Activists Seek Green Infrastructure Mandate In EPA Stormwater Permits

摘要

Environmentalists are pushing EPA Region I to explicitly require that municipal stormwater permits use low impact development (LID) techniques as a key way to meet Clean Water Act requirements to control pollutants to the maximum extent practicable (MEP) - hoping to create a precedent for all other EPA-issued stormwater permits.rnIn March 31 comments to Region I - which is in the midst of rolling out a series of strict new municipal stormwater permits in Massachusetts - the Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) urges EPA to specify that green infrastructure requirements are interpreted as being legally necessary to reduce stormwater loading.