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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]
It is implemented jointly by EPA and the Coast Guard. Under commercial and recreational vessels with installed toilets are required to have marine sanitation devices (MSDs), which are designed to prevent the discharge of untreated sewage. EPA is responsible for developing performance standards for MSDs, and the Coast Guard is responsible for ...
Nonpoint source (NPS) water pollution regulations are environmental regulations that restrict or limit water pollution from diffuse or nonpoint effluent sources such as polluted runoff from agricultural areas in a river catchments or wind-borne debris blowing out to sea. In the United States, governments have taken a number of legal and ...
In Pittsboro, which takes its water from the Haw River downstream from pollution sources in Reidsville and Greensboro, the petition says 1,4-Dioxane levels have been measured at “more than 320 ...
The Environment Department will ask lawmakers in the 2025 legislative session to give the state the authority to oversee federal pollution discharge permits, a required step in the process, Maez ...
Included in the legislation was a new discharge permit program, called the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System , which replaced the Refuse Act permit program. [8] The amendments assigned lead responsibility for implementation of NPDES to the newly formed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Congress did not repeal the Refuse Act.
At a Monday meeting of the legislative Water and Natural Resources committee, a Colorado researcher presented findings that Loving, located in oil and gas powerhouse Eddy County, has seen an ...
Environmental Management and Co-ordination (Wetlands, Riverbanks, Lake Shores and Sea Shore Management) Regulations 2009; Environmental Management and Co-ordination Act 1999 / no 8; Environmental (Prevention Of Pollution In Coastal Zone And Other Segments Of The Environment) Regulation, 2003; Fisheries Act (Chapter 378) Forests Act (Chapter 385)