Actions Open for Public Comment at EPA New England
This page provides a summary of issues that EPA's New England regional office is seeking public input and comment on. The individual links will provide detailed information on each issue for which EPA is seeking comment, as well as information on when the comment period ends and how you can submit comments.
On this page:
- National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES)
- Water Quality Standards
- Enforcement - Clean Water Act
- Toxic Substances and Control Act (TSCA) - PCBs
- Clean Air Act Permits
- Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Corrective Action
- National Historic Preservation Act
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES)
- Region 1 Draft New Hampshire Medium Wastewater Treatment Facility General Permit
Comment period: 11/13/2024 - 01/13/2025 - Brewer Water Pollution Control Facility, Brewer, ME
Comment Period: 10/25/2024 - 11/25/2024 - Eastport Quoddy Village Treatment Facility, Eastport, ME
Comment Period: 10/24/2024 - 11/25/2024 - Town of North Haven, North Haven, ME
Comment Period: 10/24/2024 - 11/25/2024 - Northport Village Corporation Wastewater Treatment Facility, Northport, ME
Comment Period: 10/24/2024 - 11/25/2024 - Stonington Sanitary District, Stonington, ME
Comment Period: 10/24/2024 - 11/25/2024 - City of Eastport, Eastport, ME
Comment Period: 10/24/2024 - 11/25/2024 - Lubec Wastewater Treatment Facility, Lubec, ME
Comment Period: 10/24/2024 - 11/25/2024 - Bayville Village Corporation, Boothbay Harbor, ME
Comment Period: 10/24/2024 - 11/25/2024 - Wieland Rolled Products North America LLC, Waterbury, CT
Comment Period: 10/22/2024 - 11/21/2024 - Town of Brownville POTW, Brownville, ME
Comment Period: 10/18/2024 - 11/18/2024 - Allnex USA Inc, Wallingford, CT
Comment Period: 10/04/2024 - 11/04/2024 - SouthCoast Wind Farm Offshore Converter Station #1 BOEM Renewable Energy Lease Area OCS-A 0521, Atlantic Ocean, MA
Comment Period: 10/03/2024 - 11/06/2024 - FirstLight CT Hydro LLC-Taftville, Taftville, CT
Comment Period: 10/03/2024 - 11/03/2024 - Town of East Millinocket POTW, East Millinocket, ME
Comment Period: 10/02/2024 - 11/01/2024 - Lincoln Sanitary District Wastewater Treatment Facility, Lincoln, ME
Comment Period: 10/01/2024 - 10/31/2024 - Rumford-Mexico Sewerage District, Rumford, ME
Comment Period: 09/23/2024 - 10/23/2024 - US EPA Atlantic Coastal Environmental Sciences Division, Narragansett, RI
Comment Period: 09/20/2024 - 10/29/2024 - Town of Canton Pollution Abatement Facility, Canton, ME
Comment Period: 09/20/2024 - 10/21/2024 - Draft Comprehensive General Permit for Discharges to Surface and Ground Water, State of CT
Comment Period: 09/18/2024 - 10/18/2024 - Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife Wade State Fish Hatchery, Casco, ME
Comment Period: 09/17/2024 - 10/17/2024 - Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife Dry Mills Fish Hatchery, Gray, ME
Comment Period: 09/17/2024 - 10/17/2024 - Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife Grand Lake Stream Hatchery, Grand Lake, ME
Comment Period: 09/17/2024 - 10/17/2024 - Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife Governor Hill Fish Hatchery, Augusta, ME
Comment Period: 09/17/2024 - 10/17/2024 - Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife Palermo Rearing Station, Palermo, ME
Comment Period: 09/17/2024 - 10/17/2024 - Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife Ela Rearing Station, Embden, ME
Comment Period: 09/17/2024 - 10/17/2024 - Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife IFW Cobb Rearing Station, Enfield, ME
Comment Period: 09/17/2024 - 10/17/2024 - Livermore Falls Wastewater Treatment Facility, Livermore Falls, ME
Comment Period: 09/09/2024 - 10/09/2024 - Town of Lisbon, Lisbon Falls, ME
