States, Industry Raise Implementation Concerns Over Cyanotoxins Criteria

April 26, 2017
State regulators and publicly owned treatment works (POTWs) are raising implementation concerns about EPA's draft recreational water quality criteria for the cyanotoxins microcystins and cylindrospermopsin, including how states will use the criteria in discharge permits and monitoring for compliance, while questioning the science behind the criteria. In comments filed recently with EPA , some states say they support the concept of the Clean Water Act (CWA) criteria, at least for use in swimming and similar advisories, but that they need...


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