Final Comment Letter – Proposed Meat & Poultry Products ELG

The Association of Clean Water Administrators (ACWA) submits this letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in response to notice of proposed rulemaking for Clean Water Act Effluent Limitations Guidelines and Standards for the Meat and Poultry Products Point Source Category (proposed rule). ACWA is the independent, non-partisan, national organization of state, interstate, and territorial clean water program directors (hereinafter “states”), responsible for the daily implementation of the federal Clean Water Act (CWA), including the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) which incorporated technology based effluent limitations derived from national effluent limit guidelines.