EPA Agrees To Modify Landmark Stormwater Permits In New Settlement

摘要

Draft settlement agreements between EPA and municipal, industry and environmental groups in New Hampshire and Massachusetts would commit the agency to at least propose loosening two Obama-era Clean Water Act (CWA) stormwater permits once seen as landmarks for their stringency, though it would leave some of those terms in force. EPA is taking comment on three draft settlements through Jan. 27 — one regarding the small municipal separate storm sewer system (MS4) general permit for New Hampshire, another for the Massachusetts small MS4 general permit, and a separate arrangement with the city of Lowell, MA.