What will the department do about industrial pretreatment for satellite collection systems?
The department, (through the SPC), is evaluating how these satellite collection systems (sewer collection systems that deliver sewerage from an area outside the political jurisdiction where the centralized treatment plant is located), are being regulated at present by EPA and other states where the NPDES authorization has already been delegated. The Arizona implementation will be consistent with both the federal and other state-delegated programs. Even with NPDES program approval, Arizona will still refer the issues relative to the tribal lands satellite collection systems to the USEPA, due to their sovereign nation status. Regarding the non-tribal satellite collection systems such as the Sub-Regional Operating Group (SROG) , the NPDES Permittee (Phoenix) will remain the central focus of the SPC attention. Nevertheless, each of the Multi-Cities operating satellite collection systems (i.e., the cities of Mesa, Tempe, Scottsdale, Peoria and Glendale) in their own jurisdiction, will be ev
