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Addressing EPA’s New PFAS Drinking Water Rule: Ovivo Leads the Way
Protection Agency (EPA) has finalized a national Primary Drinking Water Regulation (NPDWR), establishing enforceable Maximum Contaminant Levels (MCLs) for six (6) per and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). This announcement marks a significant step forward in ensuring safe drinking water for communities across the ...
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TFI Praises House Passage of Legislation to Withdraw EPA’s “Waters of the U.S.” Rule
TFI applauds the U.S. House of Representatives for passage earlier this week of H.R. 1732, the “Regulatory Integrity Protection Act of 2015.” This legislation requires the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) to withdraw the flawed “Waters of the U.S.” (WOTUS) rule and develop a new rule only after engaging in meaningful ...
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Lawmakers push EPA for more time on water rule
Industry groups and more than a dozen GOP senators are urging the Obama administration to reconsider plans to regulate many of the nation's streams and wetlands, saying the proposed rule hurts economic activity and oversteps legal bounds. In a letter Thursday, the senators faulted the Environmental Protection Agency for announcing a proposed rule last week before the government's peer-reviewed ...
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EPA brings out water transfer rule
The US EPA has announced a rule to clarify that permits are not required for transfers of water from one body of water to another. Such transfers include routing water through tunnels, channels, or natural streams for public water supplies, irrigation, power generation, flood control, or environmental restoration. Assistant administrator for water Benjamin H Grumbles noted: ‘EPA’s Water Transfer ...
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Lawmakers push EPA for more time on water rule
Industry groups and more than a dozen GOP senators are urging the Obama administration to reconsider plans to regulate many of the nation's streams and wetlands, saying the proposed rule hurts economic activity and oversteps legal bounds. In a letter Thursday, the senators faulted the Environmental Protection Agency for announcing a proposed rule last week before the government's peer-reviewed ...
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EPA Maintains Clean Water Act Authority To Write TMDL Plans for Impaired Waters
The Environmental Protection Agency has told an appellate court that the Clean Water Act has authorized it to set a total maximum daily load plan to restore impaired waters when states are unable to meet their obligations (Am. Farm Bureau Fed'n v. EPA, No. 13-4079, 3d Cir., reorder 4/2/13). In an April 2 filing with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, the agency contended that the ...
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EPA reaffirms clean water permits not needed for water transfers
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing a rule to clarify that permits are not required for transfers of water from one body of water to another. Such transfers include routing water through tunnels, channels, or natural stream courses for public water supplies, irrigation, power generation, flood control, and environmental restoration. 'EPA's Water Transfer Rule gives communities ...
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EPA delegates clean water act authority to Northern California Tribe
The announcement was made today at the 19th annual EPA Pacific Southwest Tribal conference on the Pala Reservation in San Diego County. Dry Creek Rancheria is the 47th tribe out of 563 federally recognized tribes nationwide with delegated authority over water quality protection programs. The 75-acre Reservation, located in Geyserville 75 miles north of San Francisco, has almost 2 miles of creeks ...
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Usibelli Coal Mine, near Healy, Alaska, agrees to pay $60,000 EPA penalty for clean water act violations (AK)
According to documents associated with the case, the Mine had 11 unpermitted discharges into the Nenana River, Hoseanna Creek, Sanderson Creek, and Francis Creek between April 2007 and July 2010. During that time, they also had 10 violations of their discharge permit limits. According to Edward Kowalski, Director of EPA’s Regional Office of Compliance and Enforcement, mining responsibly ...
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EPA settles with U.S. Silver - Idaho, Inc., operator of Coeur and Galena Mines and Mills, for Clean Water Act violations in Idaho’s Panhandle
U.S. Silver – Idaho, Inc., owner and operator of the Coeur and Galena Mines and Mills in Idaho’s Silver Valley, has settled with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for alleged Clean Water Act violations at their Panhandle facility. The violations outlined in EPA’s Consent Agreement and Final Order (CAFO) include exceeding their discharge limits for copper and lead at ...
