OMB reviewing EPA’s construction general permit

The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has begun pre-publication review of EPA’s final stormwater general permit for construction activities, which will test whether the agency retained its proposed new numeric turbidity limits for some activities in the face of industry calls to drop the provisions in the final permit. OMB received the 2022 National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) General Permit for Stormwater Discharges from Construction Activities, commonly referred to as the construction general permit (CGP), on...