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WaterNews for September 9, 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:
Press Conference Held at the National Press ClubBenjamin Grumbles, Acting Assistant Administrator for Water, and Roberta Savage, President of America’s Clean Water Foundation, held a press conference on Friday to announce the Second World Water Monitoring Day at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. From Sept. 18 to Oct. 18, people around the world will be taking to their local waters to sample water quality and post their data as part of World Water Monitoring Day events. Monitoring activities and events will culminate on World Water Monitoring Day, Oct. 18, 2004-- which is the 32 anniversary of the Clean Water Act. EPA is partnering with America’s Clean Water Foundation and others to encourage participants to use a simple test kit to take water quality samples of local streams, lakes bays or wetlands, enter their data into an international database, and take part in activities that educate us all about our role in protecting clean water. For more information on ordering water test kits and to register your monitoring location, visit
http://www.worldwatermonitoringday.org/. New Guide to Help Wastewater Utilities Develop EMSs and Manage Critical IssuesThe Office of Water has issued an important new tool to help wastewater utilities develop environmental management systems (EMS) for their operations entitled Achieving Environmental Excellence: An Environmental Management Systems (EMS) Handbook for Wastewater Utilities. EMSs are a powerful and proven tool that can help utilities realize a number of important benefits and address a wide array of challenges--including the need to ensure sustainable infrastructure. The Handbook, which was developed in cooperation with the Global Environment and Technology Foundation (GETF), takes utilities through a step-by-step process for developing an effective EMS, using numerous examples and other tips from utilities that have successfully implemented EMSs for their own operations. The Handbook is available at www.peercenter.net and www.epa.gov/ems
and www.amsa-cleanwater.org and www.wef.org. For further information, please contact Jim Horne at (202) 564-0571, horne.james@epa.gov 2004 Effluent Guidelines Program Plan PublishedPublished in the Federal Register on Sept. 2, this notice presents the results of EPA's 2004 annual review of existing effluent guidelines required by section 304(b) of the Clean Water Act. The notice also presents the final 2004 Effluent Guidelines Program Plan required by section 304(m). Effluent guidelines are national regulations that improve water quality by controlling the discharge of pollutants by specific industries -- from manufacturing and agriculture to service industries -- into our Nation's waters. The effluent guidelines that EPA has issued over the past 30 years have prevented the discharge of more than 690 billion pounds of pollutants a year. The notice identifies facilities in two industries for which EPA will begin a rulemaking that could lead to revised effluent guidelines. (These facilities manufacture vinyl chloride, polyvinyl chloride or vinyl chloride monomers, manufacture chlorine using the chlor-alkali process, or conduct a combination of these operations.) The notice also identifies two industries without effluent guidelines for which EPA will begin rulemakings that could lead to new effluent guidelines (airport deicing operations and drinking water supply and treatment). You can find more information about the Plan on EPA's web site at www.epa.gov/guide/plan.html. Subscribe to WaterNewsPlease forward this message to your friends and colleagues who share an interest in water-related issues and would like to hear from EPA's Office of Water. To subscribe to the WaterNews listserv: Send an email message, leave the subject line blank, and address it to: In the body of the message write: Subscribe WaterNews firstname lastname (Please leave one blank space between each word, do not include any other message, and use your actual name- i.e. Subscribe WaterNews Robert Jones) A welcome message will appear in your email box once you are officially subscribed.
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