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WaterNews for September 11, 1998

WaterNews is a weekly on-line publication that announces publications, policies, and activities of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Water.

Inside this week's WaterNews:
1) Guidance for Effluent Guidelines
2) Mississippi River/Gulf of Mexico Watershed Nutrient Task Force Meeting

1) Effluent Guidelines Plan Published

On September 4, 1998, EPA published in the Federal Register a plan for developing new and revised effluent guidelines. Effluent guidelines regulate industrial discharges to surface waters and to publicly owned treatment works. The plan incorporates public comments received from a proposed plan published on May 28 and is a requirement under Section 304(m) of the Clean Water Act.

For a copy of the Federal Register notice, visit http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/guide/98plan.html.

2) Mississippi River/Gulf of Mexico Watershed Nutrient Task Force Meeting

The third Meeting of the Mississippi River/Gulf of Mexico Watershed Nutrient Task Force will take place in Bloomington, Minnesota on September 24, 1998. The Task Force includes federal, state, and tribal members, who are leading an effort to coordinate and support nutrient management and hypoxia-related activities in the Mississippi River and Gulf of Mexico watersheds. The objectives of this meeting are to discuss the preliminary findings of the Committee on Environment and Natural Resources Hypoxia Science Assessment Teams, and to refine the draft strategy for implementing short-term, win-win implementation activities and longer term broader goals and activities for the Mississippi River/Gulf of Mexico watershed.

For more information about this meeting, contact Dr. Mary Belefski at belefski.mary@epa.gov or (202) 260-7061 or Larinda Norton at tervelt.larinda@epa.gov or (228) 688-1033.

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