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WaterNews for May 27, 2004Benjamin Grumbles WaterNews is a weekly on-line publication that announces publications, policies, and activities of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Water. In This Week’s WaterNews:
EPA Emergency Response Planning Workshops for Small and Medium Drinking Water UtilitiesEPA is announcing free, one-day workshops that have been designed to cover the legislative requirements and EPA's guidance for community drinking water systems to develop or update their emergency response plans. Registration information is available through the Web at: http://www.horsleywitten.com/epa/. Wastewater Operator Trainers' Conference for Small CommunitiesEPA is working with the Nevada Water Environment Association (NWEA) and the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection (NDEP) to sponsor the annual Operator Trainers' Conference in Reno Nevada from Monday June 7 - Thursday June 10, 2004. The Operator Training program (CWA Section 104g) funds training centers around the country staffed by skilled personnel who provide hands-on assistance to small communities in the operation and maintenance of their sewage treatment systems. The conference provides the trainers with an annual update on new programs, technologies, and other information necessary for them to provide quality assistance to small communities around the country. Please visit http://ndep.nv.gov/bwpc/confrnce.htm NPDES Pretreatment and Permit Writer TrainingEPA will be holding a variety of training courses for NPDES permit writers and professionals interested in the Pretreatment program. EPA's course for NPDES permit writers will be held June 7 - June 11, 2004 in Austin, Texas and August 16 - August 20, 2004 in Kansas City, Missouri. EPA and the Water Environment Federation have teamed up to offer intermediate and advanced training courses for professionals interested in the Pretreatment program. These courses will be held on August in Tampa, Florida and November in Reno, Nevada. Please visit www.epa.gov/npdes/training for more information. A Request for Initial Proposals (RFIP) for the Assessment and Watershed Protection Program Grants (AWPPGs)An RFIP for AWPPGs has was recently posted on EPA’s Office of Wetlands, Oceans and Watersheds (OWOW) funding Web site at: http://www.epa.gov/owow/funding.html. The two main goals of the AWPPGs include supporting a watershed approach to better address water quality problems in the U.S. and building the capacity of all levels of government to develop and implement effective, comprehensive programs for watershed protection, restoration, and management. These goals are tied into EPA’s Strategic Plan, which includes restoring and maintaining oceans, watersheds, and their aquatic ecosystems to protect human health, support economic and recreational activities, and provide healthy habitat for fish, plants, and wildlife. States and local governments, federally recognized Indian Tribes, territories and possessions of the U.S., including the District of Columbia, interstate associations or intertribal consortia, public or private nonprofit, nongovernmental institutions and individuals are eligible to apply. Preproposals are due no later than 11:59 p.m. June 21, 2004. If you have any questions about this RFIP, please contact flahive.katie@epa.gov. National Symposium on Mitigation and the Watershed ApproachEPA and the other federal agencies working on the National Mitigation Action Plan participated with the Environmental Law Institute (ELI) in a symposium they hosted on compensatory mitigation and the watershed approach in Washington, DC on May 19-21, 2004. With approximately 40 participants from academia and federal, regional, state, and local governments and organizations, the watershed symposium yielded input on watershed-based planning tools/resources that could be utilized for the purposes of making compensatory mitigation decisions under §404 of the Clean Water Act. The presentations given, the discussions that took place, and the insight provided will be valuable to the agencies as they pursue one of the 2005 action items from the Plan-- guidance to address compensatory mitigation in a watershed context. Recordings of the proceedings and a symposium report will be made available to the public via the Mitigation Action Plan website www.MitigationActionPlan.gov Fourth National Monitoring ConferenceOver 425 people attended the Fourth National Monitoring Conference on May 17-20, 2004 in Chattanooga, TN. The conference, sponsored by the National Water Quality Monitoring Council, provided an outstanding opportunity for representatives from state, federal and local agencies; other nations; volunteer monitoring organizations; and academia to participate in technical programs and training, share successes, discuss common issues, and network with colleagues in the water monitoring community. Conference themes included promoting collaborative monitoring efforts; exploring new and emerging methods and technologies; addressing changing expectations of monitoring; ensuring data and information comparability; and sharing results and successes. Conference abstracts, posters, and powerpoint presentations, along with summaries of discussions and recommendations from the conference, will be posted within the next few weeks at http://www.nwqmc.org. 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