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WQBELs are based on ambient water quality standards. [22] Permit components NPDES permit components. All NPDES permits must contain the following five components: Cover page – indicates authorization for discharging and its locations; Effluent limits – limits used to control discharges through technology-based or water quality-based standards
In recent years, most states have used CWA section 401 water quality certification programs in addition to or in lieu of specific regulatory statutes. Section 401 requires that before a federal permit or license is issued, states must certify that the project complies with water quality standards.
The 1972 act authorized continued use of the water quality-based approach, but in coordination with the technology-based standards. After application of technology-based standards to a permit, if water quality is still impaired for the particular water body, then the permit agency may add water quality-based limitations to that permit. The ...
NCDOT is urging people to avoid the area, if they can; U.S. 401 is a four-lane divided highway, but the detour routes are two-lane roads. Drivers will have access to businesses along U.S. 401 ...
FERC eventually licensed the five dams subject to the Maine conditions, but the company continued to deny any need for state certification under section 401. After appealing unsuccessfully to Maine's administrative appeals tribunal, the Board of Environmental Protection, Warren filed suit in Cumberland County Superior Court .
At the existing intersection, Mitchell Mill traffic will still be able to turn right or left at U.S. 401, while drivers going north on U.S. 401 will be able to turn right on to Mitchell Mill.
The Porter-Cologne Act (California Water Code, Section 7) was created in 1969 and is the law that governs water quality regulation in California. The legislation bears the names of legislators Carley V. Porter and Gordon Cologne. [1] It was established to be a program to protect water quality as well as beneficial uses of water.
The Clinton Administration’s commitment was to increase the fairness and flexibility as well as speed of permit issuances over dredged or fill materials into waters as a part of the implementation of the Section 404 of the Clean Water Act. It also aimed to resolve the differences in the delineation of wetlands area.