BNA's Web Watch - Clean Water Act: Water Quality

Pending Legislation
HR 720
Title: To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize appropriations for State water pollution control revolving funds, and for other purposes.
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House Report 110-030 - WATER QUALITY FINANCING ACT OF 2007

HR 2421
Title: To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to clarify the jurisdiction of the United States over waters of the United States.
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S.1870
Title: A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to clarify the jurisdiction of the United States over waters of the United States.
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H.R. 1495
Title: To provide for the conservation and development of water and related resources, to authorize the Secretary of the Army to construct various projects for improvements to rivers and harbors of the United States, and for other purposes.
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Congressional Hearings

House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee
Full Committee - The 35th Anniversary of the Clean Water Act: Successes and Future Challenges Thursday, October 18, 2007
Full Summary of Subject Matter

Opening Statements
Chairman James L. Oberstar
Subcommittee Chair Eddie Bernice Johnson

Witness Testimonies
Panel 1
The Honorable John Paul Woodley Jr.
The Honorable Benjamin H. Grumbles
Ms. Linda Eichmiller
The Honorable Kathleen M. Novak

Panel 2
Ms. Derry McBride
Mr. Christopher Westhoff
Mr. Paul Lehner
Mr. Kevin Paap
Mr. Mark Singleton
Mr. James King Jr.

Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment
The Raw Sewage Overflow Community Right-to-Know Act (Tuesday, October 16, 2007)

Opening Statements
Hon. Timothy H. Bishop
Chairman James L. Oberstar

Witness Testimonies
Panel 1
The Honorable Benjamin H. Grumbles
Dr. Robert Summers
Mr. Stuart S. Whitford R.S.

Panel 2
Ms. Katherine Baer
Erin K.. Lipp Ph.D.
Mr. Kevin L. Shafer

Subcommittee on Transportation Safety, Infrastructure, Security, and Water Quality
Meeting America’s Wastewater Infrastructure Needs in the 21st Century (September 19, 2007)
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Majority Statements
Frank R. Lautenberg |

Minority Statements
James M. Inhofe
George V. Voinovich

Witnesses

Opening Remarks

Panel 1
Benjamin Grumbles - Assistant Administrator for Water U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Panel 2
Douglas H. Palmer
Mayor of Trenton, New Jersey - President, U.S. Conference of Mayors

Glenn Brasseaux
Mayor of Carencro, Louisiana - Board Member, Louisiana Rural Water Association

Joe S. Freeman
Chief of the Financial Assistance Division of the Oklahoma Water Resources Board
Vice President of the Council of Infrastructure Financing Authorities

Christopher Westhoff
Assistant City Attorney, Public Works General Counsel for the City of Los Angeles
President of the National Association of Clean Water Agencies

Nancy Stoner
Director, Clean Water Program - Natural Resources Defense Council

Subcommittee on Transportation Safety, Infrastructure Security, and Water Quality hearing entitled, "Protecting Water Quality at America's Beaches." Wednesday, June 27, 2007
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Majority Statements
Frank R. Lautenberg

Minority Statements
James M. Inhofe

Witnesses
Frank Pallone
Representative - U.S. House of Representatives

Brian Bilbray
Representative - U.S. House of Representatives

Panel 1
Benjamin Grumbles
Assistant Administrator for Water - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Anu K. Mittal
Director - Natural Resources and Environment Team, U.S Government Accountability Office

Panel 2
Cindy Zipf
Executive Director - Clean Ocean Action

Carlton Dufrechou
Executive Director - Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation

Mara Dias
Water Quality Coordinator - Surfrider Foundation

Environmental Protection Agency
Total Maximum Daily Load Program Needs Better Data and Measures to Demonstrate Environmental Results (Report No. 2007-P-00036) (September 19, 2007)

Abt Associates, prepared the report,
A Framework for Reviewing EPA's State Administrative Cost Estimates: A Case Study
Main Report (Volume 1) with Executive Summary in one PDF file (September 14, 2007)

Appendices: A - D (Volume 2) in one PDF file
http://yosemite.epa.gov/ee/epa/eed.nsf/webpages/statecoststudy.html/$file/Volume%202.pdf

Memorandum of Agreement to Address Water Quality Impairments on National Forest System Lands (September 28, 2007)

Water Quality Trading
State and Individual Trading Programs – Maps
http://www.epa.gov/owow/watershed/trading/tradingmap.html

Water Quality Trading Toolkit for Permit Writers

Congressional Research Service Reports
WATER QUALITY ISSUES IN THE 110TH CONGRESS: OVERSIGHT AND IMPLEMENTATION (July 26, 2007)

Animal Waste and Water Quality: EPA's Response to the Waterkeeper Alliance Court Decision on Regulation of CAFOs (May 16, 2007)

GAO
EPA-State Enforcement Partnership Has Improved, but EPA’s Oversight Needs Further Enhancement, GAO-07-883, July 2007)

U.S. EPA Office of Inspector General, Better Enforcement Oversight Needed for Major Facilities with Water Discharge Permits in Long-Term Significant Noncompliance, 2007-P-00023, May 14, 2007

Nongovernment Organizations

American Rivers
WHAT'S IN YOUR WATER? THE STATE OF PUBLIC NOTIFICATION IN 11 U.S. STATES

National Academies Press
Mississippi River Water Quality and the Clean Water Act: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities (October 2007)

U.S. PIRG
Troubled Waters: An analysis of 2005 Clean Water Act compliance
October 2007
U.S. PIRG Education Fund
Executive Summary
Full Text

Environmental Integrity Project
Paying Less to Pollute: Environmental Enforcement Under the Bush Administration
10-Year Report (May 23, 2007)
10 Year Tables

Chesapeake Bay Foundation
Saving a National Treasure (2007)

Association of State and Interstate Water Pollution Control Administrators (ASIWPCA)
2007 Annual Meeting Presentations
Beth Card, NEIWPCC
Clean Water Act Jurisdiction

Sierra Club
KEEPING OUR NATION’S PUBLIC DRINKING WATER SOURCES SAFE:
Why Americans’ Drinking Water Sources are at Risk (May 2007)

Where Rivers Are Born: The Sierra Club's Rivers Report, 2007
Where Rivers Are Born: The Scientific Imperative for Defending Small Streams and Wetlands