Committee holds wastewater rules docket after remote testifier fails to connect
DEQ presented major wastewater-rule revisions including a new gray-water definition and sludge plan distinctions; the committee agreed to hold docket 5801162501 until the next meeting to allow a remote testifier to appear.
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Mary Anne Nelson, Surface and Wastewater Division Administrator at DEQ, summarized docket 5801162501, a comprehensive revision of wastewater rules undertaken under the governor's 0-based regulation review. She told the committee the rulemaking included negotiated-rulemaking meetings in spring 2025, added incorporation-by-reference updates, and revised definitions such as gray water "to be domestic water that does not contain black waste," enabling recycled gray-water implementation.
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