EPA’s Regional Realignment Plan establishes a standard organizational structure for its regional offices that is intended to: • Increase coordination between EPA National Programs and their regional counterparts as we… Read More »
Legislation, Regulation and Litigation
Principles and Best Practices for Oversight of Federal Environmental Programs Implemented by States and Tribes
Memo from Acting Administrator Wheeler to regional administrators directing EPA to defer to state decision-making in most cases but also lays out situations when regulators should intervene to protect human… Read More »
Rulemakings
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 »
Joint ECOS, ACWA, and ASWM Letter on CWA Section 401
Letter to congressional leadership on CWA Section 401.
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.
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.
ACWA Weekly Wrap Vol. IX, Issue 17 (Week of April 30, 2018)
News Final 2016 Effluent Guidelines Plan Released EPA published a notice of the Final 2016 Effluent Guidelines Plan in today’s Federal Register. As this Plan explains, EPA has completed all… Read More »
2018 ACWA Priorities
The new ACWA FY2018-FY2022 Strategic Plan calls on ACWA to periodically determine its priorities in each of the following areas: Clean Water Act policy, grants and funding, partnerships and collaboration, management of the association, other matters as appropriate, requires the identification of association priorities on an annual basis.
ACWA Testimony – Senate EPW – Groundwater/Hydrologic Connection – 4-18-18
ACWA’s written testimony submitted to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee regarding the April 18, 2018 hearing entitled, The Appropriate Role of States and the Federal Government in Protecting Groundwater.
