NOAA issued final regulations for the designation of the Lake Ontario National Marine Sanctuary in eastern Lake Ontario to recognize the national significance of the area’s historical, archaeological, and cultural resources and to manage this area as part of the National Marine Sanctuary System.
For more than half a century, the Chesapeake Bay and many of its tributaries have suffered from poor water quality. Compelled by an executive order and litigation, in 2010, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued the Chesapeake Bay total maximum daily load (Bay TMDL) to reduce pollution discharges and thereby restore Bay water quality; unfortunately, the Bay TMDL will fail to meet its 2025 objective.
The Army Corps of Engineers proposed to establish agency specific procedures for its implementation of principles, requirements, and guidelines for water resources investments in response to congressional direction provided in authorizing language in the Water Resources Development Act of 2020.
Congress in the 2020s has authorized three new environmentally focused grant programs relating to western waters and appropriated $450 million in multi-year funding. The Bureau of Reclamation is responsible for creating and implementing these programs, giving it a new tool and resources for addressing stubborn environmental problems—some caused by the Bureau’s many dams.
NOAA and EPA seek comment on the proposed finding that Indiana has satisfied all conditions the agencies established as part of their 2008 approval of the state's coastal nonpoint pollution control program.
EPA invited public comment to inform the domestic availability of multiple products used in the construction, alteration, and/or maintenance of water infrastructure.
EPA proposed to revise the Consumer Confidence Report Rule in accordance with America's Water Infrastructure Act and to require reporting of compliance monitoring data to the Agency.
EPA proposed a regulation revising technology-based effluent limitations guidelines (ELGs) and standards for the steam electric power generating point source category applicable to flue gas desulfurization wastewater, bottom ash transport water, and combustion residual leachate at existing sources, and solicited comment on ELGs for legacy wastewater.
The Rural Utilities Service issued a final rule with a request for comment to revise the §306C water and waste disposal loans and grants program regulations to implement changes recommended by Government Accountability Office audit report GAO 18-309, "Drinking Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Opportunities Exist to Enhance Federal Agency Needs Assessment and Coordination on Tribal Projects" issued on May 15, 2018.
The Army Corps of Engineers seeks comment on any provisions in the Water Resources Development Act of 2022.