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Significant Guidance Documents - Water

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Water
Name (ID Number)
Comment
Learn More
Issuance Date
Date Added to This List
Most Recent Revision
2002 Integrated Water Quality Monitoring and Assessment Report Guidance - Robert H. Wayland III (EPA-HQ-OW-2007-0787-0001)
11/19/2001
08/23/2007
n/a
2003 Water Quality Trading Policy
2003
08/23/2007
n/a
Agency Interpretation of Applicabilitiy of Section 402 of the Clean Water Act to Water Transfers (EPA-HQ-OW-2007-0805-0001)
08/05/2005
08/23/2007
n/a
Ambient Water Quality Criteria for Bacteria (EPA-HQ-OW-2007-0808-0001)
1986
08/23/2007
n/a
Applicability of the Safe Drinking Water Act to Submetered Properties (EPA-HQ-OW-2007-0838-0001)
12/23/2003
08/23/2007
n/a
Clean Water Act Jurisdiction Following the U.S. Supreme Court Decision in Rapanos v. United States & Carabell v. United States (June 2007 Legal Memorandum)
06/05/2007
07/26/2007
12/02/2008
Combined Sewer Overflow: Guidance for Long-Term Control Plan (EPA 83-B-95-002)
1995
08/23/2007
n/a
Determination of Mitigation under the CWA 404(b)1 (EPA-HQ-OW-2007-0798-0001)
02/1990
08/23/2007
n/a
Federal Guidance for Establishment, Use and Operation of Mitigation Banks (EPA-HQ-OW-2007-0799-0001)
11/1995
08/23/2007
n/a
Final Administrative Changes to Coastal Nonpoint Pollution Control Program Guidance (fr21oc98-34)
10/21/1998
08/23/2007
n/a
Guidance for Implementing the January 2001 Methylmercury Water Quality Criterion (EPA 823-R-10-001)
04/29/2010
05/13/2010
n/a
Guidance for Water Quality-Based Decisions: The TMDL Process (EPA 440-4-91-001)
04/1991
08/23/2007
n/a
Guidelines for Deriving Numerical National Water Quality Criteria for the Protection of Aquatic Organisms and Their Uses (EPA-HQ-OW-2007-0807-0001)
1985
08/23/2007
n/a
Memo RE: Scope of Waters of the US following the Supreme Court Decision in SWANCC (EPA-HQ-OW-2007-0801-0002)
01/2003
08/23/2007
n/a
Methodology for Deriving Ambient Water Quality Criteria for the Protection of Human Health (EPA-HQ-OW-2007-0809-0001)
10/2000
08/23/2007
n/a
National Estuary Program Guidance - Comprehensive Conservation & Management Plans: Content and Approval Requirements (EPA 842-b-92-002)
10/1992
08/23/2007
n/a
New Policies for Establishing and Implementing Total Maximum Daily Loads - Bob Perciasepe (EPA-HQ-OW-2007-0785-0001)
08/08/1997
08/23/2007
n/a
Part 503 Implementation Guidance (EPA-HQ-OW-2007-0806-0001 & EPA-HQ-OW-2007-0806-0001.1)
10/01/1995
08/23/2007
n/a
Regulation of Certain Activities in Light of American Mining Congress v. Corps of Engineers (EPA-HQ-OW-2007-0800-0001)
04/1997
08/23/2007
n/a
Variance Technology Findings for Contaminants Regulated before 1996 (815-R-98-003)
09/1998
08/23/2007
n/a

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