Biden EPA Publishes Final Trump-Era Industrial Stormwater General Permit

February 19, 2021
The Biden EPA has formally published a Clean Water Act (CWA) general permit for industrial stormwater that appears unchanged from a version that the Trump administration finalized earlier this year as a result of a 2016 settlement agreement with environmentalists and industry but did not have time to publish. The Feb. 19 Federal Register publication of the multisector general permit (MSGP) marks one of the first CWA regulatory actions to come from the Biden administration. The permit is only...


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