Water Quality and Stormwater Management Guidance and Information

• EPA Toxic Determination of Compound in Road Salt, October 29, 2003

• Great Lakes Stormwater Workshop, August 10, 2006

• Guidance on 23 U.S.C. §328 Environmental Restoration and Pollution Abatement, August 17, 2006

• Water Quality Action Plans, May 28, 1996
  Abstract: This guidance is recommended as a general outline of provisions that may be considered when developing a water quality action plan between Federal Highway Administration and other cooperating agencies such as EPA, State environmental agencies and other resource agencies. FHWA has identified the area of water quality as one of the elements under Objective #1, Environment Goal of our National Strategic Work Plan. Our objective is to develop initiatives in cooperation with resource agencies that protect and enhance our natural environment. This guidance outlines six areas in which to develop plans: initiate procedures to identify broadly based water quality issues, promote and support coordination of monitoring measures, information exchange and technical assistance, responsibilities, compliance and enforcement and implementation of plans. The water quality action plan's framework will integrate water quality issues and other environmental considerations into the planning, design, operation, and maintenance of transportation programs and projects on a watershed management scale.