OMB Begins Review Of EPA Rule Imposing Tougher Florida Water Standards

The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has opened interagency review of EPA’s final rule to set new and revised human health criteria (HHC) for certain pollutants in Florida -- a measure that has intensified and expanded a long-running battle over how regulators should use fish consumption rates (FCR) to calculate such limits. EPA sent its final rule setting water quality standards (WQS) to protect human health in Florida to OMB on Sept. 24, according to the White...