EPA rescinds 70 draft water guides, sets new deadlines

EPA water chief David Ross has rescinded approximately 70 draft water policy documents that were more than two years old and set a new two-year deadline to finalize any draft policies or have them automatically rescinded, saying having reasonable timeframes to finalize guidance is necessary to prevent misuse of the documents. “The Office of Water does not expect today’s policy to affect documents that are critical to national program implementation because they were never finalized,” Ross says in an Aug...