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Education & TrainingTraining ProgramsWater Quality Standards AcademyFinalizing the Criteria: Review ProcessFinalizing the Criteria: Review Process
Course Navigation
- Listing Impaired Waters and Developing TMDLs
- Monitoring & Assessment
- NPDES Permit Program
- Human Health Ambient Water Quality Criteria
- Aquatic Life Criteria
- EPA's Role
- Two Concentration-Related Criteria
- Steps in Deriving the Criteria
- Prioritizing Chemicals
- Collecting Effects Data
- Assessing Acute Effects Data
- Calculate the GMAVs
- Rank the GMAVs
- Calculate the FAV
- From FAV to CMC
- Factoring in Water Characteristics
- CCC Approach Based on Available Data
- Assessing Chronic Effects Data
- CCC Calculation of the FCV
- FCV to CCC
- Criteria Review Process
- Site-Specific Criteria
- Summary
- Quiz
Once EPA has developed draft versions of national recommended aquatic life criteria for a given chemical, the estimates are peer reviewed by both EPA and external experts and then subjected to a public comment period. States/Tribes also have an opportunity to review and comment on the draft criteria before individual jurisdictions consider adopting them into their water quality standards.
More specifically, aspects of the review process include the following:
- EPA review:
- Internal by expert EPA peer reviewers.
- External by expert reviewers.
- Public comment period:
- Publication in Federal Register.
- State/Tribal review:
- Opportunity for public and scientific comment.
- Release of final criteria:
- Publication in Federal Register.
