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Class 1 Waters, August 19, 1981 hearing in Casper, Wyoming - Proposed Modifications to Wyoming Water Quality Rules and Regulations, Chapter I
Silt Run, Guernsey (Goshen Irrigation) - 1981
Salinity Standards - September 18, 1980
Salinity Standards - August 5,1982 Hearing
201 Wastewater Facilities Plan
Chapter 15- Water Quality - (Sludge) Rules and Regs as an Emergency Rule. Hearing held January 25, 1990. Statement of Principle Reasons for Adoption signed on January 30, 1990 by Dave Park.
Revisions to Chapter 1, Quality Standards for Wyoming Surface Waters. Hearing held May 30, 1990. Statement of Principal Reasons for Adoption signed on October 23, 1990 by H. Bergman.
Amendments to the WQD Rules & Regulations, Chapter IV, Regulations for Releases of Oil & Hazardous Substances into Waters of the State of Wyoming. Hearing held November 19, 1986. Statement of Principle Reasons signed November 2, 1987 by John Schiffer.
CHAPTER V - Hearing held on July 25, 1984. John Crow, Hearing Examiner. Statement of Reasons signed August 14, 1984 by Richard Gray
CHAPTER VIII - (Citizen petition/US Energy) - Hearing held August 15, 1991. Harold Bergman, Hearing Examiner. Petition to amend Chapter VIII, Section 4.d.(6). Statement of Principal Reasons for Adopting Proposed Amendment signed on April 10, 1992 by Harold Bergman.
CHAPTER VIII and CHAPTER XIII - Promulgation of Chapter XIII. Promulgation of Chapter VIII, Section 6. Hearing held on November 6, 1992. Harold Bergman, Hearing Examiner. Statement of Principal Reasons for Adoption of Amendments to Chapter VIII, Section 6 was signed on February 2, 1993 by John Darrington. Statement of Principal Reasons for Adoption of Chapter XIII was signed on February 2, 1993 by John Darrington.
CHAPTER X and CHAPTER XII - Hearing held on October 25, 1984. Chapter X Statement of Principal Reasons for Adoption signed on May 22, 1985 by Harold Bergman. None on chapter XII.
CHAPTER XI - Hearing on the matter of adopting standards for design and construction of sewerage systems, treatments works, disposal systems, etc. Hearing held on September 16, 1983 Dave Park, Hearing Examiner.
CHAPTER XIII - Water Quality . Hearing held on August 28, 1989. Fred Carr, Hearing Examiner. Chapter XIII is an emergency rule which would prohibit the DEQ director from issuing a permit for a hazardous waste injection well. Statement of Reasons for Adoption signed on August 28, 1989 by 5 EQC members.
CHAPTER XIX and CHAPTER XVII. Hearing held on May 19, 1994. The regulations are necessary to assume primacy of the underground storage tank program and to provide funding to take corrective actions at sites contaminated by UST. Statement of Principal Reasons for Adoption of Chapters XVII and XIX signed on October 5, 1994 by Kim Cannon. Craig Thompson, Hearing Examiner.
CHAPTER XIV. Re: Financial Assurance. Hearing held on April 24, 1991. Harold Bergman, Hearing Examiner. Frontier Reporting (no transcript ordered). Statement of Principal Reasons for Adoption signed on April 24, 1991 by Harold Bergman.
CHAPTER XVIII, NPDES PERMIT REGULATIONS; and CHAPTER XIV. Hearing held on April 24, 1991. Re: Existing Chapter XIV would require bonding and financial assurance requirements for commercial waste treatment, storage, and disposal facilities used for the management of more than 10 tons of dried wastewater treatment sludges or the equivalent thereto per operating day. Regs would not apply to publicly owned facilities. CHAPTER XVIII is a new rule which would authorize the department to issue single general NPDES permits each of which would regulate similar point source discharges within a specified geographic area.
PROPOSED REVISIONS TO CHAPTER III, SECTION 5(d) and 5(e) and MODIFY SECITON 2. AND CHAPTER IV. Hearing held November 19, 1986. Dave Park, Hearing Examiner.
PROPOSED REVISIONS TO CHAPTER III, SECTION 5(d) and 5(e); CHAPTER I, SECTION 3; and CHAPTER IV, SECTION 2(h). Hearing held on September 10, 1986. Dave Park, Hearing Examiner. Proposed Statement of Principal Reasons for Adoption signed on January 27, 1987 for Chapter III.
BEAVER CREEK RECLASSIFICATION, FROM CLASS 2 TO CLASS 3 SURFACE WATER. Hearing held on August 26, 1992. Fred Carr, Hearing Examiner. 2nd Statement of Principal Reasons for Adoption signed on June 24, 1994 by all Council members. The 1st Statement of Principal Reasons for Adoption was delayed in the approval.
