70 Relating to: the number of wastewater discharge permits required for a publicly owned sewage treatment facility or system.

  Date of enactment: December 12, 2013
2013 Senate Bill 190   Date of publication*: December 13, 2013

* Section 991.11, Wisconsin Statutes : Effective date of acts. "Every act and every portion of an act enacted by the legislature over the governor's partial veto which does not expressly prescribe the time when it takes effect shall take effect on the day after its date of publication."

2013 WISCONSIN ACT 70

An Act to amend 283.31 (1) of the statutes; relating to: the number of wastewater discharge permits required for a publicly owned sewage treatment facility or system.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1 . 283.31 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

283.31 (1) The discharge of any pollutant into any waters of the state or the disposal of sludge from a treatment work by any person is unlawful unless such discharge or disposal is done under a permit issued by the department under this section or s. 283.33. The department may by rule exempt certain classes or categories of vessels from this section. Except as provided in s. 283.33, the department may require only one permit for a publicly owned treatment or collection facility or system, regardless of the number of point sources from such facility or system.