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Two more new WARN fact sheets

Posted Tue, 2010/04/20 - 4:21pm by RCAP

Two new fact sheets on WARN – Water/Wastewater Agency Response Networks – are available from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. They provide background on WARN and describe their benefits to state primacy agencies and wastewater systems.
 
The fact sheets are an ideal resource for increasing WARN membership by assisting with WARN outreach efforts.

EPA releases water-quality scorecard

Posted Tue, 2010/04/20 - 4:19pm by RCAP

EPA is releasing a first-of-its-kind water-quality scorecard that will help communities in rural, suburban and urban settings incorporate green infrastructure practices to protect local water quality and improve both the built and natural environment.
 
The Water Quality Scorecard was developed to help local governments identify opportunities to remove barriers and revise and create codes, ordinances and incentives to better protect water quality.

EPA increases transparency of proposed regulations

Posted Tue, 2010/04/20 - 4:18pm by RCAP

WASHINGTON (EPA)–The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is launching a new website giving the public additional opportunities to participate in the agency’s rulemaking process, part of President Barack Obama’s desire to provide a more transparent and open government.
 
The Rulemaking Gateway serves as a portal to EPA’s priority rules, providing citizens with earlier and more concise information about agency regulations.