40 CFR 131.6 - Minimum requirements for water quality standards submission
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National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES): Applications and Program Updates
...Water quality standards consist principally of three elements: Designated uses, water quality criteria and antidegradation policies. 40 CFR 131.6, 131.10-12. Pursuant to EPA's regulations at 40 CFR 131.12, states must adopt antidegradation policies. An antidegradation policy ``specifies the......
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Water programs: Clean Water Act Water quality planning and management; National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System program and Federal antidegradation policy,
...for all waterbodies in the State, water quality criteria sufficient to protect those use designations, and an antidegradation policy. See 40 CFR 131.6. States may also include in their standards, policies generally affecting the standards' application and implementation. See 40 CFR 131.13. ......
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City of Dover v. U.S. Envtl. Prot. Agency, Civil Action No. 12–1994(JDB).
...designated use or uses for the waters of the United States and water quality criteria for such waters based upon such uses.”); see also40 C.F.R. § 131.6(e) (requiring State to include in a water quality standard submitted for EPA review a “[c]ertification by the State Attorney General or ot......
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City of Arcadia v. State Board, No. D043877.
...of fish, shellfish and wildlife; water quality criteria sufficient to protect the designated uses, and an anti-degradation policy. (40 C.F.R. §§ 131.6, 131.10-131.12 (2003).) The water quality criteria "can be expressed in narrative form or in a numeric form, e.g., specific pollutant concen......
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City of Dover v. U.S. Envtl. Prot. Agency, Civil Action No. 12–1994(JDB).
...designated use or uses for the waters of the United States and water quality criteria for such waters based upon such uses.”); see also40 C.F.R. § 131.6(e) (requiring State to include in a water quality standard submitted for EPA review a “[c]ertification by the State Attorney General or ot......
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City of Arcadia v. State Board, No. D043877.
...of fish, shellfish and wildlife; water quality criteria sufficient to protect the designated uses, and an anti-degradation policy. (40 C.F.R. §§ 131.6, 131.10-131.12 (2003).) The water quality criteria "can be expressed in narrative form or in a numeric form, e.g., specific pollutant concen......
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Md. Dep't of Env't v. Cnty. Comm'rs of Carroll Cnty., No. 5
...necessary to support that use (e.g., specific limits on certain pollutant concentrations). See 33 U.S.C. §1313(c)(2)(A); 40 CFR §§130.3, 131.6; COMAR 26.08.02.01-.03.Page 9 To achieve water quality standards, the Act requires that discharge permits include pollution controls for point sourc......
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El Dorado Chem. Co. v. U.S. Envtl. Prot. Agency, No. 13–1936.
...40 C.F.R. § 131.11; and (3) antidegradation requirements to protect waters whose quality is better than required, 40 C.F.R. § 131.12. 40 C.F.R. § 131.6. States must review their water quality standards at least every three years. 33 U.S.C. § 1313(c)(1). And under the CWA, each state must cr......
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...9 33 U.S.C. §§ 1313-1314. 10 33 U.S.C. § 1314(a)(1). 11 33 U.S.C. § 1314(a)(2). 12 33 U.S.C. § 1313(a)(3). 13 Water Quality Standards, 40 C.F.R. § 131.6 (2010). 14 40 C.F.R. § 131.11(b). 15 33 U.S.C. § 1313(d)(1)(A). 16 33 U.S.C. § 1313(d)(1)(C). 17 33 U.S.C. § 1314(a)(1). 18 See Our Childr......