EPA Urges Regions To Step Up Actions To Reduce NPDES Noncompliance

EPA enforcement chief Susan Bodine is urging the agency’s regional offices to begin meeting regularly with states to develop plans to reduce significant noncompliance (SNC) with Clean Water Act discharge permit requirements, in order to meet a national goal of cutting in half the existing SNC rate of 29.4 percent by the end of fiscal year 2022. Bodine in a recent memorandum to EPA’s 10 regional administrators lists four steps regions should take to implement the National Compliance Initiative (NCI)...