News EPA Draft FY 2022-2026 Strategic Plan The EPA published a Federal Register notice announcing the availability of the Draft FY 2022-2026 Strategic Plan for review and comment. The Strategic… Read More »
Weekly Wrap
ACWA Weekly Wrap Vol. XII, Issue 34 (Week of September 20, 2021)
News EPW Approves EPA General Counsel Nominee The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee approved Jeffrey Prieto by a 12-8 vote. The nomination will now move to the full Senate… Read More »
ACWA Weekly Wrap Vol. XII, Issue 33 (Week of September 13, 2021)
News EPA Rescinds Maui Guidance On September 15, 2021, EPA formally rescinded the January 2021 Maui Guidance document titled “Applying the Supreme Court’s County of Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund… Read More »
ACWA Weekly Wrap Vol. XII, Issue 32 (Week of August 30, 2021)
News EPA Publishes Draft Method 1633 for 40 PFAS On September 2, EPA in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Defense published a draft of the first EPA-validated laboratory analytical… Read More »
ACWA Weekly Wrap Vol. XII, Issue 31 (Week of August 23, 2021)
News 2016 Selenium Criterion Document Revised This week, EPA is posting a 2021 Revised Selenium criterion document that corrects a footnote in the 2016 Aquatic Life Criterion for Selenium in… Read More »
ACWA Weekly Wrap Vol. XII, Issue 30 (Week of August 16, 2021)
News EPA/Army Corps Extends Federalism Consultation Comment Period The EPA and the U.S. Department of the Army (the agencies) have initiated a federalism consultation for a rulemaking that restores the… Read More »
ACWA Weekly Wrap Vol. XII, Issue 29 (Week of August 9, 2021)
News Senate Approves $55 Billion in Water Infrastructure The Senate just voted 69 to 30 to pass the Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act (H.R. 3684). The bill provides nearly $1.2… Read More »
ACWA Weekly Wrap Vol. XII, Issue 28 (Week of July 26, 2021)
News EPA Starts Strategic Planning Process for FY 2022-2026 This week EPA held a meeting with governmental organizations, such as NGA, ACWA, ASDWA, ECOS, USCM and NACO, where they announced… Read More »
ACWA Weekly Wrap Vol. XII, Issue 27 (Week of July 19, 2021)
News EPA’s Integrated Planning Report to Congress On July 12, 2021, the U.S. EPA provided a “Report to Congress on Integrated Plans to Comply with the Water Infrastructure Improvement Act… Read More »
ACWA Weekly Wrap Vol. XII, Issue 26 (Week of July 12, 2021)
News Hawaii Wildlife Fund et al v. Cty. of Maui, D. Haw., No. 1:12-cv-00198, 7/15/21 Excerpted directly from page 49 of the District Court decision. “Based on the undisputed evidence… Read More »
ACWA Weekly Wrap Vol. XII, Issue 24 (Week of June 28, 2021)
News House Outlines Plans in FY 2022 Budget Report House Appropriators released a Fiscal Year 2022 Budget Report outlining the FY22 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations bill. The legislation… Read More »
ACWA Weekly Wrap Vol. XII, Issue 23 (Week of June 21, 2021)
News President Biden Nominates David Uhlmann for AA OECA (Summarized from White House Press Release) David Uhlmann is an internationally recognized expert on environmental law, leading authority on criminal enforcement,… Read More »
