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Overview of the Clean Water Act

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Section 305 water quality monitoring

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NPDES stormwater requirements

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Section 319 of the CWA

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Section 6217 of CZARA

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TMDLs

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Regulatory vs. nonregulatory approaches
  

Readings (Blackboard)
Required: 
Kalo: 214 - 216,  773 - 822
Res #23: Schoenbaum, Thomas J., Ronald H. Rosenberg, Holly D. Doremus. 2002. Environmental Policy Law. Fourth Edition. New York, NY: Foundation Press. pp. 866 - 955.
Res #24: National Research Council. 2001. Assessing the TMDL Approach to Water Quality Management. Washington, DC: National Academy Press. pp. 12 - 102.
Res #25: Dzurik, Andrew A.. 2003. Water Resources Planning. Third Edition. New York, NY: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. pp. 233 - 252. 
Res #26:  Solomon, Andrew. 2001. “Comment: Section 6217 Of The Coastal Zone Act Reauthorization Amendments Of 1990: Is There Any Point?” 31 Environmental Law 151. 
Recommended:
Adler: 1 - 170; 171 - 198
  
Handouts
bullet GAO report: Clean Water: Further Implementation and Cost Data Needed to Determine Impact of EPA's Stormwater Program on Communities (NPDES), May 2007
 

Web Links
bulletEPA, Office of Water
bulletEPA - Links to laws, Regulations, Policy, Guidance, and Legislation pertaining to water issues
bulletClean Water Act
bulletEPA - Databases and Software for Water
bulletEPA - National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES)
bulletSection 305(b) - National Water Quality Inventory
bulletEPA - Total Maximum Daily Loading
bulletEPA - Nonpoint Source (NPS) Pollution
bulletSection 319 - NPS Program
bulletSection 6217 of the Coastal Zone Act Reauthorization Amendments (includes links to (g) guidance)
bulletNOAA's Coastal Nonpoint Pollution Control Program
bulletNCDENR - Division of Water Resources
bulletNCDENR - Division of Water Quality
bulletNCDENR - NC Nonpoint Source Management Program
bulletNCDENR - NC CNPCP (Section 6217)
bulletNCDENR - Section 303(d) list
bulletNCDENR - Section 305(b) report
bulletUSDA - Links to Conservation Programs
bulletUSDA's Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP)
bulletUSDA - Resource Conservation and Development Program (RC & D)
   

Recommended Books, Articles, and Government Reports
bulletRobert W. Adler, Jessica C. Landman, and Diane M. Cameron. 1993. The Clean Water Act 20 Years Later. Washington, DC: Island Press.
 

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