EPA Extends Strict Federal Stormwater Control Approach To Municipalities

摘要

EPA is requiring municipalities to use some of the same approaches for controlling post-construction stormwater runoff that are contained in recent congressionally mandated guidance for federal facilities - backing calls from activists to apply the federal standards, which are stricter than most used in the private sector, to municipal separate storm sewer system (MS4) permits governing municipal and some private entities.rnEPA has recently issued new guidance for permit writers emphasizing the need for similar performance standards as those included in the federal facilities guidance and included similar stringent new requirements in a proposed permit for Washington, DC, that Region Ⅲ issued April 21.