URBAN WET WEATHER AND INTEGRATED PLANNING/PERMITTING: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

摘要

EPA and its stakeholders have considered how municipal wet weather issues could be betterintegrated on a watershed basis for close to 20 years (see USEPA 1994; USEPA 2002; USEPA2003; USEPA 2007a). Addressing wet weather discharges in a holistic manner can provide forgreater efficiency, more comprehensive planning, and less redundancy among permittingrequirements. Nontraditional approaches may be required to address the challenges posed bywet weather discharges.This paper and accompanying presentation will consider innovative approaches that provideflexibility for management of wet weather programs, including EPA's most recent strategyrelated to 'integrated planning.' The presentation and paper will review EPA’s most recentpolicies and the framework issued June 2012. These documents will be reviewed and assessed inrelation to previous policies issued by EPA and this paper will discuss the importance and needfor a clear permitting approach to implement the strategy.