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4 for ten percent-of the group's facility sites, as opposed to undertaking an individual environmental study for every site belonging to a member of the group. The group environmental study process is used to determine existing stormwater quality and contaminant levels for those individual sites which are investigated. The information that is obtained from the studies is then used by EPA to develop a set of requirements for the maximum allowable contaminant levels that will be allowed in the stormwater runoff from a particular type of site. The maximum contaminate level and other permitting requirements will then be applied to the stormwater discharges of all of the facilities of the type covered by the group permit. The environmental consultant costs would still be in the $25- $35,000 range for individual sites, but the costs would be incurred by only ten percent of the total number of the group's sites and would then be evenly divided among all of the group sites. An example of group formation for site permitting is where forty counties, each of which operates a motor pool facility, form a group to apply for a joint permit for motor pool facilities. Four sites (ten percent of the group) would incur environmental consultant expenses of $35,000 each, for a total cost of $140,000. This expense would then be evenly divided among the forty participants in the group, with each incurring a cost of $3500. This geRKOsents-a ninety ercent savin s from the costs for an individual site industrial stormwater permit.- The process would work the same way for groups operating landfills, waste treatment plants, etc. Group permitting is a two part process. The first part of the process involves the submission of an application to the EPA listing and describing the sites proposed for inclusion into a group. This part is, in effect, requesting EPA approval of the group composition and permission to proceed with the second part of the group permitting process. The second part of the group permitting process involves the individual site studies for the ten percent of the sites. The first part of the group permit application must be submitted to the EPA by March 18, 1991. The second part of the group permit must be submitted to the EPA by May, 1992. In order to facilitate the formation of groups interested in group permitting process for each of EPA's categories of industrial uses, NCACC and NCLM contacted their respective memberships to determine the extent of the interest and the willingness to participate in the group permitting process. In early February, 1991, NCACC and NCLM distributed