The Clean Water Act.
Restoring and Maintaining the Integrity of the Nation’s Water: An Assessment of the Clean Water Act
... The Clean Water Act’s “fishable/swim- mable” goal could be given real meaning by mak- ing that a national requirement. In fact, apparently most water in the U.S. already meets this standard. Making ...
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Urban Runoff and Ocean Water Quality in Southern California: What Tools Does the Clean Water Act Provide?
... (CSOs). Clean Water Act § 402(q), 33 ...of Clean Water Act ...the Clean Water Act’s prohibition of “discharges of pollut- ants” implicitly prohibited CSOs); Upper ...
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The Unitary Waters Apprach: The Government's Misguided Attempt to Limit the Reach of the Clean Water Act
... The Clean Water Act of 1972 was revolutionary in many ways. It made the federal government the dominant authority in an area where the states had long held sway. It instituted a new system of ...
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Financing Under the Clean Water Act: The Move from Federal Grants to State Loans
... for water quality programs (U.S. EPA, October 1989). In the area of water quality management, including expenditures associated with the Safe Drinking Water Act and the Clean ...
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March 2006 An analysis of Clean Water Act compliance, July December 2004
... their Clean Water Act permit limits for at least half (9 of the 18) monthly reporting periods between July 1, 2003 and December 31, ...their Clean Water Act permits during every ...
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Reclaiming the Clean Water Act: A New Approach to Wastewater Management
... 69. Sewage Treatment: Rockefeller to Propose Deadline Extension for Municipal Sew- age Treatment Requirements, 19 E NV ’ T R EP . 177, 177 (1988) (claiming that compliance with the CWA would drive many municipalities ...
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Pesticides As "Pollutants" Under The Clean Water Act
... Aquatic pesticides are used to eradicate or control pests in, near, or over waterbodies or wetlands. The principal federal law regulating the discharge of pollutants to this nation’s water is the Clean ...
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United States V. Rapanos: Is "Waters Of The United States" Necessary For Clean Water Act Jurisdiction?
... After Rapanos, the courts, the Corps, and regulated individuals are left with no clear idea of how to proceed under section 404 of the Clean Water Act. If Congress fails to clarify the jurisdictional ...
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General Industrial Storm Water Permits and the Construction Industry: What Does the Clean Water Act Require?
... 102 Clean Water Act § 502(14), 33 ...storm water exclusion to apply to the runoff from land applications of fertiliz- ers only to the extent that the application is in accordance with proper ...
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Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4) Regulation Under the Federal Clean Water Act: The Role of Water Quality Standards?
... violation. Clean Water Act § 505, 33 ...a water board’s cease-and-desist order, issued under Water Code section 13301, providing a deferred compliance schedule for selenium discharges, ...
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Non-Point Source Pollution and the Clean Water Act: Policy Problems and Professional Prospects
... Water-quality trends across the conterminous United States for the decade between 1980 and 1989 were summarized in the 1990s for six parameters: dissolved oxygen, fecal coliform bacteria, suspended sediment, ...
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The Clean Water Act in Retrospect
... of water quality planning requirements in federal legislation prior to 1972, noted that the Water Pollution Control Act of 1948 directed the ...interstate water pollution control agencies, ...
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Gwaltney of Smithfield v. Chesapeake Bay Foundation: Balancing Interests under the Clean Water Act
... Fourth, the court discussed Gwaltney's contention that allowing suits for past violations would flood the federal courts with citizen suits. The court admitted that t[r] ...
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Water, Water Everywhere, But Just How Much is Clean?: Examining Water Quality Restoration Efforts Under the United States Clean Water Act and the United States-Canada Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement
... The TMDL system also experiences problems in regulating nonpoint sources, which are not regulated by CWA permits. While TMDL regulation of nonpoint source pollution has been upheld, the EPA still lacks enforcement power ...
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Clean Water Act, Section 404 Applicants: May The Odds Be Ever In Your Favor
... See generally JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH, THE AGE OF UNCERTAINTY (1st ed. 1977)) (reviewing the EPA's ability to veto a proposed permit to discharge pollutants if it c[r] ...
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The Clean Water Act: Accomplishments
... Reducing Municipal Pollutants—The most widely used measure of municipal pollution is the extent to which the organic content of the waste depletes oxygen in the receiving water. Between 1972 and 1982, States found ...
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The Clean Water Act: An Economist’s Appraisal
... of water quality such as dis- solved oxygen or total phosphorus may not have much meaning to most ...classifying water bodies by the quality of fishing opportunities they present and for translating changes ...
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Wetland Protection under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act: An Enforcement Paradox
... Another limitation on citizen suits is that suits are not allowed if the Corps or the EPA are "diligently prosecuting" enforcement ac- tions.' 86 In the pas[r] ...
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Re-segmentation of Oregon’s Assessed Waters for Inclusion in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s National Assessment Database
... state’s water quality standards. As required by section 305(b) of the Clean Water Act, Oregon DEQ has established designated uses and is responsible for monitoring and assessing the quality of ...
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Endocrine disruptor screening: regulatory perspectives and needs
... European Water Framework Directive (WFD) or the US Clean Water Act do not explicitly test for EDCs, and considering the unique requirements and endpoints required to assess the endocrine ...
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