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272 Colorado Discharge Permit No. CO-0000612 (issued Sept. 24, 2008), at4-5.273 PPL Montana, J.E. Corette Plant profile, at http://www.pplmontana.com/producing+power/power+plants/J.E.+Corette.htm.274 Natural Resources Defense Council analysis of data reported to EnergyInformation Administration in 2005, Contaminated Coal Waste: Data& Projections for Existing and Proposed U.S. Coal-Fired Power Plants,available at www.nrdc.org/energy/coalwaste/MT.asp.275 See MPDES Permit No. XYZ, Outfall 003.276 See Montana DEQ, Clean Water Act Information Center, 2012 WaterQuality Information for Water Body Segments MT43F001_011 andMT43F001_010, available at http://cwaic.mt.gov/det_rep.aspx?segId=MT43F001_010&qryId=101134 (section upriver Corette plant); http://cwaic.mt.gov/det_rep.aspx?segId=MT43F001_010&qryId=101134(section downriver of Corette plant).277 See 2012 Water Quality Information for Water Body SegmentMT43F001_010, Impairment Information Table.278 See generally, Jeff Stant et al., Out of Control: Mounting Damagesfrom Coal Ash Waste Sites (Feb. 24, 2010), available at: http://www.environmentalintegrity.org/news_reports/news_02_24_10.php.279 See id.280 TVA, Office of the Inspector General, Inspection Report: Review of theKingston Fossil Plant Ash Spill Root Cause Study and ObservationsAbout Ash Management (July 23, 2009), available at: http://oig.tva.gov/PDF/09rpts/2008-12283-02.pdf.281 Id. at 4.282 Bobby Allen, The Tennessean, TVA Held Responsible for Massive CoalAsh Spill (Aug. 23, 2012), available at: http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-08-23/tva-coal-ash-spill/57246824/1.283 Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, NPDESPermit No. TN0005452.284 See TVA, Office of the Inspector General, Inspection Report: Review ofthe Kingston Fossil Plant Ash Spill Root Cause Study and ObservationsAbout Ash Management at 31.285 See generally Stantec Engineering Reports, posted at http://www.tva.com/power/stantec2/index.htm.286 Southern Environmental Law Center, 60-Day Notice of Violations andIntent to File Citizen Suit re: Colbert Plant (Feb. 13, 2013).287 Alabama Department of Environmental Management, NPDES PermitNo. AL0003867 (Jan. 7, 2008).288 See Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, PermitNo. TN0005428 (June 26, 2012).289 Kentucky Department for Environmental Protection, PollutantDischarge Elimination System Permit No. KY0004219 (July 13, 2005).290 Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, PermitNo.TN0005355 (Aug. 4, 2005).291 See, e.g., Environmental Integrity Project Comments on Dischargepermits for the Cumberland (Mar. 24, 2010), Johnsonville (Mar. 16,2010), and Bull Run (Apr. 9, 2010) discharge permits (documentingthese dangerous pollution levels).292 See Stantec, Report of Geotechnical Exploration and Slope StabilityEvaluation: Ash Pond / Stilling Pond Complex — Gallatin Fossil PlantGallatin, Tennessee (May 27, 2010), available at: http://www.tva.com/power/stantec2/GAF/GAF-GE-100527%20(rpt_001_175559018).pdf.293 TVA, An Evaluation of the Impacts of the Gallatin Fly Ash Pond toGroundwater Resources (Aug. 1989).294 See Stantec, Report of Geotechnical Exploration and Slope StabilityEvaluation: Ash Pond — Colbert Fossil Plant, Tuscumbia, Alabama (Jan.22, 2010), available at: http://www.tva.com/power/stantec2/COF/bottom_ash_pond.pdf.295 TVA, Groundwater Monitoring Report – Allen Fossil Plant – February2008, at 2 (Aug. 22, 2008).296 See, e.g., Letter from Robert J. Martineau, Jr., TDEC Commissioner, toJoshua Galperin, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (Apr. 23, 2012)(“Industrial and municipal wastewater treatment plants, such as TVAash ponds, are not subject to solid waste permitting process…Whenthe ash pond is converted from a wastewater treatment unit to a solidwaste management unit, oversight will be transferred to Solid WasteManagement.”)297 Ben Hall, NewsChannel5, TVA Focuses on Johnsonville Ash Pond (Dec.21, 2009), available at: http://www.newschannel5.com/story/11712450/tva-focuses-on-johnsonville-ash-pond.298 Charles Norris, Geo-Hydro, Inc., Report on TVA’s Johnsonville Ash IslandPlacement Area and Closure Plan (Dec. 12, 2011).299 TVA, Office of the Inspector General, Inspection Report: Review of theKingston Fossil Plant Ash Spill Root Cause Study and ObservationsAbout Ash Management at Appendix C, 15.Closing the Floodgates29