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Alaska placer miner settles EPA clean water act discharge violations
Mr. Samuel Turner, of Trapper Creek, Alaska, has agreed to pay the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency a $8,000 penalty to resolve a CWA violation at his placer mine, near Petersville, Alaska. Mr. Turner’s agreement with EPA, called a Consent Agreement and Final Order (CAFO) covers a violation at a placer mine he operated along Spruce and Cache Creeks in the Yentna Mining District. ...
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$181,638 Grant to St. Louis Community College, St. Louis, Mo., for Drinking Water Job Training
EPA has awarded $181,638 to St. Louis Community College (STLCC), St. Louis, Mo., for drinking water job training. EPA Region 7 Administrator Karl Brooks said, “From EPA’s standpoint, it is essential that we groom talented and committed young people into drinking water fields in order to meet the need and shortage of experts in this important industry. The certification training is ...
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Hovnanian Enterprises and PulteGroup, Inc. Settle Clean Water Act Violations in Virginia and Maryland
Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc. and PulteGroup, Inc. have agreed to pay civil penalties of $130,000 and $56,000 respectively in separate settlements with EPA resolving alleged Clean Water Act violations at construction sites in Maryland and Virginia. EPA alleged that the companies failed to take actions to prevent discharging sediment to nearby surface waters as required by law. Installing proper ...
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EPA and Navajo Nation EPA Enter Historic Agreements with Navajo Tribal Utility Authority to Halt Water Pollution
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Navajo Nation EPA announced a pair of settlements with the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority to bring its wastewater treatment facility in Window Rock into compliance both with the federal Clean Water Act and the Navajo Nation Clean Water Act. EPA's agreement backs up a recent ground-breaking NNEPA settlement that required the NTUA to pay a $25,000 ...
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MONDAY: EPA acting water chief to highlight successful water projects in Henry county and west Atlanta
On Monday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Acting Assistant Administrator for Water, Nancy Stoner, will be in Atlanta to highlight successful water-related projects in Henry County and West Atlanta. The projects are helping protect people’s health and the environment, and also support local job growth. Construction of the award-winning Tussahaw Water Treatment Plant, ...
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EPA Recognizes Outstanding Water Quality Achievements of 2007
(Washington, D.C. - Oct. 15, 2007) EPA is announcing the recipients of the 2007 National Clean Water Act Recognition Awards aimed at recognizing municipalities and industries for outstanding and creative technological achievements in wastewater treatment and pollution abatement programs. As we get ready to mark the 35th anniversary of the Clean Water Act, water quality has dramatically improved ...
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USDA, EPA Partnership Supports Water Quality Trading To Benefit Environment, Economy
The U. S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have announced an expanded partnership to support water quality trading and other market-based approaches that provide benefits to the environment and economy. “New water quality trading markets hold incredible potential to benefit rural America by providing new income opportunities and enhancing ...
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Florida stormwater management inspectors flood Granite Environmental
Five more qualified and certified Florida Stormwater Management Inspectors beef up Granite Environmental, giving them a grand total seven certified in-house inspectors! For two full days the participants studied and tested to complete the Florida Stormwater Erosion and Sedimentation Control Inspector Program, held in Palm Bay, FL on February 2-3. Hal Lundsford, of the Department of Environmental ...
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EPA Approves Massachusetts Plan to Protect Cape Cod Waters
EPA has formally approved an updated plan from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts that creates a robust framework for Cape Cod communities to reduce nitrogen levels that are currently harming ecological health of ponds, bays and other surface waters on the Cape. The “Cape Cod Water Quality Management Plan Update” submitted by Massachusetts is consistent with provisions in the federal ...
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Illinois` Kickapoo Creek Focus of New Subdivision
BLOOMINGTON, Illinois, October 2, 2007 (ENS) - Restoration and enhancement of Kickapoo Creek in central Illinois today received a grant of $950,000 from the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, through a section of the federal Clean Water Act that regulates stormwater runoff. A residential development in Bloomington, The Grove on Kickapoo Creek, is being constructed in conjunction with the ...
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