Learn the Issues
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National Management Measures to Control Nonpoint Source Pollution from Forestry
This report helps forest owners protect lakes and streams from polluted runoff that can result from forestry activities. The report will also help states to implement their nonpoint source control programs.
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Urban Runoff: National Management Measures
This helps citizens and municipalities in urban areas protect bodies of water from polluted runoff . These scientifically sound techniques are the best practices known today. The guidance helps states to implement their nonpoint source control program.
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Guidance Specifying Management Measures for Sources of Nonpoint Pollution in Coastal Waters
EPA publication EPA 840-B-92-002 January 1993 This "management measures" guidance addresses nonpoint pollution in coastal water.
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Urban Runoff: Model Ordinances for Aquatic Buffers
Aquatic Buffers serve as natural boundaries between local waterways and existing development. The model and example ordinaces below provide suggested language or technical guidance designed to create the most effective stream buffer zones possible.
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Environmentally Sensitive Maintenance for Dirt and Gravel Roads
This manual identifies, documents, and encourages the use of environmentally sensitive maintenance of dirt and gravel roads.
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Hydromodification and Habitat Alteration: National Management Measures
This guidance document provides technical assistance to states, territories, tribes, and the public for managing hydromodification activities and reducing associated NPS pollution of surface and ground water. The document describes
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Articles and Activities for Middle School Students to Learn about Nonpoint Source Pollution
A collection of Activitiy Sheets for Middle School Students
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Veolia Sauget Air Permitting - Additional Permit Renewal Documents
Veolia ES Technical Solutions LLC. (Veolia) has submitted to U.S. EPA an application to renew its Clean Air Act Title V operating permit.
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Lake Superior Climate Change Impacts Report
Lake Superior Climate Change Impacts Report
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For Residents
Basic page important resident information.
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ML Wastewater Management, Inc.
documents for MN-0064637-4
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Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community (SMSC) Water Reclamation Facility
NPDES permit for the treated wastewater discharge within the boundaries of the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Indian Reservation located in Prior Lake, Minnesota
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Red Cliff Band WWTF
Red Cliff Public Works Department located within the Red Cliff Indian Reservation, Bayfield County
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Sokaogon Chippewa Community Wastewater Treatment System NPDES Permit WI-0071501-3
Sokaogon Chippewa Community applied for an NPDES Permit to discharge into the exterior boundaries of the Mole Lake Indian
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Mystic Lake Casino Hotel Response to Comments
Mystic Lake Casino Hotel Final,response to comments, Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community of Minnesota
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Examples of Equivalent Processes: PFRP and PSRP
Equivalent Processes: PFRP and PSRP
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Personal Protective Equipment
Response personnel must wear the appropriate level of protection whenever near a hazardous release site. Level A is for the greatest exposure potential, and D is the minimum level. Examples range from totally encapsulated suits to hard hats.
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Safer Choice Criteria for Fragrances
DfE developed its criteria for fragrances with a group of stakeholders that included the fragrance industry, formulators, and NGOs
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Booms
Containment booms are used to control the spread of oil to reduce the possibility of polluting shorelines and other resources. They also concentrate oil in thicker surface layers, making recovery easier. They may also be used to divert and channel slicks.
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Safety Zones
These are established primarily to reduce the accidental spread of hazardous substances by workers or equipment from contaminated areas to clean areas. They include the exclusion (hot) zone, contamination reduction (warm) zone, and support (cold) zone.