EPA EYES NEW URBAN STREAM PLAN, SHELVED SSO RULE TO LIMIT STORMWATER

摘要

EPA staff are reconsidering options to help limit harmful discharges from urban stormwater runoff, including a new focus on previously unregulated urban streams and a possible new effort to finalize the agency's long-contentious sanitary sewer overflow (SSO) policy, which was proposed during the waning days of the Clinton administration but which was shelved by the Bush administration.rnEnvironmentalists and agriculture industry officials say urban stormwater runoff is an increasingly harmful source of nutrients and other pollutants and are calling for EPA to take a more holistic approach to addressing stormwater pollution.