Member Pipeline - FaxAlerts - 1997 Archive
December 1997
December 19 | USDA Proposed Rule Excludes Biosolids For Use In Organic Farming |
December 12 | EPA To Release Draft Mercury Strategy In Mid-December |
December 5 | AMSA Meets with NRC/EPA to Discuss POTW Radioactivity Survey |
November 1997
November 21 | AMSA Reviewing EPA Air Office Draft POTW MACT Proposal |
November 18 | AMSA Recommendations for Clean Water Action Plan Finalized |
November 14 | AMSA and Agencies Get Cracking on Gore's Clean Water Initiative |
November 7 | Groundwork Laid for VP Clean Water Initiatives |
October 1997
October 31 | POTW Superfund Liability Issue May Receive Attention As Boehlert Plans CERCLA Reauthorization Markup |
October 24 | AMSA Voices Support for Gore Clean Water Initiatives -- Forms Clean Water Task Force |
October 17 | EPA and States Promote Nonpoint Source Control Partnerships |
October 10 | EPA's Stormwater Phase II FAC Discusses Proposed Rule |
October 3 | AMSA Region IV Members Discuss Enforcement Concerns |
September 1997
September 26 | AMSA Urges Funding for Coastal Zone Act Reauthorization Amendments |
September 19 | AMSA-EPA Meet in RTP to Review Section 129 Issues for SSIs |
September 12 | AMSA Celebrates 25th Anniversary of the Clean Water Act |
September 5 | Congress Returns From Recess, Considers Funding Legislation |
August 1997
August 22 | AMSA Voices Support for Draft Municipal Settlement Policy |
August 15 | EPA Issues New TMDL Policy on Schedules and Implementation |
August 8 | EPA Outlines Plans to Reinvest in National Biosolids Program |
August 1 | AMSA Urges EPA to Regulate SSIs Under CWA ยง405 |
July 1997
July 25 | AMSA Technical Action Fund to Support Several Projects |
July 11 | AMSA/EPA Meet to Discuss Section 129 Policy and Legal Issues |
June 1997
June 27 | AMSA Sponsors Pretreatment Reinvention Meeting in Chicago |
June 20 | NRC Releases Draft Guidance on Radioactive Materials in Biosolids/Ash AMSA Comments on Draft Source Water Protection Programs Guidance |
June 13 | Court Rules in Favor of EPA in GLI Lawsuit TMDL Advisory Committee Reviews Options |
June 6 | EPA Issues Review of Draft of Pretreatment Streamlining Proposal |
May 1997
May 30 | AMSA to Sponsor Second ENR Supplement on Competitiveness EPA Approves First Long-Term O&M Contract in Cranston, RI |
May 23 | House Committee Seeks Stakeholder Consensus on CWA Issues TMDL Task Force To Hold Third Meeting in June |
May 16 | AMSA Comments on EPA's TMDL Implementation Strategy |
May 9 | AMSA-EPA Address Draft WET Implementation Strategy Issues AMSA-EPA Meet to Prioritize ANPRM Issues AMSA-WEF-EPA-NRC Meet on POTW Radioactivity Survey |
May 2 | EPA to Move Ahead with Streamlined ANPRM Process House Committee Displays Commitment to CWA Reauthorization |
April 1997
April 25 | Shuster Announces Plans to 'Revitalize' CWA This Congress AMSA Seeks Further EPA Revision of WET Implementation Strategy |
April 18 | AMSA Joins Others Urging Protection of Sensitive Ag Land |
April 11 | AMSA Invited to Testify at First CWA Hearing of the 105th Congress |
April 4 | Draft Agency TMDL Policy Targets Nonpoint Sources |
March 1997
March 28 | AMSA Seeks Resolution to Internal EPA Conflict Over SSO
Policy U.S. PIRG Again Misrepresents Data, Calls for Stringent New CWA Laws |
March 21 | AMSA Opposes CAA Sewage Sludge Incineration Proposal AMSA/Municipal Interests Urge EPA Action on SSO Policy |
March 14 | Experts Meet to Discuss EPA's Watershed Assessment Project |
March 7 | Municipal Caucus Meets with EPA on Stormwater Phase II Issues Perciasepe Outlines EPA ANPRM Plans During Strategy Session |
February 1997
February 28 | EPA Releases Draft WET Strategy, AMSA Seeks Member Input |
February 21 | Municipalities Identify 'Dealbreakers' to Stormwater Agreement |
February 14 | AMSA Weighs in on Continuation of ANPRM Process EPA Withdraws Proposed Radiation Site Cleanup Rule |
January 1997
January 31 | Enterprise for the Environment Releases 'Vision' Principles |
January 24 | Treasury Department Rule Eases Private - Public Partnerships |
January 17 | EPA Enhancing Enforcement Office of Performance Measures EPA to Shift Clean Air Act Regulation of POTW Incinerators |
January 10 | AMSA Monitors SDWA Source Water Protection Efforts |