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Techno Bits/Technical Bulletins WATER AND WASTEWATER - ARCHIVED Final TMDL Signed June 11 The final rule for the Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDL) program, designed to clean up impaired US waters was signed June 11, 2000, with an effective date of October 1, 2001. The TMDL program will require states to identify water bodies not meeting Clean Water Act standards. The states then must develop a TMDL, which is a pollution budget for sources causing water quality impairment. The consequences of this program are likely to be tighter NPDES permit limits on point discharges (i.e., POTWs, direct-discharging industries, and storm water) and possibly additional requirements for non-point discharges.
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