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Oklahoma Administrative Code (Last Updated: March 11, 2021) |
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TITLE 252. Department of Environmental Quality |
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Chapter 606. Oklahoma Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (OPDES) Standards |
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Subchapter 5. Discharge Permit Requirements |
SECTION 252:606-5-3. Water quality review
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- (a) The provisions of "Quality Criteria for Water, 1986", United States Environmental Protection Agency, EPA 440/5-86-001, as amended, are incorporated herein by reference and will be consulted where Oklahoma's Water Quality Standards do not contain a specific criterion on a particular pollutant and a criterion is necessary to protect a designated beneficial use.(b) In all cases, where appropriate, to ensure that beneficial uses of receiving waters are protected or when deemed necessary to establish wasteload allocations of multiple dischargers along a stream segment, the DEQ will require the applicant to perform and submit to the DEQ, or the DEQ will perform, appropriate stream studies and water quality modeling.