CESSWI PART I EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
1. CESSWI is qualified to preform what inspections?
ANS Construction, post construction, indus- trial, MS4
2. Clean Water Act year of creation and intent of law
ANS 1972, enacted to restore and maintain the physical, bio, chem integrity of the waters
of the US
3. CWA Section 402
ANS Est. NPDES System, originally focused on industrial process waste water and POTW
4. CWA Section 404
ANS regulated impacts to waters of the US, typically associated with a 401 certification
5. CWA Section 401
ANS 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
6. CWA Section 303
ANS Establishes Water quality standards
7. Stormwater discharge definition
, ANS stormwater runott, snow melt runott, and surface runott/drainage
8. To be subject to NPDES rules, stormwater must
ANS
be in a discernible conveyance
9. Definitions of waters of the US
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 attect
interstate/foreign commerce including those which
ANS
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
o The territorial sea
o Wetlands adjacent to any of the waters defined above
10. Beneficial Uses definition
ANS Uses necessary for the survival of and well-being of people, plants, and wildlife
, 11. Water quality standards definition
ANS 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
12. Section 303d
ANS est a process for states, territories, and tribes to i.d. impaired waters, also referred to as water
quality limited
13. TMDL
ANS id's the amount of a specific pollutnant that may be dicharged to a water body, states are
responsible for implementing
14. Waste load allocations
ANS allocations of pollutant loadings to point sources
15. TMDL Implementation
ANS Define waste load allocation, develop implementation plan to connect alloca- tions and
permits, translate allocations to permit conditions.
16. Origin of NPDES stormwater regs
ANS NURP studies showed stormwater had many of the same qualities of commercial,
industrial areas
17. NPDES Phase I and II regs implemented via
ANSWERS
1. CESSWI is qualified to preform what inspections?
ANS Construction, post construction, indus- trial, MS4
2. Clean Water Act year of creation and intent of law
ANS 1972, enacted to restore and maintain the physical, bio, chem integrity of the waters
of the US
3. CWA Section 402
ANS Est. NPDES System, originally focused on industrial process waste water and POTW
4. CWA Section 404
ANS regulated impacts to waters of the US, typically associated with a 401 certification
5. CWA Section 401
ANS 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
6. CWA Section 303
ANS Establishes Water quality standards
7. Stormwater discharge definition
, ANS stormwater runott, snow melt runott, and surface runott/drainage
8. To be subject to NPDES rules, stormwater must
ANS
be in a discernible conveyance
9. Definitions of waters of the US
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 attect
interstate/foreign commerce including those which
ANS
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
o The territorial sea
o Wetlands adjacent to any of the waters defined above
10. Beneficial Uses definition
ANS Uses necessary for the survival of and well-being of people, plants, and wildlife
, 11. Water quality standards definition
ANS 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
12. Section 303d
ANS est a process for states, territories, and tribes to i.d. impaired waters, also referred to as water
quality limited
13. TMDL
ANS id's the amount of a specific pollutnant that may be dicharged to a water body, states are
responsible for implementing
14. Waste load allocations
ANS allocations of pollutant loadings to point sources
15. TMDL Implementation
ANS Define waste load allocation, develop implementation plan to connect alloca- tions and
permits, translate allocations to permit conditions.
16. Origin of NPDES stormwater regs
ANS NURP studies showed stormwater had many of the same qualities of commercial,
industrial areas
17. NPDES Phase I and II regs implemented via
