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Enforcement

Interim Guidance to Strengthen Performance in the NPDES Program

This memorandum is to initiate actions outlined in the Clean Water Act Action Plan aimed to focus our NPDES planning and resources on the most significant sources of water quality impairment. Issued June 22, 2010.

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Interim Guidance to Strengthen Performance in the NPDES Program (PDF)(7 pp, 355 K)