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WaterNews for March 29, 2002
1) EPA Requests Applications for Drinking Water Security Grants EPA is soliciting grant applications from publicly owned drinking water utilities that regularly serve 100,000 or more people. The grants, funded by a supplemental appropriation from Congress, will assist water utilities in reducing their vulnerability to terrorist attacks, enhancing security, and improving their ability to respond to emergency situations. EPA will award up to $115,000 to each eligible utility system. EPA’s goal is to help make drinking water and wastewater systems in the United States more secure as soon as possible. For more information about the grants, visit http://www.epa.gov/safewater/security/large_grants.html or call the Safe Drinking Water Hotline at 1-800-426-4791. 2) EPA Releases Report on Coastal Water Quality Conditions Today, EPA released the first environmental report card on the quality of the water at the nation’s coasts. The National Coastal Condition Report presents a broad baseline picture of the overall condition of US coastal waters as fair to poor, varying from region to region. The findings in the report were based on seven coastal water quality indicators – water clarity, dissolved oxygen, coastal wetland loss, eutrophic condition, sediment contamination, ecological condition of bottom-dwelling organisms, and fish tissue contamination. Data for these indicators were gathered from EPA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The report will serve as a useful benchmark for measuring progress in coastal programs in the future. EPA intends to conduct additional studies on more specialized coastal issues and measure condition changes over time. For more information, visit http://www.epa.gov/owow/oceans/nccr/ on the Internet. ****************************************************************
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