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Total Maximum Daily Load - Public Notice
Section 303(d) of the Clean Water Act (CWA), 33 U.S.C § 1313(d)(1)(C), and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) implementing regulation, 40 CFR § 130.7(c)(1), require the establishment of Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) for waters identified by states as not meeting water quality standards under authority of § 303(d)(1)(A) of the CWA. Each of these TMDLs is to be established at a level necessary to implement applicable water quality standards with seasonal variations and a margin of safety, accounting for lack of knowledge concerning the relationship between pollutant loading and water quality.
Although most TMDLs are adopted by states, territories, or authorized tribes and then approved by EPA, EPA also establishes TMDLs in some cases if:
• EPA disapproves TMDLs submitted by states, territories, or authorized
tribes
• States, territories, or authorized tribes do not submit TMDLs
in a timely manner
• EPA is required to do so pursuant to litigation settlements or
judicial orders
• States ask EPA to establish TMDLs for a particular waterbody
Active Public Notices
None currently listed
Missouri
EPA is currently in the process of developing TMDLs for several waters in Missouri. EPA is establishing these TMDLs in cooperation with the State of Missouri, pursuant to the 2001 Consent Decree entered in the case of American Canoe Association, et al. v. Carol M. Browner, et al., No. 98-1195-CV-W in consolidation with No. 98-4282-CV-W, February 27, 2001.