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California's Partial Submission of TMDLs Averts USEPA Action
Author(s) -
Stiegler Mayo H.
Publication year - 2003
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.1551-8833.2003.tb10305.x
Subject(s) - agency (philosophy) , doctrine , constructive , state (computer science) , action (physics) , duty , environmental science , water resource management , law , computer science , political science , sociology , social science , physics , process (computing) , algorithm , quantum mechanics , operating system
Under the constructive submission doctrine, a state's failure over a long period of time to submit total maximum daily loads (TMDLs) that could be introduced into polluted waters may amount to the “constructive submission” by that state of no TMDLs. In such cases, this would trigger the nondiscretionary duty of the US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) to establish TMDLs for the state.