Posts from August 2011
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August 29, 2011
Discussions between Canada and the United States have begun toward amending the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. The parties to the agreement wish to provide an opportunity for public input into the process through two in-person Public Forums…
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August 24, 2011
A recent court decision has reversed the regulation that excluded logging road runoff from needing a discharge permit under the Clean Water Act. Previously the EPA’s Silviculture Rule defined a limited class of logging activities as “nonpoint source…
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August 9, 2011
Michigan’s Coastal Management Program (MCMP) was transferred on July 26, 2010 from the Department of Environmental Quality’s Land and Water Management Division to the Office of the Great Lakes. Because this constitutes a change to Michigan’s approved Coastal…
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August 3, 2011
A July 18 letter from EPA Region 5 highlighted 75 “apparent omissions and deviations” from the federal Clean Water Act in Wisconsin’s discharge permitting program. Highlighted deficiencies range from public comment procedures to controls on sewer overflows and…
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