CHAPTER 17, SECTION 27(B) REVISION - Hearing was held April 24, 1996, John Morris, hearing examiner. Statement of Principal Reasons for Adoption of a Chapter 17 Revision was signed by John Morris on April 24, 1996.
REVISE CHAPTER 3 AND CHAPTER 11, PART E AND TO ADOPT NEW CHAPTERS 15 AND 21 - Hearing held August 8, 1997. Den Costantino, hearing examiner. Statement of Principal Reasons for Revision and Adoption was signed by John Morris on October 13, 1997.
CHAPTER 16, CLASS V UNDERGROUND INJECTION CONTROL WELLS - Hearing held on February 19, 1998 via videoconferencing. Copy of video tape on file. John Morris, hearing examiner. Statement of principal Reasons for Adoption was signed by John Morris on March 2, 1998.
CHAPTER 1, SECTION 2 AND 7 - Hearing held August 24, 1998 via videoconferencing. Statement of Principal Reason was signed by Steve Youngbauer on August 24, 1998.
CHAPTER 1, APPENDIX B: A public hearing was held via video conference system on March 2, 2000. DEQ proposes to amend and revise Chapter 1. This proposal is limited to a revision of the numeric criteria for arsenic, barium, iron and manganese, and the creation of a new appendix for the listing of site-specific criteria. This proposal only consists of a limited revision to Appendix B and Appendix F of the Chapter 1. Appendix B contains numeric aquatic life and human health values for a wide range of priority and non-priority pollutants which may be found naturally or discharge into waters of the state. Appendix F contains equations for calculating numeric aquatic life values for a number of metals where toxicity is related to water hardness. The Statement of Principal Reasons for Adoption was signed by Steve Williams on March 7, 2000.
CHAPTER 3, Regulations for permit to Construct, Install or Modify Public Water Supplies, Wastewater Facilities, Disposal Systems, Biosolids Management Facilities, Treated Wastewater Reuse Systems and Other Facilities Capable of Causing or Contributing to Pollution (Sections 2, 7, 8, 9, 12, 15, 18): This Chapter will be modified to provide for the issuance of general permits and, in limited cases, permit by rule specified classes of facilities. Those wishing to apply for coverage under a general permit would provide notification to DEQ and information to demonstrate compliance with the general permit requirements. Coverage would begin as soon as an authorized representative of the department issued a state of coverage. The permit by rule allows a limited number of facilities to be constructed in accordance with design standards of the rule and allow not require an approval by the department prior to construction of the facility. The intent of the proposed rule revisions is to simplify and shorten the permitting process for those facilities that can be addressed with a more efficient permitting process for the both the agency and the applicants who can quality for the general permit/permit by rule and should result in no less protection of the water resource. A hearing was held on November 4, 1999. The Statement of Principal Reasons for Adoption was signed on November 5, 1999 by Den Costantino.
CHAPTER 22 - Capacity Development Standards for Public Water Supplies: This rule will establish the Capacity Development demonstration process for new or modified community and nontransient noncommunity water supplies commencing operations on or after October 1, 1999. The adoption of these rules is required in order to comply with the 1996 Safe Drinking Water Act amendments. It is also required by Enrolled Act 57 of the 1998 Wyoming Special Session. The proposed rule exceeds the minimum requirements of the federal statute in order to meet the requirements of the Enrolled Act 57 relating to modified facilities. In Section 1 of the proposed rule refers to the authority of these rules. Section 2 describes severability of any portion(s) and/or sections determined to be invalid. Section 3 refers to the capacity development standards. Section 4 includes definitions relating to capacity development. Section 5 describes the steps public water supplies must take to demonstrate capacity development. This is a key section of the new program as it defines the requirements for capacity development. Section 6 describes the requirements for capacity development implementation. Section 7 describes processing procedures. A hearing was held May 12, 1999. The Statement of Principal Reasons was signed by Den Costantino on July 9, 1999.
CHAPTER 16, UNDERGROUND INJECTION CONTROL (UIC), CLASS V FACILITIES: this rulemaking hearing was held on April 16, 2001 in Cheyenne. Class V injection includes all facilities which emplace fluids into the subsurface which are NOT included in Class 1-IV facilities. Class V facilities include septic systems greater than 2,000 gallons per day, subsurface discharges from hearing and cooling systems, coalbed methane injections of useable water into useable water and others. The changes considered deal with permitting mechanisms for several subclasses of Class V facilities. The Statement of Principal Reasons for Adoption was signed by Wendy Hutchinson on June 21, 2001.
