Key EPA Decisions Ahead on Petitions To Regulate Stormwater in Urban Watersheds

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The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to decide fairly soon, possibly as early as June, whether to regulate urban stormwater runoff in the East and West from industrial and commercial sites such as airports, hospitals, schools and universities, an environmental attorney told Bloomberg BNA May 26. Rebecca Hammer, staff attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council, said environmental groups expect the timetable to slip slightly because the EPA hasn't yet begun its deliberations after analyzing data submitted by the NRDC, American Rivers and local environmental groups in support of their petitions for regulation. Petitions fro Regulation. Two of the four petitions are aimed at regulating stormwater runoff from Army Creek in Delaware and the Back River in Baltimore. Two other petitions target watersheds in Los Angeles County-the Los Ceritos watershed and the Dominguez Channel and associated Long Beach Inner Harbor, according to Hammer.