News FY 22 Omnibus Poised for Passage Before Deadline The Senate adopted a $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill on Thursday setting the stage for the House to act on Friday.… Read More »
Weekly Wrap
ACWA Weekly Wrap Vol. XIII, Issue 36 (Week of December 12, 2022)
News Work Continues on Federal Appropriations The House on Wednesday passed a short-term funding bill to avert a government shutdown when current funding expires on December 16th. The Senate passed… Read More »
ACWA Weekly Wrap Vol. XIII, Issue 35 (Week of December 5, 2022)
News Addressing PFAS Discharges in NPDES Permits and Through the Pretreatment Program and Monitoring Programs This week EPA’s Office of Water issued a memorandum to the 10 Regional Water Directors… Read More »
ACWA Weekly Wrap Vol. XIII, Issue 34 (Week of November 28, 2022)
News Announcing Major Improvement in Clean Water Act Permit Compliance ACWA (via this newsletter) and EPA (via press release) are jointly announcing a 50% cut in the rate of significant… Read More »
ACWA Weekly Wrap Vol. XIII, Issue 33 (Week of November 14, 2022)
News EPA Proposes ICR on PFAS for Metal Finishing and Electroplating point source ELG Category Facilities This week, EPA’s Effluent Limitations Guidelines program published a FRN requesting comment on a… Read More »
ACWA Weekly Wrap Vol. XIII, Issue 32 (Week of October 31, 2022)
News EPA Issues Final List of Contaminants for Potential Regulatory Consideration in Drinking Water, Significantly Increases PFAS Chemicals for Review EPA published the Final Fifth Drinking Water Contaminant Candidate List… Read More »
ACWA Weekly Wrap Vol. XIII, Issue 31 (Week of October 24, 2022)
News EPA Releases Agency-Wide Strategy to Reduce Lead Exposures and Disparities in U.S. Communities EPA released its Strategy to Reduce Lead Exposures and Disparities in U.S. Communities (Lead Strategy), in… Read More »
ACWA Weekly Wrap Vol. XIII, Issue 31 (Week of October 17, 2022)
News Administration Celebrates 50 Years of the CWA This week marked the 50th anniversary of the Clean Water Act (CWA) and the Biden Administration marked the day in several ways.… Read More »
ACWA Weekly Wrap Vol. XIII, Issue 30 (Week of October 3, 2022)
News New ECHO Tools – Benzene Fenceline Monitoring and Environmental Justice This week EPA announced two new tools available to states and the public intended to provide additional information on… Read More »
ACWA Weekly Wrap Vol. XIII, Issue 29 (Week of September 26, 2022)
News Senate Passes Short Term Funding Bill, Action Moves to the House The Senate passed a short-term continuing resolution to fund the government through December 16, 2022. The continuing resolution… Read More »
ACWA Weekly Wrap Vol. XIII, Issue 28 (Week of September 19, 2022)
News Competing Senate Permit Streamlining Proposals Include Sec. 401 Changes Two legislative proposals that address a variety of energy project permit streamlining were released this week. Senator Capito (WV) released… Read More »
ACWA Weekly Wrap Vol. XIII, Issue 27 (Week of September 12, 2022)
News EPA Releases the CWA Section 303(d) Vision (2022-2023) Memo EPA has released the next iteration of the CWA Section 303(d) Vision. The 2022 – 2032 Vision for the Clean Water… Read More »
