WaterNews for the week of August 13, 2002
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:
Assistant Administrator G. Tracy Mehan, III in Richmond, Va.
EPA Soliciting Grant Applications
Coastal Technology Transfer Conference: Call for Papers
Wetlands Scientific/Technical Activities and Tools
ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR G. Tracy Mehan, III IN RICHMOND, Va.
Assistant Administrator G. Tracy Mehan, III and Office of Water program directors are today participating in the Association of State and Interstate Water Pollution Control Administrators meeting in Richmond, Va.
EPA SOLICITING GRANT APPLICATIONS
The Environmental Protection Agency as of July 29 is soliciting grant applications from privately-owned community drinking water utilities that regularly serve 100,000 or more people. The grants may be used to develop a vulnerability assessment, emergency response plans, security enhancement plans and designs, or a combination of these efforts. EPA will award up to $115,000 to each eligible utility system. The request for applications is available online at http://www.epa.gov/safewater/security/rfa_private_grants.pdf .
COASTAL TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER CONFERENCE: CALL FOR PAPERS
In celebration of the thirtieth anniversary of the Clean Water Act and in celebration of the Year of Clean Water, EPA will be highlighting January 2003 as coastal and oceans month. Mark your calendars for an EPA sponsored conference Jan. 28-31, 2003 in Cocoa Beach, Florida.
The conference will examine current and emerging coastal management tools, techniques, and strategies as well as consider ways to enhance our ability over the next 25 years to protect and manage coastal ecosystems in the face of new challenges. The conference will be organized around four broad themes: assessment, management, restoration and measuring results.
The call for papers has been widely distributed. Abstracts describing case studies, research projects, synthesis papers, and posters for interactive sessions based on the four broad themes described above are eligible. Abstracts must be submitted by Sept.16.
For more information, contact Noemi Mercado at 202-566-1251.
WETLANDS SCIENTIFIC/TECHNICAL ACTIVITIES & TOOLS
EPA's Wetlands Division and the Heal and Ecological Criteria Division have released a set of 12 booklets entitled “Methods for Evaluating Wetland Condition.” These peer-reviewed booklets provide “state-of-the-science” information that can help you monitor and assess the biological and nutrient conditions of wetlands in order to evaluate wetland health. Eight additional booklets are planned for future publication.
You can order the entire set or specific copies of the booklets from the EPA National Service Center for Environmental Publications (NSCEP) by telephone at (513) 489-8190 or toll-free at (800) 490-9198, or by email at ncepiwo@one.net . To order the booklets by mail, write to NSCEP at 11029 Kenwood Road, Cincinnati, OH 45242. The publications may also be accessed through the web at http://www.epa.gov/owow/wetlands/bawwg/publicat.html.
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