The Future of the TMDL Program

The Future of the TMDL Program
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment
Publisher:
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2001
Genre: Science
ISBN:

Review of the EPA's Economic Analysis of Final Water Quality Standards for Nutrients for Lakes and Flowing Waters in Florida

Review of the EPA's Economic Analysis of Final Water Quality Standards for Nutrients for Lakes and Flowing Waters in Florida
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 142
Release: 2012-07-05
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0309254930

The Environmental Protection Agency's estimate of the costs associated with implementing numeric nutrient criteria in Florida's waterways was significantly lower than many stakeholders expected. This discrepancy was due, in part, to the fact that the Environmental Protection Agency's analysis considered only the incremental cost of reducing nutrients in waters it considered "newly impaired" as a result of the new criteria-not the total cost of improving water quality in Florida. The incremental approach is appropriate for this type of assessment, but the Environmental Protection Agency's cost analysis would have been more accurate if it better described the differences between the new numeric criteria rule and the narrative rule it would replace, and how the differences affect the costs of implementing nutrient reductions over time, instead of at a fixed time point. Such an analysis would have more accurately described which pollutant sources, for example municipal wastewater treatment plants or agricultural operations, would bear the costs over time under the different rules and would have better illuminated the uncertainties in making such cost estimates.

EPA rulemaking

EPA rulemaking
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform and Oversight
Publisher:
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2002
Genre: Law
ISBN:

The Clean Water Act TMDL Program

The Clean Water Act TMDL Program
Author: Oliver A. Houck
Publisher: Environmental Law Institute
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2002
Genre: Water
ISBN: 9781585760381

The definitive guide to all there is to know about the TMDL requirements of clean water legislation.