EPA GUIDANCE MAY SPEED CREATION OF TRIBAL WATER QUALITY 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 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 tribes to develop...