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With Washington State’s recent reissuance of the general industrial stormwater NPDES permit and the State of Oregon’s development of revised industrial permits, the climate for industrial facilities operating under these permits is about to get chilly.  Both Washington and Oregon permitting agencies decided to bring together the regulated community and the environmental groups in an advisory process.  Although Washington’s permit was the result of a collaborative process, it has not prevented continued disagreement on how to procee