EPA Plans To Rewrite Two Contested CWA Permits, Limiting EAB Petitions

摘要

EPA is agreeing to rewrite key elements in a pair of contested Clean Water Act (CWA) discharge permits in response to environmental groups' petitions for the agency Environmental Appeals Board (EAB) to find them unlawfully lenient, reducing the chance of a ruling from the board that would limit regulators' permit authority going forward.In a pair of new EAB filings EPA announces that it will withdraw and reconsider provisions in the CWA National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permits at issue in the cases In re: City of Harrison Wastewater Treatment Plant and In re: Arizona Public Service Company (APS), and urges the board to dismiss the challenges to those provisions as moot. Relevant documents are available on InsideEPA.com. (Doc. ID: 215934)