NPDES General Permit for Oil and Gas Exploration Facilities in Federal Waters of Cook Inlet

Permittees: For permit-related questions, please contact Abby Conner (conner.abigail@epa.gov). For compliance-related and enforcement-related notices or reports, please attach to Discharge Monitoring Report submittals in NetDMR (if this option is available), or otherwise submit to Jason Rodriguez (rodriguez.jason@epa.gov).

Below is EPA's National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) general permit and supporting documents for oil and gas exploration facilities in federal waters of Cook Inlet off Alaska.

Permit number: AKG285100
Effective date: September 1, 2016
Permit expires: August 31, 2021 (administratively continued)

Related information:

Federal Register notice for reissuance of general permit #AKG285100 (August 5, 2015)

Permit documents

NPDES General Permit, Cook Inlet Oil & Gas Exploration, #AKG285100 (pdf) (988.88 KB, July 29, 2015)
Final permit.
NPDES Permit Fact Sheet, Cook Inlet Oil & Gas Exploration, #AKG285100 (pdf) (383.58 KB, March 2013)
Provides technical basis for NPDES permit.
Ocean Discharge Criteria Evaluation (ODCE), Cook Inlet Oil & Gas Exploration, #AKG285100 (pdf) (1.93 MB, 2013)
Criteria that EPA must evaluate to ensure that point source discharges do not cause unreasonable degradation to the marine environment.
Response to Comments, Cook Inlet Oil & Gas Exploration, #AKG285100 (pdf) (359.23 KB, July 2015)
EPA's responses to comments on the March 2013 draft permit.