Water Quality, Chapter 1, Wyoming Water Quality Rules and Regulations & Associated Documentation – Triennial Review: Hearing held August 30 & 31, 2000. Chapter 1 contains the water quality standards for all surface waters in the state. Statement of Principal Reasons for Adoption was signed by the Chair, Wendy Hutchinson on June 21, 2001
Chapter 12, Sec. 14(i), Distribution Systems Subsection (i), Cross Connections, Docket No. 02-3101: The WQS submitted a request for a hearing on the above chapter on 11-20-02. DEQ stated that on 11-30-98, the WQD received a petition for rulemaking from the City of Torrington to revise the requirements for residential check valves as required by Chapter 12, Sec.14(i). On 1-16-99, the WQD received a second petition for rulemaking from the Cheyenne Board of Public Utilities to revise requirements for residential check valves as required by Chapter 12, Sec. 14(i). Rule change was needed to effectively implement the basic requirement of preventing backflow of unsafe or potentially unsafe water to the public water supply. This revision of rules is not required by federal law or regulations. A hearing was held on 1-17-03 and the adopted the revised rules to provide improved protection to public health and the safety for public water supplies. The Statement of Reasons for Adoption was signed on 1-17-03.
Chapter 23, Minimum Standards for Subdivision Application, Docket No. 01-3102: On 5-30-01, the Council received a request from DEQ to proceed with final adoption these rules. The proposed rule is intended to establish those standards that the department believes are necessary to ensure that subdivision applications demonstrate the safety and adequacy of the proposed systems pursuant to the statutory requirements. Where practical, the division is relying upon and incorporating into the proposed rule appropriate standards taken from existing regulations. This is especially the case for applicants proposing to connect to existing water or sewer systems, or to develop new ‘central’ water or sewer systems. Where applications propose the use of on-lot sewage systems, conventional septic systems generally, the division is relying upon and incorporating into the proposed rule several standards taken from existing regulations with a few exceptions. Secondly, the proposed rule provides for an evaluation of the potential cumulative effect of nitrate loading from multiple septic systems within the proposed subdivision on downgradient domestic use, or potential domestic use, of an unconfined aquifer. Lastly, the proposed rule acknowledges the findings of several recent studies substantiating that, especially where high transport rates exist, the potential for nitrate and pathogen contamination of drinking water wells from conventional septic systems is greatly increased. This proposed rule will result in a more efficient review process for the both the agency and the applicants, and should result in better protection of the water resources. This new chapter is not required by federal law or regulations. The Statement of Principal Reasons for Adoption was signed on 8-12-02.
Chapter 20, Permitting, Design and Operation Standards fpr Confined Swine Feeding Operations – a Petition from Bard Ranch: Hearings 1-21-97 & 11-10-98 The Council has accepted Bard Ranch petition to consider adopting a new chapter of the Water Quality rules & regs. This new chapter would be Chapter 20 and would contain a definition of the term "Large Concentrated Swine Feeding Operation." The proposed new chapter would impose a one year moratorium on issuance of permits related to large concentrated swine feeding operations. Bard Ranch contends that current laws are insufficient to adequately address the impacts of large concentrated swine operations and the moratorium should be imposed to allow the state legislature opportunity to consider legislation that will address these swine operations. Bard Ranch proposed rule would temporarily halt permitting to allow the legislature and the DEQ to review and revise, as necessary, statutes and regulations regarding large animal feeding operations. The hearing was held 1-21-97 in Cheyenne. This record was incorporated into the record of the emergency rulemaking that was heard on 10-14-96. The Statement of Principal Reasons was signed on 4-9-99.
05-3101 Rulemaking, Chapter 12 Wendy Hutchinson, Hearing Examiner
06-3819 Chapter 1, Surface Water Standards Rulemaking Mark Gordon Hearing Examiner
07-3101 Chapter 17, Storage Tank - Rulemaking
07-3102 Water Quality Rules - Chpt. 17, Storage Tanks 10/15/2007
08-3102 WQD Chapt. 17, Section 46 7/18/2008
08-3101 WQD Chapter 1, Section 20, 6/16/2008 Morris
Agric. Water Supply
10-3101 Chapter 24, Class VI, Underground Inj. Ctrl. Wells, WQD 4/12/2010
11-3101 WQD Chapt 3,5,11,12,16,20,21,23 w-New Chapt. 25 and 26 Rulemaking
12-3101 WQD Chapter 11 Rules 2/27/12 Searle
12-3102 WQD Chapter 5 Rules 3/7/2012 Searle
12-3104 WQD Chapter 17 Rules 12/17/2012 Bagley
13-3103 WQD Chapter 1 Rules 5/13/2013 Bagley
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