Best Practical Technology
Best practical technology (BPT) refers to any of the categories of technology-based effluent limitations pursuant to Section 301(b) and Sections 304(b) of the Clean Water A...
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Clean Water Act (1972, 1977, 1987)
Federal involvement in protecting the nation's waters began with the Water Pollution Control Act of 1948, the first statute to provide state and local gover...
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National Estuary Program
The National Estuary Program (NEP) was established in 1987 when amendments to the Clean Water Act provided that the significant estuaries of the United States must be identi...
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National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
The National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) seeks to end the discharge of all types of industrial, municipal, and agricultural waste f...
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Water Quality Standards
The development of water quality standards is a process first mandated by the Water Quality Act of 1965 and continued by requirements in the Federal Water Pollution Control A...
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Clean Water Act
The twentieth-century conflagration of Ohio's Cuyahoga River well illustrated the quandary of a nation whose water was so polluted that it burned. The modern Clean Water Act (CW...
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National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (Npdes)
Under the Clean Water Act, the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) helps control the discharge of pollutants into water bodi...
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Best Practical Technology
Clean Water Act