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Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System General Permit Remand Rule

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Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) filed 3 comments on this docket between Jun 24, 2016 and Jul 6, 2016. 24 other organizations filed here. The comment window closed 3781d ago.

What Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) filed (3)

Jul 6, 2016· Comment submitted by Becky Hammer, Staff Attorney, Water Program, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)· EPA-HQ-OW-2015-0671-0107

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Jun 28, 2016· Comment submitted by Rebecca Hammer, Staff Attorney and Lawrence Levine, Senior Attorney, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)· EPA-HQ-OW-2015-0671-0105

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Jun 24, 2016· Comment submitted by Lawrence Levine, Senior Attorney, Rebecca Hammer, Staff Attorney, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)· EPA-HQ-OW-2015-0671-0104

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Abstract

EPA is proposing changes to the regulations governing small municipal separate storm sewer system (MS4) permits to respond to a remand from the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Environmental Defense Center, et al. v. EPA, 344 F.3d 832 (9th Cir. 2003). In that decision, the court determined that the regulations for providing coverage under small MS4 general permits did not provide for adequate public notice and opportunity to request a hearing. Additionally, the court found that EPA failed to require permitting authority review of the best management practices (BMPs) to be used at a particular MS4 to ensure that the small MS4 permittee reduces pollutants in the discharge from their systems to the “maximum extent practicable,” the standard established by the Clean Water Act for such permits.

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