Author: Oliver A. HouckPublisher: Environmental Law Institute
ISBN: 9781585760381
Category : Water
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
The definitive guide to all there is to know about the TMDL requirements of clean water legislation.
The Clean Water Act TMDL Program
Author: Oliver A. HouckPublisher: Environmental Law Institute
ISBN: 9781585760381
Category : Water
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
The definitive guide to all there is to know about the TMDL requirements of clean water legislation.
Mississippi River Water Quality and the Clean Water Act
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309177812
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The Mississippi River is, in many ways, the nation's best known and most important river system. Mississippi River water quality is of paramount importance for sustaining the many uses of the river including drinking water, recreational and commercial activities, and support for the river's ecosystems and the environmental goods and services they provide. The Clean Water Act, passed by Congress in 1972, is the cornerstone of surface water quality protection in the United States, employing regulatory and nonregulatory measures designed to reduce direct pollutant discharges into waterways. The Clean Water Act has reduced much pollution in the Mississippi River from "point sources" such as industries and water treatment plants, but problems stemming from urban runoff, agriculture, and other "non-point sources" have proven more difficult to address. This book concludes that too little coordination among the 10 states along the river has left the Mississippi River an "orphan" from a water quality monitoring and assessment perspective. Stronger leadership from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is needed to address these problems. Specifically, the EPA should establish a water quality data-sharing system for the length of the river, and work with the states to establish and achieve water quality standards. The Mississippi River corridor states also should be more proactive and cooperative in their water quality programs. For this effort, the EPA and the Mississippi River states should draw upon the lengthy experience of federal-interstate cooperation in managing water quality in the Chesapeake Bay.
Implementation of the Clean Water Act
Author: United States. CongressPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781985239333
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Implementation of the Clean Water Act : hearing before the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Water of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, first session, September 16, 2003, on the total maximum daily load (TMDL) program, spill prevention control and countermeasure plans, storm water issues, water quality trading and the neg
United States Code
Author: United StatesImplementation of the Clean Water Act
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Environmental PollutionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Factory and trade waste
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Implementation of the Clean Water Act
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, and WaterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Implementation of the Clean Water Act Concerning Ocean Discharge Waivers
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Investigations and OversightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Administrative procedure
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Implementation of Certain Sections of the Clean Water Act
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Environmental PollutionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Implementation of the Federal Clean Water Act (EPA Enforcement of the National Pollution Discharge Elimination System Permit Program)
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Investigations and OversightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
Clean Water Act
Author: Claudia CopelandPublisher: Nova Biomedical Books
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
The Clean Water Act (CWA) requires states to identify waters that are impaired by pollution, even after application of pollution controls. For these waters, states must establish a total maximum daily load (TMDL) of pollutants to ensure that water quality standards can be attained. Implementation was dormant until states and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) were prodded by numerous lawsuits. The TMDL program has become controversial, in part because of requirements and costs now facing states to implement this 30-year old provision of the law. In 1999, EPA proposed regulatory changes to strengthen the TMDL program. Industries, cities farmers and others may be required to use new pollution controls to meet TMDL requirements. EPA's proposal was widely criticised and congressional interest has been high. This book explores the lingering dispute between states and industry groups, beginning from the Clinton administration and stretching all the way to the present. However, Congress recognised in the Act that, in many cases, pollution controls implemented by industry and cities would be insufficient, due to pollutant contributions from other unregulated sources.