Authors: Joel M. Gross
ISBN-13: 9781590312421, ISBN-10: 1590312422
Format: Paperback
Publisher: American Bar Association
Date Published: June 2006
Edition: New Edition
A quick reference to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, commonly known as the Clean Water Act, this book explains the statute and the 1972 Amendments that created a system of permits and regulations to govern the discharge of pollutants into the nation's waters and publicly owned treatment works. Covers NPDES permitting process, wetlands, discharge of hazardous substances, wet-weather discharges from point sources, and reducing nonpoint source pollution.
1 | Executive summary | 1 |
2 | History of the Clean Water Act | 5 |
3 | General prohibition of discharges | 15 |
4 | NPDES overview | 25 |
5 | Technology-based standards | 37 |
6 | Water-quality-based effluent limitations | 47 |
7 | Regulations of publicly owned treatment works, and pretreatment requirement for dischargers to POTWs | 61 |
8 | Regulation of wetlands | 75 |
9 | Discharges and spills of oil and hazardous substances | 91 |
10 | Wet-weather discharges from point sources | 101 |
11 | Reducing nonpoint source pollution | 113 |
12 | Enforcement | 119 |