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n <br />-VI -- <br />Water Board or the Regional Water Boards. This General <br />Permit shall not regulate these discharges. When the <br />individual or general NPDES permits for such discharges <br />expire, the State Water Board or Regional Water Board may <br />authorize coverage under this General Permit or another <br />general NPDES permit, or may issue a new individual NPDES <br />permit consistent with the Federal and State storm water <br />regulations. Interested parties may petition the State Water <br />Board or appropriate Regional Water Board to issue individual <br />or General NPDES Permits. General Permits may be issued for <br />a particular industrial group or watershed area. <br />3. FACILITIES DETERMINED INELIGIBLE BY REGIONAL WATER BOARDS: <br />Regional Water Boards may determine that discharges from a <br />facility or groups of facilities, otherwise eligible for <br />coverage under this General Permit, have potential water <br />quality impacts that may not be appropriately addressed by <br />this General Permit. In such cases, a Regional Water Board <br />may require such discharges to be covered by an individual or <br />general NPDES permit. Interested persons may petition the <br />appropriate Regional Water Board tc issue individual NPDES <br />permits. The applicability of this General Permit to such <br />discharges will be terminated upon adoption of an individual <br />NPDES permit or a different general NPDES permit. <br />4. FACILITIES WHICH DO NOT DISCHARGE STORM WATER TO WATERS OF <br />THE UNITED STATES: The discharges from the following <br />facilities are not required to be permitted: <br />a. FACILITIES THAT DISCHARGE STORM WATER TO MUNICIPAL <br />SANITARY SEWER SYSTEMS: Facilities that discharge storm <br />water to municipal. sanitary sewer systems or combined <br />sewer systems are not required by Federal regulations to <br />be covered by an NPDES storm water permit or to submit an <br />NOI to comply with this General Permit. (It should be <br />noted that many municipalities have sewer use ordinances <br />that prohibit storm drain connections to their sanitary <br />sewers.) <br />b. FACILITIES THAT DO NOT DISCHARGE STORM WATER TO SURFACE <br />WATERS OR SEPARATE STORM SEWERS: Storm water that is <br />captured and treated and/or disposed of with the <br />facility's NPDES permitted process wastewater and storm <br />water that is disposed of to evaporation ponds, <br />percolation ponds, or combined sewer systems are not <br />required to obtain a storm water permit. To avoid <br />liability, the facility operator should be certain that <br />no discharge of storm water to surface waters would occur <br />under any circumstances. <br />