Comment Period: 09/06/2024 - 10/07/2024 - Click Bond, Inc., Watertown, CT
Comment Period: 08/23/2024 - 09/23/2024 - Bridgeport Energy LLC, Bridgeport, CT
Comment Period: 08/21/2024 - 09/21/2024 - Town of Frenchville, Frenchville, ME
Comment Period: 08/20/2024 - 09/19/2024 - Maine School Administrative District #52, Turner, ME
Comment Period: 08/16/2024 - 09/16/2024 - Downeast Institute for Applied Marine Research and Education Inc., Beals, ME
Comment Period: 08/16/2024 - 09/16/2024 - Salmogen Company Inc - Penobscot Indian Reservation, Old Town, ME
Comment Period: 08/13/2024 - 09/13/2024 - Washburn Water and Sewer District, Washburn, ME
Comment Period: 08/12/2024 - 09/11/2024 - Draft General Permit for the Discharge of Dewatering and Remediation Wastewaters, State of CT
Comment Period: 08/01/2024 - 09/01/2024 - Electric Boat Corporation, Groton, CT
Comment Period: 08/01/2024 - 09/01/2024 - Rhode Island T.F. Green International Airport, Warwick, RI
Comment Period: 07/26/2024 - 09/10/2024 - City of Old Town Pollution Control Facility, Old Town, ME
Comment Period: 07/17/2024 - 08/16/2024 - Hytone Farm, LLC, Coventry, CT
Comment Period: 07/02/2024 - 08/02/2024 - Hillandale Farms Conn, LLC - Schwartz Road, Bozrah, CT
Comment Period: 06/17/2024 - 07/17/2024 - Hillandale Farms Conn, LLC - Under The Mountain Road, Franklin, CT
Comment Period: 06/17/2024 - 07/17/2024 - Hillandale Farms Conn, LLC - Brush Hill Road, Bozrah, CT
Comment Period: 06/17/2024 - 07/17/2024 - Hillandale Farms Conn, LLC - Mack Road, Lebanon, CT
Comment Period: 06/17/2024 - 07/17/2024 - Hillandale Farms Conn, LLC - Shailor Hill Road, Colchester, CT
Comment Period: 06/13/2024 - 07/13/2024 - FirstLight CT Hydro LLC - Robertsville Generating Station, Colebrook, CT, CT0030812
Comment Period: 06/13/2024 - 07/13/2024 - Draft RIPDES Multi-Sector General Permit for Stormwater Discharges Associated with Industrial Activity (Excluding Construction Activity), State of RI
Comment Period: 05/24/2024 - 06/28/2024 - Draft RIPDES Remediation General Permit, State of RI
Comment Period: 05/10/2024 - 06/21/2024 - Lake of Isles, LLC, Stonington, CT
Comment Period: 05/06/2024 - 06/06/2024 - Laurelbrook Farm, LLC, East Canaan, CT
Comment Period: 05/03/2024 - 06/03/2024 - Draft General Permit for Point Source Discharges to Waters of the State from the Application of Pesticides, State of CT
Comment Period: 04/19/2024 - 05/19/2024 - FedEx Ground Package System, Inc, Willington, CT
Comment Period: 04/17/2024 - 05/17/2024 - Valley Shore YMCA, Inc., Westbrook, CT
Comment Period: 04/11/2024 - 05/11/2024 - Manchester Wastewater Treatment Facility and Co-Permittees Bedford: NHC010447; Goffstown: NHC020447; and Londonderry: NHC030447 and 15 CSOs, Manchester, NH
Public Notice Extension (pdf)
Comment Period: 04/10/2024 - 05/10/2024 (Extended to 06/10/2024) - Draft General Permit for the Discharge of Stormwater Associated with Industrial Activities, State of CT
Comment Period: 03/26/2024 - 05/10/2024 - John F. Carr, Jr., Bridgewater, CT (Denial of Permit)
Comment Period: 03/25/2024 - 04/25/2024 - Draft General Permit for Municipal Separate Storm Water Sewer System, State of ME
Comment Period: 03/18/2024 - 04/18/2024 - Berwick Sewer District, Berwick, ME
Comment Period: 03/08/2024 - 04/08/2024 - Fall River WWTP (MA0100382) and 18 CSOs and Co-Permittees (Town of Freetown - MAC010382; Town of Westport - MAC020382; Tiverton Wastewater District - MAC030382), Fall River, MA
Public Notice Extension (pdf) (163 KB)
Comment Period: 02/01/2024 - 04/01/2024 (Extended to 04/16/2024)
Archive of NPDES public notices: CT | ME | MA | NH | RI | VT
NPDES Water Permit Program in New England Web Site »
Water Quality Standards
- None at this time
Enforcement - Clean Water Act
- In the Matter of: Capitol Waste Services, Inc.
