Water Headlines for April 7, 2008

Benjamin H. Grumbles
Assistant Administrator
Office of Water

Water Headlines is a weekly on-line publication that announces publications, policies, and activities of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Water.

In This Week’s Water Headlines:

• Water, Climate Change, and Australian
• EPA and NOAA Approve Coastal Nonpoint Programs for South Carolina and Florida
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Water, Climate Change, and Australia

EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson, Assistant Administrator for Water Benjamin Grumbles and other EPA officials are meeting with Australian officials in Melbourne and Sydney to discuss water and climate change issues, including:
- Carbon sequestration (with a tour of the southern hemisphere's largest, commercially-relevant geosequestration project in the Otway Basin),ocean subseabed injection and storage
- Water reuse (wastewater and stormwater recycling, desalination)
- Methane recovery at wastewater treatment plants
- Green building and green infrastructure
- Pharmaceuticals in water and voluntary collection of unwanted medications

"For years the U.S. and Australia have been strong political and economic allies and by working together and sharing information on this trip, we are becoming stronger environmental allies, especially on safe water, clean energy, and climate change," said Benjamin H. Grumbles, Assistant Administrator for Water.

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EPA and NOAA Approve Coastal Nonpoint Programs for South Carolina and Florida

On March 27, 2008, EPA and NOAA jointly approved the Coastal Nonpoint Pollution Control Programs for South Carolina and Florida, which these states submitted in accordance with Section 6217 of the Coastal Zone Act Reauthorization Amendments of 1990 (CZARA). South Carolina’s and Florida’s programs are the 20th and 21st of the 34 state and territory coastal nonpoint programs to receive full federal approval. The purpose of the coastal nonpoint programs is to develop and implement management measures for nonpoint source pollution to restore and protect coastal waters. To win full federal approval, a state or territory must have programs with enforceable policies and mechanisms in place to ensure implementation of 56 wide-ranging management measures that prevent or minimize the impacts of nonpoint source pollution from agriculture, urban, forestry, marinas, hydromodification and wetlands. For more information on CZARA, see http://www.epa.gov/nps/czara.html , and for more information on specific state programs, see http://www.coastalmanagement.noaa.gov/nonpoint/pro_approve.html

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