EPA Guidance May Speed Creation Of Tribal Water, Air Standards

EPA is crafting a guidance document to speed its reviews of requests from Indian tribes to be treated as states when administering clean water and air programs, a status tribes must win in order to set their own, more stringent water quality and air pollution standards. The so-called treatment as a state (TAS) strategy is one of several recent EPA initiatives involving tribal governments and water quality, and comes as state officials say they are seeing an increasing trend among...