Unit 18 Nonpoint Source Control

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Unit 18 Nonpoint Source Control

• Application of the Clean Water Act

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Total Maximum Daily Loads

• What are TMDLs?
• What is the status of TMDL litigation?
• What is EPA doing?
• What are the states doing?

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EPAs TMDL Program

• http//www.epa.gov/OWOW/tmdl/index.html

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Voluntary programs

• Cost sharing and technical assistance
• Other law
• 1996 FAIR Act
• Wetlands reserve
• EQIP
• CREP

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State Programs

• Other law (state)
• 1936 Standard State Soil Conservation District
  Program
• 1973 Model Act for Soil Erosion and Sediment
  Control
• Water Supply Watershed Protection Program
• Basinwide Management Approach

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State Programs

• http//h2o.enr.state.nc.us/
• Division of Water Quality
• http//www.cwmtf.net/
• Clean Water Management Trust Fund
• http//www.enr.state.nc.us/files/division.htm

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Regulation of Confined Animal Feeding Operations

• http//www.epa.gov/owm/afo.htm
• Federal EPA
• http//www.enr.state.nc.us/twoyrplanfinal.pdf
• State livestock plan
• http//daq.state.nc.us/Rules/Rules/
• Air quality rules

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Nutrient Sensitive Waters

• Nuese rules
• Tar-Pamlico rules
• http//h2o.enr.state.nc.us/nps/bigpic.htm