CESSWI PART I 2024/2025 Exam
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CESSWI is qualified to preform what inspections? - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Construction, post construction, industrial, MS4
Clean Water Act year of creation and intent of law - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔1972,
enacted to restore and maintain the physical, bio, chem integrity of the
waters of the US
CWA Section 402 - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Est. NPDES System, originally focused
on industrial process waste water and POTW
CWA Section 404 - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔regulated impacts to waters of the US,
typically associated with a 401 certification
CWA Section 401 - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Regulates water quality impacts and
state cert systems, required permit issued by a federal agency for any
activity that may discharge a pollutant, Applies heavily in industrial sites
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,CWA Section 303 - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Establishes Water quality standards
Stormwater discharge definition - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔stormwater runoff, snow
melt runoff, and surface runoff/drainage
To be subject to NPDES rules, stormwater must: - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔be in a
discernible conveyance
Definitions of waters of the US - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔All waters used in
interstate or foreign commerce, including those subject to tidal flows
o All interstate waters, including interstate wetlands
o All INTRAstate lakes, rivers, streams (intermittent also), mudflats, sand
flats, wetlands, sloughs, prairie potholes, wet meadows, playa lake, or
natural ponds that the destruction of which would affect interstate/foreign
commerce including those which:
Could be used for recreational or other purposes
From which shellfish or fish could be retrieved and sold
Could be used for industrial purposes
o All impoundments of water defined by waters of the US by the above
o Tributaries of the waters defined above
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,o The territorial sea
o Wetlands adjacent to any of the waters defined above
Beneficial Uses definition - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Uses necessary for the survival
of and well-being of people, plants, and wildlife
Water quality standards definition - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔state or tribal
requirements that define the water quality goals of a lake stream or other
wateerbody by designation the benefical uses and setting criteria to protect
those uses
Section 303d - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔est a process for states, territories, and
tribes to i.d. impaired waters, also referred to as water quality limited
TMDL - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔id's the amount of a specific pollutnant that may be
dicharged to a water body, states are responsible for implementing
Waste load allocations - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔allocations of pollutant loadings to
point sources
TMDL Implementation - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Define waste load allocation,
develop implementation plan to connect allocations and permits, translate
allocations to permit conditions.
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, Origin of NPDES stormwater regs - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔NURP studies showed
stormwater had many of the same qualities of commercial, industrial areas
NPDES Phase I and II regs implemented via - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔General
permits for a group of similar dischagers such as consutruction industry,
industrial, utilities
Individual permits for a single entity, facility or project
Phase I NPDES Permits ID'd as: - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Industrial activity
Construction activity <5 acres
Cities over 100k population
Phase II NPDES Permits ID'd as: - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Construction activity 1 -
5 acres
Cities 10k - 100k population
commercial, retail, light industrial, institutional
updated industrial and const. general permits
Phase II impletmented MS4 requirements - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔SWMP with 6
MCMs
Develop measurable program goals
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STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Comprehensive Questions and Verified
Answers | Accurate Solutions | Get it
100% Correct!! | Already Graded A+
CESSWI is qualified to preform what inspections? - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Construction, post construction, industrial, MS4
Clean Water Act year of creation and intent of law - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔1972,
enacted to restore and maintain the physical, bio, chem integrity of the
waters of the US
CWA Section 402 - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Est. NPDES System, originally focused
on industrial process waste water and POTW
CWA Section 404 - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔regulated impacts to waters of the US,
typically associated with a 401 certification
CWA Section 401 - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Regulates water quality impacts and
state cert systems, required permit issued by a federal agency for any
activity that may discharge a pollutant, Applies heavily in industrial sites
COPYRIGHT©JOSHCLAY 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE. PRIVACY 1
STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
,CWA Section 303 - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Establishes Water quality standards
Stormwater discharge definition - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔stormwater runoff, snow
melt runoff, and surface runoff/drainage
To be subject to NPDES rules, stormwater must: - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔be in a
discernible conveyance
Definitions of waters of the US - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔All waters used in
interstate or foreign commerce, including those subject to tidal flows
o All interstate waters, including interstate wetlands
o All INTRAstate lakes, rivers, streams (intermittent also), mudflats, sand
flats, wetlands, sloughs, prairie potholes, wet meadows, playa lake, or
natural ponds that the destruction of which would affect interstate/foreign
commerce including those which:
Could be used for recreational or other purposes
From which shellfish or fish could be retrieved and sold
Could be used for industrial purposes
o All impoundments of water defined by waters of the US by the above
o Tributaries of the waters defined above
COPYRIGHT©JOSHCLAY 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE. PRIVACY 2
STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
,o The territorial sea
o Wetlands adjacent to any of the waters defined above
Beneficial Uses definition - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Uses necessary for the survival
of and well-being of people, plants, and wildlife
Water quality standards definition - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔state or tribal
requirements that define the water quality goals of a lake stream or other
wateerbody by designation the benefical uses and setting criteria to protect
those uses
Section 303d - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔est a process for states, territories, and
tribes to i.d. impaired waters, also referred to as water quality limited
TMDL - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔id's the amount of a specific pollutnant that may be
dicharged to a water body, states are responsible for implementing
Waste load allocations - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔allocations of pollutant loadings to
point sources
TMDL Implementation - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Define waste load allocation,
develop implementation plan to connect allocations and permits, translate
allocations to permit conditions.
COPYRIGHT©JOSHCLAY 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE. PRIVACY 3
STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
, Origin of NPDES stormwater regs - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔NURP studies showed
stormwater had many of the same qualities of commercial, industrial areas
NPDES Phase I and II regs implemented via - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔General
permits for a group of similar dischagers such as consutruction industry,
industrial, utilities
Individual permits for a single entity, facility or project
Phase I NPDES Permits ID'd as: - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Industrial activity
Construction activity <5 acres
Cities over 100k population
Phase II NPDES Permits ID'd as: - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Construction activity 1 -
5 acres
Cities 10k - 100k population
commercial, retail, light industrial, institutional
updated industrial and const. general permits
Phase II impletmented MS4 requirements - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔SWMP with 6
MCMs
Develop measurable program goals
COPYRIGHT©JOSHCLAY 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE. PRIVACY 4
STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
