Agenda for the 2018 National CAFO Roundtable.
Documents
ACWA ASWM Letter to Senator Barrasso and Senator Carper on Proposed Section 401 Certification Legislation
Joint letter from ACWA and the Association of State Wetlands Managers (ASWM) regarding the proposed Water Quality Certification Improvement Act of 2018 (S. 3303), which would alter state authority to issue… Read More »
Transition from National Enforcement Initiatives to National Compliance Initiatives (Aug. 21 2018)
Letter from EPA Assistant Administrator Susan Bodine to regional administrators on NCIs.
Joint ECOS, ACWA, and ASWM Letter on CWA Section 401
Letter to congressional leadership on CWA Section 401.
ACWA Documents Regarding Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science
Released as a final rule effective January 6, 2021 by the US Environmental Protection Agency, Final Rule — Transparency in Significant Regulatory Actions and Influential Scientific Information outlines how EPA will identify… Read More »
ACOE Memo on Assumable Waters
Memo clarifying the waters the Corps will retain for permitting under section 404(g):
1. Waters that are jurisdictional under Sec. 10 of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899 provided that
a. Retained waters include tidal waters shoreward to their mean high water mark, or mean higher high water mark on the west coast, and
b. retained waters to not include those waters that qualify as “navigable” solely because they were “used in the past” to transport interstate or foreign commerce; and
2. wetlands adjacent to waters retained above, landward to an administrative boundary agreed upon by the state or tribe and the Corps.
3. For ease of implementation and to provide transparency the Corps will use the existing RHA section 10 lists of waters as a starting point, which could be amended by the Corps as appropriate consistent with applicable regulations and case law.
WGA Coalition Letter on Section 401
ACWA joined the Western Governors Association and others in communicating to Congressional Leadership our concerns with recent efforts to limit state section 401 authority under the Clean Water Act.
ACWA Comment Letter – Increasing Consistency and Transparency in Considering Costs and Benefits in the Rulemaking Process – Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
This letter to EPA provides comments on states’ experiences with benefit-cost analyses under the CWA.
2018 ACWA Annual Meeting Agenda v. 5
An updated agenda for the 2018 ACWA Annual Meeting
2018 ACWA Annual Meeting Agenda
An updated version of the agenda for the 2018 ACWA Annual Meeting.
ECOS Sample Metrics for Evaluating the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Permit Systems
This week ECOS shared with state media associations version 1.0 of a report titled A Framework of Sample Metrics for Evaluating the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Environmental Permitting Systems. This… Read More »
Visual Summary of Core Measures Identification Process
This document provides a visual summary of the process the Office of Water is using to develop a new set of core program measures.
