Download or read book Navigating the Clean Water Act written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology (2011) and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Identifying Waters Protected by the Clean Water Act CWA written by Barry Leonard and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past decade, interpretations of Supreme Court (SC) rulings removed some critical waters from Fed. protection, and caused confusion about which waters and wetlands are protected under the CWA. As a result, important waters now lack clear protection under the law. This draft guidance clarifies how the EPA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (ACE) will identify waters protected by the CWA and implement the SC¿s decisions concerning the extent of waters covered by the Act. It clarifies how the EPA and the ACE understand existing requirements of the CWA and provides guidance to agency field staff in making determinations about whether waters are protected by the CWA. This is a print on demand report.
Download or read book Clean Water Act written by Claudia Copeland and published by Nova Biomedical Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Clean Water Act Reauthorization written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Environment and Natural Resources and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Clean Water Act written by Water Environment Federation (Wef) and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 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.
Download or read book Mississippi River Water Quality and the Clean Water Act written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2008-03-08 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Clean Water Act Thirty year Retrospective written by Association of State and Interstate Water Pollution Control and published by Association of State and Interstate Water Pollution Control. This book was released on 2004 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Overview of Environmental Laws and Regulations written by Joseph J. Bernosky and published by American Water Works Association. This book was released on 2011-06 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Navigating the Clean Water ACT written by United States. Congress and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Navigating the Clean Water Act : is water wet? : hearing before the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, House of Representatives, One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, second session, July 9, 2014.
Download or read book Navigating the Clean Water Act written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology (2011- ) and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Navigating the Clean Water Act written by United States. Congress and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09-17 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Navigating the Clean Water Act : is water wet? : hearing before the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, House of Representatives, One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, second session, July 9, 2014.
Download or read book Navigating the Clean Water Act Is Water Wet Serial No 113 84 July 9 2014 113 2 written by and published by . This book was released on 2015* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Clean Water Act Handbook written by Mark Ryan and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on 2003 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a clearly presented overview of the law's provisions and pertient regulation and enforcement issues.
Download or read book Navigating Government Water Rights Issues written by and published by Thomson West. This book was released on 2009 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Navigating Government Water Rights Issues is an authoritative, insider's perspective on the strategic thinking behind appropriating water supplies and regulating usage to all citizens. Featuring legal and governmental water experts from across the country. this book provides a broad yet comprehensive overview of the challenges unique to protecting water quality and ensuring availability for all users. These leaders articulate the finer points of water appropriation laws and walk the reader through the parties responsible for overseeing the security of water supplies. From resolving conflicts over development to considering tribal rights to water usage. The authors discuss their best practices for setting disputes over competing interests and demands. Additionally, the authors discuss the impact of drought and climate change on water availability while offering their advice on developing response programs to natural disasters that affect water resource allocation. The different niches represented and the breadth of perspectives presented enable readers to get inside some of the great minds in water rights today, as these experts reveal the secrets and challenges behind ensuring that water is available to all throughout the nation.
Download or read book Compensating for Wetland Losses Under the Clean Water Act written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2001-11-06 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recognizing the importance of wetland protection, the Bush administration in 1988 endorsed the goal of "no net loss" of wetlands. Specifically, it directed that filling of wetlands should be avoided, and minimized when it cannot be avoided. When filling is permitted, compensatory mitigation must be undertaken; that is, wetlands must be restored, created, enhanced, and, in exceptional cases, preserved, to replace the permitted loss of wetland area and function, such as water quality improvement within the watershed. After more than a dozen years, the national commitment to "no net loss" of wetlands has been evaluated. This new book explores the adequacy of science and technology for replacing wetland function and the effectiveness of the federal program of compensatory mitigation in accomplishing the nation's goal of clean water. It examines the regulatory framework for permitting wetland filling and requiring mitigation, compares the mitigation institutions that are in use, and addresses the problems that agencies face in ensuring sustainability of mitigated wetlands over the long term. Gleaning lessons from the mixed results of mitigation efforts to date, the book offers 10 practical guidelines for establishing and monitoring mitigated wetlands. It also recommends that federal, state, and local agencies undertake specific institutional reforms. This book will be important to anyone seeking a comprehensive understanding of the "no net loss" issue: policy makers, regulators, environmental scientists, educators, and wetland advocates.
Download or read book Oil Pollution Act of 1990 National and Area Contingency Plans written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Navigation and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Navigating Federalism written by Robin Kundis Craig and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In January 2001, the Supreme Court decided Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, holding that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers could not exercise jurisdiction over ponds at an abandoned gravel pit pursuant to its Migratory Bird Rule, an interpretive gloss on its regulatory interpretation of waters of the United States for purposes of section 404 of the Clean Water Act. For the first time in the Act's 30-year history, moreover, the Court gave substantive weight to the Act's inclusion of states as regulatory partners, refusing to accord the Army Corps Chevron deference on grounds that the Army Corps' interpretation of the Act pushed the Act to its constitutional limits, on both federalism and Commerce Clause grounds.This article argues that by emphasizing one sentence from the Clean Water Act's general purposes section, the Court displaced Congress' complex compromise between state and federal regulatory authority - a compromise that incorporates the variety of accepted state and federal interests in this country. If the Court had looked at the broader context of the Clean Water Act instead of just section 404, it would have noticed that Congress used the term navigable waters to recognize and preserve state authority over certain types of waters, rather than to undermine that authority in favor of federal regulation.
