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WaterNews for February 15, 2005Benjamin H. 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:
Grumbles to Speak at Ground Water ConferenceOn Monday, Feb. 28, Assistant Administrator Benjamin H. Grumbles will be the featured luncheon speaker at the National Ground Water Association (NGWA) annual legislative conference in Washington, D.C. He will discuss the importance of ground water and the various actions EPA and others can take to protect it. Attendees will include ground water scientists and engineers, contractors, manufacturers and suppliers for ground water equipment. Stage 2 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts RuleEPA Headquarters held a public meeting on Jan. 18, in Washington, DC, to discuss recent research related to the proposed Stage 2 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule. The subjects addressed include disinfection byproduct occurrence and formation, and studies on reproductive and developmental health effects, on cancer, and on toxicity health effects. The Agency believes that the new science continues to support the approach taken in the proposed rule to make incremental regulatory changes aimed at lowering disinfection byproduct levels while providing equitable public health protection. EPA proposed the rule on Aug. 18, 2003, and is currently working on the final rule. For more information, please contact Tom Grubbs at 202-564-5262. Draft National Whole Effluent Toxicity Guidance - Comment Deadline March 31EPA released its draft National Whole Effluent Toxicity Implementation Guidance for public review and comment for 60 days. In our last issue, we gave a February deadline for comments. Comments may be submitted through March 31, 2005 in a variety of forms (paper, electronic, etc.) to the EPA Docket Center, Docket ID # OW-2004-0037. For more information on submitting comments, visit www.epa.gov/edocket. Council of State Governments and EPA Hosted a National Meeting on the Wadeable Streams AssessmentThe Council of State Governments and EPA hosted a national meeting on the Wadeable Streams Assessment on Jan. 25-27, 2005. Over 100 water quality experts representing 35 states, 4 universities, 1 tribe, Guam and USGS gathered to focus on data analysis and reporting options for the national and regional scale assessment of the condition of wadeable streams throughout the contiguous states. EPA and state collaborators will complete data analysis and evaluation in advance of a critical set of regional meetings with states in June and July which will lead to the estimated completion of a draft report in Sept. 2005 and final report by Dec. 2005. For more information on the Wadeable Streams Assessment visit the Web site at: http://www.epa.gov/owow/monitoring/wsa/index.html or contact Susan Holdsworth at holdsworth.susan@epa.gov. 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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