Recent Additions: Impaired Waters and Total Maximum Daily Loads

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January 9, 2012

• New Recovery Potential Screening website launched.

December 21, 2011

• PCB TMDL Handbook Available (PDF) (33 pp, 246K)

March 21, 2011

• 2012 Integrated Report Guidance Available (PDF) (10 pp, 132K)

November 15, 2010

• November 15, 2010 Memorandum re. Integrated Reporting and Listing Decisions Related to Ocean Acidification — Denise Keehner — November 15, 2010

March 19, 2010

• EPA Solicits Public Comment on the Effects of Ocean Acidification as it Relates to the 303(d) Program

December 18, 2009

• New "TMDLs at Work" Web Site Available

November 9, 2009

• National Association of Counties (NACo) "Stormwater Runoff for Counties" Webinar Nov. 12, 2009

May 6, 2009

• 2010 Integrated Report Guidance Available (PDF) (11 pp, 122K)

December 16, 2008

• Draft Handbook for Developing Watershed TMDLs (PDF) (168 pp, 4.2MB)

November 19, 2008

• TMDLs to Stormwater Permits Draft Handbook (PDF) (200 pp, 5.7MB)

October 29, 2008

• Atmospheric Mercury Deposition Project for Watershed Planning
• Incorporating Green Infrastructure into TMDLs (PDF) (11 pp, 358K)

October 15, 2008

• New Overview of Impaired Waters and Total Maximum Daily Loads Program Web Page Released

October 1, 2008

• Cover Memo: Elements of Mercury TMDLs Where Mercury Loadings are Predominantly from Air Deposition (PDF) (2 pp, 13K) — Craig Hooks — Sept. 29, 2008

• TMDLs Where Mercury Loadings are Predominantly from Air Deposition (PDF) (22 pp, 410K), Sept. 29, 2008

July 17, 2008

• Audio version of June 18, 2008 Webcast Seminar "ATTAINS:A Gateway to State-Reported Water Quality Information"

June 9, 2008

• New TMDLs and Stormwater Web Page Released

March 3, 2008

• Audio version of Jan. 8, 2008 Webcast Seminar "Options for Expressing Daily Loads in TMDLs"

January 28, 2008

• Water Environment Federation's TMDL Development and Implementation: Current Progress and Future Direction - Seminar on September 11, 2008

January 9, 2008

• EPA Approves Plan by Northeast States to Lower Mercury Levels in Fish

December 19, 2007

• RESCHEDULED Webcast on "Options for Expressing Daily Loads in TMDLs, Tues., Jan. 8, 2008, 12:00 - 2:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time

September 28, 2007

• EPA and Forest Service Memorandum of Agreement to Address Water Quality Impairments on National Forest System Lands– signed by Benjamin H. Grumbles (EPA) and Abigail Kimbell (Forest Service), September 28, 2007

August 23, 2007

• An Approach for Using Load Duration Curves in the Development of TMDLs (PDF) (74 pp, 3.4MB), August 2007, EPA 841-B-07-006

July 11, 2007

• Total Maximum Daily Loads with Stormwater Sources:A Summary of 17 TMDLs (PDF)(59 pp, 601K), July 2007, EPA 841-R-07-002 

March 8th, 2007

• Listing Waters Impaired by Atmospheric Mercury Under Clean Water Act Section 303(d):Voluntary Subcategory 5m for States with Comprehensive Mercury Reduction Programs -- memorandum signed by Craig Hooks, Mar. 8, 2007

September 11, 2006

• County Water Quality Issue Brief: Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) -- A Watershed Planning Tool For Counties
• Presentations on TMDLs from NACo Annual Conference, August 2006

August 7, 2006

• Clarification Regarding "Phased" Total Maximum Daily Loads - memorandum signed by Benita Best-Wong, Aug. 2, 2006

July 11, 2006

• Updated Summary of TMDL Litigation posted on EPA's Total Maximum Daily Load Program Web site

September 30, 2005

• Audio version of Sept. 28, 2005 Webcast Seminar on "The ABCs of TMDLs for Stakeholders" is now available

August 3, 2005

• 2006 Integrated Report Guidance Available

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