Proposed National Rulemaking to Strengthen the Stormwater Program

EPA is updating its stormwater strategy to focus now on pursuing a suite of immediate actions to help support communities in addressing their stormwater challenges and deferring action on rulemaking to reduce stormwater discharges from newly developed and redeveloped sites or other regulatory changes to its stormwater program. EPA will provide incentives, technical assistance, and tools to communities to encourage them to implement strong stormwater programs; leverage existing requirements to strengthen municipal stormwater permits; and continue to promote green infrastructure as an integral part of stormwater management. EPA believes this approach will achieve significant, measurable, and timely results in reducing stormwater pollution and provide significant climate resiliency benefits to communities.

Activities that were Related to the Rulemaking

• Summary of State Stormwater Standards
• Information Collection Request (ICR) for Proposed Rulemaking
• December 28, 2009 FRN: Stakeholder Input on Proposed Rulemaking and National Listening Sessions
• Stakeholder Input on Stormwater Rulemaking Related to the Chesapeake Bay