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Water Headlines for November 22, 2006Benjamin H. Grumbles 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:
EPA Issues Final Rule on Pesticides Applied to WaterOn November 20, Administrative Stephen Johnson signed a final rule that describes two circumstances under which National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permits are not required to apply pesticides to waters of the United States. "This clean water rule strengthens and streamlines efforts of public health officials and communities to control pests and invasive species while maintaining important environmental safeguards," said EPA Assistant Administrator for Water Benjamin H. Grumbles. The rule reflects EPA's long-standing policy that an NPDES permit is not required where application of a particular pesticide to, over, or near waters of the United States is consistent with requirements under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). Additional information, including a copy of the final rule, is available at: http://cfpub.epa.gov/npdes/home.cfm?program_id=41#water_transfer Blue Ribbon Water Quality Trading Awards ProgramEPA is seeking nominations for the Blue Ribbon Water Quality Trading Awards Program, a new awards program, to recognize outstanding leadership in designing or implementing water quality trading programs and policies that have achieved or will achieve environmental and economic benefits. EPA’s Water Quality Trading Policy offers participants a tool to help foster accelerated restoration of our nation’s watersheds. Trading programs allow facilities facing higher pollutant control costs to meet their regulatory obligations by purchasing environmentally equivalent (or superior) pollutant reductions from another source at lower cost, thus achieving the same water quality improvement at lower overall cost. Water quality trading is gaining increased acceptance as a cost-effective method of meeting new challenges. The deadline for applications is January 16. For more information about Water Quality Trading, please visit http://www.epa.gov/owow/watershed/trading.htm For more information about the Blue Ribbon Water Quality Trading Awards Program including the Federal Register notice on the program, please visit http://www.epa.gov/owow/watershed/trading/awards.html Save the Date! – “Paying for Sustainable Water Infrastructure: Innovations for the 21st Century”EPA and the Georgia Environmental Facilities Authority will bring together stakeholders from all levels of government and the private sector to explore creative methods to pay for sustainable water infrastructure. This conference, scheduled for March 21-23, 2007 in Atlanta, GA, will be the first national conference to address the challenge of integrating the diverse tools and strategies to pay for sustainable water infrastructure. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss these issues with leaders and peers in four tracks: 1)Sustainable Water Infrastructure; 2. SRFs and Federal Assistance Programs – A Fresh Perspective; 3) State and Local Innovations; and 4) International Innovations in Finance, Technologies, and Management. More information about the conference is available at http://www.payingforwater.com. Have a Water Efficient Thanksgiving!Preparing for and cleaning up after a holiday meal can use much more water than an everyday meal. Running your tap continuously while preparing food or washing dishes wastes water and can use more than 2 gallons of water every minute your tap is running. That's a lot when you're cooking a big meal for extended family members and friends! A few simple and easy steps can help save water and energy. If you own a dishwasher, scrape dirty dishes rather than pre-rinsing them before placing them in the dishwasher. If you don’t have a dishwasher, fill the sink with a few gallons of wash water, clean your dishes and put them aside. Then, rinse them all together at the end. Either of these simple practices could save 10 gallons. If every household reduced 10 gallons on Thanksgiving Day alone, it would save more than 1 billion gallons of water. That's enough for 1 million households with dishwashers to wash their dishes for a year. For more information saving tips visit http://www.epa.gov/watersense/. Subscribe to Water HeadlinesPlease forward this message to your friends and colleagues who share an interest in water-related issues and would like to hear from EPA’s Office of Water. To subscribe to the Water Headlines listserve: Send an email message, leave the subject line blank, and address it to: In the body of the message write: Subscribe Water Headlines first name last name (Please leave one blank space between each word, do not include any other message, and use your actual name- i.e. Subscribe Water Headlines Robert Jones)
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