The Department of Environmental Conservation proposed to reissue, without amendments, the Alaska Pollutant Discharge Elimination System general permit for facilities related to oil and gas exploration, production, and development in the North Slope Borough. The permit would reauthorize discharges from graywater, gravel pit dewatering, excavation dewatering, hydrostatic testing, stormwater, mobile spills response, and contained water. Comments are due April 19, 2024.

The Department of Environmental Quality proposed to issue a second Alaska Pollutant Discharge Elimination System general permit modification to the Onshore Seafood General Permit. The proposed modification would establish a 10-piece threshold for evaluating compliance with the seafood waste size limitation in the permit. Comments are due January 24, 2024. See https://aws.state.ak.us/OnlinePublicNotices/Notices/View.aspx?id=213549.

The Department of Environmental Conservation proposed to issue an Alaska Pollutant Discharge Elimination System general permit for statewide lagoon facilities to discharge to waters of the United States. Comments are due July 17, 2023. See https://aws.state.ak.us/OnlinePublicNotices/Notices/View.aspx?id=211451.

The Department of Environmental Conservation proposed to reissue the Alaska Pollutant Discharge Elimination System general permit to discharge to waters of the United States. The permit authorizes discharges of wastewater from certain highbankers and suction dredges and pump engine horsepower.

The Department of Environmental Conservation proposed to reissue the Alaskan Pollutant Discharge Elimination System general permit to aquaculture facilities in Alaska that discharge process waste and wastewater to waters of the United States. Comments are due January 27, 2023. See https://aws.state.ak.us/OnlinePublicNotices/Notices/View.aspx?id=209180.

The Division of Water proposed to issue an Alaskan Pollutant Discharge Elimination System general permit to discharge to waters of the United States. The permit covers small POTWs and other small privately owned treatment works providing secondary treatment of domestic wastewater and discharging to surface water in Alaska. Comments are due November 7, 2022. See https://aws.state.ak.us/OnlinePublicNotices/Notices/View.aspx?id=208361.

The Department of Environmental Conservation proposed to reissue, with amendments, an Alaska Pollutant Discharge Elimination System general permit for point source discharges of pollutants associated with the application of biological pesticides or chemical pesticides that leave a residue. Amendments include adding a definition for the term "pesticide discharges to waters of the United States from pesticide application" and updating the definition for "pesticide residue" to be consistent with 40 C.F.R. 122.2. Comments are due May 16, 2022.

The Department of Environmental Conservation proposed to reissue an Alaska Pollutant Discharge Elimination System general permit to regulate point source discharges of pollutants associated with the application of biological pesticides and chemical pesticides that leave a residue. Comments are due April 11, 2022. See https://aws.state.ak.us/OnlinePublicNotices/Notices/View.aspx?id=206070.

The Department of Environmental Conservation proposed to reissue an Alaska Pollutant Discharge Elimination System general permit that authorizes discharges of process wastewater and drainage waters from open-cut mines and mechanical dredges that process gold placer ores and rely on beneficiation processes based on gravity separation. Comments are due March 22, 2021. See https://aws.state.ak.us/OnlinePublicNotices/Notices/View.aspx?id=201472.

The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation proposed to issue an Alaska Pollutant Discharge Elimination System general permit for discharges from non-contact cooling water facilities to fresh or marine surface water. Comments are due June 12, 2020. See https://aws.state.ak.us/OnlinePublicNotices/Notices/View.aspx?id=198179.