

EPA Proposes New 2014 Effluent Guidelines Program Plans
EPA announced its Final 2012 Effluent Guidelines Program Plan and Preliminary 2014 Effluent Guidelines Program Plan on September 16, 2014. The Plans provide a summary of new controls of industrial wastewaters, and present a plan for regulating other categories of industry in the future. Comments on the Plans must be received by November 17, 2014. Under the Clean Water Act (“CWA”), 33 U.S.C. § 1314(m), EPA is required to publish a plan every two years that (1) establishes a sc