Capitol Waste Services, Inc.
20 Railroad Street
Revere, MA 02151
Comment Period: 11/21/2024 - 12/23/2024 - In the Matter of: NHNY Marina Development, LLC d/b/a Riveredge Marina
NHNY Marina Development, LLC
283 River Street
Ashland, NH 03217
Comment Period: 10/18/2024 - 11/18/2024 - In the Matter of: Onyx Corporation
Onyx Corporation
24 South Hunt Road
Amesbury, MA 01913
Comment Period: 09/24/2024 - 10/23/2024 - In the Matter of: Soundview Paper Company
Soundview Paper Company
1 Mill Street
Putney, VT 05346
Comment Period: 09/24/2024 - 10/23/2024 - In the Matter of: Hutchens Holding III, LLC
Ice Cube - Cold Storage & Logistics
615 Innovation Way
Fall River, MA 02720
Comment Period: 09/19/2024 - 10/18/2024 - In the Matter of: Lakeview Marine, Inc.
Lakeview Marine, Inc.
311 Thompson Road
Webster, MA 01570
Comment Period: 09/06/2024 - 10/07/2024 - In the Matter of: Marine Professionals Northeast, Inc. d/b/a Scituate Boat Works
Marine Professionals Northeast, Inc. d/b/a Scituate Boat Works
119 Edward Foster Road
Scituate, MA 02066
Comment Period: 07/19/2024 - 08/19/2024 - In the Matter of: Barkley Enterprises LLC
Murray Road Residential Development
20 Murray Road
Ashburnham, MA 01430
Comment Period: 07/05/2024 - 08/06/2024 - Region 1 Enforcement - Clean Water Act Public Notices Archive
Toxic Substances and Control Act (TSCA) - PCBs
- Veolia ES Technical Solutions, L.L.C., West Bridgewater, MA
Comment Period: 8/08/2024 - 09/08/2024
Clean Air Act Permits
- EPA's December 19, 2023 Draft Outer Continental Shelf Air Permit for the Sunrise Wind Project
Public comment period dates are December 19, 2023 – January 24, 2024. - EPA's December 19, 2023 Draft Outer Continental Shelf Air Permit for the New England Wind 1 Project
Public comment period dates are December 19, 2023 – January 25, 2024. - EPA's December 19, 2023 Draft Outer Continental Shelf Air Permit for the New England Wind 2 Project
Public comment period dates are December 19, 2023 – January 25, 2024.
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Corrective Action
- Naval Submarine Base New London (SUBASENLON), Groton, Connecticut (Draft RCRA Part B Permit Renewal No. HWM-095-005) (pdf)
Administrative Record
Comment Period: 7/27/2020 - 9/10/2020 - Mystic Station, Charlestown, MA (Statement of Basis)(pdf)
Administrative Record
Comment Period: 8/24/2019 - 9/23/2019
National Historic Preservation Act
- Programmatic Agreement Under the Natonal Historic Preservaton Act, New Hampshire
Comment Period: 03/04/2024 - 04/03/2024