EPA Launches Voluntary Stormwater Planning Project With Draft Guidance

摘要

EPA has released new draft guidance for communities seeking to craft long-term stormwater control plans, the first step in a new effort to support such plans that will eventually include a "toolkit" of online resources and new technical assistance resources, and is working with five municipalities in a pilot program to produce model plans. In an Oct. 26 memo accompanying the new guide, which was publicly released Oct. 27, EPA's top water official Joel Beauvais says the stormwater push is a response to years of stakeholder discussions that show the need for municipal stormwater plans that go beyond the five-year time horizon of a Clean Water Act (CWA) discharge permit.