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3. Discharges from any industrial or privately owned domestic wastewater <br /> treatment plant into Washington waters of the Salish Sea. <br /> 4. Discharges from domestic WWTPs entering tributary watersheds to Washington <br /> waters of the Salish Sea, upstream of Ecology ambient monitoring stations. <br /> S2. APPLICATION FOR COVERAGE <br /> A. OBTAINING PERMIT COVERAGE <br /> 1. The owner/operator seeking coverage under this permit must apply for permit <br /> coverage within the following time limits. <br /> a. Existing facilities are WWTPs in operation prior to the effective date of this <br /> permit,January 1, 2022 and are identified in Table 3. <br /> b. The owner/operator of an existing domestic wastewater treatment plant <br /> must submit a complete application for coverage no later than ninety (90) <br /> days after the issuance date of this permit. Upon submittal of a complete <br /> application for coverage (also called a Notice of Intent or NOI) Ecology will <br /> issue a decision on permit coverage pursuant to Special Condition S2.C. <br /> B. HOW TO APPLY FOR PERMIT COVERAGE <br /> The owner/operator seeking coverage under this permit must do the following: <br /> 1. Submit to Ecology, a complete application for coverage using the permit specific <br /> Notice of Intent through Ecology's Water Quality Permitting Portal: <br /> https://secureaccess.wa.gov/ecy/wgwebportal. The applicant must submit this <br /> application for coverage electronically. For more information about the <br /> WQWebPortal, visit Ecology's WQWebPortal guidance webpage2. <br /> 2. A responsible person, as defined in General Condition G2, must sign the <br /> signature page of the NOI and submit it to Ecology. <br /> 3. Public Notice <br /> a. Public notice of the application for coverage is not required for the facilities <br /> subject to this general permit because they are all existing facilities. <br /> b. The owner/operator of an existing facility with coverage under the Puget <br /> Sound Nutrient General Permit (Permittee) wanting to modify their permit <br /> coverage must comply with public notice requirements specified in Special <br /> Condition S2.D.2. <br /> C. PERMIT COVERAGE EFFECTIVE DATE <br /> Permit coverage begins on the day Ecology issues the coverage letter to the applicant. <br /> 2 https://ecologv.wa.gov/Regulations-Permits/Guidance-technical-assistance/Water-quality-permits- <br /> guidance/WQWebPortal-guidance <br /> Puget Sound Nutrient General Permit Page 10 <br />