Citing SAB Report, EPA Rejects Industry Push To Revoke Nutrient TMDLs

摘要

EPA is rejecting calls from several Pennsylvania municipal wastewater treatment plants to revise three numeric nutrient waterbody cleanup plans, arguing that a recent report from agency advisers backs the controversial method used to determine the pollution limits, industry and EPA sources say.rnEPA Region III officials at a July 8 meeting with industry said they plan to uphold the total maximum daily loads (TMDLs) in question, despite dispute over the method by which they were derived. How to establish numeric nutrient pollution limits is a key issue for EPA as the agency and a number of states are crafting such limits under increasing legal pressure from environmentalist groups.