A Guide to the Clean Water Act Amendments
Author: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Public Awareness
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 24
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Published: 1978
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Claudia Copeland
Publisher: Nova Biomedical Books
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 176
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Author: Water Environment Federation (Wef)
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9781572782655
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 25th Anniversary Edition of the Clean Water Act is a must-have user's guide. Includes the Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972 as codified at Title 33 of the U.S. Code and a foreword by William K. Reilly, former U.S. EPA Administrator. Also contains a historical perspective on the changes, successes and challenges of the Clean Water Act in the past 25 years and a brand new section on key CWA program areas. 445 pages. Soft cover.
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2008-02-08
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 0309177812
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Author: Oliver A. Houck
Publisher: Environmental Law Institute
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9781585760381
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe definitive guide to all there is to know about the TMDL requirements of clean water legislation.
Author: Joseph F. Zimmerman
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2012-10-12
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 1438444494
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLong taken for granted, water resources are rapidly becoming a contentious issue within American politics. Continuing population growth and rapid development, coupled with environmental events such as droughts, have led to increasing water shortages in sections of the nation. In Interstate Water Compacts author Joseph F. Zimmerman highlights the growing importance of water issues within the United States and a device that has been instrumental in facilitating interstate cooperation to solve water-related problems: the interstate compact. This groundbreaking work is the first to devote itself exclusively to interstate and federal-interstate compacts pertaining to controversies including the abatement of water pollution, apportionment of river waters, economic development, flood control, inland fisheries, marine fisheries, and restoration to rivers of anadromous fish, such as salmon and shad. The process for entering into interstate and federal-interstate compacts is explained in detail, as is the exercise of original jurisdiction by the US Supreme Court to resolve intractable interstate controversies involving interpretation of provisions of compacts, water apportionment, and water pollution abatement. Zimmerman concludes by calling for the President, Congress, governors, state legislatures, and local governments to devote more attention and resources to finding solutions for water-related problems.
Author: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Publisher: BiblioGov
Published: 2013-10
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781295027163
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