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BNL Complies with NPDES

January 1974

History

The effluent from the Laboratory Sewage Treatment Plant became subject to the conditions of the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) for the first time on January 31, 1974. The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation later took over this function under its State Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (SPDES) permit program.

Documents / Links

EPA NPDES

NYSDEC SPDES Compliance

One of ten national laboratories overseen and primarily funded by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Brookhaven National Laboratory conducts research in the physical, biomedical, and environmental sciences, as well as in energy technologies and national security. Brookhaven Lab also builds and operates major scientific facilities available to university, industry and government researchers. Brookhaven is operated and managed for DOE's Office of Science by Brookhaven Science Associates, a limited-liability company founded by the Research Foundation of the State University of New York on behalf of Stony Brook University, the largest academic user of Laboratory facilities, and Battelle, a nonprofit, applied science and technology organization.