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What's New, 2004 Archive
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- Stakeholder Process for Detection and Quantitation Procedures; Notice of Public Meeting and Request for Nominations to a Federal Advisory Committee on Detection and Quantitation Procedures and Uses in Clean Water Act (CWA) Programs (December 22, 2004)
- Draft Selenium Aquatic Life Criterion (December 9, 2004)
- 2004 Contaminated Sediment Report to Congress (December 8, 2004)
- Instructions for requesting cooling water intake phase II regulatory cost information for facilities who claimed flow data as confidential business information (December 8, 2004)
- Proceedings from the 2004 National Forum on Contaminants in Fish (December 7, 2004)
- Broadcast Meteorology and Environmental
Education Grant Solicitation (December 2, 2004)
Request for applications for competitive cooperative agreement(s) to inform and educate citizens about important environmental issues, to promote citizen involvement and participation with assistance from broadcast meteorologists. - Final Water Quality Standards Bacteria Rule for Coastal and Great Lakes Recreation Waters (November 8, 2004)
- Guidelines Establishing Test Procedures for the Analysis of Pollutants; Procedures for Detection and Quantitation; Notice of Document Availability and Proposed Rule Withdrawal (November 1, 2004)
- Proposed regulations for cooling water intake structures at phase III facilities (November 1, 2004)
- Biocriteria Request for Proposals (PDF, 64kb, 7 pages, about this format) - This is the annual request for proposals for projects to be potentially funded that help states and tribes develop and adopt biocriteria for their water quality standards. (November 1, 2004)
- Fish Advisory Newsletter (October 18, 2004)
- Final - Managing Manure Guidance for Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) (September 24, 2004) Technical guidance to help NPDES permit authorities (States and EPA Regions), permittees, and technical service providers implement our February 2003 revised Permit Regulations and Effluent Guidelines for CAFOs
- National Maps and Graphics for the 2004 National Listing of Fish Advisories (NLFA) (September 21, 2004) Fourteen individual slides providing national summaries and statistics for the NLFA
- Feasibility of a Potential Stakeholder Process for Detection and Quantitation Procedures (September 15, 2004)
- Technical Support Document for the 2004 Effluent Guidelines Plan is now available (September 14, 2004)
- BASINS 3.1 is now available for download (September 14, 2004)
- Meat, Poultry Production Effluent Guideline Rule Published (September 8, 2004)
- Final technical development document for the Aquatic Animal Production Industry Effluent Guideline is now available (September 7, 2004)
- Final Effluent Guidelines
Plan for 2004/2005 (August 30, 2004)
EPA is publishing a plan and schedule to consider developing and revising effluent guidelines. - The "Red Book," Quality Water Criteria - 1976 is now available electronically as a reference. (August 26, 2004)
- Annual listing of fish advisories issued (August 24, 2004)
- Aquaculture Effluent Guideline has been published (August 23, 2004)
- Questions and Answers on Implementation of the Phase II Cooling Water Intake Rule (August 23, 2004) (PDF, 91kb, 7 pages) This question and answer document was prepared to provide guidance on the implementation of the Cooling Water Intake phase II rule. As we receive additional questions from permit writers, industry, environmental groups, and other members of the public, this document will be updated.
