AWWA JAW60476 Journal AWWA - Water Beat -- Courts Consider Need of NPDES Permits for Conveying Raw Waters

水的冲击——法院考虑NPDES许可输送原水的需要

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AWWA JAW60476
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美国-美国给水工程协会(US-AWWA);
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This article discusses two legal disputes currently making their way through federal courts that address the question of whether congress intended the pollutant discharge permit requirements of the Clean Water Act (CWA) to apply to engineered conveyances of raw waters by drinking water suppliers. If the ruling is affirmative, the drinking water suppliers would be negatively impacted by the outcome.Central to the dispute is whetherCongress, as the US government hasargued, intended the CWA to consider thenavigable US waters it aims to restore tobe a single body of water that can bepolluted only by the initial "addition"from a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES)-regulated point-sourcedischarge into those waters. If so,transferring any amounts within thatcollective water body necessarily cannotamount to new additions of pollutantssubject again to NPDES permits. Ofparticular concern to water utilities is thefact that in both cases, courts havedistinguished between intrabasin andinterbasin transfers in considering theapplicability of NPDES permitrequirements, finding that NPDESrequirements can apply to interbasintransfers involving the discharge of waterfrom one basin into a separate one. 本文讨论了目前正在通过联邦法院审理的两起法律纠纷,这些纠纷涉及国会是否打算将《清洁水法》(CWA)中的污染物排放许可证要求适用于饮用水供应商的原水工程运输。如果裁决是肯定的,饮用水供应商将受到结果的负面影响。争论的核心是国会,正如美国政府所做的那样争论,打算CWA考虑其目标是恢复美国水域的通航性成为一个可以只被最初的“添加”污染来自国家污染物排放消除系统(NPDES)-监管点源排放到那些水域。如果是这样,在该范围内转移任何金额集体水体必然不能相当于新增污染物再次受到NPDES许可的约束。属于水务公司尤其关注的是事实上,在这两起案件中,法院都区分盆地内和考虑到NPDES许可证的适用性需求,发现NPDE要求可适用于interbasin涉及排水的转移从一个盆地到另一个盆地。 展开▼

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