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USEPA Must Require States to Identify All Pollution Sources
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.1991.tb07175.x
Subject(s) - pollutant , clean water act , agency (philosophy) , pollution , environmental science , environmental planning , environmental protection , business , environmental engineering , water quality , chemistry , philosophy , epistemology , ecology , organic chemistry , biology
The US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) promulgated a final rule that provided that with regard to some, but not all, of the polluted waters listed pursuant to the Clean Water Act, the states must identify the factories and other “point sources” responsible for discharging toxic pollutants into those waters and must develop strategies to expedite control of pollution from those sources. The National Resources Defense Council challenged the rule, contending states had to identify all sources discharging any pollutant. The court agreed.