Module 1b – ICIS Permitted Features

1. Module 1b – ICIS Permitted Features

2. Permitted Feature – Basic Information • Permitted Features, representing the physical point of discharge, are added to a Permit • Limit Sets, representing the monitoring and reporting requirements for discharges, are added to Permitted Features • Limits represent the specific parameters that must be monitored and the numerical or reporting requirements Permits Basic Information Permitted Features Limit Sets Limits

3. Permitted Feature – Basic Information • A permitted feature describes the pipe through which industrial facilities and wastewater treatment plants discharge their effluent (wastewater) into a water body. • Other types of outfalls (referred to as permitted features in ICIS) may include locations of potential release such as: • Emergency overflow on lagoons or storage basins, • Drainage ditches or swales in land application fields, • Monitoring wells, • Upstream and downstream monitoring points.

4. Permitted Feature – Basic Information • A Permitted Feature can be added to • Individual Permits • Master General Permits • General Permit Covered Facilities

5. Permitted Feature – Basic Information • Permitted Feature ID • Assigned by the user when the Permitted Feature is added • IDs can be three OR four digits, alphanumeric • Permitted Feature Type • There are many different Permitted Feature Types • Users determines the most appropriate type based on the permit

6. Permitted Feature – Basic Information • Let’s look at an NPDES permit to determine what Permitted Features need to be set up in the database

7. Permitted Feature – Basic Information

8. Permitted Feature – Basic Information • The Permitted Feature Screen captures the following information • General Information • Flow Information • State Water Body Data • Latitude/Longitude • User Defined Fields • Site Info • Additional Data

9. Permitted Feature ICIS Data Entry

10. Permitted Feature - Data Entry

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17. Permitted Feature - Data Entry • Flow Data • These fields can be entered with the basic information of the Permit and with each Permitted Feature

18. Permitted Feature - Data Entry • State Water Body Data • This section allows users to track an associated water body, using their own information

19. Permitted Feature - Data Entry • Latitude, Longitude and corresponding metadata can be stored with each Permitted Feature

20. Permitted Feature - Data Entry • User Defined Fields • Users may enter supplemental information for the Permitted Feature into the two text fields

21. Permitted Feature - Data Entry • Site Information • Contacts and Addresses • Additional Data

22. Permitted Feature - Data Entry • Screen options

23. Permitted Feature - Copy • Users may copy a Permitted Feature from an Master General Permit (MGP) to a General Permit Covered Facility (GPCF) • All the Limit Sets and Limits defined for the MGP Permitted Feature will be copied to the GPCF • If changes are made to the MGP Permitted Feature later on, they will not automatically update the GPCF permits. You will have to update them manually.

24. Permitted Feature – General Foods • General Foods – Add Permitted Features • Locate the permit • Identify which permitted features are necessary • 001 and INFL • Search for your Test permit

25. Permitted Feature – General Foods • Access the Permitted Feature Hyperlink

26. Permitted Feature – General Foods • Enter the required information to save the record

27. Permitted Feature – General Foods • Check the permit for additional permitted features • Save and Add Another INFL

28. Permitted Feature – General Foods • Data Fields are maintained

29. Permitted Feature – General Foods • Verify that the permitted features exist before moving to the next training module

30. Congratulations!!!

31. If further assistance is required please contact Your Assigned System Administrator or ICIS Customer Support at (202) 564-7756 or icis@epa.gov THANK YOU!