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EPA updates online water-quality standards guidance

Posted Tue, 2012/05/15 - 10:46am by RCAP

EPA has updated the online version of its water-quality standards handbook to make it more user-friendly and improve transparency by providing links to EPA’s most recent policy documents. The handbook is a compilation of EPA's guidance on the water-quality standards program and provides direction for states, territories and authorized tribes in reviewing, revising and implementing water-quality standards.

Draft fiscal year 2013 National Water Program guidance released for comments

Posted Fri, 2012/02/24 - 12:36pm by RCAP

The draft FY 2013 national water program guidance has been made available for review and comment.  Issued annually, this draft guidance, posted on Feb. 17, provides the priorities, implementation strategies, and performance targets for the national water program for fiscal year 2013.

EPA issues final guidance to protect water quality in Appalachian communities from impacts of mountaintop mining

Posted Fri, 2011/07/22 - 11:43am by RCAP

Agency to provide flexibility while protecting environment and public health

WASHINGTON (EPA) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released final guidance on Appalachian surface coal mining, designed to ensure more consistent, effective, and timely review of surface coal-mining permits under the Clean Water Act and other statutes.