2020 MS4 General Permit Section 4 Limitations on Authorization
Section 4 Limitations on Authorization
4.1
Limitations on Authorization. [Minn. R. 7090]
4.2
The following discharges or activities are not authorized by the General Permit:
- a. non-stormwater dischargess, except those authorized by the permittee in item 3.2;
- b. discharges of stormwater to the small MS4 from activities requiring a separate NPDES/SDS permit. The General Permit does not replace or satisfy any other permitting requirements;
- c. the General Permit does not replace or satisfy any environmental review requirements, including those under the Minnesota Environmental Policy Act (Minn. Stat. 116D), or the National Environmental Policy Act (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.);
- d. the General Permit does not replace or satisfy any review requirements for endangered or threatened species, from new or expanded discharges that adversely impact or contribute to adverse impacts on a listed endangered or threatened species, or adversely modify a designated critical habitat;
- e. the General Permit does not replace or satisfy any review requirements for historic places or archeological sites, from new or expanded discharges which adversely affect properties listed or eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places or affecting known or discovered archeological sites; and
- f. discharges to prohibited outstanding resource value waters pursuant to Minn. R. 7050.0335, Subp. 3.
Only the permittee's small MS4 and the portions of the storm sewer system that are under the permittee's operational control are authorized by the General Permit. [Minn. R. 7090]