Energy and Environment Cabinet

Engineering Consultant

• Waste Load Allocation (WLA) Coordinator: Courtney Seitz, Courtney.Seitz@ky.gov 

Branch Responsibilities

• Review and approve KPDES permit applications for municipalities, all domestic or sanitary wastewater treatment facilities, all industrial wastewater discharges (including coal facilities and oil and gas operations), all agricultural operations (CAFOs) and stormwater point source discharges (Phases I and II).
• Issue KPDES permits (watershed permitting) in accordance with the Kentucky Watershed Management Framework.
• Review, approve and oversee pretreatment programs for industrial discharges to publicly owned wastewater treatment works.
• Coordinate the WLA program for the agency.
• Conduct water quality modeling and field sampling to develop WLAs to be used in KPDES permits.  
• Review and approve construction and KPDES permits for individual home residences.
• Review and approve construction and no-discharge (KNDOP) permits for wastewater including industrial, sanitary and agricultural operations (AFOs).
• Review engineering plans and issue permits to construct sanitary wastewater treatment facilities at industrial sites.
• Review and approve Kentucky Inter-Municipal Operating Permits (KIMOPs) for the discharge of sewage from local jurisdictions into other municipal systems.
• Issue KPDES permits to address combined sewer overflows at municipal sewer systems.
• Coordinate the registration of oil and gas tank batteries, transport off site of produced water and holding pit construction permits.
• Review and make recommendations to the Department of Revenue on all pollution control tax exemption requests.
• Administer KPDES public notice activities, including scheduling and conducting public hearings.
• Maintain permit compliance system computer database used to track KPDES permits.
• Maintain the division's wastewater files and coordinate Freedom of Information and file audit requests.
• Maintain discharge monitoring reports used to track compliance by permit holders.
• Administer Discharge Monitoring Report  - Quality Assurance (DMR-QA) program.
• Administer KPDES permit fee system.
• Promote and coordinate the regionalization of wastewater treatment facilities.
• Develop and maintain application forms and other informational documents used in the KPDES program.
• Assist permittees in application for and compliance with permits.