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It is a cooperative effort of federal, state, and local environmental regulatory agencies established to protect water quality. Similar to how EPA authorizes the NPDES permit program to state, tribal, and territorial governments to perform permitting, administrative, and enforcement tasks for discharges to surface waters (NPDES program), EPA and authorized NPDES state pretreatment programs approve local municipalities to perform permitting, administrative, and enforcement tasks for discharges into the municipalities’ <span class="definition js-definition"><button class="definition__trigger js-definition__trigger">publicly owned treatment works</button><span class="definition__tooltip js-definition__tooltip" role="tooltip"><dfn class="definition__term">publicly owned treatment works</dfn>A treatment works (as defined by CWA section 212) that is owned by a state or municipality [as defined by CWA section 502(4)]. 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[40 CFR 403.3(q)]</span></span> (POTWs). </p> <div>The national pretreatment program is designed to:</div> <ul> <li>protect POTW infrastructure, and</li> <li>reduce conventional and toxic pollutant levels discharged by industries and other nondomestic wastewater sources into municipal sewer systems and into the environment.</li> </ul> <p> <span class="document"> <a href="https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2015-10/documents/pretreatment_program_intro_2011.pdf" class="file"> <svg class="icon file__icon is-spaced-after" aria-hidden="true"><use href="/themes/epa_theme/images/sprite.artifact.svg#file" /></svg>Introduction to the National Pretreatment Program (pdf)</a> <span class="document__meta">(1.92 MB) </span></span> - Summary of the national pretreatment program.</p> <hr> </div> </div> <div class="usa-section"> <div class="l-constrain"> <div class="l-grid l-grid--2-col l-column-layout"> <div> <div class="box"> <div class="box__content"> <h2>National Pretreatment Program 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