet contains a complete
listing of the categories and the associated SIC codes for
each. Any
industrial activity that meets the coverage criteria is regulated
under the program; however there are two possible exceptions
from the requirement to obtain a permit, as explained below:
ISTEA
Temporary Exemption
Provisions
of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA)
of 1991 temporarily delayed the deadline for Phase I industrial
activities (with the exception of power plants, airports,
and uncontrolled sanitary landfills) operated by municipalities
with populations less than 100,000 people to obtain an NPDES
stormwater discharge permit. However, the temporary
exemption expired on March 10, 2003.
The
Conditional No Exposure Exclusion
Certain industrial activities may qualify for an exemption
from the NPDES stormwater permitting requirements if none of
their industrial materials or processes are exposed to
stormwater. See conditional no exposure
exclusion for more details.
NPDES Stormwater
Permitting Program
Florida Department of Environmental Protection
2600 Blair Stone Road, MS 3585
Tallahassee, FL 32399-2400
Phone: (850) 245-7522
Phone: (866) 336-6312 (toll-free)
Email:
NPDES-stormwater@dep.state.fl.us
2012 State of Florida