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The Clean Water Act has made great strides in reducing point source water pollution, but this effect is overshadowed by the fact that nonpoint source pollution, which is not subject to regulation under the Act, has correspondingly increased. [41] One of the solutions to address this imbalance is point/nonpoint source trading of pollutants.
The first FWPCA was enacted in 1948, but took on its modern form when completely rewritten in 1972 in an act entitled the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972. [4] [1] Major changes have subsequently been introduced via amendatory legislation including the Clean Water Act of 1977 [5] and the Water Quality Act (WQA) of 1987. [6]
The Clean Water Act (CWA) was the first federal law designed to directly address water pollution. The CWA has been amended many times, but the 1972 amendments provide the core statutory basis for the regulation of point source water pollution and created the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit program. [23]
Today, fewer than one-third of the country’s 21,000-plus largest factory farms, also called concentrated animal feeding operations or CAFOs, have Clean Water Act pollution permits.
Under the Clean Water Act, anyone who wanted to clean up an abandoned mine assumed all liability for past, present, and future pollution from it, in perpetuity, the moment they undertook a cleanup ...
A conventional pollutant is a term used in the USA to describe a water pollutant that is amenable to treatment by a municipal sewage treatment plant. A basic list of conventional pollutants is defined in the U.S. Clean Water Act. [1] The list has been amended in regulations issued by the Environmental Protection Agency: biochemical oxygen ...
The Clean Water Justice Act, or SB 653 and HB 1101, protects communities’ rights to sue when the rules are broken, retaining the power of the people most directly threatened by pollution. It ...
Congress referred to BMP in several sections of the U.S. Clean Water Act (CWA) but did not define the term. The 1977 CWA used the term in describing the areawide waste treatment planning program [2] and in procedures for controlling toxic pollutants associated with industrial discharges. [3]
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