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Education & TrainingTraining ProgramsWater Quality Standards AcademyModule 5Basic Course: Key Concepts (Module 5.f)
Education & TrainingTraining ProgramsWater Quality Standards AcademyModule 5Basic Course: Key Concepts (Module 5.f)Basic Course: Key Concepts (Module 5.f)
Changing a Designated Use: Potential Parameters
Course Navigation
- Module 1: Overview
- Module 2: Use
- Module 3: Criteria
- Module 4: Antidegradation
- Module 5: Flexibilities
- Flexibility Mechanisms in Water Quality Protection
- CWA Goals
- Feasibility of Controls
- Feasibility Factors
- The Economic Factor
- Potential Parameters
- Addressing Local Conditions
- When Site-Specific Criteria Are Allowed
- Temporary Modification to Water Quality Standards
- When Variances Are Allowed
- Discharger Grace Period
- Summary
- Quiz
- Module 6: Review
- Certificate of Completion
A variety of potential biological, physical, and chemical parameters may be relevant for developing a use attainability analysis to support changing an aquatic life or recreational designated use.
