Making TMDLs work
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"Total Maximum Daily Loads" (TMDLs) were developed in the 1972 Clean Water Act to bridge the gap of clean water and point source water quality controls through a mass balance and budgeting exercise. TMDLs have changed not only U.S. water resource protection to an approach that focuses on ecological health and function, but also changes how sources of water pollution are controlled. Many of the lawsuits the EPA faced due to failure to comply with the TMDL process moved the EPA to issue a new TMDL rule which was soon after blocked by congress.
Publication Name: Environmental Science & Technology
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0013-936X
Year: 2001
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Delay expected for rule exempting hazardous wastes
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Environmental Protection Agency officials disclose that the expected finalization of the Hazardous Waste Identification Rule (HWIR), a set of less stringent handling and disposal rules that will permit some hazardous low-level wastes to be handled as non-hazardous wastes, is likely to be delayed again. The Feb 1997 deadline was a court-order that resulted from a lawsuit by the hazardous waste treatment industry trade group Environmental Technology Council.
Publication Name: Environmental Science & Technology
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0013-936X
Year: 1997
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Statistical assessment of violations of water quality standards under section 303(d) of the Clean Water Act
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Assessment of the condition of water quality under section 303(d) of the Clean Water Act need to take into account both a false report of standards violation and a false report of no violation errors. The Department of Statistics and Depart of Agricultural Economics as Virginia Tech has suggested an approach that recognizes both kinds of errors in the process of the assessment of water quality.
Publication Name: Environmental Science & Technology
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0013-936X
Year: 2001
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