EPA: Revised Water Quality Standards In Alaska Needed To Meet Clean Water Act Requirements
Last week the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sent a letter to the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) to warn that new and revised water quality standards are “necessary” to meet the requirements of the Clean Water Act. According to the EPA, “new and revised human health criteria, or HHC, are needed to protect against adverse human health effects related to pollutants in Alaska’s surface waters.”
Alaska’s DEC defines HHC as “the maximum concentration of a pollutant in a waterbody considered to be...
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