[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 40, Volume 22]
[Revised as of July 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 40CFR220.4]

[Page 190]
 
                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT
 
         CHAPTER I--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED)
 
PART 220--GENERAL--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 220.4  Authorities to issue permits.

    (a) Determination by Administrator. The Administrator, or such other 
EPA employee as he may from time to time designate in writing, shall 
issue, deny, modify, revoke, suspend, impose conditions on, initiate and 
carry out enforcement activities and take any and all other actions 
necessary or proper and permitted by law with respect to general, 
special, emergency, interim, or research permits.
    (b) Authority delegated to Regional Administrators. Regional 
Administrators, or such other EPA employees as they may from time to 
time designate in writing, are delegated the authority to issue, deny, 
modify, revoke, suspend, impose conditions on, initiate and carry out 
enforcement activities, and take any and all other actions necessary or 
proper and permitted by law with respect to special and interim permits 
for:
    (1) The dumping of material in those portions of the territorial sea 
which are subject to the jurisdiction of any State within their 
respective Regions, and in those portions of the contiguous zone 
immediately adjacent to such parts of the territorial sea; and in the 
oceans with respect to approved waste disposal sites designated pursuant 
to part 228 of this subchapter H, and
    (2) Where transportation for dumping is to originate in one Region 
and dumping is to occur at a location within another Region's 
jurisdiction conferred by order of the Administrator, the Region in 
which transportation is to originate shall be responsible for review of 
the application and shall prepare the technical evaluation of the need 
for dumping and alternatives to ocean dumping. The Region having 
jurisdiction over the proposed dump site shall take all other actions 
required by this subchapter H with respect to the permit application, 
including without limitation, determining to issue or deny the permit, 
specifying the conditions to be imposed, and giving public notice. If 
both Regions do not concur in the disposition of the permit application, 
the Administrator will make the final decision on all issues with 
respect to the permit application, including without limitation, 
issuance or denial of the permit and the conditions to be imposed.
    (c) Review of Corps of Engineers Dredged Material Permits. Regional 
Administrators have the authority to review, to approve or to disapprove 
or to propose conditions upon Dredged Material Permits for ocean dumping 
of dredged material at locations within the respective Regional 
jurisdictions. Regional jurisdiction to act under this paragraph (c) of 
Sec. 220.4 is determined by the Administrator in accordance with 
Sec. 228.4(e).