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WaterNews for May 17 , 20021) EPA Revises Effluent Guidelines for the Iron and Steel Industry 2) EPA Proposes Enhanced Approach to Cleaning Up the Nation's Waters 1) EPA Revises Effluent Guidelines for the Iron and Steel IndustryEPA is revising effluent guidelines for portions of the Iron and New Industry. This regulation establishes new technology-based effluent limits for wastewater discharged to navigable waters from the operation of certain new and existing iron and steel facilities. The final regulation applies to facilities who engage in the manufacturing processes of cokemaking, sintering, ironmaking, steelmaking, vacuum degassing, casting, hot forming, salt bath descaling, acid pickling, coal forming, alkaline cleaning, hot coating, forging, direct reduced ironmaking, and briquetting. EPA expects compliance with this regulation to reduce the amount of conventional pollutants discharged into the water by at least 351,000 pounds per year and toxic and non-conventional pollutants discharged by at least 1,018,000 pounds per year. For more information on this rule, visit http://www.epa.gov/ost/ironsteel/ on the Internet or contact George Jett at jett.george@epa.gov. 2) EPA Proposes Enhanced Approach to Cleaning Up the Nation's WatersOn May 15, EPA proposed a Water Quality Trading Policy to increase the pace and success of cleaning up impaired rivers, streams and lakes throughout the country. EPA believes this policy could save the public hundreds of millions of dollars by advancing more effective, efficient partnerships to clean up and protect watersheds. The policy encourages incentives to maintain high water quality where it exists as well as restoring impaired waters. In addition, the policy sets forth what EPA believes is necessary for state and tribal water quality trading programs to be successful and identifies provisions of acceptable trading programs that are consistent with the Clean Water Act and federal regulations. The trading policy seeks to support and encourage states and tribes in developing and implementing water quality trading programs that implement the requirements of the Clean Water Act and federal regulations in more flexible ways and reduce the cost of improving and maintaining the quality of the nation's waters. For more information and a copy of the proposed policy, visit http://www.epa.gov/owow/watershed/trading.htm on the Internet. The policy will be open for public comment for 45 days. ****************************************************************
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