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Office of Water

Office of Water accepting comments on EPA’s Retrospective Review Plan and Significant Regulations for potential review

President Obama recently issued Executive Order 13563, requiring each agency to develop a plan to periodically conduct a retrospective review of its regulations, and determine if they are ineffective, insufficient, or overly burdensome, and then revise or repeal as warranted. In response, EPA is developing a review plan and a list of candidate regulations for potential review, and it is soliciting feedback on both. In order to do so, the Office of Water is participating in two listening sessions to be held on March 14 and 17, 2011.

EPA’s Office of Water welcomes Acting Assistant Administrator Nancy Stoner

Nancy Stoner, who has been serving as the Deputy Assistant Administrator for Water at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) since February 2010, began her new position this week as the Acting Assistant Administrator for Water.

New EPA Office of Water website

 On August 12, EPA’s Office of Water (OW) launched its redesigned website, replacing four OW content areas on the EPA website. Information is now organized by topic in a way that should be more straight-forward and useful to visitors. Visitors to the agency site looking for water-related content will be redirected to appropriate pages on the new OW site.

Visit the new Office of Water website