EPA turns over clean water administration to State; conservation groups fighting the change

Thu, November 13, 2008
Posted in Alaska News

Last month after a lengthy process that began in 2002, the Environmental Protection Agency transferred authority to oversee and implement the federal Clean Water Act permitting program known as the National Pollution Elimination System program or NPDES to the State of Alaska’s Department of Environmental Conservation.

Lori Townsend, APRN – Anchorage

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