Utah
Utah issues its own construction general permit. We have read General Permit for Storm Water Discharges from Construction Activities (Construction General Permit), UPDES Permit No. UTRC00000 and list below the requirements we could cite to it, with the scope limits stated plainly. Screen your own acreage further down.
Who may prepare the plan
Conditional, depends on the siteUtah gates plan preparation only above a threshold this site does not meet. The gate applies above 5 acres. This site is 3 acres. On what we have verified, a generated plan can be adopted without a credentialed signature.
Qualifying routes
The gate is not a flat 5-acre cutoff: Part 7.2 requires a qualified SWPPP writer for any project disturbing more than 5 acres, AND for small (1-5 acre) projects that have a perennial surface water within 50 feet or a steep slope (70% or 35 degrees or more, with 10+ feet of elevation change). Below that threshold, no certified preparer is required at all. A PE stamp is explicitly not required by itself — a licensed PE (or PG) is one of five interchangeable acceptable qualifications alongside RSW, CPESC, CPSWQ and NICET Level 3, commonly overstated as mandatory. Verified against the permit's Part 7.2 text and independently cross-checked against a March 2026 official SWPPP compliance-evaluation checklist for the current permit, which cites identical section numbers and triggers.
Coverage trigger
The project disturbs 3 acres, at or above the 1 acre threshold, so it needs permit coverage.
The trigger people miss is the second one. A half acre lot inside a 40 acre subdivision is covered, because the larger common plan of development or sale is what counts, not the lot.
Worked for a three acre site with the receiving water unconfirmed. Each line says why it attached to this site rather than in general. Check the notes above for the site sizes this permit does not cover.
All operators must develop a SWPPP consistent with Part 7 prior to submitting the NOI, and keep it up-to-date throughout coverage.
All operators associated with a construction site under this Permit must develop a SWPPP consistent with the requirements in Part 7 prior to their submittal of the NOI.
Submit a NOT within 30 calendar days after any Part 8.2 termination condition occurs.
You must submit a NOT within 30 calendar days after any one of the conditions in Part 8.2 occurs.
At least once every seven (7) calendar days.
Why this applies here: You have not confirmed whether the site discharges to an impaired or high quality water. If it does, the increased frequency applies instead and this answer changes.
At least once every seven (7) calendar days; or
Once every 14 calendar days and within 24 hours of a storm event producing 0.5 inches or more of rain within 24 hours, or snowmelt runoff sufficient to cause a discharge.
Why this applies here: You have not confirmed whether the site discharges to an impaired or high quality water. If it does, the increased frequency applies instead and this answer changes.
Once every 14 calendar days and within 24 hours of the occurrence of: a. A storm event that produces 0.50 inches or more of rain within a 24-hour period. ... b. Runoff from snowmelt sufficient to cause a discharge.
A qualified person is someone who has completed the training required by Part 6.3, which requires either a training program covering erosion/sediment control principles (e.g., Utah RSI, CPESC, CPSWQ, CESSWI, CISEC, NICET, UDOT ECS, CSI-Construction, QCIS, or EPA CGP Inspector Training) or a current valid construction inspection certification.
Why this applies here: This is why Basinwise cannot perform your inspections. The permit requires a trained person physically on the site.
A qualified person is someone who has completed the training required by Part 6.3.
Initiate stabilization measures in exposed-soil areas where activity has permanently ceased or will be temporarily inactive for 30+ calendar days, as soon as possible and prior to the end of the 30th day.
Why this applies here: This applies at both land disturbance amounts.
Initiate the installation of stabilization measures in any areas of exposed soil where construction activities have permanently ceased or will be temporarily inactive for 30 or more calendar days as soon as possible and prior to the end of the 30th day of inactivity.
close of the next business day
When the problem does not require a new or replacement control or significant repair, you must complete the corrective action by the close of the next business day.
Install the new or modified control and make it operational, or complete the repair, by no later than 7 calendar days from discovery.
When the problem requires a new or replacement control or significant repair, install the new or modified control and make it operational, or complete the repair, by no later than seven (7) calendar days from the time of discovery.
Provide and maintain natural buffers and/or equivalent erosion and sediment controls for discharges within 50 feet of the site's earth disturbances.
Provide and maintain natural buffers and/or equivalent erosion and sediment controls for discharges to waters of the state that are located within 50 feet of the site's earth disturbances.
Complete an inspection report within 24 hours of completing any site inspection.
You must complete an inspection report within 24 hours of completing any site inspection.
Within 24 hours of identifying the corrective action condition, document the specific condition and when you identified it.
Within 24 hours of identifying the corrective action condition, document the specific condition and the date and time you identified it.
Retain inspection reports and corrective action logs for at least 3 years from the date permit coverage expires or terminates.
Why this applies here: The clock runs from permit expiry or termination, not from when the record was written, so on a multi year project every record stays live for the whole project plus three years.
You must retain all inspection reports completed for this Part for at least three (3) years from the date that your Permit coverage expires or you terminate coverage.
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This is EPA's list, from the 2022 Construction General Permit. It does NOT govern in Utah, where the state issues its own permit and sets its own contents. It is here as a shape to expect, not as the requirement you will be held to.
Read the permit itself at the source document.
Utah issues its own construction general permit, and we have read General Permit for Storm Water Discharges from Construction Activities (Construction General Permit), UPDES Permit No. UTRC00000. The requirements listed on this page, such as inspection frequency, who may inspect, stabilisation, corrective action and record retention, are cited to that permit rather than to EPA's. Anything we have not transcribed is left out instead of assumed to match the federal rule, and the scope note on this page says which sites the permit does not cover. Confirm the current permit and any site-size variant with Utah Department of Environmental Quality (Utah DEQ), Division of Water Quality.
Utah gates plan preparation only above a threshold this site does not meet. The gate applies above 5 acres. This site is 3 acres. On what we have verified, a generated plan can be adopted without a credentialed signature.
The inspection frequency is set by the Utah construction general permit, which we have not read. Confirm it with Utah Department of Environmental Quality (Utah DEQ), Division of Water Quality.
Screening is free. Pro generates the site specific plan document and retains the inspection and corrective action log.