- Agenda available for Federal-State Toxicology and Risk Analysis Committee Fall 2004 Meeting to be held on October 20-22, 2004
- Cooling Water Intake Structures - July quarterly status report and a correction to the final phase II rule are available
- Supplemental information on EPA's response to the Sierra Club petition is now available (July 13, 2004)
- Phase II Rule
for Cooling Water Intakes Published (July 9, 2004)
Published in the Federal Register on July 9th, this final rule protects fish, shellfish and other aquatic life from cooling water intake structures at large power plants. This is the first time in the 32-year history of the Clean Water Act that EPA has established a systematic way to address the environmental consequences of power plants that withdraw more than 50 million gallons of water per day. The rule will protect aquatic organisms from being trapped on intake screens or drawn through the cooling systems. - Notice of intent to re-evaluate and request for data and information on the aquatic life ambient water quality criteria for ammonia (July 8, 2004)
- New
pathogen standards for beach monitoring (July 2, 2004)
EPA is acting to ensure that more protective health-based water-quality monitoring standards are in place for all states and territories bordering Great Lakes or ocean waters. The proposed rule sets thresholds for the presence of organisms that indicate contamination in recreational waters. - Aquatic Animal Production
Industry - Effluent Guideline - Final Rule (July 1, 2004)
This rule establishes effluent limitation guidelines and new source performance standards for specific types of commercial and non-commercial operations that produce aquatic animals for food, recreation and restoration of wild populations, pet trade, and other commercial products. - Response to Sierra Club Petition
(June 25, 2004)
On June 25, 2004, we responded to a petition from the Sierra Club requesting that we promulgate water quality standards for defined portions of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers. - National Beaches Conference (October 13-15, 2004, in San Diego, California)
- Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Point Source Category - CFR Corrections (May 6, 2004)
- National List
of Beaches (April 30, 2004)
This document is a picture of the extent of beach monitoring across the country that will help EPA determine how to better implement the BEACH Act. The List also provides information to the public about beaches in their state. EPA will update this list periodically and will publish notices in the Federal Register of any revisions to the National List of Beaches. - Support documents for the Cooling Water Intake Structure Phase II Final Rule are now available (April 30, 2004)
- EPA Makes Grants Available to States to Implement Water Quality Monitoring and Public Notification Programs at the Nation's Beaches (April 29, 2004)
- Construction and Development Effluent Guideline Final Action Support Documents are now available (April 26, 2004)
- Clean Beaches Plan (April 20, 2004)
- Guidelines Establishing Test Procedures for the Analysis of Pollutants Under the Clean Water Act; National Primary Drinking Water Regulations; and National Secondary Drinking Water Regulations; Analysis, Sampling, and Monitoring Procedures; Proposed Rule (April 6, 2004)
- Final Action on Construction & Development Effluent Guideline (April 1, 2004)
- Record Index for the Preliminary Effluent Guidelines Program Plan for 2004/2005 (PDF, 336KB) (March 30, 2004)
- Public Health Advisory: What you need to know about mercury in fish & shellfish (March 19, 2004)
- Reopening the Period To Submit Scientific Views on the Draft Aquatic Life Criteria Document for Copper (March 9, 2004)
- Aquatox
simulation model for aquatic systems - Release 2 (March 5, 2004)
Release 2 has enhanced scientific capabilities and analytical tools to more completely simulate and understand aquatic ecosystems. It also features improvements that make the model easier to use. - Biocriteria
modules (March 5, 2004)
A series of modules pertaining of the various aspects of developing and implementing biological assessment and criteria programs were developed for the first National Biological Assessment and Criteria Workshop (2003). - Wastewater Discharge Limits Set for Meat, Poultry Production Facilities (February 27, 2004)
- Final Regulations for Cooling Water Intake Structures at Large Power Plants (Phase II) (February 16, 2004)
- Two upcoming sessions of the Water Quality Standards Academy Basic Course to be held in Washington, DC in early April and mid-May (February 16, 2004)
- Extension of Comment Period for the Preliminary Effluent Guidelines Plan for 2004/2005 (February 12, 2004)
- Final industry questionnaires for phase III of the cooling water intake rule (February 9, 2004)
- Presentations are available from the National Forum on Contaminants in Fish (February 5, 2004)
- Slide presentations from the January 28, 2004 Public Meeting on the Preliminary Effluent Guidelines Plan for 2004/2005 (February 3, 2004)
- Water Quality Standards for Puerto Rico (January 26, 2004)
- Availability of Draft Human Health Criteria Document for Chloroform and Request for Scientific Views (January 20, 2004)
- Technical Summary of Information on the Bioaccumulation of Arsenic in Aquatic Organisms (January 14, 2004)
- We have released a second technical support document to accompany the Methodology for Deriving Ambient Water Quality Criteria for the Protection of Human Health, published in 2000. (January 12, 2004)
- Availability of Final Aquatic Life Criteria Document for Tributyltin (TBT) (January 5, 2004)
- Availability of Draft Aquatic Life Criteria Document for Nonylphenol and Request for Scientific Views (January 5, 2004)