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If you are a publicly owned treatment works that meets the applicability requirements and your sewage sludge is land applied, surface disposed, or you operate a sewage sludge incinerator, you will need to submit an annual report by February 19 of each year covering the previous year. Your facility will meet the applicability requirements if your facility’s design flow rate is equal to or greater than one million gallons per day, serves 10,000 people or more, or is required to have an approved pretreatment program (Class I Sludge Management Facility). The Biosolids Center of Excellence in Kansas City received and entered data for 2308 annual biosolids reports into the Region 7 Biosolids Database in 2014. The data entered included receipt date, quantity of biosolids produced and facility contact information (street address and mailing address).
If you have questions related to annual reports, please write to EPA Region 7 (R7_Biosolids_Center@EPA.gov).
The documents provided below aim to assist publicly owned treatment works meet applicable Part 503 compliance and annual reporting requirements.
You will need Adobe Reader to view some of the files on this page. See EPA’s About PDF page to learn more.- Part 503 Sewage Sludge Annual Report Review Guide (PDF)(10 pp, 107 K, November 7, 2014)
- FAQs on Sewage Sludge / Biosolids Annual Reporting (PDF)(4 pp, 94 K)
- Preparing Sewage Sludge for Land Application - A Guide for Preparers on Monitoring, Record Keeping, and Reporting Requirements of Part 503 (PDF)(60 pp, 2 MB, August 1993, EPA 831-B-93-0021)